Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Phillies Hot Stove: Feel the Excitement!

2016 Chachi New Additions #4
2016 Chachi Departures #2
While teams closer to contention are adding staff aces in David Price (Red Sox) and Jordan Zimmermann (Tigers), the Phillies are taking advantage of being the first team in line for the waiver wire.  They added their third waiver wire pick-up this offseason when they claimed right-handed pitcher Michael Mariot on Monday.  Mariot had appeared in 19 games with the Royals over the past two seasons, owning a 6.11 ERA in 28 innings of work.

Mariot's only baseball card appearances to date come within prior year Royals minor league team sets.

The only other recent Phillies-related transaction of note is the signing of infielder Chase d'Arnaud to a minor league contract with the Braves.

Moving On - 2015-2016 Offseason
  • Chase d'Arnaud - inf (10/9/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster, elected free agency and signed as a minor league free agent the Atlanta Braves, 11/24/15.
  • Justin De Fratus - rhp (10/9/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster and elected free agency.
  • Erik Kratz - c (10/9/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster and elected free agency.
  • Sean O'Sullivan - rhp (10/9/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Kevin Correia - rhp (10/10/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Adam Loewen - lhp (10/10/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster, elected free agency and signed as a minor league free agent with the Arizona Diamondbacks, 11/7/15.
  • Dustin McGowan - rhp (10/10/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Seth Rosin - rhp (10/10/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Brian Bogusevic (10/26/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster and elected free agency.
  • Domonic Brown (10/26/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster and elected free agency.
  • Chad Billingsley - rhp (11/2/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Jeff Francoeur - of (11/2/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Aaron Harang - rhp (11/2/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Jerome Williams - rhp (11/2/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Cliff Lee - lhp (11/2/15) - Team option declined and elected free agency.
  • Jordan Danks - of (11/6/15) - Outrighted off 40-man roster and elected free agency.
  • Ethan Martin - rhp (11/6/15) - Elected free agency.
  • Jonathan Pettibone - rhp (11/6/15) - Elected free agency.
New Additions - 2015-2016 Offseason
  • Dan Otero - rhp (11/3/15) - Claimed off waivers from the Oakland Athletics.
  • Jeremy Hellickson - rhp (11/14/15) - Acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks for Sam McWilliams.
  • A.J. Achter - rhp (11/20/15) - Claimed off waivers from the Minnesota Twins.
  • Michael Mariot - rhp (11/30/15) - Claimed off waivers from the Kansas City Royals.

3 comments:

Tony Burbs said...

The Cubs have been quite active on the waiver-wire and minor-league free agent trains too. It's almost more frustrating when one's team was expected to be big players for guys like Zimmerman and Price!

Jim from Downingtown said...

Wow! Except for Cliff Lee and Jeff Francoeur, that's quite a list of "players" cluttering this roster in recent years!

Section 36 said...

It can't be a good thing when you consider a team that finished in last place "closer to contention"!