The Angels have claimed reliever Oliver Drake off waivers from the Indians, per a club announcement. He had been designated recently by the Cleveland organization.
Meanwhile, the Halos also announced that southpaw Ian Krol cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A. It is not yet clear if he accepted the assignment to the club’s top affiliate.
The 31-year-old Drake has had a rough go of things this year. He opened the season with the Brewers and then landed with the Indians. Despite recording 19 strikeouts and a 46.0% groundball rate in his 17 frames, he has coughed up 15 earned runs on 21 hits and nine walks on the year.
For the Halos, Drake will provide a fresh arm that still holds its share of intrigue. He has, after all, managed a 13.1% swinging-strike rate this season and has surely been unlucky to carry only a 51.6% strand rate and .412 batting average on balls put in play against him. Indeed, Statcast credits him with an appealing .311 xwOBA that significantly lags the actual .353 wOBA that has been produced by opposing hitters.
What?! Is the Angels’ relief corps so poor that Drake would actually improve it? Really?
90% of AAA players do not get to play in the bigs. Drake and any other pitchers who play are top notch athletes! The difference between the Stars and others is in millimeters of each other.
I have the highest regard of all the minor leaguers and major leaguers —-
He’ll do fine, as long as he doesn’t pitch to anyone.
He’s an Angel now. Give it a day or two and he’ll be hurt, thereby creating just such a scenario
This just in Drake out for the year for TJS
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So is yours
You probably should take a few days off and workshop some new material. This line wasn’t any funnier when you inflicted it in the world a few days ago.
So was yours
Why do they keep coming at you it’s obviously not working lol
First Bieber, now Drake? These artists are invading baseball.
Drake pitched for the orioles previous, and I remember him not being very good…
better than Noe, Bedrosian or Paredes
This guy is better than his ERA suggests. Last I looked was like a mid 2s FIP & SIERA. I like this pick up.
3.80s actually. Well for xFIP (3.88) and SIERA (3.83) at least.
His FIP is screwed up as he’s been lucky, not yet giving up a HR in his few appearances.
I’d also say that his advanced metrics are possibly a bit low though too. Throughout his career he’s been quite easy to hit, consistently surrendering an abnormally high BAbip. For his career it’s sitting at .342, with a .361 in 51 IP last season and .412 so far this year.
Just as long as he isn’t on the Brewers roster but I honestly would rather want Kroll, Blair or Guilmet in my bullpen
Surprised Cleveland didn’t grab Krol for their revolving door in the bullpen.
Angels pen is ugly right now. Anything helps approach seems to be the way to go
Yeah, the Tribe gave Drake a chance to at least contain the CLE bullpen dumpster fire, and he just made it worse. Good luck with this guy.
Gotta love The Drake !
Hate The Drake!
Back to there old ways picking everyone else’s left overs instead of getting quality bad habits are hard to break.