{"id":635858,"date":"2026-03-21T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:05:24","slug":"angels-release-pitcher-hunter-strickland-and-utilityman-chris-taylor-from-minor-league-contracts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635858\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels release pitcher Hunter Strickland and utilityman Chris Taylor from minor league contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> released right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/hunter-strickland-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Strickland<\/a> and utilityman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chris-taylor-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Taylor<\/a> from their minor league contracts on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Taylor, 35, hit .186 with a .256 on-base percentage, two homers, 12 RBIs and two steals in a combined 58 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> and Angels last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">He has batted .248 with a .327 on-base percentage, 110 homers and 443 RBIs in a 12-year career in the majors. Taylor made the NL All-Star team while playing for the Dodgers in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Strickland, 37, went 1-2 with a 3.27 ERA and one save in 19 relief appearances for the Angels last season. He has a 26-25 record with a 3.39 ERA and 30 saves in 499 career major league appearances, all in relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Angels released right-handed pitcher Hunter Strickland and utilityman Chris Taylor from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,2059,39,4900,1165,4332,4333,774,56,57,3224,4331,19,4],"class_list":["post-635858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-chris-taylor","tag-dodgers","tag-hunter-strickland","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116268730842591735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635858","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=635858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}