The Minnesota Twins are reported to have completed the recent trade for lefty reliever Brian Fuentes, sending 7’1″ Dutchman Loek Van Mil to the Anaheim Angels as the player to be named later.
Aside from his astounding height, Van Mil doesn’t look especially promising to me. He currently has an ugly 6.37 ERA at AA New Britain in the pitcher-friendly Eastern League, and he turns 26-years of age in two weeks.
Van Mil was as recently as last year highly regarded by Baseball America as a prospect, and his career minor league numbers suggest he has decent stuff: 3.59 ERA, 188 IP, 181 hits, 12 HRs and 104 walks allowed and 144 Ks. For a guy who has never pitched above the AA level, however, his control looks poor.
In other words, the deal looks almost certainly like a dump of Fuentes’ remaining $1.89 million in salary; as the Angels a ...
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Article written by Tom Dubberke