The Phillies announced today that they have designated right-hander Andrew Bailey for assignment and recalled fellow righty Luis Garcia from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Bailey, 32, signed a minor league contract with the Phils back in December, and while he didn’t make the club out of Spring Training, he had his contract selected in mid-April and has been in their bullpen ever since. The former A’s closer pitched quite well through his first 16 appearances with Philadelphia, but he’s been scored upon in seven of his past 10 appearances and has a dreadful 10.26 ERA dating back to June 3. Collectively, he’s logged a 6.40 ERA in 32 1/3 innings this season. Bailey’s averaged more than a strikeout per inning this year but has had some issues with his control (4.2 BB/9) and has been susceptible to the long ball while averaging a career-low 92 mph on his heater.
While Bailey’s career got off to a highly promising start — he was a two-time All-Star and the 2009 American League Rookie of the Year during a three-year run as Oakland’s closer — his career went awry following a 2012 trade to the Red Sox. Bailey required thumb surgery early in his Boston tenure, causing him to miss the majority of the 2012 campaign, and his career since that time has been slowed first by a biceps injury and eventually by 2013 shoulder surgery. Bailey didn’t pitch at any level in 2014, and he logged just 8 2/3 innings with the Yankees last season, so the very fact that he’s been able to take a big league mound with some degree of regularity is a step in the right direction for him. With nearly six years of Major League service time under his belt, Bailey has the right to refuse an outright assignment in favor of free agency if he’s put through waivers.
Wrong Luis Garcia is linked to in the article. I don’t want to bash (as this is probably the best American baseball site around), but this happens quite often. Why is that?
Anyway, Bailey’s career is all but over. I’m guessing he will try his luck in Japan or korea.
its probably my only complaint about the entire site.
Yeah I noticed the error too. Probably a miscommunication between MLBTRADERUMORS and baseball reference sites
I believe they have a program that automatically links to a player’s Baseball Reference page, so they don’t have to do a search and link for every person referenced in an article. Inherently this is going to have a few hiccups with multiple players sharing common names…
Ah, ok. Maybe they can add an algorithm that checks if the player is active in the majors in 2016, as that is shown in the search at Baseball reference as well.
I can see the Cardinals going after him to be honest.
He’s got nothing left. It’s been agonizing to watch lately. His curve is still a weapon but his command is on par with the legendary Phillipe Aumont. He’s pumping a very flat 92 up there so if he’s not spotting with precision he’s a massive liability. The Cards should want nothing to do with him.
I feel so bad for this guy, ever since he came up I’ve been a big fan and always wanted to watch him succeed. Hope he recovers from this poor season and comes back strong elsewhere
This seems like a guy the Rangers would throw into their pen
Bailey should be happy. He now can go to any team, and be a place to win
Maybe ray searage has some magic dust to sprinkle on his arm and resurrect yet another career