3:14pm: An MRI revealed a herniated disc in Urena’s back, Wells Dusenbury of the Sun Sentinel was among those to tweet.
1:07pm: Marlins right Jose Urena is hitting the shelf for the foreseeable future, with the club announcing that he’s going to the 60-day injured list. Urena is said to be dealing with a left lower back strain.
It’s a bit of a surprising turn of events for the starting pitcher, who had been scheduled to start on Wednesday before hitting the 10-day IL. At the time, there wasn’t much indication that he’d be sidelined for a lengthy stretch. The injury is evidently more severe than is apparent from the basic description of a lower back issue.
Given the timing, Urena won’t be eligible to return from the IL until mid-August. That all but eliminates him as a summer trade target. The 27-year-old hadn’t been in top form, with a 4.70 ERA in 74 2/3 innings, but he turned in consecutive sub-4.00 ERA campaigns in the prior two seasons. With his steady mid-to-upper nineties fastball velocity, Urena could have been an interesting swingman for the right contender.
Urena is earning $3.2MM this year as a 3+ service-class arbitration player. That leaves two more arb-eligible campaigns to come. The injury will sap his ability to procure a significant raise next fall, so it’s still plausible to imagine the Marlins tendering him a contract. Whether that’ll be a sensible approach will depend upon Urena’s recovery and showing upon his return,
This move represents the corresponding 40-man roster transaction for the club’s previously reported decision to select the contract of Yadiel Rivera. He’ll help fill in for Martin Prado while the veteran infielder is sidelined.
Probably a guy that they should try making a closer. He’s just average as a starter.
As long as they don’t expect him to be an ace, there’s nothing wrong with him being simply an average starter. An average starter still provides more value than an elite closer because of the additional innings.
He’s a garbage pitcher with a garbage attitude towards the game playing for a garbage team.
Obviously, you are a “garbage” collector.
Did you not learn anything from Frozen? Let it go, man. Ronald has moved on. You can too.
Someone sounds a bit salty. Get over the Acuña incident. It happened in the past.
Plus, urena has no command, so I’m still a little iffy on what was on purpose or not. Dude also hits a lot of guys for that exact reason
An elite closer has much more trade value than an average starter though
He’s a below average starter. According to baseball reference, he’s closer to replacement level than average.
should’ve selected gallen instead
He didnt line up. Will be up soon enough
And Noesi started last night in AAA.
Not on the 40 man roster, but that could change soon.
Probably hurt his neck watching Ronald’s homerun ball fly out of the park.
Exactly this. Or karma. You beat me to it! What part of NC?
Herniated disc? Might be the end for him
Of course…As a Marlins fan, I called it. They waited too long to get rid of him again…like they always do. Same garbage
Let’s see what I said when it was reported teams were interested in him…”As a Marlins fan, now is the time to move him, after his last 8 starts. For once, I’d like to not see them wait too long to move someone, and honestly, if someone is willing to give up even a mid-level prospect for him, he should be gone. I personally dont consider him to be a SP, so if someone else does, I’d get value while I can, although as I said, there have been plenty of times they missed out
Urena is a fastball-changeup guy with no breaking ball and no command. He throws strikes, but that isnt the same thing. His best pitch is probably his 2 seamer”