The Marlins announced that they’ve claimed right-hander Austin Brice off waivers from the Orioles and designated outfielder Isaac Galloway for assignment in order to open a spot on the 40-man roster. Miami also announced its previously reported trade of Nick Wittgren to the Indians.
Brice, 26, returns to the organization for which he made his MLB debut back in 2016. The right-hander was initially a ninth-round pick by the Marlins back in 2010 and has spent part of the past three seasons in the Majors after going to Cincinnati with Luis Castillo in the Dan Straily trade, but he’s yet to find any real success. Brice saw a career-high 37 1/3 innings with the Reds last year but was knocked around for a 5.79 ERA with a 32-to-13 K/BB ratio (although, notably, six of those walks were intentional in nature).
It’s been an eventful offseason for Brice, who was claimed by the Angels back on Nov. 2. He went to Baltimore on a waiver claim two months later in early January and will now join his fourth organization since the season ended. If he heads to camp with the Fish, he’ll bring a fastball that sits 94 mph and a solid, albeit unspectacular career swinging-strike rate of 10.1 percent.
Galloway, 29, reached the big leagues for the first time in 2018 but hit just .203/.301/.391 in 74 trips to the plate. He did swat three homers and doubles apiece in that short time, but he’s never been much of a power threat in the upper minors. A career .256/.304/.393 hitter in parts of four Triple-A seasons, Galloway has logged more than 7600 innings in center field as a professional and has experience at all three outfield positions.
How bad is your team if you’re taking the Orioles’ rejects?
Now that’s funny.
(Wittgren’s better.)
Don’t understand the Marlins thinking…
could’ve just designated Galloway for assignment when they signed Walker, and kept Wittgren. I don’t think Austin Brice is better than Wittgren.
Their management isn’t that smart.
back in the day we called it “trading sore armed pitchers.”
Isaac didn’t get much of a chance. I hope someone picks him up.
When the reds got Castillo and Brice someone mentioned that they got two quality arms. They then added, unfortunately they are both on Castillo.
I like to consider myself a pretty knowledgeable ML fan but when I take a peak at the marlins pitchers on the 40 man Im lost. Haven’t heard of 80% of these guys.
That’s because it’s a 10 man roster