The Angels have agreed to a minor league contract with right-handed reliever Evan Marshall, tweets James Fegan of The Athletic. Marshall himself advised on Twitter final evening that he’d signed with the Halos. He’s represented by ISE Baseball.
Marshall, 33 subsequent month, missed the 2022 season recovering from 2021 Tommy John surgical procedure. He loved a wonderful run with the White Sox from 2019-20, logging a mixed 2.45 ERA with a 23.5% strikeout price, 10.3% stroll price and 52.3% ground-ball price in 73 1/3 frames out of the Chicago bullpen. His numbers took a pointy downturn in 2021, nonetheless, as Marshall was tagged for a 5.60 ERA in 27 1/3 frames earlier than touchdown on the injured checklist and finally present process Tommy John surgical procedure.
Marshall’s Tommy John process got here in November 2021, so he needs to be largely recovered from the process. He’ll nonetheless must construct as much as recreation readiness after remaining unsigned by way of the majority of spring coaching. An task to Triple-A Salt Lake would make sense, speculatively talking.
Within the short-term, there’s not a whole lot of quick alternative within the Anaheim bullpen. The Halos are slated to hold a trio of out-of-options bullpen arms — Jaime Barria, Jose Quijada, Tucker Davidson — and the majority of their different choices are veterans on assured offers who can’t be optioned (Carlos Estevez, Ryan Tepera, Aaron Loup, Matt Moore). Proper-handers Jimmy Herget and Andrew Wantz are the one Angels relievers who could be optioned to the minors with out first passing by way of waivers, however they’re each additionally coming off robust 2022 seasons on the large league degree.
In fact, accidents and tough begins to the season are inevitable for any group of pitchers. Both might create a possibility for Marshall or one other veteran who’s with the Angels on a minor league contract. That’s a gaggle that presently consists of names like Chris Devenski, Jonathan Holder, Cesar Valdez and Jacob Webb, amongst others. If Marshall can efficiently get again to his pre-Tommy John 2019-20 kind, he’d presumably be among the many first names up when a possibility presents itself.
