The Red Sox have released right-hander Dan Altavilla, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive. The righty will now head to the open market in search of his next opportunity.
Altavilla, now 30, signed a two-year minor league deal with the Sox going into last year. That was a reflection of the fact that he underwent Tommy John surgery in June of 2021 while with the Padres. He was outrighted by that club and became a free agent at season’s end but wasn’t likely to be able to provide too much in 2022, which led to the two-year deal with Boston. Such deals are somewhat common for players facing long rehabs, allowing the player to lock in some money and access team facilities while giving the club some longer control over their services.
The righty didn’t make it into any official action last year and began 2023 on the injured list as well. He finally began a rehab assignment over a month ago and made eight appearances in the minor leagues since then. He tossed 12 innings in those, allowing four earned runs for an ERA of 3.00. However, his 14.3% strikeout rate and 10.2% walk rate were both uninspiring in that small sample. It seems the Sox didn’t have much confidence in him providing much value to them down the stretch and have let him go.
He could still get chances elsewhere based on his pre-Tommy John track record. He made 119 appearances in the majors from 2016 to 2021, split between the Mariners and Padres. He had a 4.03 ERA in that time, with a high 12.1% walk rate but a strong 26.1% strikeout rate. He averaged around 97 mph on his fastball for much of that span and was able to touch triple digits at times. If he’s able to get himself back on track and earn a roster spot, he’ll have the potential to be retained for multiple years as his service time count is currently at four years and 63 days.
I had no idea he was even on the team
Deep down in the minors
Probably because he wasn’t.
“Under contract to the team”.
Better?
Who? Slow day
If MLB-R isn’t getting enough hits, they will post almost anything about the RS, waiting for someone to come in to bash the FO.
Cry about it. It’s q news site, they post news. Go grt hired, then you do better
Ghost – Agreed! I also don’t know why Joe is crying about it, as the article is legit news and nobody has bashed the FO for the signing.
Seems like Joe is the only one trying to drum up controversy.
It will be interesting to see who picks him up.
Because of his non-40 man amd minor league all season status, he should’ve been able to have been traded post-deadline.
Straight release sounds like no interest, but, you’d think a pure lottery pick mightve been an option.
Joe, are you postulating that a Chaim Bloom Derangement Syndrome (CBDS) exists on this website and that it is exploited for hits & clicks ??
You hooked me with ‘postulating”, and while I am mostly kidding, it does feel like we see MLB-R has more articles about RS AAA depth pieces than other teams. Which makes sense.
Bloom also tends to make a lot of transactions, it feels like more than many other PBOs do. I haven’t look at the numbers compared to other teams though.
Joe – Yeah, it does make sense because Bloom makes far more of those moves than most (if not all) of the other ML teams.
So why do you continue criticizing me and others for simply stating that fact.
GASox – I had this discussion with Syco recently, he came up with a very high number of Red Sox transactions this year that I think was about 13 less than the all-time MLB record but it was during the 2021 Covid year so it’s quite possible this year’s Sox team might have already broken the all-time non-Covid record.
So what you’re saying Fever, is that you agree perhaps Occam’s Razor is the way to go here.
For the less educated amongst us, simplest answer is the best place to start: more articles about red sox making moves with aaaa or worse players because Bloom makes more moves with them.
Dont know how anyone cant see the CBDS. Daily a half dozen people come here to complain about Bloom.
Red Sox are doing much better than any of them expected, but there minds are already set in stone = To Hate everything he does.
You know they actually have an Official List of Moves that Bloom has made that they hate. The rest of us call it the Red Sox Transaction Page.
GASox – Yes, absolutely.
There are other teams with similarly poor records and similarly large followings who are just as unhappy with the team’s management and ownership, but we don’t see so many articles about THEIR team acquiring or releasing crap players because THEIR team doesn’t do it nearly as often.
And while we are on the subject, the Dodgers with 14 pitchers on the IL at the same time didn’t need to add any innings-eating crap pitchers to their staff. So clearly they are running their roster a lot better than Bloom.
You know damn well this is all Blooms fault!!
Im pretty sure Bloom is behind the Kennedy Assassination too. That was him with the umbrella.
RSmith – Once again you are wrong. Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll by a French assassin who flew into Hobby Airport early on the 22nd rented a car under an assumed name, drove to Dallas, killed Kennedy drove back to Houston and flew back to Europe and was never seen again. It’s highly likely that Johnson, the CIA and Hoover of the FBI had him silenced after hiring to do the job.. Get your facts straight. Bloom was not born yet!!
Also, his umbrella has lace around the edges and is pink!! hahaha
Close, it was actually Chaim’s paternal grandfather who was the hobo behind the fence on the grassy knoll. He may have provided analytics to the shooter which helped triangulate the launch angle of the magic bullet which killed Kennedy.
Ignorant – That was awesome!!
“Once again you are wrong”
Sounds like a troll comment from a guy named ‘trollfree’.
“Playing in MLB doesnt mean youre MLB quality” Just wondering do you ever get tired of contradicting yourself?
“It was Chiams . . ”
No doubt you probably think that. Can you tell us how he faked the Moon Landings too?
Agreed, it is like clock work….the trolls like KD come out of the woodwork.
All that said, there is a list of MLB, AAA, AA, A+, A-, Florida Complex that can not exceed 180 players. As the drafted players have been assigned to these teams we are seeing room needing to be made. Depth options less likely to be used are being trimmed to make room for prospects.
This guy has actually had a good MLB career so far. He was out for 2022 (injury?) looked good in 2023. TB or Baltimore. Braves LA?
Someone will give Dan a chance…
In other sad news, Daniel Murphy has re-retired 🙁
I came to the website to see if they posted anything about Angel Hernandez.
That bad ump is a sad chump.
Here you go:
apnews.com/article/angel-hernandez-umpire-lawsuit-…
Best of luck to Dan Altavilla. I saw him pitch many times in Seattle and he has an electric arm. If fully recovered, somebody will give him a shot.
Who?
Dan Altavilla
It was more or less a joke but thank you.
Less, definitely less.
@JoeBrady would like to have a word or two with you.
On totally different trivia topic…When was the last time the Red Sox and Yankees ended the season at the bottom of the division standings?
I looked back to 1970 and couldn’t find any season where they were both bottom dwellers. Let’s not make history so gotta root for the RS?
The release makes sense. Nobody is going to trade for him when they cab just sign him to minot league deal or very low-end mlb deal. And for the Sox, they can resign him if they want.
Good luck to the dude. He will probably sign somewhere in the off season. He has good history and his comeback wasn’t bad. He just needs to knock off the rust and get his arm strength back.
“He has a good history”
He does? What the 20 innings in 2018?
Altavilla will be 31 in Sept. He has only gotten as A+ in the minors for a total of 12 innings. He hasnt pitched in the pros since 2021, his career numbers (4.03 ERA, 1.32 Whip) arent good for a reliever.
Im not seeing what youre seeing. Its August, time to make room for younger kids.
I said the release makes sense, bro.
Youre right, I misread, thought you said “makes no sense”.
It’s all good, man. We all do it lol
He was
JC#1 – Still trolling hahaha get a life.
JC is one of the very few I’ve muted, it’s so nice that I can’t see what he writes but it’s also quite weird that I can see some responses to his posts.
Fever – Good choice. I too muted him for a long time along with the other auto trolls. Then one day I accessed the site prior to logging in and read some of the ugly comments being written even though I had them muted and wasn’t responding to anything they had said. That was enough for me to start building a file of all their comments, especially the ones where I had not commented on anything they had said. The file is huge and very damning. Someone in the core group knows the guy that runs the site so he allows it but at some point when the comments become offensive enough that a senior citizen should not be subjected to them, I’ll take the issue way up the ladder but I’d prefer not to. So I simply monitor and document for now.
It’s really great that most of the participants are normal people talking baseball so it’s worth it to read the comments daily. I always look forward to yours and many others. It’s unfortunate with the weakened roster, bad GM and bad manager most of the topics revolve around dumpster diving or dumpster purging but that’s going to be the case until something changes..
Please keep up your writings I look forward to them every day and I don’t have to even agree because I know that your comments are founded by your baseball experience which isn’t going to be the same as mine or anyone else’s so both your similar and dissimilar opinions are great to read.
Today’s big news. Yet another bad player has been DFA’d by a bad GM. Stop the presses!!!
Still waiting for the “Boston acquires a great player!!” headline.
It’s been 4 years coming!! Change is needed.
Fever Pitch Guy
Joe – Yeah, it does make sense because Bloom makes far more of those moves than most (if not all) of the other ML teams.
So why do you continue criticizing me and others for simply stating that fact.
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Because the last time you made this claim, the backup you supplied was almost all signings from the international draft. You so much wanted to post something critical of Bloom that you never stopped to think about whether or not adding 31 players to our AAA depth made any sense.