{"id":860504,"date":"2026-08-16T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860504\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:02:18","slug":"rhp-dennis-santana-called-up-by-arizona-lhp-philip-abner-designated-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860504\/","title":{"rendered":"RHP Dennis Santana called up by Arizona, LHP Philip Abner designated for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/dennis-santana\/737018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/dennis-santana\/737018\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Santana<\/a> was called up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> ahead of their game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30-year-old right-hander is joining his sixth big league team, having appeared with the Dodgers, Rangers, Mets, Yankees and Pirates over his nine-year career. He had 16 saves a year ago for Pittsburgh but was designated for assignment last month with a record of 2-5, two saves and a 6.05 ERA in 44 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santana then joined Arizona\u2019s Triple-A team in Reno on a minor-league deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/philip-abner\/1316924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/philip-abner\/1316924\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Abner<\/a>, who had a 6.00 ERA in 13 appearances, was designated for assignment by the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Reliever Dennis Santana was called up by the Arizona Diamondbacks ahead of their game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-860504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}