If you hadn’t heard of Rob Rasmussen before the Los Angeles Angels claimed him off waivers in late December, you aren’t alone.
But he could play an instrumental part of the Halos bullpen as one of only two left-handed pitchers projected to start the year as a reliever, joining Jose Alvarez.
Rasmussen only has two seasons of Big League action under his belt, spending the majority of the last six seasons in the Minors, where he went 28-34 with a 3.71 ERA in 518.2 innings pitched.
He has four pitches that he relies on: a good-looking four-seam fastball that averages 94 mph on radar guns; a hard slider (86 mph); a curve with a nice sweeping break (76 mph); and an 83-mile-per-hour changeup that FanGraphs suggests he uses only about four percent of the time he throws the ball.