I hope the injury wasn't truly that serious/painful but career-ending seems a stretch given his age and performance for two seasons at that point. I guess if he can squeeze the equivalent of a few years's major league minimum or insurance/pension out of this, it's worth a shot.
As we head into the Sacramento park, look what Logan O'Hoppe did 2 days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvBlR2EO0w17
Kody Clemens stays hot at the plate. He has five homers, five doubles and 12 RBI in 50 at-bats with the Twins. pic.twitter.com/ZF3PlTqpDN2
— Bobby Nightengale ( @nightengalejr ) May 27, 2025
Scott Kingery lives
His playing time will seemingly be going to Kingery, who was acquired from the Phillies in the offseason but then outrighted off the 40-man. He has been excelling at Triple-A Salt Lake this year, with a .373/.418/.578 line, though those numbers need to be taken with some grains from that lake. The Bees play in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League and Kingery also has a massive .433 batting average on balls in play that he won’t be able to sustain.
Still, it’s understandable to consider him a better bet than Anderson. Kingery’s major league track record isn’t strong but he had a solid .268/.316/.488 slash and 103 wRC+ for the Phillies’ Triple-A club last year. He also stole 25 bases while playing second base, shortstop and center field.
The Angels roster is a Phormer Phillies reunion. Logan O'Hoppe, Travis D'Arnaud, Scott Kingery, Hector Neris, Connor Brogdon.
How's Hector doing? He really wasn't that bad last year, Cubs played a little contract game with him, but then seemed to fall into a hole after that. Rebuilding his trade value, or still fringe?
Per Baseball-Reference4, 2025 ERA of 11.05, WHIP of 1.773.
Well, that's not exactly the answer I was looking for (and wasn't ready to look it up myself at the time). I already knew he was terrible before the Braves waived him.
With Anaheim he has a 5.68 ERA, but a 3.54 FIP and opponents are hitting just .139 against him. WHIP is 1.1 which is better than his career average, if not as good as his best years.
With Atlanta he had a 45.00 ERA and 6.00 WHIP in one inning, so that's just noise at this point.
Neris has given up runs in only two of his 10 outings for the Angels. But yes, too small a sample to conclude much of anything.
Good for him, but I'm not sure who he thought was going to be sent down, and there was no "several." Rojas literally the only young player with options and that would have left the team without a second CF too. It was also repeatedly suggested in print that the Phillies might try to trade Clemens before Wilson got hurt.
Clemens said being DFA’d surprised him. The 29-year-old felt his grasp of the Phillies’ big picture was good.
Right-handed pinch hitter Weston Wilson was returning to a left-handed-heavy roster from the injured list, but Clemens thought several younger players with minor-league options, who required everyday at-bats, would be sent down.
Once we got Kepler then Clemens never fit unless we were going to get him 3B at bats against RHP. There is an argument that trading Bohm and letting Clemens and Wilson and Sosa split 3B in some way would have been a good thing, but we chose not to because the team is in win-now mode and Bohm probably was only going to net prospects (and not somebody like Luzardo).
We saw enough of Clemens to know he did some things well, but not enough of them consistently to be a full time player or even the strong half of a platoon.
Yeah I just thought it was odd he didn't have a realistic look at his situation, but I guess that's why you have an agent. At the time he was DFAed Marsh was also on the DL and Stevenson was up, but even if they'd been willing to go without a second CF then it wouldn't have been for very long. There was just never going to be a spot for him
