{"id":230883,"date":"2026-03-22T04:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:46:17","slug":"angels-release-p-hunter-strickland-utilityman-chris-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230883\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels release P Hunter Strickland, utilityman Chris Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 21, 2026, 01:51 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> released right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Strickland<\/a> and utilityman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32900\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Taylor<\/a> from their minor league contracts on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, 35, hit .186 with a .256 on-base percentage, two homers, 12 RBIs and two steals in a combined 58 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> and Angels last season.<\/p>\n<p>He has batted .248 with a .327 on-base percentage, 110 homers and 443 RBIs in a 12-year career in the majors. Taylor made the NL All-Star team while playing for the Dodgers in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48249118\/mlb-2026-opening-day-schedule-pitching-matchups-previews\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1630765_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strickland, 37, went 1-2 with a 3.27 ERA and one save in 19 relief appearances for the Angels last season. He has a 26-25 record with a 3.39 ERA and 30 saves in 499 career major league appearances, all in relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 21, 2026, 01:51 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; The Los Angeles Angels released right-handed pitcher Hunter Strickland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-230883","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\/230883","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=230883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}