{"id":602597,"date":"2026-04-12T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:07:08","slug":"angels-option-right-hander-george-klassen-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602597\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels option right-hander George Klassen to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> rookie right-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5134517\/george-klassen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Klassen<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake on Sunday, a day after leaving a start in the third inning with a bruised right index finger.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old had a 13.50 ERA over 4\u2154 innings in his first two big league starts. He walked 10 and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously with Klassen, the stuff&#8217;s there,&#8221; Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all seen it. We still love him. He&#8217;s just got to get more consistent. Just experience, consistency and just pitching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles selected the contract of right-hander Nick Sandlin from Triple-A Salt Lake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For George to really accept and understand that he has to still work on things, I think, is huge, especially from one of our top pitching prospects,&#8221; Suzuki said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI &#8212; Los Angeles Angels rookie right-hander George Klassen was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake on Sunday, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602597","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=602597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}