25 Noe Ramirez RP

Ramirez fired a pair of scoreless innings while striking out three in a 5-3 loss to Toronto on Tuesday.

It was the 29-year-old's finest outing this month after he surrendered runs in three of his previous six outings. Ramirez is posting a career-best 12.0 K/9 while serving a long-relief role for the Halos this year (nine of his 24 appearances have gone longer than one inning).

Ramirez gave up a solo home run and struck out two batters over 1.1 innings in Sunday's loss to the Giants.

Manager Mike Scioscia had to empty his bullpen after Jaime Barria needed 77 pitches to get through two frames. Ramirez is fairly low on the bullpen depth chart, but he is already one inning away from matching his career high of 13 innings. The 28-year-old owns a respectable 3.75 ERA with 16 strikeouts over those 12 innings, but his 1.75 WHIP is far too high to give him value as a strikeout reliever even in deep formats.

Ramirez has been told he'll make the 25-man roster for Opening Day, Jeff Miller of the Los Angeles Times reports.

Ramirez had a 4.38 ERA this spring but made a strong impression with 14 strikeouts and two walks in 12.3 innings. Ramirez has had strong minor league strikeout rates despite a fastball that last season failed to average 90 mph, but a high walk rate has typically been his undoing.

Ramirez was recalled by the Angels on Friday, Jeff Fletcher of The Orange County Register reports.

A waiver acquisition in August, Ramirez turned in four scoreless appearances during his brief time with Triple-A Salt Lake and now finds himself among the Angels' first wave of September callups. He figures to work exclusively in low-leverage spots down the stretch.

Ramirez was claimed off waivers by the Angels on Friday.

Before being acquired by the Angels, Ramirez had thrown 4.2 innings over two games for the Red Sox, during which he allowed two earned runs off three hits. However, two of said hits were home runs. Ramirez will report to Triple-A Salt Lake, where he'll likely be used out of the bullpen.