The Angels will promote top pitching prospect Jose Suarez from triple-A Salt Lake to start Sunday’s series finale against the Seattle Mariners, according to a person familiar with the decision but not authorized to speak publicly about it.
A rotation spot opened when Angels manager Brad Ausmus decided to push struggling right-hander Trevor Cahill back from Sunday to Monday’s makeup game in Chicago against the Cubs.
Suarez, a 21-year-old left-hander from Venezuela, has such an advanced feel for pitching and knack for missing bats that he jumped from Class-A Inland Empire to double-A Mobile to triple-A within the first two months of the 2018 season, going 3-6 with a 3.