The Yankees announced today that infielder Oswald Peraza and right-hander Will Warren have been recalled to the active roster. One spot was opened by infielder/outfielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. landing on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to August 13, with a left elbow sprain. That injury and Chisholm’s expected IL placement were both previously reported. The other roster spot was opened by right-hander Enyel De Los Santos being designated for assignment. Additionally, the Yanks added that righty Lou Trivino will begin a rehab assignment with Double-A Somerset.
It’s a very quick turnaround for De Los Santos, 28, who was just acquired prior to the deadline a couple of weeks ago. The Yankees sent outfielder Brandon Lockridge to the Padres in order to acquire De Los Santos and minor league pitcher Thomas Balboni.
It seems that the buyer’s remorse set in very quickly, as things didn’t go well for De Los Santos after swapping his Padre pinstripes for the Yankee variety. After the trade, he tossed 6 1/3 innings over five appearances, allowing 10 earned runs in that time. He struck out five opponents while walking three of them.
The Yankees were rained out on Friday and played a double-header on Saturday, meaning their five starters have each pitched in the past four days. They needed Warren to come up and make a spot start today, which required a corresponding move. The only member of their bullpen that can be optioned is Jake Cousins, who has a 2.25 ERA on the season. Rather than send Cousins down, they have decided to bump De Los Santos off the 40-man roster not too long after trading for him.
Since the deadline has now passed, the Yankees will have no choice but to put De Los Santos on waivers in the coming days. Although his results have clearly been poor since coming to the Bronx, it seems likely that some other club will look beyond that and put in a claim based on his previous work.
From the start of 2022 and up until the trade, the righty actually posted some strong numbers between the Guardians and Padres. He tossed 159 1/3 innings in that time with a 3.50 ERA, 26.4% strikeout rate and 8.5% walk rate.
Meaningful roster upgrades are difficult to come by at this post-deadline part of the calendar, so a club looking for bullpen reinforcements will probably put in a claim. That might not even need to be a contending club, as De Los Santos is making just $1.16MM this year and can be retained via arbitration for two additional seasons.
Waiver priority goes in reverse order of the standings, so the teams with the worst records will have first dibs. Even a team out of contention might take a shot on De Los Santos given those two extra years of control. But if they all pass, some club in a playoff race could benefit with a fresh arm that has had some success in recent seasons, Yankee tenure notwithstanding.
Cutting bait on De Los Santos will cut into the club’s bullpen depth, but they are about to backfill some of that with Trivino. The righty underwent Tommy John surgery in May of last year and missed all of the 2023 season. He hit free agency and the Yanks re-signed him on a one-year deal with a $1.5MM guarantee and a $5MM club option for 2025, plus bonuses and escalators that kick in at 15 appearances this year.
Prior to this lengthy injury layoff, he put up some strong numbers. Most of that came with the Athletics, though he also came over to the Yankees at the 2022 deadline as part of the Frankie Montas trade. Overall, he has 284 2/3 innings under his belt with a 3.86 ERA. His 10.6% walk rate is a bit high but his 24.5% strikeout rate and 47.4% ground ball rate are both strong.
That trade didn’t work out so well for the Yankees…
Hopefully all the injured relievers start making their way back, to help make that last push to get to the playoffs!
Nope but he was only used in low leverage situations and with Yankees behind in the games.
White Sox need to claim this guy. Very nice turnaround candidate who can be flipped next year if successful.
Decent chance the White Sox do since he was good enough to warrant two trades the last year or so. Good shot he can get back to that kind of level.
The trade was a low expectation, low cost depth move from the beginning. He was always in the mix for a dfa from the time they got him. Having multiple guys on the mend, they needed some innings in the short term and enyel had a bit if possible upside so for what it was, it wasn’t a bad idea at the time.
They gave up someone who they were going to lose to the Rule 5 draft any way.
Great, now we can thankfully have one Yankee wearing the #62 jersey again, hitting coach James Rowson.
Uhhh, thanks for taking Enyel, Cash!
Bizarre trade gets bizarrerer…
Gwynny, the D-backs don’t seem to be letting up. Do you want me to go pop the tires on the team bus or something?? Sprinkle banned PEDS on the after-game buffet spread?
How many rattlesnakes do you own and how soon can you… *ahem*… “release” them “into the wild”???
Wink, wink
On the real though Iggy, you can’t worry about what everybody else is doin’, just handle your biz! Cheers mate
i remember everyone thought it was odd Cleveland dealt him for Barlow…
I remember getting in an argument with someone in the comment section when the Guardians made that trade over the winter. I was willing to believe that they bought into the improvements Barlow made after the trade deadline last year, and that one year of a potential impact late inning arm was still worth more than three years of a guy who they apparently saw as a middle reliever. I liked Barlow’s peripherals and leverage numbers more too.
Barlow’s been inconsistent for sure, but they still got the better end of that deal.
Delos is a great low leverage reliever and teams did well to deploy him as such. It feels like the Yankees didn’t do their homework and didn’t set him up to succeed.
I’ll agree the Barlow trade looks great right now.
I remember some Pads fans being upset when he was traded to Philly for Freddie Galvis, Freddie is out of MLB and Eynel managed 3 seasons, 58 innings and a 6.21 ERA for the Phillies
“All prospects are suspects until proven otherwise” or TINSTAAPP, insert your favorite catchphrase, Cat! Freddy was fun for a year; he was a good team leader that turrible season… so worthy trade in my opinion. I almost forgot J.P. Crawford was a Phil!
They couldn’t fire Boonie, so some poor soul had to take the fall. Cruel world.
Burn ‘em up, toss ‘em out. Next!
the Yankees have just been absolutely abysmal at the trade deadline the last several years. all those bad contracts and trades have given them little financial room to work with and Cashman always seems intent to just pick at the edges mostly.. they also never seem to add enough depth for what they need.
Yanks had me thinking this year was different with the Leiter and Jazz trades, BUT Jazz has always been very injury prone and they should have known they’d need more options when/if he got hurt–and Leiter clearly wasn’t enough to lean on for bullpen help. I’m actually a big fan of Holmes but there were less flashy high-K guys for sale this year that they just didn’t seem to want to pull the trigger on.
i do like a lot of their options down in AAA on both sides of the ball, even the lesser known guys, but for a playoff run you’d ideally be leaning on known commodities and not unproven rookies. like Warren has a good shot to go out there and pitch a good game tonight, but he’s not someone you’re gonna end up having in your playoff rotation
Do tell us more.
Well tell them because as far as I’m concerned, you’re
Muted
I don’t know who this MickeyTheMod guy is, but googling him shows all he types here is about muting other people. What a boring life one must lead…
You can’t even keep the mute button in your back pocket on here, you have to have your finger on at all times otherwise this place is brutal. BRUTAL! Ahahaha!
Speaking of brutal, you’re still doing this schtick?
Only because of people like you Poppin. Ahahaha!
Toasty: In defense of the Yankees, Effross and Burdi are ready in AAA and fully stretched out, Trevino is on his way back shortly, and Hamilton is throwing to hitters. The pen will be changing very shortly.
Trouty is a northeast guy and grew up as a major Yankees fan and he is the ingredient and spark needed for the Yankees to end their World Series Drought. They could probably acquire him just in exchange for 2 or 3 top prospects plus covering the rest of Trouty’s contract. Bonus points if they also acquire Votto and give him a new contract.
Please do it now, Mr. Cashman sir.
I’d rather give Soto $50 mill/year than that garbage deal.
Trout grew up a Phils fan. He is an Angel for life for better or (more likely) worse,
The last thing the Yankees need is another player who is always hurt. Pass on Trout.
This generation’s Ernie Banks. Except with Trout it was both the annual irrelevance of the club and his injuries. He’s another guy with amazing talent who insisted on playing about 20 lbs. overweight. And he’s paying the price.
12981….You have at various time posted ridiculousness regarding Trout. You like to “present” yourself as some kind of Trout expert….you ain’t.
Trout never has been a NYY fan. He grew up in Millville NJ, born in Vineland Hosp. (same hospital I was born in ….same hosp everyone in that area is born in). Millville, Vineland, Elmer. etc are all South Jersey and that is Phillies country.
Trout grew up a diehard Phillies and Eagles fan. He has season ticket to the Eagles.
Trout’s father, Jeff has recounted this story from December 2009, six months after Trout was drafted by the Angels and had already played in Rookie and Low-A ball for the club.
Jeff recalls hearing Mike scream from his room (Trout lived at home for years in the off-season) in the middle of the night.
“Dad, we got Roy Halladay!” Mike yelled. To which his Dad responded: “the Angels got Halladay?”
“No, the Phillies did!” Mike replied. “Son, you’re a member of the Angels. What’s with this we?!”
You don’t know squat about Mike Trout so put a sock in it already…..geeesh
Hopefully the jays are able to get him. I also want them to suck for the rest of the year and aim for a top 10 pick so I’m torn lol. Last I checked they were 9th in the majors
Queue the overly emotional and logically deficient Yankee fans.
And their odor of weed and Budweiser.
I think he has potential so someone will take a shot.
ELS season went to Hades in a handbasket rather quickly. At the end of April he was looking like the guy the Padres needed in the low and medium leverage situations. Then the bottom fell out when they needed to use him in high leverage situations. He hit NY and it got even worse.
Balboni. That’s a blast from the past name. Yankees need Hamilton and Burdi back ASAP.
I don’t think he’s related. Definitely not his son, I know all three of them. Great guys.
Peraza, Dominguez, Vivas, and Durbin are some interesting pieces moving forward. I would like to see them all get a chance at the end of the season.
The team is in contention you’re not going to see 4 young guys getting regular playing time. Would be nice to see Peraza get some run at 3rd but we’ll probably park him on the bench and let the ghost of DJ and Oswaldo play 3rd. The Martian seems like the guy with the best shot to get some AB’s if they ever tire of Verdugo…
white sox fans are dismayed by the DFA…
De los Santos looked AWFUL in Monday night’s blowout loss to the worst team since the ‘62 Mets.
I watched the game with a buddy, and we both agreed it was possible the Yanks might cut Enyel.
Someone will inevitably use the phrase depth move and that someone will be instantly muted.
@Slider. I agree with you 100% The time v is now.
His nickname is Enyel De Los Meatball for a reason
Where was vaunted new wave Yankee pitching coach ? Turned this kid into dumpster fire. That was 1 of their big deadline acquisitions. No earth shaken moves cause yanks are holding their overrated prospects close to their chest. He’ll sign w/Rays n beat nny later this season.
I don’t remember if it was a journalist or a commenter on this site, but the day the Yanks traded for this guy the person called it, stating with certainty that he would be DFA’d in two weeks time. Very prescient. Anyone else remember who that was?
Cashman’s wizardry is beyond compare.