{"id":84262,"date":"2024-08-27T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=84262"},"modified":"2024-08-27T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:11:45","slug":"angels-matt-moore-injured-list-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/27\/angels-matt-moore-injured-list-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Place Veteran Workhorse Reliever on Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels have placed veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/05\/angels-smaller-trade-pieces-bring-value-to-the-table\/\" target=\"_self\">southpaw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=moorema02,moore-006mat,moore-007mat&amp;search=Matt+Moore&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Moore<\/a> on the injured list. In a corresponding roster move, Los Angeles recalled right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=miller012rya,miller015rya,miller021rya,miller022rya,miller017rya,miller010rya&amp;search=Ryan+Miller&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Miller<\/a> from Triple-A Salt Lake. Additionally, they transferred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/troutmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Trout<\/a>, now <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/01\/mike-trout-out-for-season\/\" target=\"_self\">out for the season<\/a>, from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Angels?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Angels<\/a> transactions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Selected the contract of RHP Ryan Miller<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Placed LHP Matt Moore on 15-day injured list<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Transferred OF Mike Trout to 60-day injured list<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angels PR (@LAAngelsPR) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAAngelsPR\/status\/1828519299084148980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Angels Place Matt Moore on Injured List<\/h2>\n<h3>Lingering Injury?<\/h3>\n<p>Moore left his most recent outing against the Toronto Blue Jays with elbow soreness. The Angels have yet to comment further on the severity of the injury. The veteran left-hander has an ERA of 5.03, his walks are up, and his strikeouts are down. It is unclear if the elbow is a lingering issue and contributed to Moore&#8217;s struggles this year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, by contrast, the 35-year-old had a 2.20 ERA and featured a 94 mph fastball. In 126 2\/3 innings, Moore struck out 27.4 percent of batters last year and had a career-low 6.9% walk rate.<\/p>\n<h3>Miller&#8217;s Major League Debut<\/h3>\n<p>For his part, Ryan Miller will be making his first appearance in the big leagues after being drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2018. He was then selected last year by the Angels via the Rule 5 draft. In what has become known as a hitter&#8217;s league, Miller has sported a sparkling 2.45 ERA in 162 1\/3 innings. He has struck out nearly a quarter of the batters faced and his walk rate hovers around five percent. In his last three starts at Salt Lake, Miller is 3-0 with a 0.92 ERA and 31 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<h3>Moore in the Future<\/h3>\n<p>It is probably too much to ask for a Moore return with around 30 games left in the season. The left-hander who came up with the Tampa Bay Rays was a reliable starter primarily with the Rays and the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>With Trout and Moore reportedly out for the remainder of the season, it seems like another blow in what has become an annual exercise of futility for the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels have placed veteran southpaw Matt Moore on the injured list. In a corresponding roster move, Los Angeles recalled right-hander Ryan Miller from Triple-A Salt Lake. Additionally, they transferred Mike Trout, now out for the season, from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL. #Angels transactions: \u2022Selected the contract of RHP Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":84277,"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":[430,248,28720],"class_list":["post-84262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels","category-mlb","category-news","tag-matt-moore","tag-mike-trout","tag-ryan-miller"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84262","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\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}