{"id":159283,"date":"2025-08-19T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159283\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:33:09","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-reinstate-jose-alvarado-from-restricted-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159283\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies reinstate Jose Alvarado from restricted list"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday reinstated Jos\u00e9 Alvarado from the restricted list after the left-handed pitcher served an 80-game suspension for\u00a0testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alvarado returns to the Phillies’ bullpen after serving an 80-game suspension for testing positive for exogenous testosterone. The suspension makes Alvarado ineligible for the postseason.<\/p>\n

Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said the positive test was caused by a weight loss drug Alvarado took in the offseason. Alvarado did not appeal the suspension. He returned from his home in Venezuela earlier this month to begin a rehab assignment. In his first public statement since his suspension, the 30-year-old\u00a0apologized to the team and Phillies fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alvarado made five appearances for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, striking out four, walking four and allowing four hits across five scoreless innings. He allowed one hit in a scoreless inning in his final outing for Lehigh Valley on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“The last outing, it looked like he was back to normal,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said Monday.<\/p>\n

Thomson said Alvarado’s velocity was “exactly the same” as it was before the suspension. Alvarado’s sinker averaged 99.3 mph in 20 MLB games, up from 97.8 mph last season.<\/p>\n

“He’s touched 100 [mph] on his rehab assignments,” Thomson said. “He looks good.”<\/p>\n

Alvarado will rejoin the bullpen in a new role after the Phillies acquired closer Jhoan Duran<\/a> before the trade deadline. He may start in lower leverage situations, but he’ll likely join Orion Kerkering and Matt Strahm as high-leverage setup arms for Thomson to ride until the postseason.<\/p>\n

The bullpen becomes more important now after Zack Wheeler had a procedure to remove a blood clot<\/a>\u00a0near his right shoulder. The club doesn’t have a timeline for Wheeler’s recovery, but it’s unlikely the 35-year-old will pitch again in the regular season.<\/p>\n

While Alvarado isn’t eligible for the postseason, his arm could arguably turn the Phillies’ bullpen into its biggest strength for the final 37 regular-season games. The Phils enter Tuesday with a 5 1\/2-game lead over the New York Mets in the NL East.<\/p>\n

The Phillies made two corresponding moves to get Alvarado back on the 40-man and 26-man rosters.<\/p>\n

First, Philadelphia designated left-handed pitcher Josh Walker for assignment to make room for Alvarado on the 40-man roster. Then, the club optioned Nolan Hoffman to Triple-A.<\/p>\n

Hoffman, 28, was called up Monday and\u00a0made his MLB debut<\/a> in the team’s 12-7 win over the Mariners. Hoffman came up for Max Lazar and now heads back to Lehigh Valley a day later as the Phils’ bullpen shuffling continues.<\/p>\n

\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n

Tom Dougherty<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom Dougherty is a digital content producer for CBS Philadelphia. Before joining CBS Philadelphia, Tom covered sports for NBC Sports Philadelphia. He currently covers breaking news and sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday reinstated Jos\u00e9 Alvarado from the restricted list after the left-handed pitcher served an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,591,1448,2830,1311,2083,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-159283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115057341506981005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}