Angels Claim RP Austin Brice; outright 7, re-instate all from 60-day DL

[totdprods]

From Cincinnati, an out of options reliever from the Reds with mediocre numbers. 

Much like Bridwell, Ramirez, and Pena, Brice has past experience in the minors as a starter and 'meh' numbers as a major league reliever...

Update:
John Lamb, Sherman Johnson, Odrisamer Despaigne, Jefry Marte, Francisco Arcia, Deck McGuire, and Eduardo Paredes have all been outrighted off of the 40 and cleared waivers. 
All players on the 60-day DL have been re-instated; Jewell, Meyer, Middleton, Tropeano, Ramirez, Cozart, Pujols.

I think the 40-man is now at 39...

[Glen]

Do your stuff with him, new pitching coach whose name I haven't yet memorized!

[tdawg87]

The Brice is wrong, bitch!

[goldenGlove]

Austin Brice aka Miscellaneous Henchman #6, according to the script

[tdawg87]

 

Because of course a guy named Austin Brice looks like this.

[mtangelsfan]

Wow, that pic.....................

 

and two first names by the way.

[totdprods]

It was probably mentioned in passing in another thread, but the Angels also outrighted Sherman Johnson and John Lamb off of the 40-man yesterday, clearing two spaces.

[tdawg87]

5 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

 

Because of course a guy named Austin Brice looks like this.

"Any of you kids got a lighter on ya?"

[jchalos89]

According to Fangraph, he is a Fastball, Slider 2 pitch right hander. 

26 year old guy who's turning 27 next June, throws 94mph fastball and 83mph slider with 87mph changeup which he only throws at 2% of his total pitches.

Pitched 37 innings for Reds, posted 5.79 ERA.

He allowed 39 hits, in which 9 of them were HRs, walked 13 guys, plunked 3 guys, while striking out 32 batters.

His K/9 number looks pretty decent but obviously he has problem with his command (allowing 16 free passes in 37 innings?) and he gets hit. I mean hit hard. 

43% of his balls were hard hit balls (17.5% were softly hit), causing his BABIP skyrocket up to 0.286 and that clearly explains why his H/9 and HR/9 numbers are so awful.

I don't know what this move is. Honestly. I knew this guy was not gonna be anywhere near being "good" since that doormat Reds let him go, but I tried to look up hoping that I can find at least some positive note about him. He pitched in hitters ballpark in Cincinnati and is coming to Angel stadium, which is one of the pitcher friendly ballparks in the league so his numbers could improve a bit if he had the right stuff. But that doesn't look like the case here. His numbers are way too awful no matter what ballparks he pitched in, and he is turning 27 next season so he won't have much space for improvement anymore. 

I'd say we just got a AAA pitcher who can come up in September for roster expansion and kill some garbage innings when the team is winning big or getting destroyed

[mtangelsfan]

20 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

 

Because of course a guy named Austin Brice looks like this.

Maybe he grew the stash for Movember.

[Angel Oracle]

35 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

 

Because of course a guy named Austin Brice looks like this.

The Halos did have a Buice 30+ years ago, and now they have a Brice.

[kevinb]

Does he surf?

[Taylor]

55 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

 

Because of course a guy named Austin Brice looks like this.

[AngelsFaninGA]

He'll close at least one game for us this year

[floplag]

All re-instated?  seems odd when we know some wont be ready for ST.  I assume this is some formality that i just never noticed before?

[Stradling]

2 minutes ago, floplag said:

All re-instated?  seems odd when we know some wont be ready for ST.  I assume this is some formality that i just never noticed before?

They have to be on the40 man or given their release, I think that’s how it goes.  

[totdprods]

4 minutes ago, floplag said:

All re-instated?  seems odd when we know some wont be ready for ST.  I assume this is some formality that i just never noticed before?

What @Stradling said.

That’s why you didn’t see them addguys like Thaiss or Canning to the 40-man in September, so they had space to play with still when this occurred. 

[Taylor]

29 minutes ago, AngelsFaninGA said:

He'll close blow at least one game save for us this year

Fixed.

[totdprods]

1 hour ago, jchalos89 said:

I'd say we just got a AAA pitcher who can come up in September for roster expansion and kill some garbage innings when the team is winning big or getting destroyed

He’s out of options, so it’s more likely he’s taking the place of someone like Noe, or they’ll DFA him and try to stash him in AAA at a later date.

[Angelsjunky]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

The Halos did have a Buice 30+ years ago, and now they have a Brice.

Man, I had to look this up as I remember Dewayne Buice and couldn't believe he was 30 years ago, but he was. 

Now I'm as oldasfuck, as well.

[Lou]

3 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Man, I had to look this up as I remember Dewayne Buice and couldn't believe he was 30 years ago, but he was. 

Now I'm as oldasfuck, as well.

Ha. I just did the same thing. I would have put money on him pitching in the mid-90s

[Stradling]

Wasn’t he Co-founder of Upper Deck baseball cards?

[Angel Oracle]

Buice had a solid rookie year at age 29 in 1987.   57 relief appearances, 114 innings, 109/40 Ks/BBs, 1.11 WHIP and 3.39 ERA

He fell off the map after that, ERA around 6.00 and WHIP around 1.50 in 1988 for the Halos and 1989 for the Jays, and then never pitched in the bigs again.

[Inside Pitch]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Wasn’t he Co-founder of Upper Deck baseball cards?

Yep -- he owns a minor league team now too.   You ever hear the story of how he came to be a part of Upper Deck?  I still remember where that shop was in Yorba Linda.

[tdawg87]

Is it recollection day for you geezers?