ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed LHP Rich Robertson to a minor league contract. [1/19] Signed OF Gary Thurman to a minor-league contract with a spring training NRI. [1/22] Neither are bad additions. The Angels rotation is currently looking to be Chuck Finley, Ken Hill, Allen Watson, Jason Dickson, and Omar Olivares. Robertson joins William VanLandingham on the…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed INF Norberto Martin to a one-year contract. [1/9] Signed RHP William VanLandingham to a one-year contract. [1/10] With the defections of Jack Howell and Craig Grebeck, the Angels were getting pretty thin for utility infielders. Paco Martin may have his faults (mostly in the field), but as a pinch-hitter or pinch-runner for…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed DH/1B Cecil Fielder to a one-year contract. [12/19] The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Angels were confronted with a very similar choice after the 1990 season, when they let Brian Downing walk away to bring in Dave Parker to DH. Fielder’s a better player now than Parker…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed C Matt Walbeck to a one-year contract. [12/16] ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS Sold the rights to LF Harvey Pulliam to Orix of the Japanese Leagues. [12/17] Signed RHPs Scott Brow, Greg Hansell, Barry Manuel, and Dave Pavlas to minor league contracts with NRIs to spring training. [12/18] The D-backs’ pitching situation is fluid (to…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed RHP Rich DeLucia to a one-year contract, and signed RHP Mark Gubicza to a minor-league contract with a spring training invite. [12/8] Signed RHP Omar Olivares to a one-year contract. [12/11] The Angels haven’t managed to pull off any of the rumored deals for pitching that would in turn move either Garrett…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed C Eric Helfand to a minor league contract. [12/3] Signed LHP Greg Cadaret and 3B Frank Bolick to minor league contracts. [12/4] Signed INF Steve Scarsone to a minor league contract. [12/5] Fillin’ up for Vancouver… Scarsone is a handy utility infielder with good offensive skills vs. LHPs, and with Craig Grebeck’s…
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS Named Mark Connor pitching coach, and signed LHP Kirt Ojala to a minor league contract. [11/26] Although clearly less guilty than the D-Rays in this regard, chalk this up as an example of Buck Showalter wanting people he’s familiar with. Connor was his pitching coach with the Yankees, and the Boss’ decision to…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed RHP Ken Hill to a three-year deal with a one-year option. [11/16] Acquired UT Phil Nevin and C Matt Walbeck from Detroit for RHP Nick Skuse. [11/20] Trading Perisho for the subsequently drafted Mike Bell doesn’t hurt as much now, since Hill came around and re-signed. There are still questions about whether…
THE DRAFT 1. Tony Saunders, LHP, Florida 4. Quinton McCracken, CF, Colorado 6. Bob Abreu, LF, Houston (traded to Philadelphia for SS Kevin Stocker) 8. Miguel Cairo, 2B, Chicago-NL 10. Rich Butler, RF, Toronto 12. Bobby Smith, SS/3B, Atlanta 14. Jason Johnson, RHP, Pittsburgh 16. Dmitri Young, 1B, Cincinnati (the PTBNL for the 11/11 trade…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Exercised the option on RHP Ken Hill, who declined and is now a free agent. [11/7] The Angels are supposed to be livid about this, because they claim they would not have traded Matt Perisho to the Rangers had they known this was going to happen. Since the Perisho-Mike Bell deal wasn’t a…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Outrighted RHP Fausto Macey and C Brett Hemphill to Vancouver, and announced that RHP Shad Williams rejected an assignment to Vancouver, cleared waivers, and is now a free agent. [10/16] This is pretty straightforward roster cleaning prior to the expansion draft and the Rule V draft; Williams was never really a prospect, and…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Announced that INF Craig Grebeck and LHP Greg Cadaret cleared waivers and declared free agency; activated RHP Mark Gubicza and INF Randy Velarde from the 60-day DL and placed them on the 40-man roster. [10/9] C Chris Turner cleared waivers and declared free agency. [10/10] Damn that Craig Crebeck for outplaying DiSarcina as…
BOSTON RED SOX Released LF Wil Cordero. [9/28] Acquired RHP Jim Mecir from the Yankees to complete the Mike Stanley trade. [9/29] Cordero’s release was well-earned, even without the off-field problems. A left fielder who hits 281/320/432 (which isn’t far off from his pre-’97 career mark of 279/337/424) is close to worthless. As it stands,…
ABOUT PLAYOFF ROSTERS Don’t be surprised when several teams take advantage of the "Hibbard clause" for setting their postseason rosters. In case you missed what that means, the loophole in the playoff roster rules that allowed the Mariners to put Greg Hibbard on their postseason roster in 1995 (since he had spent the season on…