Yep, the Angels sign a 37 year old relief pitcher Drew Pomeranz. But he has been good of late! And he was cheaper than Jansen. At 4M for a 1 year deal, it is a low risk, sell at deadline reward maybe.
Actually, they signed 2 RP. The other being only 32. Jordan Romero was last on the Phillies. It did not look good. But it is only 2M.
What does this mean? A new bullpen for 2026! Look out MLB!
This is exactly the type of off brand lunch meat I (unfortunately) want the team to buy.
First. They are alive and throw baseballs with generally functional arms.
They a veterany. Why do I care? Because the kids still suck.
Why does it matter? I HOPE what this does is give Mike Maddox some guys with past success that can be more easily coached into being useful, at a pretty minimal price.
This allows arms in the MiLB to stay down there and get work done without getting murdered by MLB hitters.
Best case, signings like this result in some passable relief innings while a couple younger arms actually develop into stronger pen pieces and we see both this season. All for less than Jansen cost.
Worst case, we are basically the same team that we were in August.
More Karl Buddig ham please.
Karl Budding cold cuts: cheap processed lunch meat from horse-kangaroo-dog or whatever, mixed, pressed together by water/sodium, disguised as turkey/ham/roast beef. Sounds like our bullpen. Thinking Perry like to eat the horrid 2 for $5 sandwich at Arby’s too.
You forced a flashback to store brand fried bologna sandwiches on store brand white bread everyday in college followed by top ramen or cheepo mac n cheese for dinner. Entered college to play ball at 190lbs, chiseled with 10% body fat. Returned to Mom’s house a few years later at 1158lbs with a blown out shoulder, drinking problem and muscle atrophy.
968 lbs gained. very impressive
With Jordan Romero, I think they might have rung you up for the fresh sliced meat from the deli counter. 2 M for an 8+ ERA? 🤮
After this year, Neto and Schanuel will only have 3 years of control remaining, Soriano and Detmers 2, and Adell 1. None will be making the major league minimum anymore and all will start costing more money. They are not really going to be part of any future success.
Trade them all.
Pomeranz, fine.
Romero, lol.
See, that’s what I think. Which is why Pomeranz will be hurt all year in a freak seagull incident and Romero will throw 60 innings with a 1.002 WHIP.
Hypothetically true because:
Pasta, check.
Wall, check.
Pomeranz at $4M, too high. Offer him the minimum and the 1st shot at being the closer to build his 2027 cache. So f-ing Perry.
I like these signings.
Will help us get higher pick in 2027 MLB draft.
That’s a good observation. Load the new GM with a top 3 pick.
So Pomeranz didn’t play for 4 seasons due to injury? And then came back last year? What could possibly go wrong?!
The Angels hadve a massive Shortage of left handed relievers in the organization. So For $4 million a year its clearly a risk worth taking. But Compared to the Stephenson, Tepera, Loup et al fiascos this is a Walmart special.
Maybe Perry finally learned his lesson?
Walmart? He’s going more Dollar Store this year. You can’t polish a turd. It’s going to be a long year Angels fans.
With our plethora of arms in the system brought in from the “all pitcher” draft until now, they couldn’t even cobble a bullpen at league minimum salaries? I would not have spent over a million for either of these guys. Just a waste of money for a last place team.
Unfortunately, after Burke I think the next guys up were a wild dude who we failed to protect during the recent Rule 5 draft and some other LOOGYs who probably once pitched for the Milwaukee Milkmen
I think Arte wanted to trade those arms for a plethora of piñatas.
I won’t quibble much with these signings as they’re bargain bin shopping – relatively speaking, but, this BP remains awful, which is right in line with an awful roster writ large, so why bother with 37 year old players at all?
I’d take flyers on younger players across the board. Like the trade we made last week for the utility IF’er from Boston. That makes sense to me.
I’ve finally reached the point of tear this whole thing down completely. Including the cement foundation (Neto, Soriano, Detmers, Adell, etc). All of it.
Welcome.
I like the Pomeranz deal and the Romano is a total roll of the dice.
It seems like $2 million a year on a major league deal for a guy who’s been injured, hasn’t been good for quite awhile and has no options remaining seems pretty foolish.
This now fills 5 of the 8 bullpen slots in 2026 with Pomeranz, Silseth, Burke & Romano all out of options.
I cannot agree more. Why the stretch to a $4M contract, especially when there are more meaningful holes to fill. While it may result in a positive impact, just feels so misaligned.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yeah, I figured he’d get a split contract. Would be nice to be able to stash him in AAA.
Sounds like a BP full of trash.
We can get younger & less expensive trash with similar results. Or at least it would seem.
I used to be good many years ago, maybe they’ll give me 2M. I’m left handed as well!
Continue avoiding long-term contracts ✅ (an exception can be made for Okamoto 🇯🇵)
I expect nothing in 2026 so this is fine
Decent filler signings.
