{"id":860990,"date":"2026-08-19T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:06:11","slug":"phillies-to-sign-nestor-cortes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860990\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies To Sign Nestor Cortes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/charlie-wright\" title=\"Posts by Charlie Wright\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Wright<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at August 19, 2026 10:45am CDT  <\/p>\n<p>Veteran lefty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cortene01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nestor Cortes<\/a> is heading to the Phillies on a major league deal, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/mlb\/sources-phillies-to-sign-nestor-cortes-to-major-league-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a>. Cortes is working his way back from arm surgery. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/2090090044954464450?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com<\/a> was among the first to report that the sides were in talks on a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Cortes made eight starts in the big leagues last season. He pitched in two games with the Brewers before going down with a left elbow flexor strain. Milwaukee shipped him to the Padres for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lockrbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandon Lockridge<\/a> at the trade deadline. Cortes made a half dozen starts for San Diego. His season was cut short by left biceps tendinitis. He chose free agency at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Cortes spent several seasons as a stable member of the Yankees\u2019 rotation. He notched a 3.77 ERA across a career-high 174 1\/3 innings in 2024. New York sent him to the Brewers that offseason, along with infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/durbica01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caleb Durbin<\/a>, in the trade that netted closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=willide03,willia005dev&amp;search=Devin+Williams&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Devin Williams<\/a>. The swap didn\u2019t pan out for either side. Williams struggled in the Bronx and eventually lost the closer role. Cortes was healthy for eight innings in Milwaukee. Durbin was dealt again after one season (though he did bring back breakout lefty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harriky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Harrison<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Charlie Wright | at August 19, 2026 10:45am CDT Veteran lefty Nestor Cortes is heading to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,33576,85],"class_list":["post-860990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-nestor-cortes","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860990","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=860990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}