He actually pitched decently for the Angels, but luck was against him. He was awful in those two Braves appearances, and pretty bad with the Astros. He finished with -0.1 fWAR in 26 2\/3 innings spanning 35 appearances; that latter stat really tells you that his season was a struggle. His final line was 163\/128\/108 (ERA-\/FIP-\/xFIP-) \u2014 he wasn\u2019t good, but the baseball gods also decided to dump on him in basically every respect before the 2025 season was all said and done.<\/p>\n
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What went right?<\/p>\n
Well, he didn\u2019t suffer any injuries while he was here so I suppose you can say that that\u2019s a positive. Folks, it\u2019s pretty hard to find positives after the way his stint ended. I guess another positive is that he was able to latch on with two more organizations after how this stint in Atlanta went? I\u2019m reaching at this point, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n
Look, it was so bad that of the nine batters he faced, the Braves\u2019 win expectancy only increased in two of them. Yes, even the third out he got in his second and final Braves appearance came when the batter was thrown out on the bases after already driving in a run.<\/p>\n
He did hit 10 years of service time in August but of course, that happened once he had rejoined the Houston Astros. That\u2019s still genuinely awesome, though! Enjoy that pension, big dawg!<\/p>\n
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What went wrong?<\/p>\n
You could make a very good argument that Brian Snitker made a major mistake by bringing him in to pitch the seventh inning of a one-run ballgame on Opening Day. It certainly was surprising to see Neris out there in that situation considering that, once again, he barely made the Opening Day roster to begin with. Still, he got the ball and the Braves regretted it immediately. He gave up a leadoff home run to the previously lightly-regarded Gavin Sheets and left with two men on base as he and the defense behind him failed to record a single out. Both of those runners scored while Aaron Bummer was called upon to clean up the mess, so Neris had three runs on his line before even recording an out.<\/p>\n
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We wouldn\u2019t see him again until the series finale and again, things didn\u2019t go well. Neris entered in the eighth inning (!!!) with the Braves down 3-0 to San Diego and the Padres treated him very rudely. Two hits, two stolen bases and one walk later, the Braves were down 5-0 and heading towards getting swept at the hands of the Padres. Oof.<\/p>\n
2026 outlook<\/p>\n
Again, Neris has been a free agent since electing free agency following his DFA by the Astros in mid-August. He\u2019ll likely go deep into this offseason trying to find a deal and should he decide to keep his career going, I\u2019d imagine that he\u2019ll only have a minor league deal with an invite to Spring Training waiting for him from any given team as his best possible option. He\u2019ll really have to prove it in Spring Training to make it back onto a major league roster \u2014 or maybe the Astros will get bored or something and decide to bring him back one more time, for old time\u2019s sake. Either way, it\u2019s pretty clear that the expectations are currently on the floor for H\u00e9ctor Neris after a rocky 2025 season. His upside now is probably just \u201cokay reliever,\u201d since he had stretches of doing that (like with the Angels this past season), but the downside is really far down and anyone signing him is going to have to deal \u201cwhat did you expect?\u201d if it goes wrong given the way his career has unfolded in his mid-30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a grand opening followed almost immediately by a grand closing when it came to H\u00e9ctor Neris\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[170851,170849,170850,1280,20167,140185,72336,2382,50335,1266,8037,2083,3549,62,170848,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-348363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-bummer","9":"tag-alex-anthopoulos","10":"tag-appearances","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-gavin-sheets","14":"tag-hector-neris","15":"tag-houston-astros","16":"tag-jesse-chavez","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-padres","19":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","20":"tag-san-diego","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-spring-training","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115475424572343464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348363","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=348363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}