The Marlins have designated righty Luis Madero for assignment, as The Miami Herald’s David Wilson was among to report. First baseman Lewin Diaz has been called up from Triple-A in the corresponding move.
This is already the third time Miami has DFA’ed Madero since the start of May, though amidst the roster maneuvering, the right-hander did make his Major League debut. Madero has tossed four innings over three games for the Marlins, with one disastrous outing (five runs in one inning against the Diamondbacks on May 11) accounting for his 11.25 ERA.
Beginning his career as a 17-year-old in Arizona’s farm system in 2014, Madero pitched for the D’Backs, Angels, and was briefly in the Giants organization before joining the Marlins on a minor league deal last winter. Starting 92 of his 110 career games in the minors, Madero has a 4.34 ERA and 20.73% strikeout rate over an even 500 minor league innings.
If Lewis Diaz is up, Marlins must be, at least, working on a deal to ship out Aguilar and/or Cooper.
Lewis needs the at-bats in the Majors. Theres no reason for this call-up to be a bench bat with the occasional start.
great points. I could see Aguilar going to an American League (DH) team like the Athletics or Mariners. Or even going back to the Brewers for the stretch run.
Them, or the Red Sox. Imo, the Red Sox and Brewers will be the most active in the 1B market. A’s or M’s might go after bigger bats than Aguilar.
Agree. Red Sox are nothing to sneeze at. They’re getting Chris Sale back too. Going to be a dog fight for the AL East crown between Rays and Sox.
Watch out for the Jays too if they make a big play for Gallo and a starting pitcher/bullpen help. The AL East is gonna be a fun one.
Jays are fun to watch on offense.
The Jays are 10.5 out. 4.5 in the Wild Card. Fun team for sure, but not enough pitching to even crack the playoffs, let alone make a run.
With a big deadline deal for a starter and some other deals for relief pitching, I think they have a great chance at making the second wild card spot.
They definitely have some holes to fill for sure. I will be rooting for them.
True.
Odd question Mjm but are you Mjrmaniac?
Odd indeed. No idea who Mjrmaniac is.