{"id":62733,"date":"2025-05-29T03:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T03:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/62733\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T03:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T03:11:15","slug":"white-sox-release-dan-altavilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/62733\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Release Dan Altavilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox have released right-handed reliever Dan Altavilla<\/a>, per the transaction log at MiLB.com<\/a>. He\u2019d been on a minor league deal and pitching with their Triple-A affiliate in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Altavilla, 32, boasts a sharp 2.49 ERA in 21 2\/3 frames with the Knights this season, including a recent run of 11 2\/3 shutout innings. He\u2019s fanned only 19.8% of his opponents against a bloated 11% walk rate, but it\u2019s been a nice run of run-prevention for the journeyman righty, who\u2019s averaging a hearty 96.1 mph on his four-seamer in Charlotte while yielding a lowly 24.6% hard-hit rate.<\/p>\n

A veteran of seven major league seasons, Altavilla did his best work early in his career with the Mariners. From 2016-18, he pitched to a tidy 3.28 earned run average with a 25.3% strikeout rate and 10.7% walk rate over 79 2\/3 frames. Persistent injuries have limited Altavilla\u2019s time on the field, however. He\u2019s managed only 40 total big league innings since that early run with Seattle.<\/p>\n

Flexor strains in both 2018 and 2019 shortened two of Altavilla\u2019s seasons with the Mariners. He struggled to a 5.52 ERA in the latter campaign and in 2020 was included alongside Austin Nola<\/a> and Austin Adams<\/a> in the lopsided trade that sent Andres Munoz<\/a>, Ty France<\/a>, Luis Torrens<\/a> and Taylor Trammell<\/a> from San Diego to Seattle. Altavilla then underwent Tommy John surgery in 2021, which wiped out nearly all of his 2021-22 seasons.<\/p>\n

Altavilla made a brief big league return with the 2024 Royals, tossing 3 2\/3 innings for Kansas City. He was tagged for six runs in that short look and subsequently designated for assignment. The former fifth-round pick spent the rest of the 2024 season with the Royals\u2019 top minor league affiliate in Omaha, where he logged 41 innings with a 3.51 ERA, a league-average 22.2% strikeout rate and a heavy 12.9% walk rate. The rate stats were shaky, but the combined 44 2\/3 frames between Triple-A and the majors were the most Altavilla had pitched in a season since 2019.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no indication that Altavilla is dealing with any kind of injury in 2025. He pitched for the Knights just a few days prior to his release and tossed a scoreless inning. As was the case in 2024, Altavilla\u2019s rate stats are a bit wobbly, but he\u2019s throwing hard, limiting hard contact and keeping runs off the board. That should earn him a new opportunity before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox have released right-handed reliever Dan Altavilla, per the transaction log at MiLB.com. He\u2019d been on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,11827,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-62733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dan-altavilla","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114588934993172928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}