The Angels designated righty reliever Ryan Miller for assignment, tweets Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. That’s the associated 40-man roster move for the Kyle Hendricks signing.
Miller, 28, earned his first major league call in August. He made 13 appearances late in the year. Miller gave up seven runs (six earned) while striking out 11 and issuing eight walks across 13 innings. The Clemson product showed a fairly typical sinker-slider combination, averaging just under 94 MPH on the fastball. While he didn’t miss many bats in his brief MLB look, he’s coming off a nice year in Triple-A. Miller tossed 62 1/3 innings of 2.45 ERA ball in Salt Lake. He struck out around a quarter of opponents while keeping his walks to a tidy 5.6% clip.
The Halos acquired Miller last offseason, grabbing him from the Red Sox in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft. They have five days to explore trade possibilities but are likelier to try to run him through outright waivers.
a shame, he was a great goalie
Bizzare. Picks him in ’23 Rule V and he has a good promotion year in AAA with very limited MLB time. Now they drop him for Hendricks. Angels could’ve added him to the Canning-Soler trade a week ago in exchange for a non-40 man lottery ticket.
@YBC. Yeah I’m not mad about the canning-soler trade. Canning had plenty of chances and couldn’t get better. I’m more perplexed about letting fulmer go for Hendricks. Feel like he was fine at that 5-6 starter role, and most likely the same price.
Always love seeing guys like him finally get to live their MLB dream.
Kind of surprised at this. His AAA numbers this year were nice.
Year in, year out…same story. I just don’t get these folks in the front office here. Had some very good teams and players over the years, not recently. Sad.