At this fee, it’s extra shocking to listen to Anthony Rendon will truly play a baseball sport than not.
Spring coaching has barely began and the oft-injured, hardly ever lively Angels third baseman’s season is already in jeopardy as a result of hip surgical procedure that may sideline him for a “significant” stretch, basic supervisor Perry Minasian instructed reporters Wednesday.
Rendon had a current setback in his rehab and now would possibly additional solidify his declare for proudly owning the worst contract in baseball and maybe of all-time.
It’s truly truthful to marvel if Rendon will ever play once more contemplating he, properly, doesn’t play a lot to start with and is coming into the sixth season of his seven-year, $245 million pact.
Rendon has appeared in simply 257 video games with the Angels spanning 5 seasons, topping out at 58 through the 2021 season.
He’s missed 68.3 p.c of Angels video games since signing the deal.
Rendon truly cleared the one-third mark final season by enjoying in 57 video games, however that didn’t present a lot assist since he had the worst yr of his profession.
The previous Nationals star posted career-worsts in common (.218), on-base proportion (.307), slugging proportion (.267) and OPS (.574), whereas tallying zero homers and 14 RBIs.
Rendon has a grand complete of two homers throughout his final 421 plate appearances.
He landed on the injured listing thrice final season, first being sidelined in April with a left hamstring pressure, lacking time after struggling decrease again irritation in July and ending his season prematurely as a result of a left indirect pressure sustained in September.
Rendon owns a .717 OPS with the Angels, in comparison with his .859 mark with the Nationals.
Making all of it the more severe is Rendon brazenly admitted that baseball isn’t his end-all, be-all, which isn’t the most effective factor to say when you find yourself hardly ever round to do the job you’re being $38 million per yr to do.
“It’s never been a top priority for me,” Rendon mentioned final February, in line with The Athletic. “It is a job. I do that to make a dwelling. My religion, my household come earlier than this job.
“So if those things come before it, I’m leaving.”
The Angels at the least — on paper — have some insurance coverage within the just lately signed Yoan Moncada, whom they landed on a one-year $5 million deal.
Moncada, although, performed in simply 12 video games final yr.
The Angels are coming off a 63-99 season that landed them within the baseman of the AL West, and so they have added veterans like Kenley Jansen, Travis d’Arnaud and Jorge Soler this offseason.
