This week we’re diving in and profiling Phillies who made a leap forward in 2016. Today, we look at Hector Neris.
In a season of a surprising amount of surprisingly good things happening for the surprising Phillies, maybe the most impressive and unnoticed progress was the development of Hector Neris.
The tall, powerful right-hander had seen moderate success at the major league level in 2015 when he pitched the back-half of the year in Philadelphia. However, it followed the beginning of 2015 when he walked 24 in 37 innings in Lehigh Valley. With that kind of extreme split between the bad of triple-A and the good of the majors, there was also no reason to expect anything special from Neris in 2016.