{"id":539691,"date":"2026-03-23T02:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:56:15","slug":"diamondbacks-option-lhp-philip-abner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539691\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks option LHP Philip Abner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Sunday that southpaw reliever Philip Abner has been optioned to the Triple-A Reno Aces, leaving Brandyn Garcia as the lone lefty arm in bullpen barring a late addition.<\/p>\n<p>There was recent precedent for the club adding a lefty to its bullpen room so close to Opening Day, Arizona <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/jalen-beeks\/3578326\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signing Jalen Beeks<\/a> one day before the first game of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks also reassigned catcher Aramis Garcia and infielder Jacob Amaya to minor league camp, which brought its camp to 33 players.<\/p>\n<p>Each MLB team has until Opening Day to trim its roster down to 26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/philip-abner-691769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Abner<\/a>, 23, totaled a 4.66 ERA in nine Cactus League appearances, getting in 9.2 innings pitched and striking out 12 batters.<\/p>\n<p>The former 2023 MLB Draft sixth-round pick by Arizona had five major league outings last season, racking up a 4.91 ERA in 3.2 innings pitched. He struck out five and walked three across his performances.<\/p>\n<p>Abner will next have a chance to pitch in the Aces\u2019 season-opener on Friday against the Tacoma Rainiers, which is the Triple-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Amaya, a 27-year-old originally drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017, had a productive spring with a .341 batting average (15 for 44), batted in 10 runs, and scored 10 runs on the bases.<\/p>\n<p>His reassignment signals that Ildemaro Vargas will likely be the backup shortstop behind Geraldo Perdomo to start 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Garcia made 10 Cactus League appearances for the D-backs after receiving a non-roster invitation. He batted .200 (5 for 25) and committed one error in 62 fielding chances.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia had been designated for assignment by Arizona last June before being outrighted by the Aces four days later.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwmoses11\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @pwmoses11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Sunday that southpaw reliever Philip Abner has been optioned to the Triple-A Reno Aces,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-539691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}