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May 23, 2012

Transaction Analysis

Twins Change the Marquis

by R.J. Anderson

ANAHEIM ANGELS Team Audit | Player Cards | Depth Chart

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Placed CF-R Vernon Wells and OF-L Ryan Langerhans on the 15-day disabled list. [5/21]
Recalled RHP Bobby Cassevah from Triple-A Salt Lake. [5/21]
Purchased the contract of OF-L Kole Calhoun from Triple-A Salt Lake. [5/21]
Transferred RHP Michael Kohn to the 60-day disabled list. [5/21]

Some players hate playing for skippers who micromanage, but Cassevah would probably enjoy it. At Cassevah’s roots he is a groundball specialist who excels against righties (as a .176 multi-year true-Average-against supports) and struggles against lefties (.305). Naturally, Cassevah has faced almost an equal amount of lefties as righties, as Mike Scioscia treated him as a shutdown set-up man, rather than a specialist, in the second half of 2011. Being typecast as a reliever who can only get righties out stinks, but it beats being typecast as a reliever who can’t get anyone out. Expect Cassevah to look worse than he is until Scioscia stops trying to put a Cassevah-shaped peg into a non-Cassevah-shaped hole.

The Angels drafted Calhoun as a senior out of Arizona State in 2010. He skipped a level in 2011 and skipped another in 2012 by starting at Triple-A. Calhoun kept on hitting and the Angels didn’t hesitate to bring him up in the wake of recent injuries. Short on tools but tall on performance, Calhoun is a classic grinder type with enough feel at the plate to hang against advanced pitching. The Angels continued to play Calhoun in center field, but the long-term prognosis is that he winds up in a corner—be it in the outfield or first base.