We’ll use this post to track the latest minor moves …
- The Angels announced yesterday that righty Oliver Drake was outrighted to Triple-A after clearing waivers. Drake received multiple opportunities this year, seeing action with three clubs, but ended up being designated for assignment by each of them when he simply could not produce results to match his generally promising peripheral numbers. All said, in 19 2/3 innings to open the 2018 campaign, he has allowed 18 earned runs on 29 hits while recording 23 strikeouts and ten walks. Certainly, Drake has been unlucky to carry a 59.1% strand rate and surrender a .450 batting average on balls in play on only a 32.3% hard contact rate. But it’s a bottom-line business at the end of the day, and he will now have to await another opportunity in the upper minors.
I’ve watched Drake. He was not “unlucky”, he was just bad. Don’t mince words. Just say he doesn’t belong in the major leagues.
Maybe he needs TJS like the rest of the Angels
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The worst part of this post for me is when I saw Minor MLB Transactions, I looked at the picture and thought to myself, “isn’t that Oliver Drake? Isn’t he an Angel now and not Cleveland?” No offense to Mr. Drake, but he should not be a part of my long term memory.
Oriole legend