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LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: DFAs and Outrights

September 16, 2025

Logan O’Hoppe is this year’s nominee from the Angels for the Roberto Clemente Award. Chad Wallach just got designated for assignment. In the same link, Scott Kingery and Niko Kavadas both cleared waivers and were outrighted to Triple-A. Kavadas has never been outrighted before so he could not elect free agency.

Here is MLBs explanation of the post season brackets, tiebreakers, and all that sort of thing.

The Orioles designated left-hander Ryan Borucki for assignment. They claimed lefty Jose Castillo off waivers from the Mariners and designated Carson Ragdale for assignment. The Giants DFAd utility infielder Brett Wisely. The Diamondbacks designated Anthony DeSclafani for assignment. They brought up Juan Morillo to replace him.

Bo Bichette is out getting a second opinion about his sprained knee.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Dana is yet another pitcher we can’t seem to develop.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Unlike Trout, Yelich’s ball gets out.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Our crown jewel of the all pitcher draft is warming up for mop up duty.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Dana willed that ump to K that batter.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Logan should join the front office a brand ambassador. He’s a great guy but can’t play at all.

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bobblanton

1 month ago

Over under 23 strikeouts

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Brent

1 month ago

Reply to bobblanton

Over.

Will tie the game, get to extra’s, and strike out for every out.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to Brent

Over.

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Brent

1 month ago

That final day of the season video of Wayne and Gubi showing Neto and the “young core talent” that went through so much “growth” making them “hungry” for a post season (what’s that?) push next year is going to hit like crack.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs took a shot at quantifying the impact of injuries on each team this season.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/which-teams-have-suffered-the-most-from-injuries/

Setting aside various caveats about the methodology (which Dan highlights himself), the cliff notes version: Astros, Orioles and Dodgers had it worst, and Angels, Cardinals and Giants had it easiest this year.

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Phil

1 month ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

Isn’t it sad?
Angels are one of the top teams to have suffered the least from injuries (aka, our players have been mostly healthy) and only a potential 4.8 WAR loss.
Yet, they are now in last place.

The majority of players cannot return for 2026.
Unless management is looking to increase their chances for #1 overall pick (which they’ll then use to select a player who’s projected to be selected #20 or later in 1st round)

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Reply to Phil

Hey. Everybody. We CAN”T GET A #1 PICK. We can’t even get a #8 pick, we don’t qualify for the lottery this year. So there is no tank. We’ll get assigned a pick… I think right now we get #10? Not sure.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

#12

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

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WE DID IT!

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

We drafted the #18ish guy with 2 so it won’t be any detriment.

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Phil

1 month ago

For today:

Peralta has faced Angels twice (while with Brewers), going 1-0, with 6.75 ERA.
For 2025: he’s 16-6, 2.59 ERA

Dana has never faced Brewers.
For 2025, he is 0-1, ERA 6.32; He’s pitched 4 games, and Angels have lost 3 of those games.

Trout has a 0.462 BA, 4 HRs, 13 RBIs, in 11 games against the Brewers. Of course, that was then, and this is now (btw, an excellent book, and a decent movie!).

The lineup has Carter Kieboom is at 1B.
28-y/o Kieboom last played in MLB in 2023 (Nationals). In his 4-yr career, in 508 AB, he’s hit 12 HRs, 42 RBIs, 138 Ks (27% K rate), and (-)1.8 WAR
Btw, his first MLB hit was a home run.

Also, O’hoppe is back in lineup.
As are Moore (2B) and Guzman (SS)

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RexFregosi

1 month ago

Reply to Phil

Kaboom! Glad he’s getting his shot too after two years away.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

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Minasian’s newest thing seems to be picking up other team’s early pick IF failures, e.g. Peraza, Kingery, now Kieboom.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

It’s the last weeks of a season. Time for just about everyone you would want to watch to be injured. Adell needs to get hurt slightly. I want to laugh at a team that is basically Jack Lopez on fan appreciation day…. and yet Mike Trout is in the line up.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

A reminder too that Game 2 of the Cal League finals is tonight, start time at 6:35pm. Trey Gregory-Alford is pitching.

Game 1 was an uncharacteristically sloppy one for the ACL kids, virtually across the board. Dylan Jordan walked six in four innings, Marlon Quintero sent one sailing over the first baseman on an aggressive, errant pickoff attempt, cashing in two unearned runs. Ubaldo Soto and Yokelvin Reyes both struggled with location in relief, and Soto challenged some guys down the middle that were inadvisable to challenge.

Here’s hoping it was just road game blues, and the 66ers rebound back at home in San Manuel Stadium. San Jose has a tough lineup, with some sluggers, plus their third and fourth rounders from the 2025 draft.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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And in case it’s confusing, by “ACL kids”, I mean the prospects from the ACL championship club who were promoted to Low-A in the second half.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Walbert Ureña won the (final) Southern League Pitcher of the Week award for his near no-hitter last week. He’s the only Pandas pitcher this year to win the award.

https://www.milb.com/rocket-city/news/walbert-urena-named-southern-league-pitcher-of-the-week

While he had an up and down season, he was the healthiest pitching prospect on the Angels farm by far, making 27 starts (a franchise record, and the most of any pitcher in the Southern League). 11 of those starts were quality, speaking to early inconsistency, but he ended quite strong. Across his final five outings, he maintained a 1.67 ERA, striking out 31 while issuing 11 walks in 32.1 innings.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

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Noise.

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Angelz4ever

1 month ago

Taco Tuesday!!!

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Jeff Joiner

1 month ago

Just curious, how many on here have read the book The Natural vs. just seeing the movie?

I really enjoyed the former and its ending vs. the latter’s.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

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Yep. I actually don’t like the movie The Natural at all. It is a completely different story with a completely different theme. It was also the point at which Redford stopped making good movies and descended into Paul Simon type heroic sanctimony in every role he would take.

It’s a shame too. The Natural would have been a great movie for a good fun watch if they hadn’t completely assaulted a perfectly good book to do it. Have Ron Barley be the heroic old man who carries the sad sack Chicago Squires to a moment of pure baseball greatness…. fun film. But no. Redford had to be all shiny and glorious and be an agent of change…. starting with Roy Hobbs and the pesky fact that Hobbs was a jerk, moving on to include a “lesson for us all” in most of his movies there after.

But he was the Sundance Kid. So still awesome. No one’s great forever.

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red floyd

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

… and descended into Paul Simon type heroic sanctimony in every role he would take

Alexander Pierce says hello.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Reply to red floyd

That’s the thing. Ol’ Rob really wanted you to take a lesson from his portrayal of Pierce.

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Roy Hobbs

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

This explains a lot. No wonder you don’t like me.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I like you fine. I even like Redford fine. But Three Days of the Condor, A Bridge Too Far, Butch Cassidy, The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson era Redford was friggin awesome. Things kinda went downhill, but not horrible, after The Natural. Like he always had to be making earnest eye contact with America and trying to unc us into eating our vegetables and listening to NPR in the mornings instead of just being in good movies.

Or, as one of my film industry pals calls it, Platform Disease.

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RexFregosi

1 month ago

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geez, next you’ll be telling me he even made a movie with Hanoi Jane.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Reply to RexFregosi

If he’d lived long enough he probably would have voiced a cartoon beside Greta Thunberg…. and it would have been incredible.

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Roy Hobbs

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I understand, I was just joking.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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While the earnestness and sentimentality might be reflective of platform disease, I think his politics were all his own. And when you start producing your own films, as he did late career, there are few around to edit you.

Of the late roles, The Old Man & the Gun wasn’t bad. The Company You Keep had its moments.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

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Old Man’s not bad…. going back a ways The Last Castle wasn’t bad either, but still a lot of uncle action.

It’s not like he sucked. He was still a good actor. But yeah, the choices he made as far as roles and how he does them became very “Robert Redford brought to you by Robert Redford” instead of ummm…. good and entertaining.

I have a dad. I didn’t need Rob to try and show me how to be for the last 30 years of his career. It would have been cool if he’d done more of a Gene Hackman/Paul Newman thing and just did a good job in films till he aged out.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

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These were also just the jeans that hugged his hips – an easy archtype to play just living in his skin as a “handsome senior known for understatement”.

Same archetype that Eastwood has been playing for decades, and Henry Fonda noodled on until Sergio Leone made him a flinty blue-eyed villain. “Upstanding man of quiet dignity” etc

Hackman and Newman played tricksters, rogues and hustlers throughout their careers – both had more range than any of the above.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

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Eastwoods the same as Redford. I like him, sure, but he spent the last big chunk of his career playing…. Clint Eastwood trying to show America how Clint Eastwood would do it. I loved Clint, but his last REALLY good movie may have been Unforgiven, which is one of my top 5 favorites.

Sure, Gran Turismo and a couple other later films managed to be entertaining while Clint was Clinting. But it was still mostly just Clint putting his beer complaints on film. “People today just….” the lead actor.

Clint spent the last chunk of his career basically trying to tell everyone he’s grumpy because he’s right about society. Sad angry shake of head. Falls victim to the storms of a world he shouldn’t be blamed for. Repeat.

Rob spent most of his time trying to show you that he is part of “the system” but he’s actually the best part of the system while also actually being aware of and against all the evil in the system. Soft authority stare. Encourages young outsider with oaky voice. Quips about the higher ups and sneaks around fixing evil behind THE MAN’s back. Has a drink and a smile. Repeat.

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RexFregosi

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I watched the movie once, didn’t think that highly of it

– maybe it’s my least favorite baseball movie. I should read the book.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Reply to RexFregosi

The book is awesome.

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Charles Sutton

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I thought All Is Lost was interesting, although I might have preferred Rutger Hauer in that role

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Angelz4ever

1 month ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

I didn’t read the book, it wasn’t in the Berenstein Bears series, sooooo….

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Eric_in_Portland

1 month ago

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I accidentally ruined the book for Downing Dude (who was going to read it eventually just like I’m going to read that pile right over there) by my rant about the changes from the novel to the movie

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

Ah it was you!!! Hahaha. All good, my friend. Someday – I’ll still read it.

But I loved the movie with Dad Robert Redford giving me life lessons. It also had Wilford Brimley famous from them Diuhbeetis commercials for old farts.

And the dad from Christmas Story. And Kim Basinger. And Michael Madsen.

Great flick and I’ll stop what I’m doing and watch it if my channel surfing catches it.

RIP Robert Redford

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2GA2Join

1 month ago

Reply to Jeff Joiner

I guess I’m in the minority here, because it is one of my favorites.
I heard about the book, and honestly it sounded like a downer and I’ve never been interested in reading it.

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steelgolf

1 month ago

Jose Suarez is making a start for the Braves in game 1 of their double header against The Nationals. Sorry Braves fans, this could get ugly.

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Angelz4ever

1 month ago

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Jose is gonna need ice for his neck.

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toad2065

1 month ago

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Au contraire mes amis! I fully expect Jose to throw a shout-out today. Tradition.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

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It’s funny. I thought all of our problems were gonna be solved, or at least most of them, when we traded Suarez for Anderson. People around here were wailing like someone was stabbing them to death with a blunt stick when Suarez was just at SPRING TRAINING so I figured he must have been so kryptonite that ditching him would lift the boat.

Turns out he sucks. But CtPG is also basically a pile of middle school girls who decided Suarez is fat and weird and probably like a psychokiller or something. Here or gone, Suarez made zero difference.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

I think we want Arturo to sell.

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Phil

1 month ago

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Ooops. I just checked CBS sportsline.
Looks like he got the win, giving up 2 runs in 7 innings.

Isn’t it odd?
Suarez pitched a few games for the Braves in April, with 2.45 ERA, and they optioned him to the minors, before finally calling him today.
They didn’t have room for a left-handed relief pitcher with 2.45 ERA for the full season?

Suarez is now 2-0, ERA 2.51.

If Braves release him after this season, surely, the Angels will sign him for 2026.
Because 6 years of him on the Angels roster (20-29 record, 5.47 ERA, total WAR 0.1) isn’t enough for the Angels to never have him back on the team.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Reply to Phil

Suarez was hurt most of the year

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

Come on D-Backs. Come on Reds. Beat out those Giants and sneak up on the financial collapse that is the Mets. One of you make the play offs then get all chesty and beat the Doyers. That would be wonderful. Do the right thing!

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RexFregosi

1 month ago

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Dbacks are in GREAT shap to get it done!

But the schedule is hellacious.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

1 month ago

I know he got caught using PEDS and since then he has fallen off a cliff and gotten injured. But he’s 23 years old and I am willing to be that he’s a total mess in his head after the PEDs suspension, injury and fall from grace.

Still, if we could fix him Orelvis Martinez would be a good prospect even if some of his production was from drug use. Solid 3B/SS prospects with 60 grade power don’t grow on trees but the Blue Jays are pissed at him and don’t want to carry him on the 40 man anymore. It would cost us nothing to bring him in, let Washington pump him up, and see if he can get it together on our farm for a couple months. Even if that 60 grade power is really 55 grade cause juice he’s better than what we have on the farm now.

It’s what the Doyers would do. It’s why there’s an off chance I’ll be pissed when Matt Gorski is playing all three OF positions with a .750 OPS for them for league minimum in the blew the next few years. Zero risk.