{"id":855923,"date":"2026-08-15T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855923\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:48:20","slug":"phillies-casey-lawrence-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855923\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies, Casey Lawrence Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies are signing right-hander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lawreca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casey Lawrence<\/a> to a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/casey-lawrence-596271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction tracker<\/a>. He\u2019ll report to Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, a Pennsylvania native who played at Reading\u2019s Albright College, opted out of his minor league deal with the Mariners over the weekend. Seattle granted him his release instead of calling him up. Lawrence is a strike-throwing depth arm who easily leads the minor leagues with 131 2\/3 innings this year. He started 23 games for Seattle\u2019s Triple-A club in Tacoma, pitching to a 4.37 earned run average. Lawrence had a well below-average 14.4% strikeout percentage against a minuscule 3.5% walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Lawrence is a journeyman who has made 65 major league appearances across five seasons. He debuted back in 2017 and most recently tossed 17 2\/3 frames between the Mariners and Blue Jays last year. Lawrence is coming up on 1000 career Triple-A innings over 11 years and spent the 2019 campaign in Japan. He throws in the upper 80s with a five-pitch mix and can eat some innings for Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has had a revolving door in the fifth starter role all season.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/paintan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Painter<\/a> is getting another opportunity with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rangeal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alan Rangel<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kellebr02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Keller<\/a> back in Triple-A. Lawrence and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davidtu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tucker Davidson<\/a> are non-roster depth options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies are signing right-hander\u00a0Casey Lawrence to a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. He\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,177354,591,85],"class_list":["post-855923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-casey-lawrence","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855923","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=855923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}