MLB: Angels are targeting four star starters and he’s the first target

Even after adding the lanky right-hander Noah ‘Thor’ Syndergaard, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim they are still looking to further complement their starting pitching staff.

In recent days, they have been connected in rumors with left-hander Steven Matz, before he became the Cardinals, as well as veteran right-handers Kevin Gausman, Max Scherzer and Marcus Stroman. But it’s the left-handed Robbie Ray who stays at the top of your wish list:

The Angels’ budget is a huge unanswered question surrounding all of this. He lists his 2022 payroll at around $ 157 million. Add someone like Ray it would probably add more than $ 25MM to that total.

MLB Trade Rumors predicted that Ray would land a $ 130MM contract over five years, an average annual value of $ 26MM. That alone would put the Angels above their $ 182MM payroll for opening day 2021, based on Cot’s baseball contracts, with other roster issues to address.

A budget increase will likely be required to facilitate a plan involving a contract of that size.

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Ray, who recently turned 30 and won the American League Cy Young Award, would certainly require the Angels to get into territory they haven’t been in for quite some time.

Rafael Martinez

I am fond of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), signings of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I carry baseball in my veins. Bachelor of Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I came to El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services in Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and within days, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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