{"id":674425,"date":"2026-04-13T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:05:13","slug":"angels-send-pitching-prospect-back-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674425\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Send Pitching Prospect Back to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels sent No. 4 prospect George Klassen back to Triple-A ahead of Sunday\u2019s win against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, they selected the contract of right-hander Nick Sandlin from Triple-A Salt Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Klassen made two appearances for the Angels this season before his reassignment, and didn\u2019t impress enough to warrant a spot on the Halos\u2019 MLB roster. He pitched just 4.2 innings across his two starts, allowing six earned runs and walking 10 batters.<\/p>\n<p>He walked five batters in each of his starts, and left his second start of the season after just two innings pitched due to an issue with his fingernail. <\/p>\n<p><img data-od-unknown-tag=\"\" data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='elementor elementor-246431 elementor-location-single post-252789 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-angels tag-angels tag-george-klassen mv-content-wrapper']\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[4][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-dominant-color=\"705056\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #705056;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/George-Klassen-Angels-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Apr 11, 2026; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Los Angeles Angels pitcher George Klassen (58) throws against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning at Great American Ball Park. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-Imagn Images\" class=\"wp-image-252790 not-transparent\" \/>Apr 11, 2026; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Los Angeles Angels pitcher George Klassen (58) throws against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning at Great American Ball Park. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Angels called Klassen up to MLB earlier in the season following his first Triple-A start, where he pitched 4.2 innings and allowed a single run with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>He spent all of 2025 in the minors, though missed some time after a line drive struck him midway through the season. He made 24 starts in Double-A and one in Triple-A, posting a 5.22 ERA across both levels, and struck out 134 batters through 108.2 innings. <\/p>\n<p>As Klassen only just made his most recent start, the Angels have a few days to figure out who will slot into their rotation in the right-hander\u2019s place. Sandlin has predominantly pitched in relief throughout his career and isn\u2019t likely to fill the spot, so the Halos will have to find a different answer to the hole in their rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels sent No. 4 prospect George Klassen back to Triple-A ahead of Sunday\u2019s win against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,32138,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-674425","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-george-klassen","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-angels","13":"tag-laangels","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116394479540109631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674425","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=674425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}