The Marlins picked up a decisive win in last night’s game, but Miami has nonetheless dropped eight of its past 10 games to fall five games out of an NL Wild Card spot. With the team’s playoff hopes dwindling, MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro writes that the Fish are prepared to shut down Jose Fernandez if they slip further out of contention. Miami has hoped to cap Fernandez’s innings around 180, though a postseason berth may have added some extra frames to that limit. Instead, with the young ace already at 160 1/3 innings, skipper Don Mattingly conceded that shutting Fernandez down is “absolutely” a consideration if the team’s losing continues. “We’ll look at that as it goes,” said Mattingly. “Obviously, we’ve been paying attention to his innings all along.”
More from the NL East…
- Braves prospect Ozzie Albies is going to miss the rest of the season after suffering a still-unspecified elbow injury, MLB.com’s Mark Bowman reports. It isn’t believed he suffered any ligament damage from the fouled-off pitch that struck him, but a fracture is still possible. Of greater concern, the 19-year-old likely won’t be able to play in the Arizona Fall League, which had perhaps been one of his final hurdles before reaching the majors. It’s still plenty possible that he’ll play a big role on the varsity squad next year, of course, but the presumption may now be that Albies will open the 2017 season in the minors.
- The recent work of Wily Peralta may have him back in the Brewers’ 2017 rotation plans, MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy writes. He’ll earn a modest raise on his $2.8MM arbitration salary, but that now looks again to be quite a reasonable price tag. Despite a brutal start, Peralta has turned in a 3.35 ERA over his last six outings.
- It is time for the Reds to clear room for Jose Peraza in the daily lineup, C. Trent Rosecrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer opines. Peraza has impressed of late with the bat, and manager Bryan Price says that “it’s just a matter of finding his best spot and where he best serves the team.” Rosecrans discusses the defensive possibilities, now and in 2017, for the speedy youngster.
Shut fernandez down. And now the braves have an excuse to get the extra year on albies.
Albies should’ve been called up to MLB, he’s proven himself more than Dansby did over the year, and what’s the harm in bringing in a 19 year old for a month? He dominated spring training and it seems that he thrives in pressure situations. Should definitely be starting 2B on Opening Day.
The issue is that 1) he is still just 19 years old. That’s very young for a major leaguer. It’s not unheard of but they want to be more cautious. 2) He tore up AA but when they promoted him to AAA he struggled. It wasn’t any reason to question his ability or his future but it was enough to think he may need a little more time.
Not to mention the fact that they obviously want Albies to play 2B, and there wasn’t as much of a hole there on the major league team than SS Aybar after trading him away. Sure, Jace Peterson and d’Arnaud are not the long (or even short) term answers, but Aybar wasn’t going to be on the 2017 team (FA at end of season) and they could get something (anything is a miracle) for him, plus opening up the natural position for a 22-year old Swanson.
Albies had a great overall year, but they transitioned him rather late to 2B from SS and he wasn’t lighting the world on fire at AAA. But again, he is 19! He’s years ahead of where he should be, which means you can take your time with his development and hope to get the most of his prime years.
Uh, 1 more year of control over a player’s prime years? Is that hard to get?
See cubs – Re: Kris Bryant. Though Albies has no chance to be as productive as KB in an arbitration sense.
Good for Peraza from a Braves fan. I was writing him off mostly because his success is salt in the wound that Olivera opened. All things aside, it’s nice to see something good come from that trade with Wood comfortable on the DL.
Wow stay classy would be a gross understatement.
Sorry wishing a player well is taken with the perception of ill-intent. Calm down.
What’s up with people lately and taken things the wrong way? You clearly are glad to see Peraza playing well.