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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> closer Brian Fuentes<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to back stiffness. Details here<\/a> via the Orange County Register:<\/p>\n Fuentes hadn’t pitched since Opening Night and hadn’t even played catch for a few days after feeling the stiffness in his side\/back while working out last week — not that he had missed out on a lot of save Because he hasn’t pitched since April 5, the move is retroactive and Fernando Rodney<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> steps into the closer role in the interim.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Rodney shut the door 37 times for Detroit last season, and he recorded only one blown save, despite the ugly ratios (4.40 ERA, 1.47 WHIP). He’s 25 percent-owned in Yahoo! leagues at the moment. Rodney is a sketchy option, sure, but he’s a closer again, at least for one week. Do what must be done. He’s followed in the Angels’ bullpen hierarchy by Kevin Jepsen<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> and Scot Shields<\/a>(notes)<\/a>.<\/span> <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Photo via US Presswire <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Los Angeles Angels closer Brian Fuentes(notes) has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to back stiffness. Details here via the Orange County Register: Fuentes hadn’t pitched since Opening Night and hadn’t even played catch for a few days after feeling the stiffness in his side\/back while working out last week — not that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nopportunities.<\/p>\n
\nFuentes will be eligible to come off the DL next Wednesday.<\/p>\n