{"id":185080,"date":"2026-02-19T20:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185080\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:54:29","slug":"angels-jose-soriano-nabs-start-for-cactus-league-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185080\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Jose Soriano: Nabs start for Cactus League opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771458129_50_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/LAA\/los-angeles-angels\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/301.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2826021\/soriano\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soriano<\/a> (forearm) is scheduled to start the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/LAA\/los-angeles-angels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels<\/a>&#8216; Cactus League opener Saturday versus the Dodgers, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>Soriano missed the final two weeks of the 2025 season while recovering from a right forearm contusion, but he seemingly moved past the injury quickly during the offseason and reported to spring training with no limitations. Angels manager Kurt Suzuki has already confirmed that Soriano has locked down a rotation spot, and the right-hander could even challenge Yusei Kikuchi for the Opening Day nod. Soriano wrapped up the 2025 campaign with a 10-11 record, 4.26 ERA, 1.40 WHIP and 152:78 K:BB across 169 innings over 31 starts.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soriano (forearm) is scheduled to start the Angels&#8216; Cactus League opener Saturday versus the Dodgers, Rhett Bollinger of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,17997,68435,2866],"class_list":["post-185080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-jose-soriano","tag-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185080","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=185080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}