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Royals Outright Dan Altavilla

By Nick Deeds | September 7, 2024 at 5:55pm CDT

The Royals announced this afternoon that right-hander Dan Altavilla has cleared waivers and been assigned outright to Triple-A Omaha. The right-hander was designated for assignment by Kansas City earlier this week when they activated him from the 60-day injured list but did not add him back to the 40-man roster.

Altavilla, 31, was a fifth-round pick by the Mariners back in 2014 who made his big league debut in Seattle during the 2016 season. He provided solid middle relief for the club in the first few years of his career with a combined 3.28 ERA and 4.32 FIP in 79 2/3 innings of work from 2016 to 2018, but struggled badly over the next three seasons with the Mariners and Padres. In 36 1/3 innings of work across 41 games between 2019 and 2021, Altavilla posted a 5.70 ERA with a 4.55 FIP before undergoing Tommy John surgery in June of the 2021 season.

The right-hander’s time with the Padres came to a close shortly after he went under the knife, and though he signed a two-year minor league deal with the Red Sox prior to the 2022 season he never made it into a big league game in Boston. He made his return in the minors with the Red Sox, however, with a 3.00 ERA but a lackluster 14.3% strikeout rate in eight appearances that spanned 12 innings in total before he was released by the club in August of that year. He didn’t catch on with another club down the stretch in 2023 but found a minors pact with the Royals back in December.

In Kansas City, Altavilla found his first big league opportunity since 2021 when the club selected his contract back in June. Unfortunately, the righty made just five appearances that saw him surrender six runs in just 3 2/3 innings of work before he found himself back on the injured list due to an oblique strain. He began a rehab assignment early last month but struggled at the Triple-A level during that time with a ghastly 9.39 ERA in eight appearances. That led the Royals to designate the righty for assignment once he had reached the maximum rehab time in the minor leagues, though he evidently went unclaimed on waivers and now will return to Omaha with the Royals as a non-roster depth option for the club down the stretch.

While the Royals have struggled to get consistent results from their bullpen this year with a relief corps that’s bottom five in the majors by ERA since the calendar flipped to August and bottom six overall this season, it nonetheless seems unlikely that the club would turn to Altavilla down the stretch barring injuries forcing the clubs’ hand. Lucas Erceg, John Schreiber, and James McArthur form a solid enough back-end trio for the club with strong peripherals despite mediocre results, and the trio of Kris Bubic, Sam Long, and Carlos Hernandez have performed well in the middle innings of late to leave few reasons for the club to make a change as they enter the stretch run in position to make the postseason for the first time since their 2015 World Series championship.

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  1. nickmontgomery10

    1 year ago

    Dang on his birthday too

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