The Angels announced the signing of free agent reliever Adam Cimber to a one-year contract. The Shahpar Sports client is reportedly guaranteed $1.65MM.
It’s a rebound flier on the veteran right-hander. Cimber is coming off a 7.40 ERA across 20 2/3 innings, easily the worst showing of his career. A submariner, he had previously found plenty of success despite mid-80s fastball velocity. Cimber had turned in a sub-3.00 ERA while topping 70 innings in both 2021 and ’22 before this year’s struggles.
At his best, Cimber has shown plus control with the ability to keep the ball on the ground. The grounders have dipped in the past couple seasons, contributing to a significant spike in home runs this year. It’s possible that injuries played a role, as Cimber spent the final three months of the season on the injured list with a shoulder impingement.
The Jays non-tendered him a couple weeks ago in lieu of a projected $3.2MM arbitration salary. While Cimber takes a pay cut on his next deal, he’ll get an immediate MLB opportunity to right the ship. With between five and six years of service time, he’ll return to free agency next offseason.
Los Angeles has taken a volume approach to their bullpen in the early stages of the offseason. The Halos signed Adam Kolarek for $900K and agreed to terms with Luis García on a $4.25MM deal. They’re a trio of buy-low veterans who’ll add some low-cost experience to the middle relief corps. The Angels have Carlos Estévez in the ninth inning and harder-throwing youngsters Ben Joyce and José Soriano in the middle to late innings.
Fabian Ardaya of the Athletic first reported the Angels and Cimber were in serious discussions. Jeff Passan of ESPN reported they were in agreement on a one-year, $1.65MM deal.
Trade Trout. Time to just move on from him. Even if they have to pay 75% of his salary, just get rid of him already. Trout’s WBC defeat against Ohtani with the game on the line and the nation’s prestige at stake when Ohtani challenged and beat him with straight fastballs right down the middle was the last straw. Not to mention Trout choking his 1 time in the MLB playoffs.
Nobody cares about, or even watched the WBC. All it did was ruin player’s seasons.
Ratings for the WBC were great. Unbelievable in Japan and other places.
Far more people watched the WBC than the World Series.
WBC was great last year.
Actually, people did watch it. So referring to “nobody” as “everybody” is just plain wrong.
Your comment is consistent with your user name. So good for you staying on brand!
What does my comment about the WBC have to do with my username? I sense it’s you disagreeing with both and that’s it. Grow up and learn that people look at the world differently, Johnny. The world isn’t flat.
@Cora …I’m sure he was referring to me, you’re good.
MLB Trade Rumors needs to fix that
So…you don’t like Trout?
Hey this is Arte Moreno. Thanks for the opinion I’ll be sure to consider it
Angels stated publicly today that they are absolutely not trading Trout.
Holy CRAP. enough with the trade Trout’s !!!
It is getting old and inherently stupid to be brought up any longer
Small Sample. But you tried. Failed but tried….lol
You’re not too bright a bulb. Trout shamed the country by striking out on 98mph slider? You”re quite a guy.
There was no shame meatball, a player can strike out 7 out of 10 ties in his career and still make the HOF with a career .300 average.
Mla You are a f*king idiot
Don’t you read anything, the Angels GM said it is 100% certain that they are not trading Trout. In any event, Trout has to request a trade the Angels just can’t trade him without his consent. That is called a no trade clause!!!
The Angels should trade Ohtani…oh wait he is a free agrent
The Angels should trade Trout…oh wait he has a no trade clause
The Angels should trade Trout…oh wait Minassian has said 100% chance of that NOT happening
Why are these “not so bright” people coming on here and restating the same thing over and over?
At least it is entertaining watching people make a mockery of themselves.
Anyways, I am out of here. I have lunch with Chili Davis, haaa haaaaaa
Submarine man!
Talks are “trending positively” in sharp contrast to Cimber’s yearly ERA…
HEEEYYYYYOOOOO!
Can someone spell his name phonetically please?
simm berr
like timber
Thank you Marquis’ cacophonous sister.
hakuna matata
Add umm
Runnin’ the west down in progress!
Why did Cimber fall off a cliff last year, and do we think he’ll recover?
Spent half the season hurt. I’ll agree with another commenter in saying that he may have been overworked the year before and came into the season with some kind of latent injury.
So,TJS is coming soon?
Got bombed twice, including a 6-run beating in a third of an inning. 9 runs in his last 2 and a third innings. Hard to overcome that as a reliever.
He fell off a cliff statistically because he only had a handful of innings before losing the rest of the season to injury. There was really no time for the numbers to recover. Why he was bad in that small sample, I’m not sure but wouldn’t rule out that he was pitching at less than full health. His strength is the deception and the odd angles he creates. I think that plays as long as he comes back with the kind of command that made him really good for the couple of previous years. A lot of his value came from how frequently he pitched and the large volume of decent work he provided. Not sure you can expect that workload coming off a season lost to injury, but at the price point, he’s a good soft contact middle reliever.
Hope he does well out there. He was one of my favourites while he was in Toronto.
Great signing. Low cost move of a player that has had a ton if success. While the Mets would rather sign a Scrubb
Is there anyone who knows less about relief pitching than Minasian?
Maybe a few posters on this board, but that’s about it.
I’m not really upset about them signing cimber, it’s more about my gut being correct about them just signing band aids, and not fixing something that’s been a issue for awhile.
Rex – Cimber as a minor league signing with spring training invite would have been fine. But Cimber as a guaranteed signing which takes up a 40-man roster is not good.
We needed three guys just not the ones I was wanting, I would’ve been fine with cimber if that meant they got Moore or Chapman. If there is any positive they can release them if they blow, because they refused to cut ties with loup probably because he was making 8 million for a 5+ era
They band-aids take up spots. Players on the 40 man roster have to be released and a spot on the 26 man roster is reserved for him..
Miss bats, throw strikes, and keep the ball in the park. If you’re not missing bats and not throwing strike, you’re an accident waiting to happen.
He’s not horrible, but it is a spot. Garcia was a worse signing.
@orange @halo wasn’t saying I was ok with it, had a gut feeling perry was going to do it when we needed two high leverage bullpen pieces
It’s not Cimber,it’s the other two……then Cimber. Sign this guy first and I’m ok with it.
Agree if it was cimber, and moore or Chapman and a minor league deal or two I would be fine with it probably cost similar.
Sadly, when you examine who, in his 4 years with the club, he has signed/traded for, it’s pretty obvious he has no clue.
Amen!
Maybe 77 appearances in 2022 was too many
Looks like maybe 77 was too much because he was fine before that.. spending most of the season on the IL last year, and not pitching well probably lends to this. Hoping he has recovered from whatever injury he had and could be a solid pickup. Wonder if Minassian is hoping him to be 2024’s Moore.
The difference is that Moore was coming off a fantastic 2022 while Cimber is coming off a train wreck 2023. Relief pitching is volatile, hardly ever the same from year to year. The Angels’ quickest way to improve the pitching is to beef up the bullpen with known quantities not reclamation projects. Minasian is clueless when it comes to roster building.
0-2 7.40 era… Bang, this is the answer to fixing a bad bullpen. Just bring in worse pitchers and pray they somehow get better. Sound thinking.
The last three gms did this is it them or is it Arte. If they sign ohtani it will put them on arte’s tax line if they are over and out of it every will be traded to get under it again.
Cimbit was REALLY bad last year, I dont know what happened as he was quite good the previous few years. But at this price here is no risk.
Another non difference maker
Dig how in the stretch, he squats down on the mound, seemingly delivering Cimburgers.
Angels are signaling they’re throwing in the towel, at least on 2024. This is sad. I’d join the “trade Mike Trout” stuff but without him they’d have nothing and his contract is basically un-trade-able.
The worst part is, the Angels are somehow in such bad shape, that even if they could trade Mike Trout for one of the greatest hauls of an ensemble of players in history, it probably would not really make a difference, neither would the top prospects in the league.
There’s really not much they can do other than to draft well, develop from the minors up, sign complimentary free agents along the way and hope they can compete toward the end of Trout’s tenure when he’s the elder statesman wrapping up his career- if he doesn’t retire early from one of his nagging injuries.
How is adding some innings to the frontend of their bullpen signaling they’re throwing in the towel?
TrillionaireTeamOperator
Well, I guess your opinion is worth 2 Cent’s
But keep the change you filthy animal
TTO-Nagging injuries? hmmmmmmmm Oh you mean the bad back issues.? So it was so nagging he came back and hit 20 hrs to finish out the 2022 season with 40 hrs? Gotcha.
The problem as you stated has no solution as long as Arte Moreno is the owner. We Angels fans were doomed the day he took the team off the market. He looks at the minor leaguers with distain, a necessary evil. He sp ends the minimum on scouting and development. He is more concerned with marketing than winning on the field. He is the biggest reason for the last ten awful seasons.
As a Jay’s fan he was good for 2 years last year he was bad. For the $ it’s worth the risk imo
Cimber was a slow climber through his development.
Injury-riddled 2023 aside, Cimber has been quite effective over the years. Little-to-no risk here.
The last two bullpen pick ups are suppose to motivate Ohtani that the Angels are improving?
He gone!!!
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Perry appears to be building his bullpen exactly like he built it last season. Same sort of unspectacular veteran arms.
Solid pick up and inexpensive.
He was injured last year, but prior to that had never had a season with an ERA+ less than league average.
Ground balls are the theme of the week.
This looks like Claudio 2.0 but we’ll see. Maybe buying low is better than always buying high.
Good cheap sign and bounce back candidate. I like
Angels sign Cimber from the Blue Jays and Blue Jays sign Ohtani from the Angels. Seems fair.
And we get nothing as usual… agreed.
This is a great deal. They get him cheap, so anything they get out of him is a bonus. Career 3.83 FIP too.
So, Moreno is using exactly the same strategy to build a pitching staff that he has used for the past 10 years and beyond. It hasn’t worked ever, so let’s try it again this year.
I know a lot of you blame Minasian but he does nothing without Moreno saying yes or no. The evidence of that is every GM we’ve had in the last decade. The strategy to build a team has been exactly the same under every one of them. Moreno is the only common denominator. He’s the problem.
Another 73-89 record coming in HOOOOTTTT!