{"id":103453,"date":"2025-07-04T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=103453"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:46:14","slug":"phillies-demote-pitcher-mick-abel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/07\/04\/phillies-demote-pitcher-mick-abel\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Demote Pitcher Mick Abel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Phillies have decided to demote pitcher Mick Abel after two rough outings. Abel has been optioned<\/a> to Triple-A Lehigh Valley, and Seth Johnson has been recalled. This season Abel has a 2-2 record with a 5.04 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP in six major league starts. Abel recorded a 17.36 ERA and a 2.79 WHIP across his last two starts. Overall, this season, Abel has a 2.33 K\/BB rate in the majors. In his last two starts, Abel has a 0.80 K\/BB rate. Abel had been filling in<\/a> for the injured Aaron Nola. The earliest Nola can be activated from the injured list is July 14. Johnson has a 2.25 ERA and a 0.50 WHIP in two major league outings this season. To add, Johnson has a 2.00 K\/BB rate.<\/p>\n

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Jul 2, 2025; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Mick Abel (40) towels off in the dugout after being relieved during the second inning against the San Diego Padres at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Phillies Demote Pitcher<\/h2>\n

The Immediate Rotation Impact<\/h3>\n

Taijuan Walker will make a spot start on July 7 against the San Francisco Giants. In addition, Walker had previously been moved to the bullpen<\/a> for the long run. At the time, Phillies manager Rob Thomson said Walker would not be a spot starter. However, that has now changed. According to multiple reports, the Phillies will reevaluate the fifth spot in the rotation after the All-Star break. Nola could be back by then, which would mean Walker would be making a lone spot start. There is also a scenario where Nola is not ready to go when the Phillies come back from the All-Star break. Additional spot starts would be necessary in this scenario.<\/p>\n

Top Prospect Awaiting Promotion Could Be An Option<\/h3>\n

The Phillies have\u00a0stated that July is likely when Andrew Painter will make\u00a0his major league debut,<\/a> unless circumstances<\/span> change. Painter has a 3-4 record with a 4.45 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP in 14 minor league starts this season. Furthermore, Painter has a 3.20 K\/BB rate. If Nola is not back after the All-Star break, Painter could be called upon to start. However, Painter has struggled in Triple-A this season. Painter has a 4.57 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP in 10 outings. To add, Painter has a 2.74 K\/BB rate in Triple-A. The Phillies have other options if they decide to tap into their minor league depth at that time. Johnson did make a start for the Phillies last year as well.<\/p>\n

Main Image Credit: \u00a9 Kyle Ross-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Phillies have decided to demote pitcher Mick Abel after two rough outings. Abel has been optioned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley, and Seth Johnson has been recalled. This season Abel has a 2-2 record with a 5.04 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP in six major league starts. Abel recorded a 17.36 ERA and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":103465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1071,35],"tags":[1069,4784,3657,5858,701],"class_list":["post-103453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-nola","tag-andrew-painter","tag-mick-abel","tag-seth-johnson","tag-taijuan-walker"],"modified_by":"Chris Drosehn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103468,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103453\/revisions\/103468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}