{"id":270050,"date":"2025-08-24T22:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/270050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:33:34","slug":"angels-outright-connor-brogdon-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/270050\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Outright Connor Brogdon &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 19: Brogdon cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake, according to the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/connor-brogdon-641401\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction log<\/a>. It\u2019s not clear if he\u2019ll accept the assignment or test free agency.<\/p>\n<p>August 17: The Angels announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve designated right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brogdco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Brogdon<\/a> for assignment.\u00a0 Righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fermijo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose Fermin<\/a> was called up from Triple-A in the corresponding roster move.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles signed Brogdon to an offseason minors deal that was selected to the active roster in early May, and the reliever has posted a 5.30 ERA, 10.1% walk rate, and 20.9% strikeout rate across 37 1\/3 bullpen innings.\u00a0 That low strikeout rate came despite some solid chase and whiff rates, and Brogdon recaptured his past fastball velocity by averaging 95.5mph on his heater.\u00a0 Unfortunately, opposing batters made lots of hard and heavy contact against Brogdon, as he allowed seven home runs during his 37 1\/3 frames.<\/p>\n<p>Since Brogdon is out of minor league options, the Angels had to designate him for assignment to remove him from the active roster.\u00a0 It is possible another team in need of bullpen help could make a claim given how reinforcements are harder to find post-trade deadline, but Brogdon\u2019s lack of production might not entice many teams.\u00a0 Since he has been outrighted before in his career, Brogdon can choose free agency if he clears waivers and is outrighted off the Angels\u2019 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how Brogdon was plagued by plantar fasciitis in 2024, getting back to good health at least represents one silver lining to his 2025 season.\u00a0 The right-hander posted good numbers in Philadelphia\u2019s bullpen in 2021-22 before running into some struggles in 2023, and he pitched in only four Major League games last year (three with the Phillies, one with the Dodgers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 19: Brogdon cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake, according to the MLB.com transaction log.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,4611,596,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-270050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-connor-brogdon","11":"tag-jose-fermin-born-2001","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-angels","14":"tag-laangels","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-angels","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesangels","19":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115086124988996698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}