Angels acquire RHP Elvin Ramirez from Mets

[WallyWorld]

Alden Gonzalez â€@Alden_Gonzalez23m

#Angels have also acquires RHP Elvin Ramirez from #Mets for cash considerations. Compiling some pitching depth before Opening Day

[jshep]

Eh, our current depth is shit, so why not?

 

Not that I think this guy is good, but...

[stevestevens]

I really like the way this bullpen is starting to take shape.

[Eric]

Dumpster diving the waiver wire is distinctly not the best way to create solid depth in your organization.

[WallyWorld]

Dipoto scrambling like mad to acquire random crappy arms 5 days before the season starts doesn't exactly fill one with confidence. . . 

[tdawg87]

DiPoto is having a mid relief crisis.

[Eric]

Someone needs to tell DiPoto that if he keeps this up, some fans on the Angelswin.com message boards might just start calling him a "failo".

[DowningRules]

The larger paradigm of this is that these rapid-fire moves put some pressure on the current Angels relief corps.  It's not another day at the office.  Pitch better or the sharks circling the pen will eat you up and take your place. 

 

Scioscia has been more spirited the last couple of days in his on-field management.  Dipoto is making some moves.  I like it!

[nando714]

Desperate?

[Inside Pitch]

Dumpster diving the waiver wire is distinctly not the best way to create solid depth in your organization.

 

 

Eck, Donnelley, Weber, Levine, Pote,.... all were serviceable players -- all acquired via dumpster diving either off waivers or as minor league FAs.  Bobby Jenks, Derrick Turnbow -- dumpster dive casualties that Angels fans lost their minds over...

 

With reliever volatility being what it is, going the waiver wire route is NOT a bad way of filling out the fringes.

[St1ck]

I like it. 

[AZMike]

Eck, Donnelley, Weber, Levine, Pote,.... all were serviceable players -- all acquired via dumpster diving either off waivers or as minor league FAs.  Bobby Jenks, Derrick Turnbow -- dumpster dive casualties that Angels fans lost their minds over...

 

With reliever volatility being what it is, going the waiver wire route is NOT a bad way of filling out the fringes.

Better than paying Ryan Madson millions of dollars a year to not pitch for you. (see: 2012 Reds, 2013 Angels)

[deepdrive]

Probably replaces Mills

[EDinTUSTIN]

DiPoto is having a mid relief crisis.

lol

[Mark68]

Dipoto scrambling like mad to acquire random crappy arms 5 days before the season starts doesn't exactly fill one with confidence. . . 

You can never have enough random crappy arms.

[disarcina]

So the 10th/11th spot for which Stetter and a few others have been battling for all Spring Training, gets ripped away with an import on the day camp breaks?  OUCH.