The Angels are set to pick the contract of right-hander Johnny Cueto from Triple-A Salt Lake, experiences Hector Gomez of Z101 Deportes within the Dominican Republic. The Halos don’t have a starter introduced for tomorrow’s recreation, so it appears the plan will likely be for the veteran Cueto to come back up and take the ball. He’s not on the 40-man roster, however the Angels have a emptiness there after releasing veteran infielder Luis Guillorme over the weekend.
Cueto, 38, has pitched in Triple-A with the Rangers and Angels this season, discovering a great bit extra success with the latter than with the previous. He’s made 4 begins in Salt Lake and held opponents to eight earned runs on 27 hits and 5 walks with 15 strikeouts by way of 23 1/3 frames. That comes out to a 3.09 ERA and sharp 5% stroll price — albeit in opposition to a sub-par 14.9% strikeout price. When together with his minor league work with Texas this season, Cueto has a 4.76 ERA in 64 1/3 innings. He’ll be on six days relaxation for tomorrow’s recreation, along with his most up-to-date outing having come on Aug. 14.
Assuming Cueto certainly will get the nod for the Angels, this would be the seventeenth consecutive season through which the two-time All-Star and 2015 World Sequence champion has pitched within the majors. He spent the 2023 marketing campaign with the Marlins however struggled to a 6.02 ERA by way of 10 begins in a season that was wrecked by a biceps harm. As just lately as 2022, the right-hander pitched 158 1/3 innings of three.35 ERA ball with the White Sox, exhibiting comparable Ok-BB charges (15.7% and 5.1%) to those he’s logged in Triple-A this yr.
Total, Cueto has piled up 2245 massive league innings and recorded a tidy 3.50 ERA alongside the way in which. He’s received 144 video games in opposition to 111 losses, punched out 1851 massive league opponents and appeared in a complete of 368 main league video games. Cueto is at the moment tied with Floyd Bannister and Doc White for 196th in video games began on the MLB stage, and he’ll soar right into a tie with Ron Darling, Scott Erickson and Vern Regulation for 193rd if and when he takes the ball tomorrow.
The Angels just lately positioned Jose Soriano on the injured listing attributable to arm fatigue and misplaced Patrick Sandoval to UCL surgical procedure earlier this season. They’ve been utilizing journeyman Carson Fulmer and rookie Jack Kochanowicz within the rotation alongside Tyler Anderson and Griffin Canning just lately. Cueto will give them a veteran possibility to affix that group, although it’s doable the Angels will need to try homegrown arms like Reid Detmers or Sam Bachman down the stretch. Each have had their struggles since being optioned to Triple-A, however each pitchers additionally pitched excellently of their most up-to-date outings.