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Tyler Skaggs To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
By Steve Adams [August 10, 2014 at 12:40pm CDT]
The Angels have received devastating news on injured Tyler Skaggs; the promising left-hander is out for the season (and most of the 2015 season as well) and will undergo Tommy John surgery, tweets the Orange County Register’s Jeff Fletcher. Manager Mike Scioscia told reporters that he’s operating under the assumption that Skaggs will be out until 2016, Fletcher adds.
The Angels were already known to be pursuing rotation help on the waiver wire, but presumably, the definitive loss of their No. 4 starter for roughly one calendar year will cause their search to accelerate.
The Halos selected Skaggs with the 40th overall pick in the 2009 draft but eventually traded him to the D’Backs in a trade for Dan Haren, only to reacquire him this offseason in the Mark Trumbo trade (current Angels GM Jerry Dipoto was on the acquiring end of both of those deals, as he was Arizona’s interim GM for the Haren deal).
Skaggs, who only recently turned 23, was enjoying his return to the Angels organization. In 113 innings of work this season, the top prospect had begun to deliver on his potential, posting a 4.30 ERA with 6.9 K/9, 2.4 BB/9 and a 50.1 percent ground-ball rate. ERA estimators such as FIP (3.55), xFIP (3.67) and SIERA (3.75) all felt that Skaggs was better than his ERA.
Skaggs had emerged as a solid fourth option behind Garrett Richards, Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson, with Matt Shoemaker and Hector Santiago serving as internal options for the fifth spot. Those five arms will now comprise Scioscia’s primary rotation now, however, and given Wilson’s tremendous struggles of late, that creates a great deal of uncertainty. At this point, I’d be surprised if the Angels didn’t acquire an additional arm to add some stability to the middle or back of the rotation.
Tyler Skaggs To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
By Steve Adams [August 10, 2014 at 12:40pm CDT]
The Angels have received devastating news on injured Tyler Skaggs; the promising left-hander is out for the season (and most of the 2015 season as well) and will undergo Tommy John surgery, tweets the Orange County Register’s Jeff Fletcher. Manager Mike Scioscia told reporters that he’s operating under the assumption that Skaggs will be out until 2016, Fletcher adds.
The Angels were already known to be pursuing rotation help on the waiver wire, but presumably, the definitive loss of their No. 4 starter for roughly one calendar year will cause their search to accelerate.
The Halos selected Skaggs with the 40th overall pick in the 2009 draft but eventually traded him to the D’Backs in a trade for Dan Haren, only to reacquire him this offseason in the Mark Trumbo trade (current Angels GM Jerry Dipoto was on the acquiring end of both of those deals, as he was Arizona’s interim GM for the Haren deal).
Skaggs, who only recently turned 23, was enjoying his return to the Angels organization. In 113 innings of work this season, the top prospect had begun to deliver on his potential, posting a 4.30 ERA with 6.9 K/9, 2.4 BB/9 and a 50.1 percent ground-ball rate. ERA estimators such as FIP (3.55), xFIP (3.67) and SIERA (3.75) all felt that Skaggs was better than his ERA.
Skaggs had emerged as a solid fourth option behind Garrett Richards, Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson, with Matt Shoemaker and Hector Santiago serving as internal options for the fifth spot. Those five arms will now comprise Scioscia’s primary rotation now, however, and given Wilson’s tremendous struggles of late, that creates a great deal of uncertainty. At this point, I’d be surprised if the Angels didn’t acquire an additional arm to add some stability to the middle or back of the rotation.
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