Los Angeles Angels fans react to team signing reliever Matt Moore to one-year, $7.55 million contract: "I’m happy with this" "Moore is a stud" 

Matt Moore, one of the last remaining free-agent relievers on the market, was signed to a one-year, $7.55 million contract by the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday.

Moore, a former top rookie prospect for the Tampa Bay Rays, made a career comeback last season with the Texas Rangers in his first turn as a full-time reliever.

He spent the majority of his first ten MLB seasons as a starter, though he was mostly used out of the bullpen in a previous stint with the Rangers in 2018.

Moore posted the best season since having Tommy John Surgery in 2014, going 5-2 with a 1.95 ERA as a left-handed relief specialist with the Rangers last season. Los Angeles Angels fans are more than pleased with signing him -- especially away from a division rival.

As happy as Los Angeles Rangers fans are at gaining Moore, Rangers fans are equally annoyed at losing him.

Los Angeles Angels fans are praising general manager Perry Minasian for making such an astute move this late in the offseason. The Angels are building a quietly solid team with a lot of star power in Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, and Anthony Rendon. However, the bullpen was not a team strength. If Moore comes close to repeating his 2022 numbers, he adds a big boost to the bullpen.

Los Angeles Angels are Moore's seventh team since 2016

Matt Moore# 55 of the Tampa Bay Rays delivers a pitch during the first inning of the against the Baltimore Orioles

Moore never set the world on fire the way many hoped. He made his major-league debut in 2011 and progressed well through his first three MLB campaigns. His high-water mark came in 2013 when he went 17-4 with a 3.29 ERA -- along with a major league-leading 17 wild pitches -- and made his only All-Star Game appearance to date.

However, it all came crashing down in 2014, when Moore was shut down with a sprained Ulnar Collateral Ligament in his left elbow. Later that year, he had Tommy John surgery and was never the same afterward.

Moore's star had faded by 2016, and he was traded to the San Francisco Giants, where he went on to lose a National League-leading 17 games in 2017. Over the next five years, he bounced from the Texas Rangers to the Detroit Tigers to the Philadelphia Phillies and back to the Rangers. Texas is the only team that hasn't used him exclusively as a starter.

One would think that the Los Angeles Angels would not try to mess with a good thing and keep him in the bullpen.