CLEARWATER, Fla. - How much weight can one arm bear? Ask Hector Neris. He'll smile. Throw 80 1/3 innings in 79 games? Let's talk about a stretch in which he threw none.
A Sunday in 2015, a call that'd come twice before: Neris at Triple A, the Phillies in need of an arm. Grab your bags, kid. Welcome to the team. Three days later: Oh, did we say bags? Well, here's a ticket back east.
His first two stints had at least earned him some looks: a couple of mopup ninth innings, a scoreless 15th, nine total days spent in the major leagues.