The Diamondbacks announced today that they’ve designated right-hander Dylan Floro for assignment. The move makes room on the active roster for left-hander Blake Walston, who was recalled from Triple-A. Arizona’s 40-man roster stands at 39.
Floro, 33, signed a one-year deal with the Nationals over the offseason but was dealt to the Diamondbacks in a buzzer-beater deal just before this year’s trade deadline in exchange for first baseman Andres Chaparro. At the time of the deal, Floro had gotten excellent results with a 2.06 ERA and a 2.64 FIP in 52 1/3 innings of work despite a lackluster 19.6% strikeout rate. That hasn’t continued in Arizona, as Floro’s time with the Diamondbacks has been nothing short of a disaster. The righty has surrendered a 9.37 ERA in 16 1/3 innings of work, and while his 6.30 FIP over that same timeframe indicates some level of positive regression in the future, even that lower figure would still be ghastly production for the right-hander.
Floro will be either released or placed on waivers in the coming days, though if the right-hander is waived he’ll surely clear waivers with so little time left in the regular season. Should he clear waivers, he’ll have the opportunity to either accept an outright assignment to the minors as non-roster depth for what’s left of the season or else elect free agency and get a head start on searching for a deal for the 2025 season with a new club. Disastrous as his time in Arizona was, the right-hander still boasts a 3.80 ERA and 3.51 FIP overall this season. Those figures should be good enough to earn him some level of interest on the open market, though perhaps only on a minor league deal given his rough second half.
As for Walston, the 23-year-old rookie made his big league debut with the Diamondbacks back in May. He’s made three appearances for Arizona since then, two of which were starts. In all, he has a 2.84 ERA and 4.28 FIP in 12 2/3 innings of work, though that comes with nearly as many walks (9) as strikeouts (11) and three additional hit batsmen. With Ryne Nelson having recently been placed on the injured list, the addition of Walston to the roster should give the club another multi-inning relief option from the left side now that Jordan Montgomery is seemingly slated to re-enter the rotation in Nelson’s place.
Will he get picked again from the nationals?
They’ll happily sign him this offseason for another rebound and then flip him again.
Just like k-rod
Floro for Andres Chaparro was a good trade. Floro for Chaparro and Floro has the potential to be better. I hope the Nats sign him after the waiver period and that they would choose not to flip him during a more successful 2025.
Hard to believe how bad he has been. Had a 2.06 ERA with WAS and a 9.37 with Arizona. His FIP with WAS was also solid. His HR/9 just quadrupled. Bad luck or not, he’s been just bad.
That’s due to small sample sizes. This is why I always say that ERA is not a fair measure for a relief pitcher.
So, what would be a fair measure to evaluate Dylan Floro’s performance in Arizona?
LGDB
“what would be a fair measure to evaluate Dylan Floro’s performance in Arizona?”
Stats that require a small sample to be useful.
K% and BB% being the most reflective
WAS: 6.4 BB% 19.6 K%
ARZ: 5.3 BB% 10.7 K%
Yeah. He’s been bad.
Jeez he cratered hard as soon as he went to Arizona…
I was so against that trade of Chaparro. This is why.
We Nats fans were disappointed with what seemed like a last-second replacement trade after a “better” one fell through. Chaparro has been an eye-opener. I hope his success is sustainable.
Mets please sign him and get rid of Garrett/Brazoban
Never trade for Dylan Floro during the season. same thing happened with the twins last year
Was good with the Nationals but was snake bit in the dessert. Meanwhile the kid the Nats got for him has done pretty well.
Good luck, Dylan. This Dodger fan will always be appreciative of your performance in game 6 of the 2020 WS.
Phillips to the IL. Dylan a Dodger..
Not just Floro you may be looking at the worse pitching staff in ERA to ever make the playoffs this year in the D’Backs, if they make it.
“Disastrous as his time in Arizona was?” The real disaster is Nick Deeds. This is NOT PROPER ENGLISH. “As” can’t just be left out at the start of the sentence. Proper grammar isn’t optional; one can’t just leave it out because they feel like it.