The Angels season has been wrecked by injuries, most notably the season-ending injury to Garrett Richards, leaving them with a big hole in their rotation. And with no pitching depth in the minors, the team has been scrambling to fill the hole. Today, apparently, they found an outside option.

#Braves are finalizing a trade of RHP Jhoulys Chacin to #Angels. He had been scheduled to start tonight for ATL.

— David O'Brien (@DOBrienAJC) May 11, 2016

Jhoulys Chacin has strung together five encouraging starts from an xFIP perspective, cutting his walks and upping his strikeouts while still getting his regular share of ground balls. His ERA is ugly, but that’s mostly due to a high BABIP and low strand rate, things that haven’t been a problem for Chacin throughout his career; his career 3.82 ERA is 23 points better than his 4.05 FIP/xFIP. So there’s no real reason to think Chacin’s got a new found contact problem, and if any of his strike zone improvement is real, he could be a decent back-end starter again.

Of course, Chacin isn’t going to save the Angels season, which was probably over even before Andrelton Simmons also was lost for the next few months. He will make their rotation less terrible, but he’s not going to make it good, so hopefully they didn’t give up too terribly much for a rotation stopgap in a lost season. But if they didn’t give up much, then it wouldn’t be clear why the Braves — who also have a terrible rotation — would give Chacin away. So we’ll see what this ends up being. Chacin probably isn’t anything special, but he’s at least interesting enough to acquire and see what he turns into. Of course, those are reasons the Braves could have kept him too.

We’ll see what this turns out to be once the final details are announced.