The Los Angeles Angels placed left-handed starter Yusei \u2060Kikuchi on the 15-day injured list on Sunday and called up left-hander Tayler Saucedo to take his spot on the active roster.<\/p>\n
The move is retroactive \u200bto April 30 because Kikuchi \u200csuffered inflammation \u200cin his left shoulder during his \u200bstart on April 29 at the Chicago White Sox. Kikuchi hurled two scoreless innings and \u2060went to the mound to warm up for \u2060the third, but he was removed before facing another batter.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old veteran \u200bhas fashioned an 0-3 \u2060record with a 5.81 ERA in seven starts this season. While \u2060Kikuchi has \u200brecorded 33 strikeouts in 31 \u200binnings, he has allowed 35 hits and \u200b14 \u200cwalks for a haughty 1.581 WHIP.<\/p>\n
The Morioka\u00a0native has a 48-61 record and 4.50 ERA over his seven plus MLB \u200cseasons.<\/p>\n
Saucedo, 32, returns to the big leagues after working out of the bullpen for Triple-A Salt Lake. He posted a 4.30 ERA \u200bin \u200b12 appearances for the Bees but surrendered \u200b12 hits and 11 walks over \u206014\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n
Saucedo owns a 5-2 record and 4.36 ERA over five major league seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays (2021-22) and \u200bSeattle Mariners (2023-25). All of his 148 appearances have been in relief.<\/p>\n
The veteran will look to boost the Angels’ bullpen, which ranks 29th in the MLB in ERA (5.53).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels placed left-handed starter Yusei \u2060Kikuchi on the 15-day injured list on Sunday and called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2866,23643],"class_list":["post-302350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302350","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=302350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}