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Orioles Shut Down Félix Bautista

By Darragh McDonald | October 3, 2022 at 3:44pm CDT

The Orioles have announced that right-handed pitcher Félix Bautista has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to left knee discomfort, retroactive to October 1. Fellow righty Yennier Cano was recalled in a corresponding move. Earlier today, manager Brandon Hyde had relayed to reporters that Bautista would be shut down, with Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com among those to relay the news.

The fact that Bautista is being shut down is fairly sensible. His knee has been bothering him for a few days now, but the club kept him around as they clung to their diminishing postseason aspirations. With the Orioles officially eliminated over the weekend, it makes sense to let Bautista go into offseason mode as opposed to potentially making his knee worse as they play out the string.

In the end, it will go down as a tremendous debut campaign for the hulking right-hander, a season that felt like it came out of nowhere. Bautista actually began his career in the Marlins’ organization but was released in January of 2015 after posting a 12.41 ERA in rookie ball in 2014. He was signed by the Orioles to a new deal in October of 2016 and has been working his way up the minor league ladder since then.

As he made his way towards the majors, he often paired huge strikeout numbers with troubling walk totals. That was still the case last year, as he threw 46 2/3 innings across three different levels, posting a 1.54 ERA and 39.7% strikeout rate despite walking 15.5% of batters faced. Though the signs of potential were there, Bautista never cracked Baseball America’s list of top 30 prospects in the system. FanGraphs listed him in the past three years, but always in the #30-45 range.

Still, Baltimore believed in the stuff enough that they added him to the roster in November of last year to protect him from the Rule 5 draft, which ended up being canceled by the lockout. Bautista took a huge step forward here in 2022, cracking the club’s Opening Day roster and almost immediately cementing himself as a lockdown reliever. He threw 65 2/3 innings over 65 games with a 2.19 ERA and 34.8% strikeout rate. He even showed improved control, limiting walks to a manageable 9.1% rate. He moved his way up the leverage chart for the O’s as the season went on, notching 15 saves and 13 holds.

Though his season ends with a bit of a down note, he and the club will look forward to 2023. After years of dismal results, Baltimore has posted a solid 82-77 record here in 2022 so far, their first winning season since 2016. Bautista was one of many rookies to debut and show promise this year, with Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson, Kyle Stowers and others giving the fanbase something to dream on throughout the winter. Bautista will finish the season with exactly one year of MLB service time, meaning he won’t be slated to qualify for arbitration until after 2024 and free agency after 2027.

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  1. bucsfan0004

    3 years ago

    Lucky for Bautista. Based on the doppler radar, the whole roster might be shut down

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  2. C Yards Jeff

    3 years ago

    Hope it clears out. Got tickets for tomorrow night. Bought them awhile back in anticipation of a Blue Jays – Os end of season showdown deciding a playoff spot. Oh well. Not to be. That said, one more night at the Yards. Can’t wait!

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  3. KamKid

    3 years ago

    What would be the functional reason for the retroactive date at this point in the schedule?

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  4. C Yards Jeff

    3 years ago

    “2016”. Says a ton. The previous POBO, Duquette, signed him. No ego here with current POBO, Elias. Back in 2018/19, looks like he and his staff evaluated existing prospect talent based on ability. Kept who they kept, let go who they wanted to let go solely on that one criteria. No ego, excellent quality for a GM to have.

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    • SamtheMan!

      3 years ago

      Elias’ team definitely developed him though.

      The only move I hated by Elias was not protecting Zach Pop. Didn’t understand it and it felt like an ego thing.

      Maybe just a miss. Just couldn’t figure out what he didn’t like about a hard throwing grounder machine. He’s found so many relievers since then that you could not possibly ding him for that.

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      • C Yards Jeff

        3 years ago

        Wow. Forgot about Zach. A Machado trade piece. Invested time and money in him including TJ surgery and then left him unprotected. Indeed a puzzling move. Obviously a commodity. I mean, Toronto traded for him.

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      • No poIitics

        3 years ago

        Because when the Orioles got him he wasn’t throwing hard anymore and needed a couple of years to recover from an arm problem.

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        • SamtheMan!

          3 years ago

          He was as soon as he got to Miami though. Miami kept him on their roster all year when they plucked him away and he was still pretty respectable.

          Can’t complain too much about 1 miss with all the hits though

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        • No poIitics

          3 years ago

          I don’t think it is a miss to pass on a guy that missed 2 years due to a surgery. They needed arms they could actually use.

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  5. No poIitics

    3 years ago

    So they overuse a guy and he breaks down. Typical Orioles. Now they’ll bank on him and sign him to a new deal and wonder why he’s never this good ever again.

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