Jean Segura, 3 Arms Join Angels 40-Man Roster

by Rev Halofan on Nov 18, 2011 3:53 PM PST in Angels News

Frankie-2 The Wolverine has been removed form the 40-Man Roster and outrighted to the Angels minor league system.

In a case of addition by subtraction, the Angels removed two pitchers from their 40-Man roster: Loek Van Mil and Francisco Rodriguez (aka Wolverine) and added Shorstop Jean Segura and three pitchers to the pool of immediately available talent. The three arms were Johnny Hellweg, Fabio Martinez and Ariel Pena, all righthanders.

Van Mil came over to the Angels from Minnesota in the Brian Fuentes trade and is considered by many to be a potential Randy Johnosnesque late bloomer. Frankie-Two pitched about league average in a low leverage relief role over the past two seasons and spent most of 2011 on the sixty-day DL with a bum shoulder.

Segura seemed to be heir apparent until injuries held him out of most of the 2011 campaign at High-A Inland Empire last year. Martinez too has spent almost as much of his short professional career hurt as healthy.

The Rule-5 Draft will take place on December 8 and the minor leaguers with lengthy (six to seven seasons) who are not on their club's forty-man roster are eligible to be drafted away by any of the other 29 teams in baseball. A Rule-5 pick must spend the whole season with the major league club that selects them or be forced to clear waivers and offered back to the original team.

The Angels 40-Man Roster is currently set at 37 players.

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I'm looking forward to seeing what Segura's going to do this season.

I also won’t miss F-Rod.

Official prediction: The Angels will win the AL west this season.

by RexTookMyStash on Nov 18, 2011 3:58 PM PST reply actions

Looks like the biggest names that were left unprotected for the Rule 5 draft are

Trevor Reckling(I’m pretty sure he’s Rule 5 draft eligible)
Van Mil
and Robert Fish

by ~MMP~ on Nov 18, 2011 4:23 PM PST reply actions

Considering there's still room on the 40 man roster

…which still includes Mathis, Dipoto is saying it’s no loss if all three are gone.

From Jeff Mathis' TOPPS card: "Jeff is a defensive catcher, but he can rake it when it counts." Jeff has a lifetime .199 MLB batting average

by mustard_man on Nov 18, 2011 5:10 PM PST up reply actions

Reckling is Rule-5 draft eligible

Saw that he tweeted it as a response over Twitter to someone that had asked.

by SamuelGorski91 on Nov 18, 2011 5:21 PM PST up reply actions

Why not put Reckling on?

Are we really gonna sign 3 players AND tender Mathis a contract?

by lightupthehalo29 on Nov 18, 2011 6:14 PM PST up reply actions

Reckling sucks

calculated gamble – any team out there going to put Trevor McFalmeout on their 25-Man all season long? Prolly Nopester…

by Rev Halofan on Nov 18, 2011 6:31 PM PST up reply actions

what the angry inch

does he go with Johnny to?

I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider

by DAD OF VLAD on Nov 18, 2011 5:41 PM PST reply actions

My bow the

by Dfresh on Nov 18, 2011 6:35 PM PST via mobile reply actions

Oops

My how the mighty have fallen. Reckling off the 40 man. Doesn’t make a lot of sense with 3 spots open. It is interesting how someone outside the organization has viewed some of these “prospects”.

by Dfresh on Nov 18, 2011 6:37 PM PST via mobile up reply actions

3 spots left!

by will_i_am_kun on Nov 18, 2011 7:16 PM PST reply actions

Mathis on the 40 man

Implies the team is going to offer him arbitration. Odds he starts the year on the 25 man roster have to be more than 75 percent.

by YouthofToday on Nov 18, 2011 9:33 PM PST reply actions

Odds probably even greater.

Scioscia to DiPoto, " Now that I’m not the GM anymore, do what you want with the roster, just leave me Mathis and we’ll get along the rest of the season. Just tell them we ran out of money to sign a new starting catcher and leave it at that."

Napoli's 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th homers of the year (four more than Jeff Mathis' career total) rained down on Angel Stadium like knives from the ceiling.

by 44FAN on Nov 18, 2011 11:43 PM PST up reply actions