{"id":98000,"date":"2025-03-23T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=98000"},"modified":"2025-03-23T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:04:02","slug":"phillies-starting-pitcher-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/23\/phillies-starting-pitcher-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Starting Pitcher To Begin Season On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez will start the regular season<\/a> on the injured list. Su\u00e1rez is dealing with a back injury. Taijuan Walker will start the season in the rotation. Meanwhile, relief pitcher Matt Strahm is ready to go on opening day. Strahm had been dealing with an elbow injury. Carlos Hern\u00e1ndez was claimed off of waivers from the Kansas City Royals. Hern\u00e1ndez has no minor league options left and is therefore in line to be on the Phillies opening day roster<\/a> at this moment. Tyler Phillips was designated for assignment in the corresponding move. Phillips is also out of minor league options, which necessitates this move. Michael Mercado was optioned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley opening the door for this move to be made. Mercado and Phillips have been competing for a roster spot in the event Strahm or Su\u00e1rez had to go on the injured list.<\/p>\n

Implications For The Rotation And Opening Day Roster<\/h3>\n

Su\u00e1rez is unlikely to get a contract extension<\/a> because of durability concerns. Last season Su\u00e1rez spent time on the injured list due to a similar injury. Su\u00e1rez has pitched more than 150 innings in a season in two of his seven major league seasons. As a result of a Phillies starting pitcher heading to the injured list to start the season, Walker gets another chance in the rotation. Walker will make at least one start. Su\u00e1rez will spend at least the first 15 days of the regular season on the injured list. If Su\u00e1rez spends the minimum amount of time on the injured list Walker will make one start. When Su\u00e1rez comes off the injured list, a decision must be made between Walker and Hern\u00e1ndez. Walker has two years and $36 million dollars left on his contract.<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credits: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Ranger Su\u00e1rez will start the regular season on the injured list. Su\u00e1rez is dealing with a back injury. Taijuan Walker will start the season in the rotation. Meanwhile, relief pitcher Matt Strahm is ready to go on opening day. Strahm had been dealing with an elbow injury. Carlos Hern\u00e1ndez was claimed off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":98011,"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],"tags":[1032,28588,3009,701,4480],"class_list":["post-98000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","tag-matt-strahm","tag-michael-mercado","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-taijuan-walker","tag-tyler-phillips"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98000","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=98000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98013,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98000\/revisions\/98013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}