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Phillies Activate Jose Alvarado From Restricted List

By Nick Deeds | August 31, 2024 at 9:27pm CDT

9:27pm: The Phillies have announced that they’ve activated Alvarado in the aftermath of tonight’s game against the Braves. Right-hander Yunior Marte was optioned to Triple-A in a corresponding move, meaning that Philadelphia will still have to add another pitcher to their staff when rosters expand tomorrow. The club’s 40-man roster is now at capacity.

4:14pm: The Phillies bullpen is set to be reinforced as the calendar flips to September, as left-hander Jose Alvarado told reporters (including Matt Gelb of The Athletic) that he will be activated from the restricted list tomorrow. Alvarado noted that he returned to Venezuela to handle a family matter during his absence from the team. No corresponding moves will be necessary to activate Alvarado, as the club’s 40-man roster currently stands at 39 and rosters will expand from 26 to 28 tomorrow.

Alvarado, 29, is in the midst of a down season this year as he’s posted a pedestrian 4.30 ERA with a 4.17 FIP in 52 1/3 innings of work across 56 appearances this year. Prior to this down season, Alvarado’s career had seemingly been on the upswing as he posted back-to-back dominant seasons with the Phillies where he sported a combined 2.53 ERA with an even more impressive 2.14 FIP and struck out 37.6% of opponents. His strikeout rate has plummeted to just 23.3% this year, however, and his groundball rate has similarly suffered. After sitting at an elite 55.1% from 2022-23, the 2024 campaign has seen it dip to a far more middling 45.8% figure.

Disappointing as Alvarado’s season has been across the board, the Phillies are nonetheless surely excited to welcome him back into the fold. After all, the club’s relief corps has fashioned a lackluster 4.57 ERA since the All Star break that’s left them bottom four in the NL over that stretch, and their 4.76 FIP is better than only the lowly Rockies among NL clubs. Even Alvarado’s roughly average numbers from this season would constitute a step forward for the struggling bullpen in Philadelphia, to say nothing of how meaningful a return to form would be for the club as they look to make their third consecutive trip to the NLCS.

Alvarado’s return should be particularly impactful for the club against southpaws. Even amid his lackluster results this year, the lefty has still done quite well against same-handed hitting with a 3.71 ERA and a 3.21 FIP. While his strikeout rate has suffered against hitters from both sides of the plate this year, he still generates grounders as effectively as ever against southpaws with an excellent 55.1% clip against lefty bats this season. That should help to take pressure off the Philly bullpen’s other two lefties, Matt Strahm and Tanner Banks, and allow them to be used in more flexible roles by manager Rob Thomson going forward with Alvarado back to face tough pockets of southpaws in the opposing lineup.

Aside from Alvarado’s value as a third lefty for the club’s bullpen, the Phillies are also surely hoping that a return to action over the course of the season’s final month will help Alvarado regain the elite form he flashed the previous two seasons. After all, the lefty is under contract for 2025 with a $9MM team option for the 2026 season, and a return to form next season would likely make exercising that option something of a no-brainer for Philadelphia brass.

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15 Comments

  1. Rishi

    12 months ago

    I don’t get the Bohm situation. Hurts hand on swing…gets xrays that are negative. Supposedly end of story and likely so, but why would an X-ray even show anything that you hurt swinging? It’s not a bone is it? If he had a previous small bone injury he was dealing with I see why they’d act like that’s the end of it but did he even get an MRI? No mention on the site of his injury? He’s missed 3 games now.

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      12 months ago

      He missed 2 games, not 3. It’s a bone bruise. X-ray showed the bone was not broken. He was in a pretty big slump anyway. Let him rest a bit.

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      • VonPurpleHayes

        12 months ago

        *wasn’t broken

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        • Rishi

          12 months ago

          He’s missed 3 in the sense that he had to be taken out of one after one at bat I meant. I just didnt understand how he hurt his bone on a swing unless the knob hurt his hand or he got really jammed. It looked like ligament thing to me live. I felt it was all unclear. Thanks

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        • Cat Mando

          12 months ago

          It is not uncommon for players to break the hamate bone on a swing…. Mike Trout, Jose Ramirez and Andrew Benintendi all come to mind. First time I remember hearing about it was Jack Cust (I think it happened when he was with Oakland).

          I am not saying that is what happened to Bohm….just saying that a powerful swing can even break a bone in the hand.

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        • Rishi

          12 months ago

          I probably never would’ve thought of Jack Cust for the rest of my life if you hadn’t revived him in my memory. Yea…Now that you mention it I do recall seeing it happen before. The hamate on a swing I mean.

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        • cpdpoet

          12 months ago

          of Dom Brown
          3b Dave Hollins
          Man I hope to God it’s not the hamate bone…

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          12 months ago

          This was the fear, and why they did the X-Ray, but it turned out to be negative.

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  2. PhillyDan

    12 months ago

    Point?

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  3. This one belongs to the Reds

    12 months ago

    Always liked Alvarado. As a former catcher, appreciate a strong bullpen more than some folks this day and age.

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  4. MLBTR needs to hire editors

    12 months ago

    “Disappointing as Alvarado’s season has been across the board” is not proper English. “As” must be at the start of the sentence; it isn’t optional.

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    • Cat Mando

      12 months ago

      Awwwwwwwwwww…..such a thing is devastating on a baseball site.

      We should all be horrified, just absolutely horrified.
      That’s it!!!! I am never visiting this site again. Such an egregious faux pas is unacceptable!!

      (.I would imagine you recognize sarcasm)

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  5. MLBTR needs to hire editors

    12 months ago

    You’re a regular Don Rickles—such a side-splitting comment (I imagine you do too).

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    • Cat Mando

      12 months ago

      You should consider a name change. I’m thinking Summer’s Eve would be a nice fit. It really suits someone whose soul purpose on a baseball site is to nit-pick the writers.

      There could be several reasons. Maybe Tim or Steve peed in your Cheerios, you previous account was banned and you think this is your retribution or you really are a Summer’s Eve,

      What ever the reason, have a nice day. Life is too short to suffer clodpolls.

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      • MLBTR needs to hire editors

        12 months ago

        *sole

        Pretty weird that you’re whiteknighting for internet writers. Are you trying to meet them or something?

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