Longtime Angel Calhoun Joins D'Backs

Outfielder Kole Calhoun, who spent his entire 8-year MLB career with the Los Angeles Angels, has signed a 2-year, $16 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks with a club option for 2022 worth $9 million.

In 152 games in 2019, Calhoun hit .232 with a career high 33 HR along with 74 RBIs on an Angels team that was mired in the sorrow of the sudden death of starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Calhoun, 32, is an Arizona native and should thrive in familiar surroundings. 

He enters the 2020 season with a .249 batting average, 140 HR and 451 RBI along with a Gold Glove he earned in 2015. It is worth noting that Calhoun has almost as many strikeouts (862) as he does hits (884). But in the age of the home run there is no shame in striking out and Calhoun's strikeout totals did not give the D'Backs snake eyes.