{"id":170716,"date":"2026-02-09T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170716\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:00:48","slug":"3-overlooked-breakout-angels-prospects-who-could-make-a-spring-training-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170716\/","title":{"rendered":"3 overlooked breakout Angels prospects who could make a spring training statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring training is fast approaching and the Los Angeles Angels have some prospects who are looking to make a good impression on the coaching staff. Here are three prospects on the non-roster invite list<\/a> who fly a bit under the radar who could turn some heads.<\/p>\n

Tyler Bremner and George Klassen are some of the more obvious choices<\/a> and there will be a lot of eyes on them, but these easily overlooked prospects may have to work a bit harder to get people to take notice.<\/p>\n

3 overlooked Angels prospects looking to make a statement in spring trainingNelson Rada<\/p>\n

Outfielder Nelson Rada is ranked seventh in Los Angeles’ farm system. The 20-year-old Venezuelan is still young and has a ways to go in his development, but he’s shown promising signs in the minors. Last season across Double-A and Triple-A, Rada slashed a collective .292\/.398\/.360 with two homers and 39 runs driven in. He also swiped 54 bases on 75 attempts.<\/p>\n

Rada is young and raw, but if he keeps putting up numbers like that then a promotion to the big leagues is not out of the question in 2026. The Halos could use a true center fielder<\/a> and Rada’s speed makes him a perfect fit to track down balls at the big league level. A strong showing in spring training could pave the way for his big league debut later in the year.<\/p>\n

Joel Hurtado<\/p>\n

Right-handed pitcher Joel Hurtado is not all that highly touted as the No. 22 prospect in the system, but his numbers in 2025 suggest he should be a little higher. In 19 starts last season, 18 of them in Double-A, Hurtado had a 2.75 ERA in 92 innings pitched. The 59 strikeouts are a bit concerning as there could be a fear that his stuff will not play at the big league level.<\/p>\n

Still, Hurtado is a guy to keep an eye on especially if he has a strong year in Triple-A and if he gets outs, no one will care how he gets it done.<\/p>\n

Raudi Rodriguez<\/p>\n

Another outfielder to look out for is Raudi Rodriguez. The 21-year-old slashed .281\/.372\/.470 with 14 homers, 83 runs driven in, and 38 stolen bases in A-ball last season. That effort earned him the distinction of being the Angels’ best minor league player<\/a> according to Baseball America.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez went on to tear the cover off the ball in the Arizona Fall League, slashing .433\/.514\/.650 with one homer and nine runs batted in. These are the guys who could seemingly come out of nowhere this spring, but they have all been quietly building towards a breakout for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spring training is fast approaching and the Los Angeles Angels have some prospects who are looking to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-170716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}