The Braves have acquired right-hander Davis Daniel from the Angels, per announcements from both clubs. The Halos designated Daniel for assignment earlier this week. Left-hander Mitch Farris heads the other way.
Daniel, 28 in June, has a small amount of major league experience thus far. Between last year and this year, he has tossed 42 2/3 innings for the Angels, allowing 5.06 earned runs per nine. His 8.1% walk rate is right around average but his 19.9% strikeout rate and 39.1% ground ball rate are both a few ticks worse than par.
Atlanta is probably more interested in the Triple-A season that Daniel just had. He made 21 starts and one relief appearance at the Sale Lake Bees, logging 118 innings. His 5.42 ERA in that time is obviously not impressive, but the Bees play in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League. Daniel struck out 23.3% of batters faced and only gave out walks at a 6.5% clip. His 4.41 FIP was almost exactly a run better than his ERA.
Daniel still has an option remaining, so he can give Atlanta a bit of extra rotation depth without taking up an active roster spot. Atlanta projects to have a rotation fronted by Chris Sale, Reynaldo López and Spencer Schwellenbach. They will eventually get Spencer Strider back into that mix at some point, once he’s recovered from his April internal brace surgery. Until then, options for the back end include Grant Holmes, Ian Anderson, AJ Smith-Shawver, Hurston Waldrep, Bryce Elder and others. Daniel will jump into that group, who will presumably battle each other for positions on the depth chart.
Farris, 24 in February, was selected by Atlanta in the 14th round of the 2023 draft. Since then, he has thrown 124 2/3 innings over 21 starts and nine relief appearances in the minors. In that time, he has a 2.96 ERA, 30% strikeout rate and 9.7% walk rate. He spent most of 2024 at High-A and will backfill some of the pitching depth that the Angels just lost by cutting Daniel from the roster. Farris isn’t Rule 5 eligible until December of 2026, so he won’t need a roster spot for quite a while.
Trying to one up the Astros news I see
Really hope it works out well for Davis.
He’s from the South and now he’ll get to pitch close to sea level rather than in salt Lake.
AA knows (but he’s not tellin)
That’s the canning replacement. He has really good peripherals. Just hasn’t put it together. It’s definitely a project
2025 is a CON GAME by Dewitt/Mo used as an excuse to CUT PAYROLL to the bare bones
POOR St. Louis
@tim. This is about the braves and Davis daniel
It’s about CAPITAL LETTERS!!
Sir, this is a Wendy’s…
@gwynning. I know,and that’s why i ordered a big mac.
Rotation Depth is fine, but at some point we will need a legit Pitcher for either the bullpen or Rotation it’s a long season. Choose Shortstop or Outfielder we need one of them and back fill the other spot with first available……
AA fleeced twice by the Angels this offseason. Yikes.
If you think the solar trade was a fleece by the angels you just don’t understand baseball
When he was born, the hospital accidentally mixed up his first and last names on the form.
Daniel would have excelled in the bullpen
But why????
He had a good showing in the AFL last year and solid peripherals while pitching in a pitchers nightmare league.
Having an option is a good thing. Few of the braves 5th spot candidates/swingmen have options. It gives flexibility during the season. These types of roster moves are important in the grand scheme of things.
Perry Minasian likes to dial up his old pals from the Braves huh?
When will we get to see him trade with his bro in SF?
+ @ArteMoreno –looping in Arte to answer
Perry and Buster are siblings? Learn sumthin erryday
@Gwyn
Perry’s brother – Zack – is the GM of the Giants.
I know, and good looking out kells… my weak joke is that Buster is the one callin’ the shots up there. Cheers fellas
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Perry and Zack have been playing GM all the way back since they were kids at the dinner table.
His name seems backwards.
Even better, his real first name is Robert.
And who’s this Joe Mayo everyone keeps talking about? Frankly it sounds made up.
He gives everyone jobs to do at his parties. I got jiggy with it at one once.
Whenever I see a move like this, I assume the team trading for the player sees the peripheral stats to consider this a diamond in the rough whom they can mold into surplus value and minimal cost and either keep in house for relatively cheap long term or flip for a haul later on…
Does Peary realize there are others teams to make deals with besides Atl and Philly?
Why … why not include him in the Solar? Like certainly the angels kinda knew they weren’t gonna keep him…
It’s funny, if the Braves and angels could have (and I know mlb rules would have prevented it) but if they could have waited, the Braves could have traded solar and TD, angels would have had TD in a lower risk deal, albeit higher AAV for the 1 year, and they could have swapped for this guy in the deal plus some cash and everyone would have been happy, Braves could have kept their prospects. Idk.. just funny how it all unfolds
Man, I saw this dude last season rake in his first MLB start… 8 shutout innings, 8 K’s, no walks. The potential is there.
Is this the guy from Animal House that rode off into the sunset with the mayor’s daughter?