Angels Signal Monte Harrison To Minors Deal

Angels Sign Monte Harrison To Minors Deal

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The Angels have signed Monte Harrison to a minor league deal, in line with his transactions tracker at MLB.com. He had been launched by the Marlins final month.

Harrison was a second spherical choose of the Brewers in 2014 and impressed prospect evaluators in his first few seasons within the minors. Baseball America ranked him the seventy fifth finest prospect in baseball in 2018, across the identical time that Harrison was included within the blockbuster commerce that despatched Christian Yelich from the Marlins to the Brewers.

Sadly, Harrison struggled as he reached larger ranges of competitors. In 2019, he cracked Triple-A for the primary time, placing up a good line of .274/.357/.451, although that got here with a worrisome strikeout price of 29.9%. In 2020, with the minor leagues cancelled, Harrison made it to the large leagues and received into 32 video games within the shortened season. His line of .170/.235/.255 and 51% strikeout price confirmed that he clearly wanted some extra seasoning, main to a different yr primarily spent within the minors. In 2021, he performed 74 Triple-A video games and hit .242/.331/.446. Regardless of a wRC+ of 108, strikeouts had been an issue once more, as he was Okay’d in 39.3% of his plate appearances.

Having exhausted his possibility years, the Marlins lastly gave up on Harrison and designated him for task final month, finally releasing him. For the Angels, there’s no hurt in taking a flier on Harrison to see if he can proper the ship. He’s solely 26 years previous and at the least provides velocity, having stolen greater than 20 bases within the minors in every of the previous 4 seasons by which they had been performed. He’s additionally been praised for his elite heart discipline protection, a uncommon ability meaning he wouldn’t have to be a superb hitter to be useful. If he can lower down on the strikeouts and earn his means again onto the large league roster, he has lower than a yr of MLB service time, that means the Angels must skill to maintain him round for years to return.

The membership is at the moment heading into the season with Mike Trout, Jo Adell and Brandon Marsh slated to be their common outfielders, although all three of these include query marks. Trout solely performed 36 video games final yr resulting from a calf harm, making his future unsure. Even when he can have higher well being this yr, the Angels will possible give him occasional breathers as a way to not push him too laborious. As for Marsh and Adell, they every have lower than 80 video games of massive league expertise and haven’t really established themselves simply but. Within the occasion of accidents or underperformance, Harrison might have a path again to the large leagues.

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