{"id":688676,"date":"2026-05-23T03:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:29:20","slug":"phillies-trade-andrew-baker-to-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688676\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Trade Andrew Baker To Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies announced they\u2019ve traded minor league reliever\u00a0Andrew Baker<\/a> to the Rockies for international bonus pool space. Baker is not on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second time in as many months that the Phils traded for bonus pool room, as they acquired<\/a> $500K in allotments from the Dodgers for Griff McGarry<\/a>. Matt Gelb of The Athletic<\/a> notes that the Phillies are adding to their bonus pool to facilitate the signing of amateur pitcher Chan-min Park, a 17-year-old righty from South Korea.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Baker was Philadelphia\u2019s 11th-round pick out of junior college in 2021. He has spent parts of five seasons in Double-A. That includes some strong work this season, as the righty has worked to a 2.65 ERA across 17 innings. Baker has fanned 25 opponents against five walks. He has never had any trouble missing bats, but that kind of control would be the best of his career if he\u2019s able to maintain it.<\/p>\n

Baker has gone unselected in the Rule 5 draft a few times. Although he\u2019s not a premium prospect, he\u2019s a potential up-and-down bullpen arm for the Rox. Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs<\/a> gave him an honorable mention in his January writeup of the Philly system, writing that Baker has a 96-98 mph fastball and a plus slider with below-average control. He\u2019ll be Rule 5 eligible again next offseason if the Rox don\u2019t give him a 40-man roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies announced they\u2019ve traded minor league reliever\u00a0Andrew Baker to the Rockies for international bonus pool space. Baker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-688676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}