Angels To Sign Brandon Lyon

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Angels To Sign Brandon Lyon

By Steve Adams [February 10 at 1:32pm CST]

The Angels have agreed to a minor league deal with veteran reliever Brandon Lyon, Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register reports (on Twitter). The 34-year-old right-hander receives an invitation to Major League Spring Training and will compete for a slot in manager Mike Scioscia's bullpen. Jon Heyman of CBS Sports tweets that Lyon, a client of Meister Sports Management, will earn a $1MM base salary if he makes the club.

 

 

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Edited February 10, 2014 by AngelsAndRamsFan

[tdawg87]

Ok.

[Docwaukee]

solid.  keep bringing these low risk guys and and see what sticks.  

 

Clean peanut candidate #4 

[wopphil]

I was a huge proponent of his last year, and was pissed the Angels didn't sign him to the terms given to him by the Mets.  But for whatever reason, he really fell apart last year and was quite terrible.

 

Still, I like the signing.  Like Doc said, no-risk and creates more competition for the pen. 

[jshep]

Ok.

I think this sums up all the thoughts Brandon Lyon deserves at this point.

[Brent Maguire]

This. Is. The. PIECE.

[Jim]

Meh, no excitement what so ever

[LAAMike]

This is one I definitely had to look up.  So our non roster pitching spring training invitees are:  Yeiper Castillo,

Hunter Green, Jarrett Grube, Wade LeBlanc, Mike Morin, Mark Mulder, Clay Rapada, Mark Sappington, Justin Thomas

and Brandon Lyon plus a whole slew of roster invitees.  Pretty crowded slate of pitchers. 

[Homebrewer]

So when we keep a couple pitchers like this around,  because they look OK  in ST?

I hope we're not forgetting that Blanton looked pretty good in ST last season.

I would feel better if the team had a different pitching brain-trust this year,  but Butchy is still the man.

[fan_since79]

Well, we've cornered the market on obscure pitchers at least.

[gotbeer]

This is the piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Bees.

[jsnpritchett]

This is one I definitely had to look up.  So our non roster pitching spring training invitees are:  Yeiper Castillo,

Hunter Green, Jarrett Grube, Wade LeBlanc, Mike Morin, Mark Mulder, Clay Rapada, Mark Sappington, Justin Thomas

and Brandon Lyon plus a whole slew of roster invitees.  Pretty crowded slate of pitchers. 

 

Yep.  Getting to the point at which you won't even be able to give them all a fair shake in real games.

[stevestevens]

So when we keep a couple pitchers like this around, because they look OK in ST?

I hope we're not forgetting that Blanton looked pretty good in ST last season.

I would feel better if the team had a different pitching brain-trust this year, but Butchy is still the man.

None of these guys will get the amount of innings blanton got last year

[Angel Oracle]

"Anybody wanna peanut?"

[mrwicked]

this IS the piece.

[Second Base]

Brandon Lyon, born and raised in Salt Lake City, UT.  That's likely the reason he chose the Angels.  He either pitches for the major league team or gets to pitch at home in AAA. 

[tdawg87]

This dude is the Ervin Santana of relievers.

[Glen]

He's no Paul Maholm, that's for sure.

[jsnpritchett]

Nice.

 

"While he's young enough to hope for a rebound, it's certainly troubling that his average fastball velocity dropped from 90.7 mph in 2012 all the way to 87.8 mph in 2013."

[Ohtaniland]

Setting up the 'Lyon King' sign in RF already.

[jshep]

Nice.

"While he's young enough to hope for a rebound, it's certainly troubling that his average fastball velocity dropped from 90.7 mph in 2012 all the way to 87.8 mph in 2013."

Soft tossing power arm!

[Erstad Grit]

At this point I can just look up players from Arizona or Colorado that used to be good and just wait for us to sign them. 

[Ohtaniland]

Geez no love.....

 

 

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