The Yankees introduced this afternoon that they’ve designated right-hander Dennis Santana for task. Proper-hander Ron Marinaccio was recalled to the majors in a corresponding transfer.
Santana, 28, signed with the Yankees on a minor league deal over the offseason and shortly broke onto the membership’s roster when right-hander Jonathan Loasigia suffered a flexor pressure that despatched him to the 60-day IL simply days into the common season. The fitting-hander typically pitched properly into early Might, with a 3.24 ERA and a fair stronger 2.78 FIP regardless of a lackluster 18.6% strikeout price. Sadly, the wheels got here off for Santana from there. Over his final 9 outings, the right-hander has been torched to the tune of a ten.97 ERA with a 5.67 FIP. He’s struck out 14% of batters confronted, walked 8%, and hit a batter in his final 10 2/3 innings of labor.
That brutal stretch ballooned Santana’s ERA to six.26 on the season, and that left the Yankees to drag the plug on his time of their bullpen. Now, the membership may have seven days to both commerce Santana or try to go him by way of waivers, though he’s been outrighted beforehand in his profession and would have the correct to reject an outright task in favor of free company even when he have been to clear waivers.
What stands out about Santana’s time within the Bronx is how completely different his peripherals have appeared in comparison with his earlier struggles on the huge league degree. Ever because the right-hander made his huge league debut with the Dodgers again in 2018, Santana has struggled along with his management regardless of typically stable strikeout numbers. From 2020 to 2023, Santana pitched to a 4.91 ERA and 4.20 FIP that aren’t solely dissimilar to the outcomes he received with the Yankees this yr, however his strikeout price of 21.1% and stroll price of 12% have been each a lot larger than the 16.5% and eight.7% figures he posted within the Bronx. If Santana is ready to discover a method to recoup these misplaced strikeouts whereas sustaining his extra manageable stroll price from this season, it’s conceivable the 28-year-old may change into a priceless aid arm for an membership.
Within the meantime, the Yankees will substitute Santana with Marinaccio of their bullpen combine. The righty, 29 on July 1, has loved robust outcomes since he made his huge league debut with the membership again in 2022. In 104 innings of labor, he’s posted a 2.86 ERA regardless of a extra pedestrian FIP of three.98. That elevated FIP stems from command points; Marinaccio has struck out a superb 28.2% of the batters he’s confronted in his profession, however his 10.9% stroll price in 12 2/3 innings of labor this yr is at present the bottom of his profession. Despite these shaky peripherals, it’s nonetheless a formidable physique of labor for the righty, who got here from humble beginnings as a Nineteenth-round decide within the 2017 draft. Marinaccio figures to renew his function in the midst of the Yankees bullpen going ahead alongside Victor Gonzalez and Michael Tonkin.
