The Phillies announced today that they have designated righties David Buchanan and Jimmy Cordero for assignment. Their departure clears the way for a whopping eleven players to be added to the team’s 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 draft.
Here’s the full list of players who’ll rise to the Phillies’ MLB roster:
- Righties Drew Anderson, Mark Appel, Ricardo Pinto, Nick Pivetta, Alberto Tirado, and Ben Lively
- Outfielders Dylan Cozens and Nick Williams
- Lefty Elniery Garcia
- Catcher Andrew Knapp
- Second baseman Jesmuel Valentin
That’s a rather notable volume of 40-man turnover, and represents one of the more dramatic indications of the team’s commitment to developing from within. Philadelphia now has a full 40-man, which will make it tough to add more major league assets this winter without dealing off of the MLB roster or exposing some of these (or other) players to waivers.
Buchanan and Cordero were two early roster casualties as the club cleared the way to protect youthful assets. The 27-year-old Buchanan put up a solid 3.98 ERA in 167 1/3 innings last year at Triple-A, and recorded good results in the majors 2014 before a rough 15-start stint there in 2015, so he could draw outside interest. Cordero, 25, has yet to reach the majors. He failed to repeat a promising 2015 season, which led to his addition to the 40-man last winter.
They still have Phil Klein,
Needs correction: Ben Lively is a RHP, not a LHP.
That’s what I get for relying on the Phillies’ announcement.
Phillies are horrible at letting young talent come up and just play. They wait way too long to give youth a chance. Aka Ryan Howard, Darren Ruf, Carlos Carrasco, etc.
That has long been a problem of the Phillies, which hopefully is changing. They wait so long for young players to be “ready” that they end up killing their confidence. It’s happened with so many players in the past, hopefully it doesn’t happen in the future. I understood why they didn’t bring up Crawford in September (doing so would have meant he’d have to be included on the 40 man roster when at this point he doesn’t), but he should be up sooner rather than later. Same with a lot of other guys. They seem to want to build an organization of established AAA players. If they had Mike Trout he’d likely have just finished his first full season of AAA, and might have an invitation to ST next year.
They traded Carlos Carrasco for Cliff Lee… I think that trade worked out pretty well! Carrasco was, at one point, DFA’d by the Indians. He was a late bloomer.
Not every young player comes up and performs like Corey Seager, some take longer to develop. I’d expect to see a bunch of these guys play this year.
Turned it up to 11
Will Appel make his long-awaited debut in 2017?
They can still make moves. Klien and Mariot could (should) be easily bumped from the 40 man and no tears will be shed.
Ditto Cody Asche.
Buchanan seems like a perfect fit for the Padres. Competent innings eater and won’t cost them anything.