Fautino De Los Santos

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 225 lb.

Born: February 15, 1986 in Samana, Samana, Dominican Republic
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 4, 2011 (Age 25)   vs. BOS 0.1 IP, 0 H, 1 SO, 0 BB, 0 ER
Team: Athletics 2011-2012
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 0.126, Arb Eligible: 2016, Free Agent: 2019 [*],
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• 5/19 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 5/12/13 - 5/18/13: Here's a look back at the week that was at MLBTR. The Cubs signed first baseman Anthony Rizzo to a $41MM extension. Reid...
• 5/15 FFLockerRoom: San Diego Padres Release Pitcher Fautino De Los Santos: The San Diego Padres have decided to release right-handed pitcher Fautino De Los Santos after having cleared waivers following...
• 5/12 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 5/5/13 - 5/11/13: Here's a look back at the week that was at MLBTR. The Astros signed pitcher Edgar Gonzalez to a Major League contract and...
• 5/11 MLBTradeRumors: Padres Designate Fautino De Los Santos: The Padres announced that they have designated pitcher Fautino De Los Santos for assignment.  The move creates roster space...

• 2/28 Swingin' A's: A’s Bats Come to Life in 11-6 Win Over Friars: The top of the first inning started off rather ugly for Dan Straily as he made his first appearance of 2013.  Straily allowed...
• 2/27 Chicken Friars: Spring Training Position Battles: Relief Pitching: In the last installment of the Spring Training Position Battles series I will feature the relief corp. In this series, we took...
• 2/25 Chicken Friars: Three Padres Instantly Impress In Spring Training: The first Spring Training series is officially out of the way with the Padres finishing the first series at a 1-3 clip (including...
• 2/21 El Maquino: SHELBY MILLER OKAYED FOR MOUND DUTY TOMORROW: > A couple nights ago, five more guys were tied to Biogenesis PEDs by ESPN.  (Side thought: ESPN is better at getting those...
• 2/20 MetsToday.com: Cesar Puello Linked to Biogenesis: The Biogenesis story is getting bigger — and it now includes a player on the Mets’ 40-man roster. ESPN uncovered five...
• 2/20 Swingin' A's: Jordan Norberto, Numerous Others Latest to be Linked to Biogenesis: Apparently it wasn’t enough for the specter of performance enhancing drugs to be looming over Bartolo Colon, he needed company....
• 2/19 Call to the Pen: Gio Gonzalez Cleared of PED Su**** in New Biogenesis Files: New documents have surfaced in the ongoing investigations into the Biogenesis Clinic, according to Mike Fish and T.J. Quinn of...
• 2/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Update from PHX: February 19: Bartolo Colon spoke to the media today about his suspension. He felt he let down his teammates. I don’t know necessarily...
• 2/19 MLBTradeRumors: NL East Notes: Gio, Owings, Stanton, Young: Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez was one of several players whose names were found in the records of Biogenesis, a Miami...
• 2/19 FriarHood: Two Padres Linked to Miami Clinic: Two Padres in addition to Yasmani Grandal have surfaced in connection with Biogenesis of America clinic ran by Anthony Bosch. ...
• 2/19 Chicken Friars: Padres Spring Training Roster: Are you heading out to a Spring Training game this year? If so, take this Padres’ roster sheet with you so you can identify...
• 2/11 MLBTradeRumors: Outrighted To Triple-A: Valdez, De La Rosa: We'll keep track of players who have been outrighted to Triple-A today here... Padres infielder Jeudy Valdez cleared waivers...
• 2/10 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 2/3/13 - 2/9/13: As we gladly welcome pitchers and catchers reporting to camp in the coming days, let's take a look back at the week that was here...
• 2/6 MLBTradeRumors: Padres Designate Jeudy Valdez For Assignment: The Padres have designated infielder Jeudy Valdez for assignment, according to Corey Brock of MLB.com (on Twitter).  The move...
• 2/6 MLBTradeRumors: Padres Claim Fautino De Los Santos: The Padres claimed right-hander Fautino De Los Santos off of waivers from Milwaukee, according to the Brewers. The Brewers...

• 1/16 Swingin' A's: Arbitration Goings On: Kottaras Signs and Blevins, Moss, and Smith File: It’s the elephant in the room, and I don’t mean Stomper.  It’s the point in every player’s career that...
• 1/14 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Arbitration Avoidation: George Kottaras: A’s catcher George Kottaras has avoided arbitration with the A’s signing a one-year deal to cover the 2013 season....
• 1/14 MLBTradeRumors: A's, George Kottaras Avoid Arbitration: The Athletics announced that they avoided arbitration with catcher George Kottaras. The Lapa/Leventhal client agreed to a one-year...

• 11/15 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Manny Ramirez Steals Show With Homer on First Dominican Winter League Pitch: Manny Ramirez has always driven baseball fans completely insane. But when he was going strong, there wasn’t anything like...
• 11/12 Tomahawk Take: Separating Fact From Perception Part II Nick Swisher: This is the second in my series about hyped free agents and today I’m looking at Nick Swisher. While Swisher’s isn’t...
• 11/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Yes or No? Oakland’s Arbitration Eligible Players: MLBTradeRumors.com’s Ben Nicholson-Smith today shared his offseason outlook for the A’s. Included in that was the...
• 11/5 Nolan Writin': Updates from the Dominican Winter League: I just wanted to take some time and share some updates that have come out of the Dominican Winter League news mill this past week....

• 9/24 Call to the Pen: Well-Traveled Gio Gonzalez Has Finally Realized Potential: At least there is one. A 20-game winner in the majors this season. Thank you, Gio Gonzalez. With the way starting pitchers have...
• 9/9 MLBTradeRumors: Brewers Claim Miguel De Los Santos: The Brewers have claimed left-hander Miguel De Los Santos off waivers from the Rangers, tweets Jeff Wilson of the Fort Worth...

• 8/20 Reviewing the Brew: Players to Watch For In September: We are a little less than two weeks away from the beginning of September, when Major League rosters expand and we get to see a...
• 8/10 Swingin' A's: How Do You Spell Relief? N-E-S-H-E-K:     Sidewinder. Submariner. Sidearmer. How ever you want to slice it, it’s been the one missing demographic from...

• 7/31 Release Points: Kottaras Trade Reaction: Underrated Deal A Win-Win for Oakland and Milwaukee: In one of the more under the radar moves over the past few weeks, the Oakland A’s acquired catcher George Kottaras for right-hander...
• 7/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Option Derek Norris: Derek Norris was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento today in advance of the A’s matchup against the Rays as new addition George...
• 7/29 mlbreports.com : 2012 Trade Deadline Update #6 7/29: Lirano to the White Sox, Johnson to D-Backs, and More: Sunday July 29th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky: Here are some of the latest key baseball trades that have taken place over the last...
• 7/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Fautino De Los Santos Sent to Brewers for Kottaras: Yesterday I figured the piece sent to Milwaukee in return for backstop George Kottaras would be minimal. The man being sent to...
• 7/29 MLBTradeRumors: Athletics To Acquire George Kottaras From Brewers: SUNDAY, 12:51am: The Brewers will receive right-handed reliever Fautino De Los Santos in the trade according to Susan Slusser...
• 7/3 A's Farm: Monday, July 2nd: Cabrera & Dixon Deliver Walk-Off Wins for Ports & Bees as Cats & Hounds Fall: A’s Farmhand Of The Day   PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE (TRIPLE-A) Colorado Springs Sky Sox  5 Sacramento River Cats    3 (LP...

• 6/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Ross Sent Back to Sacramento; Figueroa Up: Tyson Ross had one start with Oakland and while he didn’t pitch that poorly he didn’t convince A’s brass that...

• 5/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Carignan Optioned to Make Room for Blackley: Andrew Carignan has not had a very good year for the A’s. In six and a third innings playing with the A’s he has 5.7...
• 5/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: “Marathon, Not a Sprint” and Small Sample Sizes: I am an ardent supporter of advanced baseball statistics. They do have some limitations, while sometimes a high FIP can unmask...

• 4/25 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Parker and Miller Up; De Los Santos to Sacramento; Thompson DFA’d: What bizarre and somewhat surprising news today. As expected Jarrod Parker was called up from Sacramento to make today’s...
• 4/22 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Pedro Figueroa and Too Much of a Good (Well Maybe Not Necessarily Good) Thing: Fifteen percent of people are left-handed and men are more than twice as likely to be left-handed as are women. 20% of MENSA members...
• 4/21 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Indians @ A’s Game 15: A’s entered the day tied for second place with a 7-7 record to take on Ubaldo Jimenez and the 6-5 and also in second place...
• 4/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Angels Game 14: The A’s took on dreaded Angels starter and whiner-in-chief C.J. Wilson at Angel Stadium and won. The A’s took three...
• 4/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Angels Game 13: I have been to countless baseball games in my life. Tonight, I saw the A’s take on the Angels at Angel Stadium and probably...
• 4/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Giants ST Game 24: The spring is over! Last game! Every game from now through October is real and count – even the All Star Game (ugh). A’s...
• 4/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Giants ST Game 22: A’s and Giants tangle for the Bay Bridge Series at AT&T Park, hopefully soon-to-be Peninsular Series? 101 Series? Who...
• 4/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Giants Bay Bridge Series Game 1: A’s and Giants tangle for the Bay Bridge Series, hopefully soon-to-be Peninsular Series? 101 Series? Who knows. The Giants...
• 4/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Injury Bug: Braden, Ramirez, Suzuki, De Los Santos: Dallas Braden has “suffered a setback” with his recovery from a torn anterior capsule in his shoulder. There is now...
• 4/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ River Cats Exhibition: The A’s went to Sacramento for an exhibition game with their Triple-A affiliate River Cats at Raley Field. It would be inexcusable...

• 3/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ (Hanshin) Tigers Japanese Exhibition Game 2: I had commented the other day following the A’s victory versus the Yomiuri Giants, who had a better record than the Hanshin...
• 3/22 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Spring Training Watch: Closer Report: Oakland A’s Clave and I have gone back forth over the A’s closer situation during spring and looks like he was right....
• 3/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Balfour Named Closer, Figueroa and Pea**** Optioned: Grant Balfour was named the A’s closer to begin the 2012 season. This is welcome news as I have advocated that Balfour should...
• 3/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Cubs @ A’s ST Game 20: A’s and Cubs met today at Phoenix Muni**** Stadium where a late bottom of the ninth comeback helped the A’s to their...
• 3/12 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Closer Battle Down to Two: Manager Bob Melvin gave the clearest indications yet on the state of the closer battle today. Joe Stiglich of the Contra Costa...
• 3/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Royals @ A’s ST Game 11: A’s beat the Royals 10-8 today at Phoenix Muni and MLB says that the A’s are now 7-3 – that game with the Dodgers...
• 3/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Steward on Mora, Closer Job, Arbitration Clocks, Carter, Ynoa, Figueroa and Doolittle: Yesterday Carl Steward of the Bay Area News Group did a live chat. The A’s maybe don’t have too many fans or perhaps...
• 3/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Dodgers @ A’s ST Game 7: In Japan if a game goes twelve innings and the two teams are tied in an effort to ensure fans can make the last train home the...
• 3/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Steward on Mora, Closer Job, Arbitration Clocks, Carter, Ynoa, Figueroa and Doolittle: Yesterday Carl Steward of the Bay Area News Group did a live chat. The A’s maybe don’t have too many fans or perhaps...
• 3/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: Dodgers @ A’s ST Game 7: In Japan if a game goes twelve innings and the two teams are tied in an effort to ensure fans can make the last train home the...

• 2/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Athletics | Fautino De Los Santos to have big role: Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin expects RP Fautino De Los Santos to have a larger role in the backend of the bullpen this...[+] year. De Los Santos needs to develop his slider, cut down on the walks and hold runners on base better. RP Jordan Norberto could win a spot in the bullpen this spring as well.

• 1/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Interview: Bob Melvin: At the Oakland A’s FanFest I was invited to join five other bloggers in a press conference style interview of five members...
• 1/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Interview: Bob Melvin: At the Oakland A’s FanFest I was invited to join five other bloggers in a press conference style interview of five members...
• 1/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Who Closes for the A’s in 2012?: I predicted the A’s will win 66 games this upcoming season when we talked about it last week on TarpTalk. I stand by that...

• 12/30 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Who Closes for the A’s in 2012?: I predicted the A’s will win 66 games this upcoming season when we talked about it last week on TarpTalk. I stand by that...
• 12/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Bailey and Sweeney Sent to Boston:     Andrew Bailey and Ryan Sweeney will be shipping up to Boston as the Red Sox and Athletics made a much anti**** trade...
• 12/28 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Bailey and Sweeney Sent to Boston:     Andrew Bailey and Ryan Sweeney will be shipping up to Boston as the Red Sox and Athletics made a much anti**** trade...
• 12/28 MLBTradeRumors: AL West Notes: Athletics, Fielder, Rangers: The Athletics completed their third major trade of the offseason this afternoon, sending Andrew Bailey and Ryan Sweeney to Boston...
• 12/2 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Athletics | Fautino De Los Santos could close: Oakland Athletics RP Fautino De Los Santos is a top candidate to close next year if the team trades RP Andrew Bailey this winter....[+]

• 10/13 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Oakland Athletics: As the Athletics await resolution on their stadium situation, they’ll look to restore outfield depth and improve their weak...

• 9/23 mlbreports.com : Oakland Athletics: What Went Wrong in 2011 and Looking to 2012: Friday September 23, 2011     Sam Evans (Intern – MLB reports):  Going into this season, the Oakland Athletics were...
• 9/22 Future Closers: Potential Future Closers: AL West: In the final installment of my look at potential future closer, I will look at the AL West. Fabio Martinez Mesa - Los Angeles...
• 9/5 Roto Think Tank: A.L. FAAB Log: September 5, 2011: Leonys Martin $15. Other bids: $11, $5.I profiled Martin in Friday's Gearing Up. Endy Chavez, Craig Gentry and David...
• 9/3 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Home Sweet Home and Some New A’s:   The A’s returned to Oakland yesterday and with the expanded September rosters some new men were added to the club....
• 9/2 The Golden Sombrero: Golden Sombrero: Lou Marson (again): Bottom 2: Lou Marson called out on strikes against Rich Harden Bottom 5: grounded out to shortstop against Harden Bottom 7:...
• 9/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: A’s Lose in 16; Better than Losing in 9?: It took sixteen innings for the A’s to lose which I suppose is better than losing in nine, but a loss is of course still...

• 8/31 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Santana Swats Tribe Past Oakland; Indians 6, Athletics 2: By Cody Gunselman In a matchup of two teams with sputtering offenses, the Tribe bats came alive tonight, pounding out six runs...
• 8/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Cahill Struggles Continue; Billings Outrighted: Trevor Cahill has not had a good year. Coming off a breakthrough campaign in 2010 that earned him a five-year $30.5M contract...
• 8/25 My Pinstripes: Hurricane Martin Slams A's: The Oakland A's had already won the first two games of a three game series with the Yankees and had lambasted Phil Hughes to...
• 8/25 Yankees Daily: Martin and Yankees win in grand style over A’s 22-9: NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees became the first team in major league history to hit three grand slams in a game, with...
• 8/25 YankeeAnalysts.com: Crisp, Sizemore beat Yankees 6-4 in extras as Yanks lose first series at home since early June: First we had an earthquake in New York City. Then all sorts of panic about a possible hurricane this weekend. And now, following...
• 8/24 Yankees Daily: Yankees get burnt by Crisp in 10th and lose to A’s 6-4: NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Crisp homered twice and drove in five runs, going 4 for 4 with a three-run shot in the 10th inning that...
• 8/21 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Blue Jays @ A’s Game 127:   3:40PM PDT: Game over. Luis Perez and Casey Janssen share a one-hitter and the Blue Jays win. Not much else to say there...
• 8/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Mariners Game 109: 8:54PM PDT: Noberto throws a wild pitch – sort of what we have been led to expect – Smoak scores from third. Mariners...

• 7/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Twins @ A’s Game 106: 8:44PM PDT: Two straight walks. One to Drew Butera to load ‘em up and then one to Ben Revere to give the Twinkies their...
• 7/27 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Joey Devine Optioned to Sacramento: Joey Devine started the year off well, but as of late he has been slipping – he might argue literally as the ball has slipped...
• 7/24 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Yankees Game 101:   2:53PM EDT: Andruw Jones singles, scores Tex, and knocks Gio out of the game. Fautino De Los Santos is coming into the...
• 7/19 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Tigers Game 97:   10:18PM EDT: Make it three straight as Coco Crisp goes down on a ball in the dirt, throw to first gets him game over. The...
• 7/17 Baseball Reality Tour: Regards to Brett Anderson: Get Well Soon, Brett Anderson. He's one of our favorites, as is the awesome Susan Slusser. From her SF Chronicle piece: Genevieve...
• 7/12 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Rangers Game 89: 9:40PM CDT: Well that didn’t matter. Fly out game over. Shutout in tact. Tenth time the A’s have been blanked. A’s...
• 7/1 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Diamondbacks @ A’s Game 83:   7:50PM PDT: Jemile Weeks is hitting well since becoming the unquestioned starting second baseman with a single off Collmenter....
• 7/1 Roto Think Tank: Gearing Up A.L. Week 14: July 4-10: Rising UpRich Harden (8% last week; 21% this week)I wrote Harden up last week; this is just an FYI that he's slated to make...

• 6/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Kouzmanoff & FDLS Optioned; Rosales and Sizemore Recalled: In another surprising move amongst surprising moves this week the A’s today sent Kevin Kouzmanoff down to Triple-A Sacramento....
• 6/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: LaRoche DFA’d, De Los Santos Stays: Talk about didn’t see that one coming. With his 27.0 K/9, 0.0 BB/9 and 0.0 HR/9 which give him a cool -3.06 FIP the A’s...