{"id":485095,"date":"2025-12-19T17:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/485095\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:18:36","slug":"angels-add-to-bullpen-with-signings-of-romano-pomeranz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/485095\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels add to bullpen with signings of Romano, Pomeranz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportingtribune.com\/team\/angels\/feed?page=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Angels;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> added some bullpen depth with a pair of signings on Monday evening, reportedly agreeing to deals with right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/jordan-romano-605447\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jordan Romano;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jordan Romano<\/a> and left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/drew-pomeranz-519141\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Drew Pomeranz;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Drew Pomeranz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Romano, a 32-year-old two-time All-Star, spent the 2025 campaign as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. He struggled mightily, posting an 8.23 ERA in 49 total appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He had appeared in just 15 games the season before for the Toronto Blue Jays, working to a 6.59 ERA and missing the majority of the year with an elbow injury. The right-hander had previously found promise in Toronto, earning back-to-back All-Star selections in 2022 and 2023 while recording 72 saves during that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles will look to help him return to the version of himself that tallied 95 saves from 2021-2023, holding an ERA below 2.20 in two of those seasons. His one-year deal with the Halos is worth $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Drew Pomeranz heads to the Angels following an impressive return to baseball in 2025 with the Chicago Cubs, where he pitched 49 2\/3 innings with a 2.17 ERA. The 37-year-old did not appear in the Major Leagues from 2022-2024, battling injury setbacks and working to return his body to health.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the 12-year veteran will look to build on his momentum from an inspiring comeback season, with Los Angeles looking for another reliable left-handed option. Pomeranz joins Brock Burke as the only other current southpaw option in the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Angels continue to load up on players who have shown past flashes of promise despite recent struggles or injury setbacks. This time around, it&#8217;s a pair of players in Romano and Pomeranz that will look to add much-needed consistency to a bullpen that finished 2025 with the highest ERA in the American League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; The Los Angeles Angels added some bullpen depth with a pair of signings on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,3765,24,513,1098,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,25,5317,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-485095","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-brock-burke","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-drew-pomeranz","13":"tag-jordan-romano","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-angels","16":"tag-laangels","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-angels","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangelesangels","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","23":"tag-the-angels","24":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115747376900008545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485095","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=485095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}