{"id":688022,"date":"2026-05-02T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/688022\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:10:11","slug":"lou-trivino-opts-out-of-phillies-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/688022\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Trivino Opts Out Of Phillies Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran reliever\u00a0Lou Trivino<\/a> exercised the May 1 opt-out right in his minor league contract with the Phillies, reports Matt Winkelman<\/a>. According to the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>, the team then granted Trivino his release.<\/p>\n

Trivino pitched well over his month at Triple-A Lehigh Valley. The 34-year-old righty struck out 20 of 56 batters faced (36%) while issuing four walks. He surrendered 15 hits and 10 runs, though only four of those were earned. Trivino\u2019s sinker and four-seam fastball each sat in the 94-95 mph range and he used three other pitches \u2014 cutter, slider and changeup \u2014 with regularity.<\/p>\n

This was Trivino\u2019s second stint with the Philly organization. He signed a minor league deal last August and was selected onto the MLB roster at the end of the month. He worked nine innings of three-run ball to close the season. Trivino pitched for three different clubs overall and tallied a 3.97 earned run average across 47 2\/3 MLB innings a year ago. It was first big league action in three seasons, as he\u2019d missed most of 2023-24 due to Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia\u2019s bullpen ranks 19th in MLB with a 4.22 ERA. That\u2019s somewhat inflated by a .328 average on balls in play, the second-highest mark (behind Minnesota\u2019s). Philly relievers are 12th in strikeout rate.\u00a0Chase Shugart<\/a> and\u00a0Tanner Banks<\/a> each have a minor league option remaining, but the Phils opted to keep them on the MLB roster while allowing Trivino to explore other opportunities. The Phillies did select a non-roster reliever yesterday when they called up<\/a> long man\u00a0Trevor Richards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran reliever\u00a0Lou Trivino exercised the May 1 opt-out right in his minor league contract with the Phillies, reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,2169,4],"class_list":["post-688022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-lou-trivino","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116502555782592214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688022","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=688022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}