{"id":81510,"date":"2024-07-28T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81510"},"modified":"2024-07-28T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:03:58","slug":"angels-reliever-luis-garcia-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/28\/angels-reliever-luis-garcia-trade-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Reliever Drawing Attention from Several Teams Ahead of Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garcilu03.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Garc\u00eda<\/a> is gaining much attention from several teams ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s trade deadline. The New York Mets, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Kansas City Royals are all interested in Garc\u00eda, a 37-year-old veteran righty from the Dominican Republic. The Red Sox are strongly pursuing Garc\u00eda as they need arms. The bullpen is a pressing concern that Boston is looking to fix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mets are also in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=garcia034lui&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Garcia<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNrJ7a0CZa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/zNrJ7a0CZa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1817309509267734798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Angels Reliever Luis Garc\u00eda on the Trade Block<\/h2>\n<p>Garc\u00eda is one of the more captivating bullpen arms among MLB relievers. He uses a variety of pitches and mixes them well, including a sinker, sweeper, and splitter combo. This season, Garc\u00eda is sporting a 3.80 ERA, 3.68 FIP, and 1.195 WHIP, along with 40 K\/14 BB across 42 2\/3 innings pitched. He will be a free agent at the end of this season and has $1.4 million remaining on his contract. Garc\u00eda also has a 5-1 record on the season.<\/p>\n<p>If Garc\u00eda went to the Royals he would fit well in the back-end of the pen with <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvehu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter\u00a0Harvey<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithwi04.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Smith<\/a>. In his career, Garc\u00eda has also played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Diego Padres. Teams are compelled by his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/07\/toronto-blue-jays-justin-turner-playing-better-with-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">veteran experience<\/a> despite his age, as it&#8217;s been a trend in MLB where older players still have gas remaining in them. The Angels signed Garc\u00eda to a one-year $4.25 million deal on December 5, 2023. This was their first big signing of last offseason. The Angels are continuously looking to rebuild and start a new slate.<\/p>\n<p>Having Garc\u00eda on a contending team is a prime choice where he can help fill a gap on another team pushing to make it to a Wild Card spot. In his 12 seasons spent in MLB, he has recorded a 4.03 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels reliever Luis Garc\u00eda is gaining much attention from several teams ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s trade deadline. The New York Mets, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Kansas City Royals are all interested in Garc\u00eda, a 37-year-old veteran righty from the Dominican Republic. The Red Sox are strongly pursuing Garc\u00eda as they need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":81526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1071,35],"tags":[240,51,3445,682,164,41,3389,49,305],"class_list":["post-81510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels","category-mlb","category-news","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luis-garcia","tag-matt-harvey","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-reliever","tag-trade-deadline","tag-will-smith"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}