The Marlins announced that they’ve designated right-hander Kyle Keller for assignment. His spot on the 40-man roster goes to right-hander Yimi Garcia, whose previously reported one-year contract with Miami is now official.
Keller, 26, was selected to the 40-man roster in advance of the 2018 Rule 5 Draft. At the time, he had just wrapped up an impressive 2018 season in which he logged 52 2/3 innings of 3.08 ERA ball across three minor league levels, averaging 13.3 K/9 and 3.6 BB/9 along the way.
The 2019 season, though, wasn’t as successful. Keller tallied 54 innings of relief in Triple-A and maintained a strong strikeout rate (12.2 K/9), but his results didn’t match up to his 2018 output, due largely to an inability to strand runners (63.2 percent). Keller logged a 4.50 ERA in Triple-A and made his MLB debut late in the year, allowing four runs in 10 2/3 innings (3.38 ERA). But Keller also allowed three home runs in that brief time in addition to eight walks and two hit batsmen.
The Marlins will have a week to trade Keller or run him through outright waivers in hopes of keeping him in the organization.
Somebody tell the Orioles
Or the Tigers…anyone on the bottom with roster space. At the least, someone will pick him up on a minors deal. I’ll bet he gets a 40-man spot from someone.
come on pirates go get him
hes all yours boston
How about recently designated adolis Garcia for keller? Or would keller have to occupy a 40 spot?
Once DFA’d if he’s traded the team recieving him has three days to place him on the 40 man roster or run him through waivers
The Angels top Ace if there ever was one.
Someone call Theo Epstein. The only thing that would make him even more attractive to Theo would be TJ surgery
Theo won 2 World Series with 2 franchises that were losers for a combined amount of time almost as long as America has been a country. Get all the way off his back.
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