ANGELS NOTEBOOK: ANGELS MAKE SELE $8.5 MIL. RELIEVER.Byline: Gabe Lacques Staff Writer TUCSON, Ariz. - Aaron Sele Aaron Helmer Sele (born June 25, 1970 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) is an MLB right-handed pitcher who plays for the New York Mets. His family moved to Poulsbo, Washington, a Scandinavian town on the Kitsap Peninsula, where Aaron pitched for North Kitsap High School. is going to be the highest-paid long reliever Long relievers are a type of relief pitcher in baseball. Long relievers traditionally enter early in a game (anywhere from the first inning to the fourth inning) when the starting pitcher cannot continue, whether due to ineffective pitching, lack of endurance, rain delays, injury, in the major leagues, and he's partly convinced there's nothing he could have done this spring to prevent that. The Angels on Wednesday announced their rotation to start the season, and as expected, Bartolo Colon will be the opening-day starter Tuesday in Seattle. Jarrod Washburn Jarrod Michael Washburn (born August 13, 1974 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. Drafted by the California Angels in the 2nd round of the 1995 amateur draft out of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Washburn won the final game and Kelvim Escobar Kelvim Jose Escobar Bolivar [ess-coe-BAR] (born April 11, 1976 in La Guaira, Venezuela) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004-present). He bats and throws right handed. will follow, and Ramon Ortiz and John Lackey John Derran Lackey (born October 23, 1978, in Abilene, Texas) is a major league baseball starting pitcher from Abilene, Texas. He has played for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim his entire career. will fill out the rotation. Ortiz edged Sele for the final slot, concluding what manager Mike Scioscia publicly called an eight-man rotation battle that included Scot Shields and Kevin Gregg. But Shields and Gregg never pitched more than a couple of innings an outing, and Sele thinks his chances were nearly as remote. Sele, who feels primed for a big year now that he's 17 months removed from shoulder surgery, posted a 3.21 Cactus League ERA, and Ortiz, who regressed in every statistical category except victories last year, posted a 7.23 ERA and yielded 28 hits in 18 innings. --Molina hamstrung: Catcher Bengie Molina probably will not play again until the season opener Tuesday after straining his left hamstring during Wednesday's 9-5 victory over Colorado. --Television up: The Angels announced Wednesday they will televise tel·e·vise tr. & intr.v. tel·e·vised, tel·e·vis·ing, tel·e·vis·es To broadcast or be broadcast by television. [Back-formation from television. a team-high 150 games on local television this season and appear six times on national telecasts. In addition to their standing agreements with Fox Sports Net (81 games) and KCAL-Channel 9 (46 games), additional games will be broadcast on KDOC-Channel 56 (11 games) and PAX-Channel 30 (10 games), with two games on Spanish-language KWHY-Channel 22. Gabe Lacques, (626) 962-8811 gabe.lacques(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): box Box: BEYOND THE BOX SCORE |
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