BALTIMORE (WBFF) \u2014 Orioles right-handed reliever F\u00e9lix Bautista will be reinstated Saturday after spending more than a year recovering from multiple serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias said the team will reinstate Bautista from the 60-day injured list, while fellow reliever Ryan Helsley will be shut down for the rest of the year due to his own injury. <\/p>\n
Bautista last appeared in a major league game on July 20, 2025, after shoulder problems landed him on the injured list. He underwent surgery in August 2025 to repair a torn rotator cuff and labrum and previously missed the entire 2024 season recovering from Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n
Even with these setbacks, Bautista has shown dominance when healthy. <\/p>\n
Between his 2022 debut and the end of 2023, Bautista posted a 1.85 ERA, a league-leading 40.4% strikeout rate and collected 33 saves in his second season. He earned an All-Star selection and took home AL Reliever of the Year honors. <\/p>\n
After returning for the 2025 season, he threw 34 2\/3 innings and recorded a 2.60 ERA, relying on a hard sinker that helped produce a career-best 50.7% ground-ball rate and a 35.2% strikeout rate, despite a career-high 16.2% walk rate. He converted 19 out of 20 save opportunities.<\/p>\n
The Orioles hope Bautista\u2019s presence can help them make a final push toward the playoffs before the season ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (WBFF) \u2014 Orioles right-handed reliever F\u00e9lix Bautista will be reinstated Saturday after spending more than a year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-853687","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\/853687","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=853687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}