The Angels announced today that they have selected the contracts of righty Jacob Barnes and lefty Hoby Milner. They’ll both make the Opening Day roster.
As had been anticipated, righty Justin Anderson will go on the 45-day injured list as he readies for Tommy John surgery. That opened a 40-man spot.
Notably, starter Julio Teheran is not listed on the active roster. He’ll presumably open the year on the injured list after getting a late start. Newly signed star Anthony Rendon will avoid an IL stint, which seems to reflect good news as he rehabs an oblique injury.
I hope this means the walking gas can Noe Ramirez is not going to have a vital roll on the team.
What are you talking about? Walking gas can? Noe had a sub 4 Era, 10k/9, 3.75 FIP, only 1 walk every 3.5 innings. He may not be Gerrit Cole, but he was not one of the problems last year. He opened 5 games and finished 10. Hes versitile, solid, and a pro. Stay positive. Its going to be a good 60 games to watch.
Have you ever watched him pitch? I’ve seen to many games, when he comes in, walks the first batter, gives up a single to the next hitter. Now when he does that, they can’t pull him after that. Numbers don’t always tell the whole story.
Devil’s advocate here since, like I’ve mentioned, I’m not exactly a Noe fan…
Noe pitched in 51 games last year and pitched less than 1.0 innings 7 times.
(6 times he got two outs, one time he failed to get a single out)
People will see something bad (or good) and it will lock in their mind and data will not change their opinion.
I’m not going to call him a failure by any means, but I am not a fan of Noe either. He’ll grow on me more if he continues to cut down on the HR ball (15 given up in ’18, 9 given up last season) and continues to drop his ERA and WHIP though. He’s still a valuable pitcher (only making prorated 900k this year) but I hope other relievers step up and prove to be a better late-inning option.
BTW, Buttrey & Ramierez had identical ERA+ last season at 114 (This is more to help convince myself that Noe is better than I think he is)
I have no issues with the Angels keeping him. I just don’t want him on the mound in 7th, 8th or 9th inning, when it is a close game. Now if it’s a blow out, let him eat some innings. Or let him pitch the 6th inning.
Noe, Buttrey, Ramirez….all walking gas cans
…the game is lost once the Angels bullpen is called