{"id":20190,"date":"2026-02-11T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=20190"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:54:10","slug":"reliever-evan-phillips-dodgers-reach-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=20190","title":{"rendered":"Reliever Evan Phillips, Dodgers reach 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Feb 11, 2026, 12:39 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Right-handed reliever <a data-player-guid=\"b1ca22eb-2a54-e584-eb46-fe5aba34b5ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37911\/evan-phillips\">Evan Phillips<\/a>, who is coming off Tommy John surgery, agreed to a one-year, $6.5 million contract Wednesday to return to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, 31, is expected to return around July.<\/p>\n<p>The late-inning reliever appeared in just seven games at the start of the 2025 season, throwing just 5 2\/3 innings while earning a save. He went on the injured list because of a rotator cuff strain in the middle of March, returned a month later and notched seven scoreless appearances, then went back on the IL on May 7 because of what the team called forearm discomfort.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Phillips was released by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ca473b8-e73e-a33d-8ea0-b4d160be4be7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> in August 2021 and designated for assignment by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f8a579c6-08b9-7584-141d-317d0645763b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> less than two weeks later. The Dodgers picked him up and turned him into a valuable late-game option. From 2022 to 2024, Phillips posted a 2.21 ERA and 0.92 WHIP, saved 44 games and struck out 206 batters in 179 regular-season innings.<\/p>\n<p>He dealt with arm issues during the 2024 postseason run and was left off the team&#8217;s World Series roster.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#8217;s Alden Gonzalez contributed to this report.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47898993\/reliever-evan-phillips-dodgers-reach-1-year-contract\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 11, 2026, 12:39 PM ET Right-handed reliever Evan Phillips, who is coming off Tommy John surgery, agreed to a one-year, $6.5 million contract Wednesday to return to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Phillips, 31, is expected to return around July. The late-inning reliever appeared in just seven games at the start of the 2025 season, &#8230; <a title=\"Reliever Evan Phillips, Dodgers reach 1-year contract\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=20190\" aria-label=\"Read more about Reliever Evan Phillips, Dodgers reach 1-year contract\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Reliever-Evan-Phillips-Dodgers-reach-1-year-contract.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20192,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions\/20192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}