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Jarred Cosart, Christian Friedrich Elect Free Agency After Clearing Outright Waivers

By Jeff Todd | October 30, 2017 at 4:53pm CDT

Two Padres hurlers, Jarred Cosart and Christian Friedrich, have elected free agency after being outrighted off of the team’s 40-man roster. The club announced the moves today.

Cosart, 27, was projected to earn $1.3MM via arbitration. The Friars obviously weren’t willing to stake that much on a rebound for a pitcher that has dealt with arm problems. Cosart will spend the winter working back from elbow surgery, the details and outlook of which are not really clear.

Since landing in San Diego — as a buy-low candidate included in everyone’s favorite quirky 2016 deadline deal — Cosart has posted a 5.58 ERA through 61 1/3 innings. With as many strikeouts as walks (42 apiece) on his ledger, there were clearly concerns about performance even when he was healthy.

Meanwhile, Friedrich was slated to take home something in the ballpark of his projected $1.79MM arbitration value. The 30-year-old lefty did not appear in 2017 while dealing with elbow problems of his own. In total, he owns 5.37 ERA across 296 2/3 MLB innings.

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  1. WalkersDayOff

    3 years ago

    Jarred Cosart. Another example of the massively awful pitchers the Marlins paid a big price to acquire.

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    • SixFlagsMagicPadres

      3 years ago

      Don’t forget Mat Latos.

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      • TheWestCoastRyan

        3 years ago

        He wasn’t that bad for the Marlins but yeah that was def an overpay considering they were in no position to be trading controllable players for one year rentals at that point.

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          Why the downvotes? Are people on here really that pressed that they refuse to acknowledge that Mat Latos was really freaking good for like 5 years?

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        • jbigz12

          3 years ago

          Guess they won’t be going back for profar, huh?

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        • mlb1225

          3 years ago

          You said “he wasn’t that bad for The Marlins” Considering his time with The Marlins was short lived, and not well spent, I think that’s why you received the downvotes.

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          My point is he was by no means “massively awful” in Miami and people on here seem to have personal issues towards the guy that prevent them from remembering just how good he was in 2010-2014.

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        • padreforlife

          3 years ago

          Great? More dribble

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          Lol extra chromosome lol

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        • padreforlife

          3 years ago

          How good Latos was yea he won Cy Young, dribble never ends

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        • padreforlife

          3 years ago

          Latos was 26-28 as Padre 1 CG, yeah he was sooo good

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        • davidcoonce74

          3 years ago

          1958 called and wants its meaningless statistics back.

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          You get more stupid with every comment I swear. Go back to the hole you crawled out of.

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          @david now THAT was funny

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        • padreforlife

          3 years ago

          Yea David hee hee

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          As Bugs Bunny would say, “What a maroon.”

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        • padreforlife

          3 years ago

          Yea David hee hee Matt Latos very good

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          Says the idiot who uses wins and losses to gauge a pitcher’s performance

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        • padreforlife

          3 years ago

          Latos is loser sell your jersey

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          Dumb ass

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      • redsfan48

        3 years ago

        I mean, Latos certainly wasn’t an overpay at the time. Latos was coming off a good season (and a few more before that) and there was little evidence that it wouldn’t continue. Meanwhile, Disco struggled in limited MLB time for Miami the year before and was hardly an elite prospect. I’m not sure anyone in Miami expected him to turn out to be as good as he’s been with the Reds when healthy. Wallach was simply a throw in/depth piece.

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        • redsfan48

          3 years ago

          Straily last offseason, on the other hand, was certainly an overpay for the Marlins

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          At the time, it looked like an overpay because no one expected Straily to repeat what he did in 2016. While Straily did manage to prove everyone wrong, it now looks like an overpay because one of the prospects the Marlins gave up turned out to be a lot better than expected.

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  2. Phillies2017

    3 years ago

    Cosart’s stuff seems like it would play up big time in the bullpen. He’s still 27 and already averaging around 94 as a starter- definitely still some promise there.

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    • johnsilver

      3 years ago

      It would seem huh? His brother (Jake) was moved to the pen and is a mirror copy of Jarrod’s command issues and FB velocity.. Threw 93-5 as a SP with no command and 97, touching higher as a reliever.

      Seems some have weird deliveries (both) that won’t change and no command with how they currently throw. It’s a shame. Have liked jake since Boston drafted him back in ’14. Then each year he walks as many as K’s

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      • thegreatcerealfamine

        3 years ago

        Just another example of the Sox massively overhyped prospects. When does it end?

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        • ellisburks

          3 years ago

          Yeah where will it end? Will it end with Betts? Will it end with Benintendi? Will it end with Xander? Will it end with Bradley? Will it end with Devers?
          Will the Sox ever have a home grown prospect do well?

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        • johnsilver

          3 years ago

          How many ways to burst the bubble on that nonsense post of yours…

          1) jake cosart was a 3rd round pick
          2) he signed an UNDER slot deal to begin with.
          3) Was playing with a nearly forgotten JC in Florida when drafted (Seminole State)

          Why not either:

          1) Do some research b efore typing out utter nonsense here

          –or–

          2) Cease??

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        • thegreatcerealfamine

          3 years ago

          Was Cease a second rounder or what?

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        • thegreatcerealfamine

          3 years ago

          Bradley…lofl

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        • ellisburks

          3 years ago

          Amazing CF and twonyears prior was well above avg with the stick and worth 2.3 WAR. Yeah he must be laughable.

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    • lowtalker1

      3 years ago

      Location is his deal
      Move him around the pitchers plate he will find success for a min then become a shotgun blast again

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  3. Phillies2017

    3 years ago

    On a completely unrelated note– shoutout to MLB Trade Rumor’s own Tim Dillard
    re-upped with Milwaukee

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    • nmendoza44

      3 years ago

      Ok

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    • a37H

      3 years ago

      That is good news to hear. Trade rumors legend

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    • AidanVega123

      3 years ago

      Ayyyyy

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  4. bringinthereliefpitcher

    3 years ago

    Should of just added them to the bullpen to see if you catch lightning in the bottle. Nothing to lose by doing so.

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    • CNichols

      3 years ago

      They don’t have room on the 40 man for these guys and neither one is worth what they were going to make in arbitration.

      There’s a reason they cleared waivers untouched.

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      • bringinthereliefpitcher

        3 years ago

        Cosart > Lyles>>>>>Mazzoni
        Friedrich > Melville

        I agree with dvm on the promising young guys coming up, but assuming we trade Hand that leaves
        Baumann, McGrath, Yates, Maton, Torres on the 40 as viable pen options (assuming stammen doesnt resign, diaz goes down for seasoning). Keeping Cosart and Friedrich as pen options wouldn’t have been the worst. Rather have kept them instead of the 3 I mentioned.

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        • TheWestCoastRyan

          3 years ago

          We can still re-sign them

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        • CNichols

          3 years ago

          That doesn’t really address the fact that after this move there are still 45 men on the 40 man roster right now. They need to clear some space and the 3 you mentioned are probably gone as well.

          If they want to take a flier on these 2 they can always try to re-sign them to a minor league deal with an ST invite.

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    • dvmwitt

      3 years ago

      Nah, we have some promising relief pitchers on the way, like Wingenter, Yardley, Cimber, etc. If anything, Preller can build a bullpen with some other junk pile guys like he did with Yates, Hand, etc.

      They could sign these two to minor league contracts if they want to, but I think we’ve seen enough of both to know they won’t pan out.

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  5. John Doe

    3 years ago

    we have exciting pitchers in our system why spend money of below avg starters both seem like pen arms. cosart was a mess in sam diego

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  6. randomness lez

    3 years ago

    Dan Duquette just got a Google Alert.

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  7. bbatardo

    3 years ago

    Neither pitcher really impressed. Padres are better off bringing up some young pitchers and seeing how they perform.

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