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Diamondbacks To Promote Yoan Lopez

By Connor Byrne | September 3, 2018 at 3:17pm CDT

3:17pm: Arizona has announced Lopez’s promotion, and it made room for him by transferring third baseman Jake Lamb to the 60-day disabled list. Lamb underwent season-ending left shoulder surgery last month.

1:37pm: The Diamondbacks will promote right-hander Yoan Lopez from Double-A Jackson, Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic reports. Lopez is not on the D-backs’ 40-man roster, which is currently full, so they’ll need to make a corresponding move.

Lopez, a holdover from the Diamondbacks’ ill-fated Dave Stewart/Tony La Russa/De Jon Watson regime, is finally coming to the majors three years after the team signed him out of Cuba. Arizona gave Lopez a whopping $8.27MM bonus, and in doing so, it paid a 100 percent overage tax and limited itself in future international markets. As a result of the Lopez signing, the Diamondbacks were barred from adding any international prospect for more than $300K over the next two signing periods. The club happened to have the majors’ largest bonus pool in 2015-16, making the Lopez-caused limitations all the more costly.

Of course, had Lopez developed into the front-line starter the Diamondbacks thought they were getting, there would be little to no criticism of the signing. Lopez’s tenure with the organization has been rocky at times, however, and he initially had such a difficult time adjusting to his new surroundings that he considered giving up baseball. However, Lopez – now 25 years old – persevered and may have put himself in position to make an impact with the D-backs. While he’s no longer a starter, the hard-throwing Lopez impressed as a Double-A reliever this season, recording a 2.92 ERA/2.85 FIP with 12.7 K/9 against 3.79 BB/9 in 61 2/3 innings.

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12 Comments

  1. markmc1235

    7 years ago

    I remember back in 91 when dave was pinched for falashio with a trans man

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    • goalieguy41

      7 years ago

      Falashio? You might want to look that up sunshine

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    • johnrealtime

      7 years ago

      Who cares?

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      • Chewbacca

        7 years ago

        there is no way you were alive in 1991.

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    • JJB

      7 years ago

      “Falashio”? I remember back in ’91 when you dropped out of school in the 7th grade.

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      • bobtillman

        7 years ago

        Reminds me of that great opera “Le Fasetto qui Falasiates avec Flaubert”….it was written by Fanny Farkle, if I recollect…..

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        • Mr. E Team

          7 years ago

          Amazing.

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  2. okbud

    7 years ago

    Bye Bye Braden Shipley

    Reply
  3. markmc1235

    7 years ago

    Why? @goalieguy41

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  4. saavedra

    7 years ago

    When is the goat Yasmani Tomas going to get his callup?

    Reply
  5. jminn

    7 years ago

    Diamondbacks used to be the laughing stock of MLB.

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    • bobtillman

      7 years ago

      The best run organization in MLB, IMHO. They do quite a bit with limited resources. And ya, they’ve had their blunders; care to count the Great Theo’s goofs over the years? We haven’t got the time. If it wasn’t their god-awful uniforms, they’d easily be my favorite NL (I’m an AL guy) team.

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