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Phillies Claim Kent Emanuel From Astros, Select Three Players

By Steve Adams | November 19, 2021 at 3:05pm CDT

The Phillies announced Friday that they’ve claimed lefty Kent Emanuel off waivers from the Astros and selected the contracts of three minor leaguers: infielder Luis Garcia, outfielder Jhailyn Ortiz and righty James McArthur. The Phils now have 36 players on their 40-man roster, and all of today’s additions are protected from the Rule 5 Draft.

Emanuel, 29, is a 2013 third-rounder who’d pitched to a 2.55 ERA with a 13-to-4K / BB ratio through his first 17 2/3 MLB innings. However, I have underwent a primary repair surgery on his left elbow back in June and missed the remainder of the season. Based on past primary repair cases, Emanuel could be reacy early in the 2022 season. That Emanuel’s debut campaign came at age 28 is in part due to the fact that a previous Tommy John surgery wiped out a good chunk of his 2015-16 campaigns.

Emanuel has also missed time with an 80-game PED suspension, though he’s among the growing number of players to raise issue following a positive test of trace amounts of DHCMT (seven picograms, in his case). The Wall Street Journal’s Jared Diamond explored  the issue at length last year, and Emanuel himself posted an 11-minute video  on Instagram  discussing his bewilderment over the positive test. Many fans will be skeptical of any player claiming innocence following a positive PED test, but it’s certainly worth reading Diamond’s column and watching Emanuel’s video for those who didn’t track the story at the time.

Garcia, 21, ranked on the back end of Baseball America’s Top 100 list in the 2018-19 offseason but saw his stock crater after he posted a .516 OPS in 2019. After a lost minor league season in 2020, the switch-hitter bounced back to some extent in 2021, slashing .243/.353/.414 across two Class-A levels.

Ortiz was a headlining international signing by the Phillies back in 2015, landing a $4MM bonus on the strength of his plus raw power. Now 23 years of age, Ortiz slugged 19 long balls in just 303 plate appearances with Class-A Advanced before scuffling mightily in a tiny sample of 88 Double-A plate appearances. The Phils, not wanting to lose a slugger who’s received 70 grades on his raw power (on the 20-80 scale), will dedicate a 40-man spot to keep him.

McArthur, a 2018 12th-rounder, spent most of the season in Double-A, where he pitched to a 4.48 ERA with a 24.4% strikeout rate, 7.2% walk rate and 48.3% ground-ball rate. FanGraphs gives him a chance at three above-average pitches but feels there’s a good bit of work left to be done in terms of his command. With 78 innings of respectable Double-A work under his belt, McArthur could be in the mix for a big league look at some point in 2022, should injuries necessitate a dip into the upper levels of the farm system.

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25 Comments

  1. DarkSide830

    4 years ago

    better claim than most of the ones we’ve done recently

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      4 years ago

      Yea. One of the few where I’m not confused.

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  2. Y2KAK

    4 years ago

    A 4th Luis Garcia?

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    • blueboy714

      4 years ago

      LOL they need to start using middle initials

      Reply
    • Chipper Jones' illegitimate kid

      4 years ago

      The link takes you the Astros pitcher by the way

      Reply
  3. bucketbrew35

    4 years ago

    Nice claim. Seems more like a control artist rather than a high ocatane arm (2 bb/9 vs 6.6 k/9). Still relatively young at 29 & a lefty so he is a decent depth option as well.

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    • Reggie Smith

      4 years ago

      “relatively young”

      He’ll be 30 at the start of next season, with a career of 34 innings pitched in the majors. You and I don’t agree on what ‘young’ is. relatively speaking.

      Reply
      • Chipper Jones' illegitimate kid

        4 years ago

        He is young relative to the mean age of American citizens.

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      • bucketbrew35

        4 years ago

        32-34 usually is the beginning of a decline for most players. But he is a reliever with a small amount of mileage on his arm. If he can be affective he’ll last a while.

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  4. allphilly

    4 years ago

    Jhailyn Ortiz! It would be fun to see him get to the big club. Seems like he’s been in the system forever.

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    • 13Morgs13

      4 years ago

      Ortiz sucks

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  5. bobtillman

    4 years ago

    Kent Emmanuel…..very philosophical Phillie.

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    • Chipper Jones' illegitimate kid

      4 years ago

      Kant deny the categorial imperative to claim this guy

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  6. Strosfn79

    4 years ago

    This one hurts.

    Emanuel had an amazing debut – 8 2/3 ip in relief after starter left injured after 1 out.

    Only gave up 5 hits ( 2 solo hr) with no walks.

    Totally saved the bullpen and got the win.

    Phillies are getting a very useful arm, if not a star.

    These are the players that take a team from good to great, IMO

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    • Astros Hot Takes

      4 years ago

      I agree, love this guy, but Astros very rarely make personnel mistakes.

      Reply
  7. rennick

    4 years ago

    @Steve Adams, is there any article you didn’t author today???

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    • jhiphop

      4 years ago

      So many that he doesn’t have time to proofread them. “I have underwent a primary repair”? I can’t even figure out what “reacy” is supposed to be.

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      • Astros Hot Takes

        4 years ago

        “ready”

        but it threw me too 🙂

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        • Randy Marsh

          4 years ago

          It’s traderumors the home of writers who don’t know how to proofread aka the Zach links effect

          Reply
      • Never Remember

        4 years ago

        Maybe you should sign up for a membership before complaining cheapskate.

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  8. Astros Hot Takes

    4 years ago

    10 minutes ago, Houston Astros Facebook : “The Houston Astros have added LHP Jonathan Bermudez, RHP Shawn Dubin, IF Jeremy Peña and IF Joe Perez to their 40-man roster today. In a corresponding move, the Astros have outrighted Kent Emanuel and Freudis Nova.”

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  9. bucketbrew35

    4 years ago

    Freudis Nova is actually surprising as well. They were really facing a crunch.

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    • Strosfn79

      4 years ago

      Torn ACL in September. Will miss most if not all of 2022.

      Reply
  10. 48-team MLB

    4 years ago

    The Phillies also claim that they’re going to contend but they don’t.

    Reply
  11. User 3663041837

    4 years ago

    Emanuel could be a sneaky good get for the Phillies pen.

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