Angels: Joel Piñeiro’s Sinker Has His Stock Rising

There was no bidding war with New York or Boston.

There was no mob of reporters wrestling for position to photograph him putting on an Angels jersey for the first time at a press conference.

All that greeted Joel Piñeiro upon his arrival in Anaheim was misplaced anger and disappointment by Angels fans who viewed his signing as an inadequate attempt at replacing John Lackey.

Although his signing should have really been seen as an attempt to replace last year’s fifth starter and career minor leaguer Matt Palmer, fans and analysts around baseball immediately viewed Piñeiro as “Lackey Lite.”

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