{"id":633882,"date":"2026-03-20T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/633882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:22:13","slug":"la-reassigns-former-35-home-run-hitter-to-minor-league-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/633882\/","title":{"rendered":"LA reassigns former 35-home run hitter to minor league camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> are currently working on finalizing their Opening Day roster. On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAAngelsPR\/status\/2035025065755255080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the team announced<\/a> multiple roster moves. Among the more notable decisions was the team&#8217;s move to reassign veteran first baseman Trey Mancini to minor league camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe #Angels have optioned LHP Mitch Farris to Triple-A Salt Lake and reassigned RHP Shaun Anderson, RHP George Klassen, INF Trey Mancini, C Sebasti\u00e1n Rivero, INF Yolmer S\u00e1nchez, RHP Nick Sandlin and INF Donovan Walton to minor league camp,\u201d Angels PR wrote on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels\/angels-news-mike-trout-excited-postseason-drought\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels are looking to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2014<\/a>. It has been a long decade for the Halos to say the least. They are <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels\/the-angels-player-with-most-to-prove-in-spring-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking to add veterans around their core of players<\/a>, so their decision to bring Mancini into <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/spring-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spring training<\/a> camp this year was intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini, 34, signed a minor league deal with the Angels in late January. He ended up playing in 17 games this spring, a mark that was tied for the third most on the team. The ball club clearly wanted to see if Mancini could make an impact.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Mancini slashed just .100\/.206\/.167 across 30 at-bats. The Angels ultimately reassigned him to minor league camp on Friday following his underwhelming spring performance.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when Mancini was one of the best players in baseball. In 2019, he hit 35 home runs and recorded a .291 batting average and an .899 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini most recently appeared in an MLB game in 2023 with the Chicago Cubs. Perhaps he will receive another opportunity at some point during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels are currently working on finalizing their Opening Day roster. On Friday, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-633882","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-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesangels","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116262662607237504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633882","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=633882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}