How Will the Phillies Survive José Alvarado’s 80-Game PED Ban? Inside Dombrowski’s Bold Plans to Salvage the Season
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Alvarado’s suspension and unavailability for October all but guarantee that Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski will swing a deal for another reliever at the trade deadline. Dombrowski has upgraded his team’s pitching staff at each of the past three deadlines, acquiring Estévez last year, swingman Michael Lorenzen in 2023 and veteran reliever David Robertson in 2022.
Replacing Alvarado is impossible; he’s the hardest-throwing left-hander in the bigs. And the lack of obvious options on the reliever market could make things even harder. There’s no Tanner Scott/Jason Adam type this year — a dominant, late-inning arm on a bad team and close to free agency. Dombrowski might have to get creative and find a player with more team control.
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