Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart has changed agents and is now represented by the Boras Corporation, ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick tweets. The 25-year-old Cosart is not yet eligible for arbitration this winter, but he has just over two years of service time and could be eligible next offseason if he spends most of 2016 in the Majors.
In 2015, Cosart split his time between Miami and the minors. In the big leagues, he pitched 69 2/3 innings, working mostly as a starter, and posted a 4.52 ERA, 6.1 K/9 and 4.3 BB/9. Along the way, he also missed a chunk of the season due to vertigo. He’s already been involved in two significant trades in his young career, heading from Philadelphia to Houston in the Hunter Pence deal in 2011 and then to Miami as the key piece the Marlins received when they traded Colin Moran and Jake Marisnick.
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This is my first year as a user on MLBTR. Just out of curiosity, do free agents usually sign with new teams on the first day of free agency, or is the opening day of free agency usually uneventful?
Very uneventful. Takes a while for things to pick up.
Baseball free agency is pretty unlike any other sport in that it’s just a consistent parade of one or two signings every couple of days throughout the winter. The first signings usually happen within a week of the open signing period (beginning today), but there will be some signings still happening in late February and even into Spring Training.
If you’re looking for one, concentrated burst of moves, you’ll want to follow the Winter Meetings, for sure, when every team’s front office, virtually every agent, etc. all gather at one four-day conference. That happens this year from Dec. 7-10, and it’s more or less chaos.
Last year, there were 11 free agent signings, plus the Dee Gordon trade, the Yoenis Cespedes/Rick Porcello trade, the Howie Kendrick/Andrew Heaney trade, the Wade Miley trade, the Matt Kemp trade, the Mat Latos trade, the Alfredo Simon trade, and several other, more minor deals in a span of about 96 hours.
But, it’s pretty fascinating to follow the offseason wire to wire, and certainly fun to cover. If the day-to-day grind of it isn’t for you, though, Winter Meetings are where you’re going to want to be sure to pay attention. We’ll be providing 24-hour coverage like we do every year, even having writers on call overnight, since news can break at any time. I remember when CC Sabathia signed with the Yankees all those years ago, word broke at about 4:00am.
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MLB free agency is the most drawn out of any sport.
Wonder if this causes the marlins to look for a way to keep him in the minors just a bit longer….
Fits the bill of recent Boras talking point now.. Cosart will now disappear to see some unknown dr for tests regarding his now fine vertigo nobody ever heard of (at Boras’s highly classified and top secret training facility of course) and the marlins will be lucky if they see hide, nor hair of Jarrod before July!
The plot (Boras one that is) of late with clients fits like a glove.
Boras the animal!