After the 2017 season Taylor Cole was outrighted to the Blue Jays Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo. Cole elected to become a free agent and six months later the LA Angels and Eppler came knocking on his door. On March 5th of 2018 the Angels signed Cole to a minor league contract.
In the first three months of the 2018 season Taylor Cole toiled for the LA Angels’ Triple-A Affiliate in Salt Lake City just hoping for a chance to get back to the majors where he had only pitched one game in 2017 for the Blue Jays. While Cole’s numbers were not spectacular in Salt Lake (5.