Overview
- Rating: 4.60
- 2025 stats: 10 G, 16.0 IP, 4.41 ERA, 1.91 FIP, 0.2 bWAR, 0.4fWAR
- Date of birth: January 15, 1996 (age 29 season)
- 2025 earnings: League minimum
- 2026 status: NRI for the Arizona Diamondbacks (rookie status remains intact)
2025 Review
What to say about Taylor Rashi? Well, for starters, Rashi was selected in the 23rd (!!!) round of the 2019 draft by the San Francisco Giants. He never made it beyond the Giants’ AA affiliate though. In 2023 Arizona grabbed him and then he spent two seasons working his way through AA and AAA with the organization. Then 2025 came around and Rashi opened the season in Reno with a real shot at earning some playing time for the parent club. But, unfortunately for Rashi, various roster complications
impeded his eventual arrival. Rashi is a rare creature, a pitcher who has experienced success in Reno. Much like Brandon Pfaadt did, Rashi managed to limit the damage done by the long ball and to find a fair amount of strikeout success, despite issues with breaking pitches in Reno’s arid altitude.
As fate would have it, Rashi did not have his contract selected by Arizona until 27 August. He made his MLB debut the next day against the Milwaukee Brewers, an outing in which he threw a three-inning save, allowing two walks and two hits while striking out three. For his efforts, he was optioned back to Reno the next day. No good deed and all that it seems. The demotion was not a long one. Rashi was brought back to the parent club four days later. For the final month of the season, Rashi enjoyed a rather typical reliever’s workload. He also was rather average, neither flashing lights-out stuff, nor getting brutalized like so many of his fellow relievers in the Arizona bullpen.
A strong argument can be made that Rashi’s best outing came on 25 September against the Dodgers when he threw three innings in mop-up duty. In those three frames, Rashi allowed a single and a walk while striking out six, allowing no one to score. Despite this efforts and Rashi’s modest other outings, Rashi was still a victim of the non-tender deadline and the pseudo roster-crunch. On deadline day for non-tender decisions, Rasho was cut lose. However, as happens with so many players across the league (especially relievers) Rashi later signed a new deal with the club, including a non-roster invite to Spring Training.
2026 and Beyond
Taylor Rashi has his work cut out for him. However, given the dearth of pitching depth in the organization, Rashi’s status as a non-roster invitee may be very temporary. Despite not being a hard thrower, Rashi has shown plenty of poise in the harshest of circumstances over the last two years, but especially in 2025. Given the team will need plenty of warm bodies to eat innings and the lack of current quality in the bullpen, if Rashi can stay healthy and maintain his 2025 performance levels, he will likely see plenty of innings for the club again over the course of the 2026 season. Even if that fails to materialize, his efforts to this point will likely land him on a 26-man roster somewhere else. While the MLB sample size is small, making one question his 12.12 K/9, he was a tad short of 10 in Reno. Those sorts of numbers, more often than not it seems, earn pitchers, even struggling ones (much less adequate ones with a FIP under 2.00), a second or third bite at the apple.
