The Phillies announced that they’ve selected the contract of right-hander Enyel De Los Santos and optioned lefty Cristopher Sanchez to Triple-A.
Now 25 years old, De Los Santos joined the Phillies before 2018 in a trade that sent infielder Freddy Galvis from Philadelphia to San Diego. De Los Santos was a noteworthy prospect in his younger days, topping out as Baseball America’s sixth-best farmhand in the Philly organization in 2019.
Since a promising showing with the Phillies’ Triple-A team in 2018, De Los Santos’ production has taken a negative turn. Across 30 major league innings from 2018-19, De Los Santos put up a bloated 5.70 ERA with a 19.6 percent strikeout rate and a walk percentage of 10.2. He also threw 94 frames of 4.40 ERA ball with similar strikeout and walk rates during the 2019 Triple-A campaign.
With no minor league season in 2020, De Los Santos’ only hope of getting into a real game was to crack the Phillies’ bullpen. He was unable to do that at any point, though, and the team removed him from its 40-man roster in August.
that he’s up so early with no definitive need is a great sign about his rebound.
Alvarado’s suspended and they have a couple guys in the pen who just got lit up. Not sure it’s a glowing endorsement of De Los Santos.
He might be on the DFA train in short order.
if he’s ticketed for a DFA right after I would think you’d use someone more expendable though.
I don’t know. They DFA’d him once and snuck him through so he’s already been deemed expendable. So-so control and a mediocre strikeout rate. RH’s who throw 94-95 are a dime a dozen nowadays.
That and Neris is not available tonight and probably tomorrow, so I would imagine Coonrod is closing.
Kind of surprised nobody took him in the Rule 5 draft. He was eligible if I recall.
Was DFA’d in August. If some team was that interested in him they wouldn’t have taken him in Rule 5 they would have just claimed him on waivers.
The fact he couldn’t get a shot last year even with the total dumpster fire that was the Phillies bullpen is more evidence of Matt Klentak’s gross incompetence than it is of EDLS’ ability to get hitters out. He throws as hard as anybody else in the org other than Alvarado and in Spring Training he was striking out an absurd % of the batters he faced.
According to the announcers: Clerical error – De los Santo was not allowed to enter tonight’s game since he was not on the lineup card
It’s amazing how incompetent Girardi has been. He’s a decorated manager so it’s blasphemous to criticize, but this was inexcusable. Another blunder, in a long list of blunders.