The Los Angeles Angels are turning their eyes towards the long run, selling a pair of younger arms to the majors this weekend. Proper-handed pitcher Caden Dana will begin Sunday’s recreation vs. the Seattle Mariners, the group introduced. In the meantime, lefty Samuel Aldegheri will change into the primary Main League Baseball pitcher ever born and raised in Italy when he begins on Friday.

Dana, 20, has spent the season in Double-A, the place he is amassed a 2.52 ERA and a 3.77 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 135 innings. It is price noting that he is already nicely exceeded his earlier career-high in workload, the 68 innings he threw final 12 months. As such, it is unclear what number of extra begins the Angels intend for him to make.

CBS Sports activities ranked Dana because the second finest prospect within the Angels system heading into the spring. This is a part of what we wrote on the time:

Dana acquired practically $1.5 million after being drafted within the Eleventh spherical in 2022. Relaxation assured, he wasn’t a “true” Eleventh-round choose. Moderately, he was (and is) a strapping right-hander with a budding fastball-curveball mixture who slipped due to signability issues. Dana did stroll 4 batters per 9 innings in his first full skilled season, and he would not all the time get his arm up at foot strike. It is doable he can clear that up a bit heading ahead.

Aldegheri, 22, was obtained from the Philadelphia Phillies within the Carlos Estévez commerce on the deadline. (The Angels added fellow starter George Klassen in that deal as nicely.) In 19 begins throughout three ranges this season, he is compiled a 3.59 ERA and a 3.27 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Aldegheri has an excellent breaking ball and will be a part of Dana as a long-term a part of the Angels rotation.

The Angels entered Thursday with a 54-79 file, which places them in final place within the American League West, some 4 video games behind the Oakland Athletics.