| Year | Team | G | IP | ERA | K | SV | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | TOR | 61 | 60.1 | 2.24 | 83 | 23 | 1.01 | 12.4 |
| 2022 | TOR | 60 | 61.0 | 2.11 | 72 | 36 | 1.00 | 10.6 |
| 2023 | TOR | 57 | 57.1 | 2.67 | 73 | 36 | 1.06 | 11.5 |
| 2024 | TOR | 23 | 22.2 | 4.37 | 26 | 8 | 1.46 | 10.3 |
| 2025 | TOR/LAA | 31 | 30.0 | 3.30 | 35 | 5 | 1.20 | 10.5 |
| 2026 ST | LAA | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
The Elbow Cooperated. The ERA Didn't.
The spring debut was clean. One inning, zero earned runs, one strikeout against San Francisco on Feb 24. The elbow cooperated. The splitter was there. The pre-season analysis said: if the elbow cooperates, Romano in the 7th or 8th transforms this bullpen. The elbow cooperated.
Through April, Romano posted a 7.11 ERA. He has four saves — the role is intact — but the ERA is the ERA. At 7.11 across his first month of work, the Angels' late-inning arm is actively making games worse, not better. The 2021–2023 version — sub-2.50 ERA, 12+ K/9, one of the best setup men in the AL — has not arrived. What has arrived is a closer who makes the seventh and eighth innings feel like a coin flip.
It is still a one-year, $2 million deal, and a 7.11 ERA in April is not automatically a 7.11 ERA in July. The track record — three years of elite performance before the elbow trouble — is real, and pitchers do rediscover their stuff after injury-interrupted stretches. But the Angels cannot afford to wait indefinitely. If the ERA is still above 6.00 at the trade deadline, the conversation about bullpen additions needs to happen regardless of his history.