The A’s have released veteran right-handed reliever Dylan Floro, per the transaction log at MiLB.com. He’d been pitching with the Athletics’ Triple-A club in Las Vegas but is now back on the open market.
Floro, 34, has an ugly-looking 7.04 ERA in 15 1/3 innings with the top A’s affiliate, but that number is skewed by one nightmare outing where the Dodgers’ Triple-A club pummeled him for five runs without recording an out. That outing accounts for 42% of his runs allowed in 16 appearances. Floro’s 17.1% strikeout rate in Triple-A is clearly well below-average, but he’s still showing good command (7.1% walk rate).
There are red flags beyond the one poor outing. Floro’s 88.2 mph average fastball velocity is down from last year’s 89.4 mph mark and down considerably from the 92.4 mph he averaged in 2022-23. He’s also made a career out of inducing weak contact but has yielded a blazing 94.7 mph average exit velocity and surrendered a 60.4% hard-hit rate. Those are both alarming trends for the well-traveled righty.
Concerning as those numbers are, Floro has a nice track record in the majors, with a 3.49 ERA, 20.8% strikeout rate, 7.2% walk rate, 50.6% grounder rate, 32 saves and 53 holds in parts of nine MLB seasons. He posted a 3.80 ERA with a 17.2% strikeout rate and 6.1% walk rate in a combined 68 2/3 big league frames between the Nationals and D-backs last year, although his 2024 campaign was a tale of two seasons; Floro posted a 2.06 ERA in 52 1/3 innings with the Nats before being clobbered for a 9.37 ERA in 16 1/3 innings with Arizona.
He’s reached his Floor. Oh!
Future Cub…
Past Cub, actually.
I think it’s time to stop making snide references to the state of the Cubs bullpen, and to the front office’s penchant for dumpster-diving. Such remarks have SOME validity, but only some, and we’ve heard it all before.
It has more than SOME validity. Their entire rotation beyond the front two (both whom are injured) are at best, not top tier talent. Their top two are guys that are cheap options because one came from the system and the other was a crap shoot in international free agency that turned out to be more than they could have imagined. Taillon, Rae, Brown, Boyd and etc… none are top of the rotation talent.
Should Nats try to sign him again?
Even if he replicated his AAA numbers he wouldn’t be the worst pitcher in that pen.
I could use a pitcher for my weekend beer league slow pitch softball team
More luck than skill maybe, but the Dodgers picked a pretty good moment to move on from Floro, and getting Ales Vesia and Kyle Hurt in the deal.
I think floro will either retire or head to a team of red like the nats(again) or the cards
Maybe back to the Dodgers
Not making the majors with the A’s is going to hurt his chances for the “most teams played for” record. Would have been team #9, on his way to 14.
With those numbers he would’ve fit right in on the big league club.
“Concerning as those numbers are” is not proper English. You can’t leave “as” out at the beginning of the sentence.