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Latest On Yusmeiro Petit

By Connor Byrne | October 3, 2019 at 9:04pm CDT

With their 2019 campaign officially in the rearview mirror, the Athletics can get to work on offseason decisions. One of the choices they’ll have to make soon centers on right-hander Yusmeiro Petit’s future. The soon-to-be 35-year-old reliever has a $5.5MM club option for 2020, though he said after Wednesday’s wild-card loss to the Rays that he hasn’t heard whether the A’s will exercise it, per Martin Gallegos of MLB.com. But Petit wants to remain an Athletic, Gallegos writes, and he has definitely made a strong case to do just that.

Formerly a member of the Giants, Nationals and Angels, Petit joined the A’s for a two-year, $10MM guarantee in November 2017. He was coming off a career campaign with the Halos at that point, as he led all relievers in innings and notched a 2.76 ERA/2.85 FIP with 9.95 K/9 and 1.77 BB/9 across 91 1/3 frames.

Petit has continued his ways as an effective workhorse during his run in Oakland, where he has amassed another 176 innings of low-ERA ball (2.86). He’s now fresh off an 83-frame season in which he led the league in appearances (80) and logged a career-best 2.71 ERA with his highest swinging-strike rate (11.4 percent) since 2014.

The soft-throwing Petit benefited in 2019 from a .213 batting average on balls in play against and thrived despite a 29.9 percent groundball rate. As a result, there’s a certain amount of skepticism in regards to his stingy run prevention, with ERA indicators FIP (3.59), xFIP (4.48) and SIERA (3.90) painting a gloomier picture. However, it’s worth noting Petit greatly aided his cause by doling out few free passes and limiting damaging contact. Petit walked a meager 1.08 hitters per nine, which helped him overcome a below-average strikeout rate (7.7 K/9). Plus, according to Statcast, Petit ranked in the majors’ 83rd percentile in average exit velocity against (86.6 mph) and its 91st percentile in expected weighted on-base average (.264, compared to the actual .243 wOBA hitters mustered off him).

Although the A’s are regularly one of the majors’ lowest-payroll teams, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see them retain Petit for what looks like a reasonable salary. They’ll officially decide what to do with him, not to mention fellow established veteran relievers Jake Diekman (mutual option) and Blake Treinen (non-tender or trade possibility), in the approaching weeks.

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  1. MrMet62

    6 years ago

    Long career… the Mets traded him and others for Carlos Delgado way back in the day

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  2. mlb1225

    6 years ago

    Not everyday you can get a reliever, especially one that can fill in as many roles as Petit can (long relief/multi-inning, middle relief, spot starter, late inning pitcher) with a bWAR that sits just below Josh Hader and Kirby Yates, and above Aroldis Chapman for just $5.5 million.

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  3. darkangel

    6 years ago

    too solid a pitcher to ignore.

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  4. JayRyder

    6 years ago

    This guy was great with the Giants. Should have stayed.

    Hope the A’s keep him.

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    • dandan

      6 years ago

      I agree, thought it was a foolish move for the Giants to get rid of him at the time.
      People forget he was about 1 foot away from a perfect game.

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      • ben w.

        6 years ago

        And set a record for continuous scoreless innings pitched. And that 8 innings of SO against Washington in the playoffs. Dude does not get the respect he should.

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  5. julyn82001

    6 years ago

    A’s will exercise Petit’s option for sure. He has too much value for the young, talented A’s…

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  6. sherlock_

    6 years ago

    If the A’s know what they’re doing, they will exercise it. Pretty cheap to be honest. He is a very valuable piece.

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  7. jorge78

    6 years ago

    Once again, analytics
    undervalues a soft
    tosser…..

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  8. angels fan 3

    6 years ago

    Petit was also on the Marlins and Diamondbacks

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  9. angels fan 3

    6 years ago

    Small detail but Petit signed with the A’s in December of 2017

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  10. bravesfan

    6 years ago

    Got to think they will exercise it… seems to be pitching better with age

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  11. powderb

    6 years ago

    Don’t pay relievers on past performance. The A’s should keep Trivino and Hendricks and remake the rest of the Pen.

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  12. Jeff Zanghi

    6 years ago

    They should definitely exercise his option — if absolutely nothing else they should do so and trade him if they really don’t want to pay him the $ next season. But unless they have a serious need to free up $ I’d imagine they keep him around. Despite not really having dominant stuff he has been incredibly effective over his career at limiting hard contact and not walking many batters. He’s also incredible versatile as he can do everything from start to set-up (or potentially close I suppose – if needed) Seems like a no brainer to bring him back at essentially the same price he’s been paid the past 2 seasons regardless of what his role will end up being next season.

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