{"id":704914,"date":"2026-05-21T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/704914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:24:16","slug":"what-is-your-trust-level-in-each-of-the-phillies-relievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/704914\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your trust level in each of the Phillies relievers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s loss to the Reds featured a rather lackluster performance from the Phillies bullpen. Tim Mayza<\/a>, Orion Kerkering<\/a>, Brad Keller<\/a>, and Jos\u00e9 Alvarado combined to allow 5 runs in 4 innings and doom the Phillies\u2019 chances of mounting a comeback. So naturally, let\u2019s take this off day as a chance to re-assess the trust level for each member of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

Jhoan Duran<\/a> is probably the only reliever with absolute trust right now. The Phillies closer has been dominant since returning from the injured list, allowing only one run on 3 hits and 5 walks, with that run and three of the walks coming in his first appearance back after forgoing a rehab assignment. Duran\u2019s struck out 13 of the 26 batters he\u2019s faced in his six appearances over that span and converted all three of his save opportunities.<\/p>\n

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However, after Duran is where things get complicated. Chase Shugart<\/a> has been the most consistently good of the rest of the Phillies relievers, but as Ethan Witte pointed out earlier this week<\/a>, Shugart has been deployed in almost exclusively low leverage situations, and his pristine 1.53 ERA doesn\u2019t tell the full story. Orion Kerkering has good numbers at first glance with a 2.60 ERA, but he\u2019s still having trouble getting whiffs. Tim Mayza has pitched the most innings out of the bullpen with 22.2 and has been mostly effective, but he now sports a 4.04 ERA after being charged with two runs yesterday. Tanner Banks<\/a> has regressed heavily from his strong 2025 with a 6.75 ERA and a WHIP over 2. Free agent signing Brad Keller has been uneven and trade acquisition Jonathan Bowlan<\/a> has been mediocre. Jos\u00e9 Alvarado has not yet shown that he can recapture his form from before his suspension and injury and has been one of the biggest disappointments on the pitching staff, as he owns a 6.11 ERA after surrendering a two-run homer that was the final nail in the Phillies\u2019 chances yesterday.<\/p>\n

As a whole, the Phillies bullpen entered yesterday ranked 14th in ERA (3.88) and 15th in WHIP (1.32). However, they were ranked second in fWAR (2.5) thanks in large part to a strong FIP (3.40) that ranks fourth and an expected ERA (3.12) that ranks second. Their second worst BABIP (.318) does back up that they are due for some positive regression in the more traditional bullpen rankings.<\/p>\n

So, what is your trust level in each of the Phillies relievers? On a scale of 1-5 with 5 being absolute trust and 1 being completely untrustworthy, how would you rank the current relievers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday\u2019s loss to the Reds featured a rather lackluster performance from the Phillies bullpen. Tim Mayza, Orion Kerkering,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[88615,5,7798,8637,50,5782,3276,13041,1104,4,4681,3838,144,25,4216,40,9681,364,88616,5824],"class_list":["post-704914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-absolute-trust","tag-baseball","tag-brad-keller","tag-chase-shugart","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-citizens-bank-park","tag-jhoan-duran","tag-jonathan-bowlan","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-mlb","tag-orion-kerkering","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-tanner-banks","tag-tim-mayza","tag-trust-level","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116613025865610917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704914","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=704914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}