ANAHEIM — José Ureña tied a record that most players would want no part of Friday night, the new Angels pitcher joining relievers Oliver Drake (2018) and Mike Baumann (2024) as the only players in major league history to play for five teams in one season.

The glass-half-full crowd would view such a flurry of transactions as evidence that five teams wanted Ureña enough to sign him. The glass-half-empty crowd would see four teams that discarded Ureña like a bubble-gum wrapper, the 34-year-old right-hander getting designated for assignment four times in a span of four months.

Ureña? He just wants to stay in one place long enough to unpack his suitcase.

“It’s been a lot,” said Ureña, who has appeared in 14 games for the New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays, Dodgers, Minnesota Twins and Angels t

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