The neverending cycle of the pitching carousel was ruthless this season, but somewhere in that whirlwind of new names came the Angels debut of right-handed pitcher Aaron Slegers. After an impressive run with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020, there was hope that Slegers would be the clean-up power that the rotation needed, but his 29-game performance as a Halo wasn’t the right fit, and the young reliever left Anaheim with a rough 6.97 ERA.
Before he joined the Angels, Slegers played 11 games with Tampa Bay in 2020, and he yielded a 3.46 ERA while also logging one game saved and 19 total strikeouts.