Angels, LHP Anderson agree to deal, sources say

The Los Angeles Angels, erstwhile again successful request of a starting pitcher to slot adjacent the apical of their rotation, person agreed to a three-year declaration with Tyler Anderson, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan.

The deal, valued determination successful the vicinity of $39 million, was struck hours earlier Tuesday's deadline for players to determine whether to judge the qualifying offer. Anderson was fixed the one-year, $19.65 cardinal qualifying connection by the crosstown Los Angeles Dodgers but alternatively opted for a multiyear agreement.

The Angels volition present suffer their second-round prime and the Dodgers volition summation a prime aft the 4th circular successful adjacent year's draft.

Anderson, 32, enjoyed a breakout play with the Dodgers successful 2022, making his archetypal All-Star squad portion going 15-5 with a 2.57 ERA successful 178⅔ innings. His changeup was 1 of the champion successful the sport, trailing lone Sandy Alcantara's with respect to transportation value.

Angels wide manager Perry Minasian present has 5 starters locked up: Shohei Ohtani, Anderson, Patrick Sandoval, Jose Suarez and Reid Detmers, the past 4 of whom propulsion left-handed. But the squad volition astir apt proceed with a six-man rotation adjacent season, putting them successful play for astatine slightest different starting pitcher.

The Angels are clouded successful uncertainty fixed the anticipation that longtime proprietor Arte Moreno volition merchantability the team. But Minasian has stressed that helium has nevertheless been granted the quality to adhd players who mightiness assistance the squad instrumentality to the postseason. He recently squashed industrywide speculation that helium would research a commercialized of Ohtani, a escaped cause aft the 2023 season.

Anderson -- whose signing comes astir a twelvemonth to the time aft Minasian signed Noah Syndergaard, different starting pitcher tied to a qualifying connection -- volition beryllium a bargain if helium tin support his occurrence from past season.

He was considered a tier beneath the likes of Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Carlos Rodon and Kodai Senga connected the escaped cause marketplace but proved to beryllium 1 of the sport's astir durable and effectual starters past season. And helium signed for lone astir $5 cardinal much than what the Houston Astros paid to clasp Rafael Montero, a 32-year-old setup reliever who besides navigated an up-and-down vocation earlier 2022.