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Marlins Designate Kyle Keller For Assignment

By Steve Adams | December 20, 2019 at 11:12am CDT

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.

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10 Comments

  1. steveguy13

    6 years ago

    Somebody tell the Orioles

    Reply
    • ScottCFA

      6 years ago

      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.

      Reply
  2. rusty2489

    6 years ago

    come on pirates go get him

    Reply
  3. Amanda2019

    6 years ago

    hes all yours boston

    Reply
  4. bighiggy

    6 years ago

    How about recently designated adolis Garcia for keller? Or would keller have to occupy a 40 spot?

    Reply
    • seattlesuperfan

      6 years ago

      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

      Reply
  5. 5toolMVP

    6 years ago

    The Angels top Ace if there ever was one.

    Reply
  6. Georgiajeff

    6 years ago

    Someone call Theo Epstein. The only thing that would make him even more attractive to Theo would be TJ surgery

    Reply
    • iamhector24

      6 years ago

      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.

      Reply
      • chieflove42

        6 years ago

        they need to add like buttons because this response needs like a thousand likes

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