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ANAHEIM The Angels doubled down in the major league portion of the Rule 5 draft, selecting not one but two players, reliever Deolis Guerra from Pittsburgh Pirates and Korean first baseman Ji-Man Choi from the Baltimore.
Asked if he felt they would make the bigleague club next spring, Mike LaCassa, the Angels’ new director of minor league operations, said, “Yeah, how often do you see a team, especially one with the expectations we have, take two guys in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft?”
Guerra, 26, a 6-foot-5, 245-pound righthander, had a 6.48 ERA in 17 major league innings last season, but he did strike out 17 and walked just three.
Though it was a small…
