{"id":597184,"date":"2026-04-10T04:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:47:08","slug":"angels-re-sign-joey-lucchesi-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597184\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Re-Sign Joey Lucchesi To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Angels announced they\u2019ve re-signed lefty reliever\u00a0Joey Lucchesi<\/a> to a minor league contract. He\u2019ll be assigned to Triple-A Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

Lucchesi was designated for assignment over the weekend when the Halos needed a roster spot to promote George Klassen<\/a> as a spot starter. He cleared waivers and elected free agency. After a brief return to the open market, he\u2019ll circle back to the Halos. That\u2019s a common outcome for veterans who have the service time to refuse an outright assignment.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old southpaw had a very brief stint with the MLB club. He signed a major league contract at the end of Spring Training and made three appearances. Lucchesi allowed five of six hitters to reach in his season debut. He followed up with a pair of scoreless outings but walked at least one batter in all of his appearances. He wound up issuing five free passes (four walks and a hit batter) across 2 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Lucchesi spent last season with the Giants. He opened the year in Triple-A but was called up in the middle of June. He remained on the active roster for the final three and a half months, turning in a 3.76 ERA over 38 1\/3 innings. Lucchesi got grounders at a 53% clip but had a modest 18.8% strikeout rate that led the Giants to drop him from the 40-man roster at season\u2019s end. He returned on a minor league contract for Spring Training and was granted his release when the Giants picked up\u00a0Ryan Borucki<\/a> late in camp.<\/p>\n

Drew Pomeranz<\/a> and\u00a0Brent Suter<\/a> are locked into Kurt Suzuki\u2019s bullpen as veteran southpaws. The Halos recently recalled a third lefty,\u00a0Mitch Farris<\/a>, as a long reliever. Farris will probably be up and down from Triple-A throughout the season. Tayler Saucedo<\/a> and\u00a0Angel Perdomo<\/a> are also in the organization on minor league deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels announced they\u2019ve re-signed lefty reliever\u00a0Joey Lucchesi to a minor league contract. He\u2019ll be assigned to Triple-A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,171683,591,85],"class_list":["post-597184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joey-lucchesi","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}