The Padres announced that they have recalled left-hander Adrián Morejón from Triple-A El Paso, with right-hander Pedro Avila designated for assignment in a corresponding move.
Avila, now 27, has bounced on and off the Padres’ roster over the years. Initially acquired from the Nationals in the 2016 trade that sent Derek Norris to Washington, Avila was added to the 40-man roster in November of 2018. At the end of 2019, he was non-tendered and re-signed to a minor league deal. He got his roster spot back in October of 2021 but was outrighted in June of 2022, before getting selected to the roster yet again a few months later in November.
Amid all of those transactions, Avila spent much of his time on optional assignment. He has pitched in parts of five major league seasons but only has 71 2/3 innings to his name at the big league level. 50 1/3 of those came last year, as he put up a 3.22 earned run average for the Friars. His 11.4% walk rate last year was on the high side but he managed to punch out 24.5% of batters faced while getting grounders on 58.8% of balls in play.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to carry those results over into 2024, at least in the early going. He’s thrown eight innings this year with eight earned runs having come around to score. He struck out nine batters but also walked eight.
Over his years as a Padre, Avila has burned through all of his options and can’t be removed from the active roster without also being removed from the 40-man. The Friars will now have a week to trade him or pass him through waivers. If he were to pass through waivers unclaimed, he would have the right to elect free agency by virtue of having a previous career outright.
Mop up guys are easy to find. I guess they wanted a LH one instead of a RH one.
Not a bad arm to have down at El Paso, if he doesn’t get claimed…
a DFA is better than gettin hit with a BFT that will have everybody sayin:
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Pedro has been demoted to AAA is much clearer.
That’s like saying Pedro Avila has been promoted to customer, when really it means they’re demoting his ass.
might be time to learn the syntax of the mlb. the author was not incorrect.
Baseballs my favorite sport but there’s a bunch of softies.
From throwing at a guy for pimping a home run to phrasing demotions in a cryptic way to soften the blow of an underperforming.
He hasn’t been demoted. He could be pitching for LA by the end of the series if they wanted to take him. He literally can’t be straight demoted to AAA.
It has nothing to do with being a softie. The article explains this pretty well, but he can be traded or claimed by any team on waivers and since he’s already been outrighted before he can also just elect to be a free agent if no one takes him.
There are literally 3 other things that could happen here apart from a demotion to AAA so they can’t just say he’s been demoted since that would end up being wrong a lot of the time in this situation.
Time for Avila to have some Tequila
Love it. Keep cleaning up the 40 man, Preller. I like Wade for now, but he’s not the future. Once Manny gets back to the field, perhaps bring up Martorella. If not, Batten is solid and already on the 40. Maybe Preller goes dumpster diving for a solid DFA, but rather keep the 40 clean.
The more I look at it, they will likely save a spot for Marcano who should be back in a bit.
Not sure if you were referring to the 26 or 40, but I think Marcano is on the 10 day IL so he’s occupying a 40 man spot right now already. Having him replace Wade on the 26 at some point makes sense.
The open 40 man spot should go to a DH/bat first type. When Manny is healthy under the current roster Wade/Eguy are then your primary DHs (or its rotating through other position players with them or Azocar taking their spots in the field). Maybe that spot goes to Martorella eventually, but they also could go external and sign a guy like Belt for that role too.
You’re right. Thought he was on the 60 day