The Angels announced that left-hander Jose Quijada has been reinstated from the 60-day injured list. Right-hander Jack Kochanowicz was optioned to Double-A Rocket City to make room for him on the active roster. Right-hander Adam Cimber, who was on the 15-day injured list, has been designated for assignment to open up a 40-man roster spot.
Quijada, now 28, underwent Tommy John surgery in May of last year and is now back. He has generally been a high-strikeout but also high-walk guy in his major league career so far. In 108 2/3 innings, he has a 4.89 earned run average, 30.6% strikeout rate but 13.8% walk rate.
That career was put on hold by his surgery, though his results have been fairly similar since he started a rehab assignment about a month ago. In 7 2/3 innings in the minors, he has struck out 41.9% of batters faced but also walked 12.9% of them. He’s out of options so the Angels have installed him back into their bullpen. He’s making a salary of $840K this year and can be retained via arbitration for two more seasons.
Cimber, 33, was signed to a one-year deal in the offseason with a $1.65MM guarantee. He has had some good years but struggled in 2023 and was non-tendered by the Blue Jays. The Halos were undoubtedly hoping for a rebound but didn’t get it. The submariner currently has a 7.03 ERA in 24 1/3 innings this year. He landed on the 15-day IL just over a month ago due to right shoulder inflammation.
It’s possible the shoulder has been an issue for some time. He posted a 7.40 ERA with the Jays last year and then missed the second half of the season due to a right shoulder impingement, but had been quite effective prior to that.
From 2018 through 2022, Cimber posted a 3.20 ERA in 301 appearances between San Diego, Cleveland, Miami and Toronto. He only struck out 18.4% of batters faced in that time but walked just 5.8% of them and got 52% of balls in play pounded into the ground. But he’s now had ERAs above 7.00 in two straight years while going to the IL for shoulder issues in both of them.
Injured players can’t be placed on outright waivers, but that’s a fairly moot point. Cimber has more than five years of service time, meaning he has the right to reject an outright assignment while keeping what’s left of his salary. The DFA limbo period can technically last as long as a week but given Cimber’s injury and recent performance, he seems bound to be released in the coming days as the only other alternative would be a trade.
Assuming he is indeed released, the Halos will remain on the hook for the majority of what’s left of his salary while another club could sign him and only pay him the prorated league minimum for any time spent on the active roster, with that amount subtracted from what the Angels pay. Whether he can find another deal will likely depend on the state of his shoulder in the weeks to come.
Hey Blackpink
I think the Angels should trade Mike Trout for Adam Cimber
It makes sense……………………………………………….
@angels cimber, guillorme for marsh. They both have visited Philadelphia once or twice
Trading for a player on your team makes sense…..
Marsh isn’t on the team and you must be the same idiot. I was joking btw.
Sad,
Sadly you missed the joke in it all.
@angelsfan1972 makes sense, because it’s the same person that was talking about the trout trade. Still doesn’t get it after 100+ replies.
What
I wonder if they’ll DFA Huira or Moore when Trout comes back on Thursday.
Angels need bullpen help badly, although it won’t change the crap outcome of this season.
@kellin probably willie or working on a pillar trade
I hope not Willie.
I would love to see a Pillar trade. It would be amazing if the Angels can anything substantial and Pillar deserves a chance to go out on top.
Win/ Win
@angelsfan1972 not sure about substantial, but I would trade him now for something.
Calhoun, Pillar, Anderson, Ward (who’s trade value is dying), Rengifo and Moore (who also has no real value) — should all be traded. What they get back is something else, though.
@Rex
one can hope…..right?
Maybe they can get a high risk pitching prospect, kind of like a Detmers, who perhaps with a change of scenery can turn things around.
@angels1972 shoot I’m fine with a Elvis peguero type and keep him this time
@Rex
Elvis has left the building.
@angelsfan1972 he left the world in 77′. Peguero might been the future setup guy in land of broken toys or free agents.
@Rex
Peguero seems to have found that missing piece and done well in Milwaukee. I was sad to see the Angels let him go.
And yes….I’d take Peguero for Pillar
@angelsfan1972 won’t happen now, but it wasn’t a bad trade. Until PM trade him 4 months later. I wouldn’t mind a project reliever for him probably the best he can get.
they have too many outfielders…. Willie Calhoun is likely the odd man out. While sticking with Ward, Adell, Moniak, and Pillar (who’s likely to get traded).
Hopefully, Trout will begin to DH more often.
@orange2001 they can bring in marisnick if they need someone. Still rather have dfa’d willie and kept sano.
That was a little surprising. You’d think they’d just outright him to Salt Lake. You lose nothing and carry a little depth at triple-A.
Cimber has enough service time to reject an outright assignment.
I believe he was talking about Sano. But I’m sure both do.
Moore has been horrific, hopefully they arrest him and try him
@bkbk not sure if they can trade him unless they pay the rest of contract off, and Still it might be for a hot dog vendor
Did not allow a run in 22 of his 28 appearances, but 13 of the 19 earned runs he’s allowed came in just 3 appearances. Honestly impressive to post an ERA above 7.00 while being scored on less than 25% of the time you pitch.
May 13: ANAHEIM — Adam Cimber has become a secret weapon of sorts out of the Angels’ bullpen this season, as he’s been elite at stranding runners.
I guess the “secret weapon” was really like Homer’s magic bat or Carl’s enchanted jockstrap.
July 20 per MLB: “Growing pains ‘something to build on’ for Kochanowicz”.
The dude gave up 7 runs on 10 hits in 4 innings. Always makes me laugh how they try to spin this season into anything but a disaster.
7*hits, 3 walks
Re: Kochanowicz
After his first outing against the Mariners – “I know what I need to work on.”
His outing against the As, as the Talking Heads say “Same as it ever was…”
Not sure if this dude needs more seasoning in the minors, or if he’s just not good enough to be a starter. Then again, he gave up 3 and 4 runs in the first inning of both games he started, so maybe he just sucks.
Cimber was one of my go-to pitchers in MLB The Show 23 Moonshot Event, I logged 150+ innings with him and can see why he was such a solid relief pitcher for most of his career – his motion and delivery are deceptive, and he gets a lot of break on his slider.
I know relievers are volatile in general but you really have no idea what you’re getting from game to game with Quijada.
He’ll look really good for a while then throw a 15 minute batting practice session.
@halosheavenjj he was really good until a week or two before the dl probably pitching on a injury. It was kinda the same deal with cimber before the wheels feel off.
They are only volatile because it’s a small sample size. Don’t look at the stats, look at the statcast page.
A bad stuff pitcher can pitch well for 20 innings. A good stuff pitcher can pitch terrible for 20. But regression will almost always occur for both.
Cimber had bad stuff.
@halo11fan in a perfect world I was fine with cimber as a low leverage reliever between the spotty defense at times, and injuries he was thrusted into situations he shouldn’t have been in. I agree now rip off the bandaid because it doesn’t matter. Hopefully they get some infield depth so we dont have Cole tucker and etc playing. I like crouse and fulmer. Maybe call up Reyes.
We’re going to party down, we’re going to Tiger town ! Baez replacement ! Come on up A.S.A.P ! Package Baez with Skubal while the market is red hot to the Dodgers.
Did the Mike trout troll come in to piss off Tigers fan.
As Max Smart would say, “missed it by that much”.
@MPRck trading baez would kill the return. You either deal with it or release him
Like your new name knuckleheaded troll
Mets should be all in on Cimber. Ottavino hasn’t thrown a strike in months. Get Deikman off this team as well, don’t know how hes been in the majors for so long, he can’t get lefties or righties out
@Lfgmets he has something with shoulder that he dealt with last year he might be broken. I didn’t mind him he was great coming in with bases loaded until he fell off bad.
Come home to Seattle, Adam. But heal up first.
With RPs, when you throw mud against a wall, some always sticks. When the sample size is so small, one or two bad stuff RPs always temporarily do well for a short time, and regression almost always takes over.
Strickland has a lot of red on his statcast page, he may keep it up, he may not. Estevez has a lot of red, he may keep it up, he may not.
But they both have a lot of blue as well. I say trade both.
Joyce is similar, but with six years of control….Keep him. With his fastball and extension, if he develops one off-speed pitch, he could be devastating.
Impingement is a brutal injury. I have had it. I am amazed any pitcher can come back from it. Best wishes to Cimber, he did a pretty good job at times for the Jays.
@jimmertee I think he’s pitching on it because of his age, or maybe to get his pension. He’s worth a shot for a lower leverage guy. You just can’t keep sending him out everyday.