Following last night’s loss to the Cardinals, the Angels designated right-hander Javy Guerra for assignment, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times (Twitter link). As Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register tweeted, both Yunel Escobar and Cliff Pennington are day-to-day with minor injuries right now (a jammed thumb and a hamstring cramp, respectively), thus making it seem likely that an infielder will be recalled to take Guerra’s place today.
Guerra, 30, started his 2016 season with three shutout innings but didn’t retire a batter in either of his two most recent appearances, leaving him with three earned runs on three hits and four walks with four strikeouts this season. The former Dodgers closer has appeared sparingly in the Majors over the past two seasons, totaling just 4 2/3 innings at the big league level. He missed much of the 2015 season after failing a second test for a drug of abuse while in the minors and thus receiving a 50-game suspension.
Overall, Guerra has a 3.99 ERA in 79 innings at the Triple-A level and a 2.99 ERA in 153 1/3 innings in the Majors. He’s averaged nearly eight strikeouts and roughly four walks per nine innings at both Triple-A and in the Majors, and his fastball sat at 92.3 mph in his brief showing this season. Guerra is out of minor league options, so any club that claims him will have to keep him on its Major League roster. In the event that he clears waivers and is outrighted to Triple-A, he’ll have the option to reject the assignment in favor of free agency, as he’s been outrighted previously in his career.
Tim Lincecum come on down!
Good Lord this organization is garbage from top to bottom…. Flat out garbage. “Trash”!!!
Time for you find another team to root for then if you feel like you need to victimize yourself. Despite the mistakes, Angels fans still have it pretty good. Their team contends almost every year, they the money to just go for it whenever they feel they need to, and they get to watch Mike Trout play every day. Most MLB fans cannot claim any three of those things. Any baseball person will tell you that if every team had a $200 million dollar payroll, they’d all be going for it.
Old time angel fan here, holy crap this team makes the days of Leroy Stanton, Veda Pinson and Bob Oliver look like a dream team!
A progression over the last decade of poor signings and trades….Gary Matthews Jr. , Vernon Wells, Sending out best prospects to rent Dan Haren and Zach Greinke and, my personal favorite,….Josh Hamilton have anchored this team in mediocrity. Let’s not forget that we have been competitive but I think it’s finally caught up with us. Without Soscia around this probably happens sooner but the guy can manage. Just look at the rosters he’s been able to compete with!
I think we, as fans, need to realize we have had it pretty good and circle the wagons for this and next season. With Wilson, Weave and Hamilton off the books after 2017 we should have plenty of money to spend in FA market and a couple years of higher than normal draft picks.
Keep Trout and sign young talent to compete again 2017-2020
What they should do I blow up with that money and rebuild, not sign any free agents from this historically weak FA class
You forgot to mention Pujols and Wilson as horrible signings and trading Grichick for Freese.
They traded Segura, Pena and Hellweg for Greinke.
Only Segura is in the majors.
You clearly have a selective memory.
As you are being selective about one part of a layered multi point contention.
How about Saunders Corbin Skaggs and Rafael Rodriguez for Haren?
Scioscia is part of the problem,leaving Pujols in the lineup night after night,despite his .180 average and leaving a ton of runners on base.They bring up somebody decent from Triple A,or pick somebody up,he gives them one shot and that;s it.He’ll stick with losers like Joyce or Hamilton in the playoffs.
Time to clean out the Dugout.
They don’t have anybody decent to bring up in AAA…that’s the problem. Pujols will correct and finish the season at .250ish with 30 HRs. Add that to plus level defense, you play him. The dugout is full of coaches that have excelled and will again but they can only play who they have in the dugout and the bullpen
I 100% agree with you.
Oh please! Any manager would still have Albert in the cleanup spot. Because he’s Albert Pujols. And he’ll likely raise his averages to around .250 BA and .320 OBP. And despite his slow start he’s still on pace for about 35 HR’s. Scioscia can only do so much with what he’s given.
Lol. Sure he will raise his average to .250 and hit 35hrs. Is he gonna have 110 rbi’s too? Keep drinking that Angels Kool-Aid. Pujols is absolutely garbage now and the past 2 seasons were horrible too. Scioscia has been a horrible in game manager for at least the last 3 seasons not to mention keeping Butcher who is a horrible pitching coach on his staff during that time.
I know horrible, horrible, horrible. Lol. That is what comes to mind when I think of anything regarding the Angels that isn’t Trout.
The Angels did better with their no-name guys when they were good than when Arte tried to play Steinbrenner and found out why George finally kept out of personnel decisions. Scioscia has to play the players he is given.
Those teams were not much stronger on paper and we’re almost never given a chance by the pundits going into any season. But those teams had a lot of rabbits, stayed healthy (for the most part), and got most of those playoff appearances standing out in a weak division. I think it’s going to be a lot tougher no matter what the Angels do. It’s still a weak division but there’s a lot more pitching in the AL West than there was 8-10 years ago.
Scoiscia is a horrible manager. Ten years ago he as very good but his inability to properly platoon players, use analytics, over using the shift and not knowing how to properly manage a bullpen have really hurt the Angels the last couple of years. He also drove a very good GM (Dipo) out of town with is stubbornness and not being able to work with him.
What I don’t understand for the light of the world is… Why players that leave this organization blossom elsewhere and when they come to us they hit their career’s low?… Look at how Freese, Joyce, Blanton, and others are doing….
I forgot Latos….