The Phillies have claimed righty Dalier Hinojosa off waivers from the Red Sox, Philadelphia announced. Boston had designated Hinojosa for assignment on Saturday.
Hinojosa came to the Red Sox as a free agent out of Cuba back in 2013, signing for a $4.25MM bonus. The 29-year-old ultimately made just one appearance from the Boston pen. He owns a 3.56 ERA with 9.0 K/9 against 4.3 BB/9 over 103 2/3 Triple-A innings.
Given that he racked up those innings over just 60 appearances, all from the pen, Hinojosa obviously offers the possibility of contributing multiple innings. Philadelphia will start him off at Triple-A, but he could provide some flexibility for its struggling pitching staff in the season’s second half.
Hinojosa may have been a loss. Think Boston should have DFA’d Noe Ramirez instead who throws nothing but an assortment of junk and has a FB that sits 88-90mph, rather than Hinojosa’s, that touches 95.
Yeah I don’t know why they DFA’d him, he was solid in his one appearance this year and he has overall decent numbers in the minors. We should have called him up over Noe and saved the 40 man spot, I would rather have seen Aro DFA’d than Hinojosa. Aro looked waaaaay too hittable when he was up this year and his pedigree doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Hinojosa walks everything that comes near him. They’re all bad, but he was the oldest and done developing. He just didn’t develop into anything worth keeping.
Well he can team up with another failure of a cuban pitcher signed in philly. Alfredo Gonzalez has been joke joke so he now has a bud
Probably just depth for when the fire sale begins