The Phillies are set to promote promising young right-hander Enyel De Los Santos, as first reported by James Clark of the East Village Times (via Twitter). He’ll make his Major League debut when he starts Tuesday’s game. The promotion will require the Phillies to formally select De Los Santos’ contract, so Philadelphia will need to make a 40-man roster move, though they have a clear 60-day DL candidate in Pedro Florimon, who has already been out since May 30 due to a broken foot and has yet to begin a minor league rehab assignment.
De Los Santos, 22, was acquired from the Padres in the offseason trade that sent Freddy Galvis to San Diego. It seemed a fairly steep price for the Padres to pay in exchange for Galvis at the time, as De Los Santos is a generally well-regarded arm and was coming off a solid 2017 season in Double-A. This season, De Los Santos entered the year ranked as the Phillies’ No. 11 prospect, per MLB.com, and all he’s done since that time is elevate his stock.
Though De Los Santos is roughly four years younger than the average player in the Triple-A International League, he’s currently sporting a league-leading 1.89 ERA through 95 1/3 innings of work. He’s averaged 8.2 K/9, 2.9 BB/9 and 0.94 HR/9 to go along with a 42.1 percent ground-ball rate through his 16 starts, and he was recently named to the MLB Futures Game.
Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com note in their free scouting report on De Los Santos that the righty sits 94-95 mph on his heater and can reach 97-98 mph at times. De Los Santos thrives on missed bats and weak contact with that fastball and a plus changeup, though his curveball is a less-effective third pitch and still needs work to be considered Major League average.
De Los Santos will step into the MLB rotation for now alongside Aaron Nola, Jake Arrieta, Zach Eflin and Nick Pivetta, though it’s not immediately clear if he’ll simply be making a spot start or if he’ll receive further chances beyond Tuesday’s outing while Vince Velasquez mends from a forearm contusion. The Phils are playing a doubleheader against the Mets today, and threw rookie Drew Anderson in his own MLB debut on Sunday, so their pitching mix is currently a bit jumbled.
I didn’t understand the trade at the time and it looks even worse now. SD could have simply signed a glove first guy and kept their prospect.
That said, making an MLB debut is the fulfillment of a dream and I wish him well.
As a padre fan it hurt me then and it hurts me more now. Galvis has been a decent stopgap, but no reason to give up something for him, especially a young pitcher. Wish him well as well.
100 percent. Alicides Escobar could have been signed to league minimum, or darn near close to it and De Los Santos could have been kept. Shoot even Hosmer would have been happier with that decision because that would have meant he could play another season with one of his buddies.
Escobar is hitting .195….Galvis is at least over .230
And? The Padres suck with Galvis. They could have sucked with Escobar.
It’s typical Preller bad trade
Because he was a marginal prospect. There’s a million guys out there who fit Enyel De Los Santos’ profile and scouting report,
Hardcore fans dramatically overvalue prospects (because selectively reading a minor league scouting report makes basically everyone look like Nolan Ryan). Most of them don’t pan out.
Kluber was also a marginal prospect when he was traded. And it’s not overvaluing him. It’s realizing that the rebuilding Padres had no use for Freddy Galvis. Your straw man argument is fooling no one.
The Phils miss Freddy’s glove at short, but de los Santos making his debut helps us miss Freddy a little less.
They can re-sign him in the offseason if they miss his glove that much
He’s .230 hitter in walk years yea sure they Phillies fans crying their eyes out
The Phils don’t miss anything about Galvis he’s terrible
The people saying Phillies don’t miss Freddy is the biggest lie of 2018
Who misses Freddy Galvis? He is a gifted fielder, but doesn’t do anything else. He spent 6 years with the Phillies…the year before his arrival they won the division, the year after they are seriously challenging for it—with nothing by terrible baseball in between.
I’d hope not. The glove is nice but the stick is non existent, from either side of the plate.
The Padres needed consistency at the position and he has provided that, fair. However, other options would have been more cost effective for a rebuilding club. ie signing Escobar.
That Galvis trade is looking REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAL good right about now!
I hope galvis resigns with the phillies in the offseason… and the Padres give away some prospect in a trade to get De los Santos back…. the ultimate AJ Preller fail…
Matt Kemp and Wil Myers were way worse. I’m still not convinced De Los Santos won’t end up in the bullpen but even then, I’d take 6+ years of a reliever over 1 year of a shortstop during a rebuilding year. This trade was a clear miss.
Chase Headley, Brian Mitchell, trading Yangervis… AJ Preller has been a clear miss during the last year.
The Mitchell trade was a worthwhile gamble. That’s exactly what rebuilding teams should be doing. Who knows, you might get the next Arrieta.
Wasn’t against taking a chance on Mitchell but didn’t think it was worth taking Chase Headley to do. Preller should have had the Yanks pay part of Headley’s contract or gotten back a lottery ticket-type prospect along with them (see: what he did when he got Esteury Ruiz from the Royals).
Blowing $13 Million on a guy who couldn’t crack a troubled Yankme starting rotation on the hope that he pitches like he did in a notable pitchers’ league (the IL)? The Mitchell trade was heinous, but Padre faithful who believe AJ’s minions won’t criticize anything he does.
Not true, most true Padres fans like the ones on this site are pretty hard on Preller which is 100 percent fair.
Worthwhile it sucked lol
Velazquez is slated to start Wednesday so this would seem to be a spot start only
Unless they replace Pivetta. He’s been lousy lately.
I said a few weeks ago that giving up De Los Santos for Galvis seemed like a bad idea, and I remember someone replying that the Padres were justified to do it because they had a lot of guys to eventually protect from the Rule 5 Draft (which is true).
That said, it still seemed like a high price to pay, and I’m sure there would have been other ways to address their roster crunch later. I’ll wait to say more until he actually pans out or not, but even getting a guy with his upside is a steal for a year of Galvis.
The Rule 5 excuse doesn’t work because only 3 weeks later, Preller traded fan favorite Yangervis Solarte for another prospect who, like De Los Santos, is about to run into the Rule 5 draft and fills less of an immediate need than De Los Santos would have.
And they were forced to bc they need to figure out who of the three will stay
Pierla ( I hope not) spang (meh) Asuaje (maybe)
And the ultimate space for urias
If he pitches well, De Los Santos and Crawford for Machado.
Thinking the Phillies would rather just wait until the offseason and sign Machado without giving those guys up
Getting Machado now could make the Phils a pennant winning team this year, as well as improve their chances of signing him long term. Without him they lack a consistent enough offense to go that far.
Getting him this year won’t improve their chances of signing him one bit. And it was my understanding that the Phillies would only be interested in trading for him if he agrees to a sign-and-trade (which, at the amount of money that would take, they’d be better off just waiting until the offseason to sign him)
I disagree. He won’t give them a discount, but familiarity and shared good experiences might break a tie. And a great second half in red might encourage the Phils to offer more than they otherwise would.
That’s not the type of thing you trade the prospects Machado will inevitably cost in a trade for.
But a pennant is. Machado makes the Phillies NL East favorites who stack up well against the rest of the NL contenders.
Exactly. Trading for Machado has the 2018 playoff race in mind and nothing more. If you aren’t ok with him leaving after 2018, DON’T TRADE FOR HIM!
I concur, but also see the aforementioned added benefit. I would be disappointed if Machado left in 2019, but would still make the deal. Doing so might show the willingness to spend agressively that might help entice a certain South Jersey guy to try a different shade of red in 2021.
I wonder what trade the Padres will regret more in the long run? De Los Santos or Efflin?
Efflin. Most underrated SP in baseball. Solid back end starter for most teams, has potential for being a no.2 guy.
Trevor Bauer
Eflin. At least the Padres got a quality contributor for De Los Santos, even if only for a year. It was completely ridiculous to give up ANYTHING for Kemp, let alone Zach Eflin.
Didn’t Dipoto trade him to the Padres originally?
Correct you are
Joaquin Benoit trade
*AHEM* Anderson debuted last year. This was just his first start.
Preller’s top 5 miscues so far:
1. Acquiring Kemp for Grandal and Eflin. (Speculated to be a move promoted by management to compete over night.)
2. Not trading Justin Upton for Michael Fulmer when it was reportedly offered in 15’ at the deadline.
3. Freddy Galvis for Enyel De Los Santos
4. Wil Myers extension
5. Not trading Ross the first time around, when we could have reportedly had Javier Baez for him.
I excused the Myers trade because with Jose Castillo contributing now and Joe Ross unavailable for a while it puts the Trea Turner trade in a better light for a bit.
Honorable mention: Chase Headley plus Bryan Mitchell. Forget Jabari Blash, losing this trade wasn’t about players lost, more about money wasted $12 million to cut Headley after a month and change and to have Mitchell become one of the worst pitchers in the league who is currently on the “disabled list” and the air quotes are meant to be sarcastic.
And hiring Andy Green lol the most vanilla manager in the game.
Not to sound disrespectful but I think you have your dates mixed up on Upton. Upton was in Detroit in 2015. Maybe you’re talking about 2014? I forget when he was dealt to SD
No I don’t.
Upton was in San Diego in 2015
He signed with Detroit in 2016
So no I’m not talking about 2014 when he was in Atlanta.
Anyways, AJ Preller butchered the trade deadline of 15’ Upton, Kennedy and Shawn Kelley all held onto when they should have been clearly traded to a contender. Instead the Padres settled for comp picks for Upton and Kennedy while watching Kelley sign with Washington that offseason.
The draft pick was better than than what was reportedly offered for Kennedy, but giving him a QO was really questionable in the first place. I’m shocked he did so well in free agency.
Likewise, I remember most Padre fans were furious because they were highly unsure anyone would touch Kennedy with the QO attached. Luckily enough it worked out in their favor this time. Who was the comp pick for Kennedy? Did it become Hudson Potts?
Yep, the comp pick for Kennedy turned into Hudson Potts. He’s more valuable than what was reportedly offered for Kennedy.
My fault I got Yoenis and upton mixed up. Thanks for not ripping into me. Lol
The Myers trade was worse than all of them except maybe Kemp.
Preller is really bad as a GM. For me it’s less to do with the moves he makes and more about his lack of vision.
When your organization trades away a top prospect at a position of need like they did with Turner. Then you spend years chasing teams offering more then you should for a player to fill that hole you created. It just shows an overall look of cluelessness.
It could of been much much worse too. Padre fans should all be sending Doug Melvin Christmas cards for the rest of their lives for turning Preller down when he tried trading for Sardinas.
Facts are the Padres had a top 10 farm system for years b4 Preller arrived. As high as #1 a few years b4 he showed up. They haven’t been competitive in his 4 years here, and their farm system has gone from top 10 in 2014 to top 5 in 2018. While it’s great they’ve improved their farm, it’s also expected when you don’t win.
He’s basically done nothing but tread water and get himself suspended for shady dealings.