The Phillies have signed reliever Cam Bedrosian to a minor league contract, Matt Breen of the Philadelphia Inquirer was among those to relay. He’ll be assigned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Bedrosian will be joining his third organization of the year. After spending 2014-20 with the Angels, he signed with the Reds over the winter. His six appearances with Cincinnati were disastrous, though, and the Reds cut him loose. Bedrosian hooked on with the A’s and performed better over nine games in the Bay Area, but Oakland nevertheless designated him for assignment last week. After clearing waivers for the second time this season, the veteran righty elected free agency.
Philadelphia seems to be a good landing spot for Bedrosian to work his way back to the majors relatively quickly. For the second consecutive season, the Phils have had a nightmarish time late in games. Phillies relievers rank 25th in ERA (4.92) and have blow a league-worst 22 leads, despite a 3.89 SIERA that’s hovering right around league average. The Phils have had particular issues in the ninth inning, leading to a recent shakeup in the closer role.
Because of his disastrous start with Cincinnati, Bedrosian’s sitting on a 5.52 ERA/4.93 SIERA across 14 2/3 innings this year. His more recent work with Oakland was adequate, though, and Bedrosian brings a rather strong track record to the Philadelphia system. He was one of the top relievers in baseball back in 2016, when he tossed 40 1/3 frames of 1.12 ERA ball. His work over the past few seasons has been closer to average; he posted a 3.41 ERA with a slightly below-average 22.5% strikeout rate and a typical 9.2% walk percentage between 2018-20.
Even a return to his competent but not overwhelming form of the past couple years would be a boon to a Phillies bullpen looking for answers to their recurring struggles. In an interesting coincidence, Bedrosian’s father Steve played for the Phillies from 1986-89, winning the 1987 NL Cy Young award.
“despite a 3.89 SIERA that’s hovering right around league average”
What could possibly be the problem then?
GIMME A D…..GIMME AN E…….
SIERA? Is that another one of those useless analytic stats that try to over complicate a simple game?
I was hoping the Phillies would go after Goody(who signed with Nats).
Welcome to the pit of despair. Phillies pen is about as bleak as it gets.
Good news! I heard that Citizen’s Bank Park will be selling MLT sandwiches. The mutton will be nice and lean and the tomatoes ripe. Now all the Phillies need is Miracle Max.
Might be time for Steve Bedrosian….? Couldn’t hurt right?
Time for Joe Girardi to make that phone call: “Hey, Mariano, how about one more go? We could really use your help…….”
Kind of hoping the Yanks would be trading Chapman for Rivera.
I guess the Phillies won’t need the Dark Knight aka Matt Harvey
Oh well!
With the Phillies BP of the last two years, why not ?
Yes, the Phillies’ relief corp over the past two years has, in fact, been throwing batting practice.
Cam had one strong season with the Angels when he first came up. Since, he has been horrible with flashes of average pitching. Any inherited runner will score when he comes into a game. He might be ok to handle the 6th or 7th with no runners on but that’s it. Good luck and God bless.
He reminds me a bit of Blake Parker. An arm that I am not sure why we didn’t re-sign along with Jose Alvarez.
Typical Dombrowski
Honestly, with as bad as the Phillies bullpen continues to be they should probably sign Steve as well
Another loser time to sell DUMBO
Alright! Baby Bedrock joins the mess.
JD Hammer throwing good at AAA why not?
Neftali Feliz was LIGHTS out in AAA too…