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Phillies Exercise Jose Alvarado’s Option
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The option is for $9 million and takes Alvarado through his age 31 season, then he becomes an unrestricted free agent. As Luke mentioned recently, the club option was thought to be a no-brainer at one point, then the PED suspension took place. Alvarado missed 80 games, made a brief cameo, and then was shut down with a forearm strain before the playoffs even started. It turned out to be a rather disgraceful season for the Phils lefty, and his absence surely played a role in the midseason acquisitions of Jhoan Duran and David Robertson.
He’ll get a chance to turn it around in a contract year. Alvarado finished with 26 innings pitched over the course of 28 games, which was the fewest innings he’s thrown since the 2020 Tampa season in which he had the shoulder injury. He finished this year with a 3.81 ERA, a 1.308 WHIP, a 2.4 walks per-9 number and an 11.1 strike outs per-9 number.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com