{"id":365779,"date":"2026-06-18T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:47:08","slug":"former-rocket-city-trash-panda-promoted-to-mlb-level-by-los-angeles-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365779\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rocket City Trash Panda promoted to MLB level by Los Angeles Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/256today.com\/ready-for-launch-rocket-city-trash-pandas-release-game-times-for-sixth-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rocket City Trash Pandas<\/a> star who spent portions of multiple seasons with the team will become the 51st former player to make their Major League debut <a href=\"https:\/\/256today.com\/trash-pandas-launch-youth-scholarship-program-to-support-young-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after being called up<\/a> by the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Brett Kerry \u2014 who spent parts of four seasons with Rocket City from 2021-24 \u2014 left the team as one of the most accomplished players in its history.<\/p>\n<p>Ranking first all-time among Trash Pandas pitchers in wins (13), innings pitched (292.1), strikeouts (310), and starts (49), Kerry posted a 3.76 ERA during his time in Madison.<\/p>\n<p>He has climbed the ranks and spent the 2026 season with Triple-A Salt Lake and has recorded 59 strikeouts over 62.1 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a native of North Carolina, Kerry was a standout star at South Carolina before being drafted by the Angels organization in the fifth round of the 2021 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, Trash Pandas super fans who pay attention to their favorite players at the next level will be watching Los Angeles closely this week, as Kerry made his first big league strikeout Wednesday, with hopefully many more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brauner is a Senior Sports Analyst and Contributing Writer for 256 Today and Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowhammernews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@MBraunerWNSP<\/a>\u00a0and hear him every weekday morning from 6 to 9 a.m. on\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Opening Kickoff\u201d on WNSP-FM 105.5,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yellowhammernews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available free online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Rocket City Trash Pandas star who spent portions of multiple seasons with the team will become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1426,2135,148476,48,52,51,47,2866,50,49,30782,136639,148477,34906],"class_list":["post-365779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-brett-kerry","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-rocket-city","tag-rocket-city-trash-pandas","tag-trash-pandas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365779","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=365779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}