{"id":254535,"date":"2026-07-24T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/phillies-giving-former-yankees-draft-pick-a-chance-amid-search-for-fifth-starter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:00:51","slug":"phillies-giving-former-yankees-draft-pick-a-chance-amid-search-for-fifth-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/phillies-giving-former-yankees-draft-pick-a-chance-amid-search-for-fifth-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies giving former Yankees draft pick a chance amid search for fifth starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia_phillies\/21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>&#8216; search for a viable fifth starter has another candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Gelb of The Athletic reported that the Phillies are set to promote pitcher Brian Keller to either start or work as a bulk reliever on Saturday. The 32-year-old will be making his major league debut once he appears in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Keller had an interesting road to his debut. Originally a 39th-round draft pick by the Yankees in 2016, Keller spent six years in the Yankees organization before joining the Red Sox as a minor league free agent in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He signed with the NPB Hanshin Tigers ahead of the 2023 season, but Tommy John surgery and a second procedure on a nerve in the same area, led to Keller throwing only 15.2 innings over three years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/phillies_giving_former_yankees_draft_pick_a_chance_amid_search_for_fifth_starter\/s1_13132_44098457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies&#8216; search for a viable fifth starter has another candidate. Matt Gelb of The Athletic reported that the Phillies are set to promote pitcher Brian Keller to either start or work as a bulk reliever on Saturday. The 32-year-old will be making his major league debut once he appears in a game. Keller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}