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Phillies Outright Dylan Covey

By Darragh McDonald | August 27, 2024 at 2:45pm CDT

The Phillies announced that right-hander Dylan Covey has been reinstated from the 60-day IL and outrighted to Triple-A Lehigh Valley after clearing waivers. The 40-man roster count stays at 39.

Covey, 33, has been on the injured list all year until this point. He began the campaign on the 15-day IL due to a right shoulder strain and was transferred to the 60-day version in June when the club claimed Freddy Tarnok off waivers.

He has been rehabbing in the minors for the past month but the club evidently didn’t want to squeeze him onto their major league roster or 40-man. He is out of options and couldn’t be sent to the minors, so they quietly passed him through waivers instead.

Covey has more than three years of major league service time, which gives him the right to reject this outright assignment and elect free agency. But since he has less than five years of service, doing so would mean forfeiting what is left of his $850K salary. Presumably, he will accept that assignment and keep cashing the checks he’s owed for the next few weeks, providing the Phils with some non-roster depth.

He posted some lackluster results as a starter earlier in his career but a pivot to the bullpen provided some encouragement. Last year, he tossed 43 innings between the Dodgers and Phillies with a 3.77 earned run average. His 15.7% strikeout rate was subpar but he got opponents to hit the ball into the ground at a 54.3% clip.

That was enough for the Phils to tender him a contract and agree to a contract slightly above the $740K league minimum, but the injury has prevented him from building on that season so far. If he’s not added back to the roster at any point this year, he’ll qualify for free agency at season’s end, as is the case for all outrighted players with at least three years of service time.

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6 Comments

  1. Thefrogsaregey

    1 year ago

    Weren’t the Phillies 50 games over 500? Choking like Cleveland and the dodgers

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    • Jackson Rubbit

      1 year ago

      Wrong. Gay frog

      Reply
  2. Philly 6

    1 year ago

    Yeah..they’re choking alright… 27 or 28 teams would gladly take their record

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  3. htbnm57

    1 year ago

    There should be a massive demand for Covey’s services with that stellar ERA and W-L record….

    Reply
  4. whosehighpitch

    1 year ago

    Wins losses and era don’t matter anymore. It’s all FLSA and MRSa+ and Balls in the dirt minus high fastball strikes divided by hits when pitchers hit

    Reply
  5. DodgersBro

    1 year ago

    whp

    “Wins losses and era don’t matter anymore”

    This is correct

    “It’s all FLSA and MRSa+ and Balls in the dirt minus high fastball strikes divided by hits when pitchers hit”

    This is someone being proud of their ignorance

    Reply

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