Phillies sign José Alvarado to 3-year extension

The Phillies have signed left-handed reliever José Alvarado to a three-year contract extension, taking him by 2025 with a membership possibility for 2026, president of baseball operations David Dombrowski introduced on Friday.

Alvarado, 27, was tied for the group lead with 59 appearances in 2022, posting a 3.18 ERA with 81 strikeouts in 51 innings, whereas holding opponents to a .203/.296/.289 slash line with simply two residence runs. He posted a 0.43 ERA over his remaining 22 appearances of the common season, permitting one run in 21 innings. Alvarado led all Phillies relievers with 1.7 fWAR in 2022 and his 14.29 strikeouts per 9 innings had been probably the most by any Phillies reliever ever to pitch not less than 50 innings in a season and ranked fourth amongst qualifying Major League relievers. In his two seasons with the Phillies, the Venezuela native is 11-3 with seven saves, a 3.71 ERA and 149 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings over 123 appearances.

Per Statcast knowledge, Alvarado threw 207 pitches at 100 mph or more durable in 2022, probably the most amongst all left-handed pitchers and sixth-most in baseball. Since pitch monitoring started in 2008, Aroldis Chapman is the one southpaw with extra profession pitches at 100 mph or greater than Alvarado’s 457.