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Rays Select Phoenix Sanders

By Anthony Franco | April 17, 2022 at 1:40pm CDT

Apr. 17: Knight has cleared waivers and accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.

Apr. 14: The Rays have selected right-hander Phoenix Sanders onto the major league roster, tweets Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. In a corresponding move, reliever Dusten Knight was designated for assignment.

Sanders, 26, is getting a big league call for the first time. He was a 10th-round senior sign out of South Florida in 2017, signing for just $7.5K. The overwhelming majority of players in that demographic don’t advance to the majors, but Sanders earned his way there with an excellent five-year run in the minor leagues.

Aside from a rookie ball stint late in his draft year, Sanders hasn’t posted an ERA above 3.29 at any stop. He’s backed that up with excellent strikeout and walk numbers, routinely punching out upwards of 30% of opponents while only once dishing out free passes at a higher than average clip. Sanders, who has worked almost exclusively in relief, owns a 1.81 ERA in 49 2/3 Double-A innings and a 3.19 mark in 79 frames over parts of three seasons with Triple-A Durham. He’s fanned 31.1% of batters faced against a meager 4.6% walk rate at the top minor league level.

Sanders has never appeared on an organizational prospects ranking at either Baseball America or FanGraphs, but his consistently strong production caught the attention of the Tampa Bay front office. He’ll offer a fresh arm in the middle innings for manager Kevin Cash, having not pitched for Durham since last Friday.

Knight loses his roster spot just a day after being selected back to the majors. He’s a quick casualty of roster churn as the Rays shuttle through bullpen arms to cover a stretch of 13 games in as many days to open the regular season. The righty tossed 42 pitches in last night’s loss to the A’s, likely knocking him out of commission for the next day or two. Tampa Bay will now risk losing him on waivers to add to the immediate bullpen options at Cash’s disposal.

The 31-year-old Knight has logged big league time in each of the past two seasons. He struggled over seven appearances with the Orioles last year, allowing ten runs in 8 2/3 innings. He had a nice showing with Baltimore’s top affiliate, though, posting a 3.05 ERA in 38 1/3 frames with a 26.2% strikeout rate. Knight hasn’t allowed a run in four innings with Durham in 2022 and struck out three batters in 2 1/3 innings of one-run ball against Oakland yesterday.

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Comments

  1. DarkSide830

    1 month ago

    One of the best names in pro baseball

    Reply
    • Yankee Clipper

      1 month ago

      Sounds like a superhero name. Most definitely made for cinema, at least.

      Reply
    • rxbrgr

      1 month ago

      Sounds like an OnlyFans account

      Reply
      • thekid9

        1 month ago

        Do you still use your account?

        Reply
    • tstats

      1 month ago

      80 grade name 70 grade hair

      Reply
    • Sheep8

      1 month ago

      We can only hope he faces Skye Bolt

      Reply
  2. Lloyd Emerson

    1 month ago

    Welcome to The Show!

    Reply
  3. thelegendaryharambe

    1 month ago

    Well, Knight had a good run.

    Reply
  4. szc55

    1 month ago

    Was his dad a Colonel?

    Reply
    • Yankee Clipper

      1 month ago

      No way! I’d be sooo fat if my dad were *the* colonel… Could be related to Barry though, who was not related to the colonel.

      Reply
      • matt e.

        1 month ago

        Wait… Barry and the Colonel aren’t related? Where else could he get that shake and bake from?

        Reply
        • Edp007

          1 month ago

          Do we forget the other Reggie … great player

  5. bobtillman

    1 month ago

    He’s always put up some decent “standard” numbers, and BA thought he might be a Rule 5-er this year, but of course there was no Rule 5. Doesn’t seem to have a lot of “stuff”, but ya gotta have somethin’ to produce those numbers, even if he has been old for every class he’s pitched in. Why not.

    Reply
  6. bubbamac

    1 month ago

    “ Aside from a rookie ball stint late in his draft year, Sanders hasn’t posted an ERA above 3.29 at any stop”

    So what about fall league (7.90) and AAA (3.38) on 2021?

    Reply
  7. Monkey’s Uncle

    1 month ago

    Phoenix rising.

    Reply
    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      1 month ago

      He’s like the Phoenix, rising from Arizona!

      Reply
  8. Jacksson13

    1 month ago

    Another example of the absurdity of the long outdated, artificial, 40 man roster. S/B 45 at least for the “low revenue” organizations who rely on internal player development and recriminations as opposed to virtually unrestrained free agent spending.

    Reply
  9. ARC 2

    1 month ago

    Rays use their minor leaguers as temp workers. glad to see MLB reduce the number of times you can call up and send down players in a season.

    Reply
  10. Jacksson13

    1 month ago

    Please provide an update on the status of PHOENIX Sanders 4 brothers:
    YUMA, TUSCON, SCOTTS-DALE, and, not to be forgotten, TOMBSTONE (born on 10/31)

    Reply
  11. John Rocker Fan Club

    1 month ago

    We got a Phoenix rising! That reminds me that Phoenix Rising by Deströyer 666 is one of the best albums to come out from the year 2000.

    Reply
  12. Ronk325

    1 month ago

    With a name like that he was born to be a professional athlete

    Reply
    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      1 month ago

      Or a mass killer.

      Reply
  13. raydh

    1 month ago

    I’m at the Rays game and am sitting a couple of sections over from the Rays pen. Sanders is wearing number 80 and sitting at the end of the bullpen bench. The Rays defense has been terrible, and they are losing 4-1, bases loaded for the A’s with one out. No one warming up in the pen yet.

    Reply
    • You Can Put It In The Books

      1 month ago

      Thanks for the update. Now go watch the effing game.

      Reply
  14. raydh

    1 month ago

    It’s now 5-1 A’s, Rays at bat and Sanders is warming up in the pen. It looks like he may have the fifth inning.

    Reply
  15. raydh

    1 month ago

    Update: Sanders is on the mound ready to make his MLB debut.

    Reply
  16. raydh

    1 month ago

    Sanders is now out of the game. He went three innings and gave up one run. Not a bad debut.

    Reply
  17. 48-team MLB

    1 month ago

    *SARASOTA SEA HORSES

    Reply
  18. Larry Bernandez 1324IM

    1 month ago

    Figured, Cleveland Steamer would have gotten the first look

    Reply
  19. Justajaysfan

    4 weeks ago

    Tired of the dfa shuffle, teams using 40-50 pitchers a year. Imagine being called up to make the bigs for the first time, you have been fighting for this all your life, only you know no matter how good or bad you will be dfa’d and move to a new organization,

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