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D-backs Release Joe Mantiply

By Steve Adams | June 2, 2025 at 1:30pm CDT

The Diamondbacks released lefty Joe Mantiply after his recent DFA, per their transaction log at MLB.com. Assuming he clears release waivers, he’ll be a free agent who can sign with any team tomorrow afternoon.

Mantiply, 34, has been a frequent presence in Arizona’s bullpen dating back to 2021. From ’21-’24, he pitched 198 1/3 innings with a 3.63 ERA, a 22% strikeout rate, a 6.1% walk rate, a 51.9% grounder rate, 50 holds and three saves. In 2022, specifically, he was one of the team’s most frequently used relievers in high-leverage spots.

The 2025 season has been an abject disaster for Mantiply, however. He fired a perfect inning in his first appearance of the season and immediately tanked thereafter. By the time Arizona optioned Mantiply to Triple-A Reno on April 19, he’d been tagged for a calamitous 13 runs in just 7 1/3 innings across eight relief outings. He got another look in mid-May and was quickly optioned again after surrendering four runs in 2 1/3 innings.

Even Mantiply’s time in Triple-A was generally a struggle. He allowed four runs in his first appearance with Reno and five in his final one. Those ugly outings bookended a strong run of 9 2/3 shutout innings, but the overall results were grim. In 9 2/3 MLB frames this year, Mantiply has a 15.83 ERA. He’s posted a 5.56 mark in 11 1/3 Triple-A innings.

Mantiply has always been a soft-tosser, but his fastball has bottomed out in 2025, averaging a career-low 88.2 mph. He sat 91.3 mph with the pitch back in 2021-22, when he was at his best, and was at 89.5 mph last year. He’s still filling up the strike zone, but doing so with diminished stuff has yielded diminished returns.

By all accounts, Mantiply is healthy at the moment. Teams are always in need of left-handed bullpen help, and Mantiply has a generally solid track record in the majors, so he ought to get another chance to turn his season around with a new club before too long. He’ll almost certainly need to pitch his way back to the majors on a minor league deal, however. He’s being paid $1.7MM this year, and the D-backs will remain on the hook for the rest of that salary — minus the prorated minimum for any team he spends with another club’s big league roster.

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10 Comments

  1. DanielDannyDano

    5 months ago

    Fans are divided…

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  2. dm867

    5 months ago

    Wish I could “soft toss” an 88 mph fastball….

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  3. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    5 months ago

    Hey now, you’re an all-star

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    Reply
  4. Paleobros

    5 months ago

    When they released him, they told him to “Go forth and Mantiply.”

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  5. Zerbs63

    5 months ago

    In other news the Dodgers signed Mantiply to a minor league contract in hopes of increasing his spin rate and then having him end the year on the IL

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    • Steinbrenner2728

      5 months ago

      Why would they do that?

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  6. NavalHistorian

    5 months ago

    This might be a stupid question, but why does it seem to me like we’ve gotten to the point in MLB where fewer soft tossers like Mantiply simply “admit” they can’t throw hard, and instead focus on getting batters out by changing speeds, possibly using unique pitches like the knuckleball or even the screwball? Ya know, pitching.

    Is this a case of teams having a narrow vision for what a successful big league pitcher “should” look like now, and there’s not much of a place in MLB for guys who don’t throw hard?

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    • SDMadres

      5 months ago

      99.87 percent of humans can’t and never will throw 88.2mph. Results matter most and he got no results

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      • NavalHistorian

        5 months ago

        That’s kind of my question though. Mantiply isn’t getting results with his fastball, so why keep throwing it much instead of developing his other pitches and only using the fastball to keep batters off balance? From the team’s perspective, the fact he isn’t doing this is why he got released. I just don’t quite understand why, if you’re a guy like Mantiply, you don’t make changes to keep yourself employed. (Maybe he will now that he’s been released.)

        Is it because he ‘s hard headed, or because we’ve gotten to a point in MLB where teams want guys who can throw gas for an inning and there are so many guys in the upper minors who *can* do that, and therefore they aren’t looking as much for guys like a Charlie Hough or a Tim Wakefield who throw “junk” but get guys out, even if it’s by pitching to contact rather than hunting for the strikeout?

        As you pointed out, we’re already dealing with less than 1% of humans, but that number of guys is still larger than the number of jobs available in MLB bullpens.

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  7. buns cherington

    5 months ago

    mantiply subtracted

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