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[Valenzuela] Matt Moore pulled an oblique yesterday. He is heading to the injured list. Ben Joyce is coming up tomorrow

  • May 28, 2023


[Valenzuela] Matt Moore pulled an oblique yesterday. He is heading to the injured list. Ben Joyce is coming up tomorrow

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  2. Ben joyce getting called up!!!

    …at the expense of losing our 2nd most solid reliever

    1 step forward, 2 steps back. Angels baseball.

  3. Fuck. Our bullpen is full of guys who can’t throw strikes plus devenski and estevez. Gonna be absolute shit 😭

  6. We’re going to need the rookies to save our season now. Things are looking very dire…

  12. Angels fans really are suffering tonight

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  14. Losing Moore after a brutal, embarrassing loss gives me bad vibes. Reminds me a bit of last year when the 14 game losing streak started, which was right around this time. Things are looking ominous again.

  15. Brutal! Moore’s been so good and it’s already been hard enough bridging the innings to get to Moore and Estevez.

  18. I figured the pitching depth would be tested at some point, but was not expecting it to be this early. Quijada and Warren are out for the season for Tommy John surgery, Suarez and Herget struggled, Tepera and Loup continue(d) to be unreliable, and now Moore’s injury suddenly made this bullpen incredibly reliant on a bunch of young and relatively unproven players.

    I know we place a lot of faith in Ben Joyce to be great at some point in his career, but to really have nobody else more prepared than him is a strike against the farm system. Silseth (23, drafted in 2021), Bachman (23, drafted in 2021), and now Joyce (22, drafted in 2022) are already 3 of the 9 bullpen arms, and I worry that we’re an injury away from bringing up yet another young pitcher (Torres, Crow, Bush, Murphy, etc.). Like yeah, we drafted them, so we might as well use them if they’re there, and AA/AAA are funky for their own reasons (tacked balls, high altitude), but a better-run franchise would really let them hone their craft, especially if they haven’t proven themselves just yet (like Neto, who annihilated AA).

    Bachman got a total of 84.1 IP in the minors, Silseth got 108.1 IP, and Joyce has all of 28.2 IP in 27 games. Worth noting that Silseth is the least problematic of the call-ups, considering his super solid showing at AA and continued performance at AAA.

    It’ll be good to see what they can take away from a stint with the squad, but this is a franchise that has consistently rushed players to the bigs primarily due to lacking better options. Let’s hope they’re up to the task.

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