{"id":599523,"date":"2026-04-12T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:15:08","slug":"angels-select-nick-sandlin-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599523\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Select Nick Sandlin &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Angels announced that they have selected the contract of right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sandlni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Sandlin<\/a>.\u00a0 Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/klassge01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">George Klassen<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake in the corresponding move, and no 40-man transaction was required since the Halos had an open space on their 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Sandlin signed a minor league deal with Los Angeles after the Blue Jays outrighted the reliever off their 40-man roster in November.\u00a0 It was basically an early non-tender, as Sandlin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/10\/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">projected<\/a> to earn a $2MM arbitration salary in 2026, and Sandlin elected to become a free agent in the wake of the outright assignment.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t long ago that Sandlin was a valued member of the Guardians bullpen, posting a 3.27 ERA, 27.7% strikeout rate, and 11.4% walk rate over 195 1\/3 innings for Cleveland from 2021-24.\u00a0 Home runs became an increasingly large problem for Sandlin over his last two seasons with the Guards, yet it was poor health rather than a lack of results that marred his lone season in Toronto.\u00a0 Sandlin had a 2.20 ERA over only 16 1\/3 innings and 19 appearances with the Jays, as he missed most of the year due to a lat strain, and then elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Signing Sandlin to a minors contract represented a low-cost risk for the Angels, who spent much of their offseason trying to buy low on once-solid relievers looking for bounce-back years.\u00a0 The early returns in Salt Lake were been promising for Sandlin since he had a 1.42 ERA over 6 1\/3 Triple-A innings, though his secondary metrics weren\u2019t impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Klassen heads back to Triple-A after making his first two Major League starts, and the righty\u2019s debut in the Show was far from smooth.\u00a0 Klassen was hit hard to the tune of a 13.50 ERA over his 4 2\/3 innings pitched (with a whopping 10 walks allowed), and he also left his start yesterday due to a fingernail issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels announced that they have selected the contract of right-hander Nick Sandlin.\u00a0 Right-hander George Klassen was optioned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,224053,462,104743,82],"class_list":["post-599523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-george-klassen","tag-mlb","tag-nick-sandlin","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}