{"id":231092,"date":"2026-03-22T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/231092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:37:17","slug":"angels-release-utilityman-chris-taylor-reliever-hunter-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/231092\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels release utilityman Chris Taylor, reliever Hunter Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Angels<\/a> released utilityman <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tayloch03.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Taylor<\/a> and right-handed pitcher <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strichu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hunter Strickland<\/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 Dodgers and Angels last season.<\/p>\n<p>He batted .248 with a .327 on-base percentage, 110 homers and 443 RBIs during a 12-year career. Taylor made the NL All-Star team while playing for the Dodgers in 2021.<\/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":"The Angels released utilityman Chris Taylor and right-handed pitcher Hunter Strickland from their minor league contracts on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,14541,104810,104813,426,10665,10664,63,104808,6134,104811,104809,104812,595,9011,104807],"class_list":["post-231092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-angel","tag-angels-last-season","tag-career-major-league-appearance","tag-dodgers","tag-era","tag-homer","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-on-base-percentage","tag-rbi","tag-relief-appearance","tag-reliever-hunter-strickland","tag-right-handed-pitcher-hunter-strickland","tag-saturday","tag-save","tag-utilityman-chris-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231092","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=231092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}