The Marlins selected infielder Erik González onto the major league roster before yesterday’s game against the Padres. Reliever Richard Bleier was placed on the COVID-19 injured list in a corresponding move.
Whenever González gets into a game, it’ll be his seventh consecutive year with some MLB action. Originally an Indians’ prospect, the Dominican Republic native bounced on and off the big league roster with Cleveland between 2016-18. Regarded as a fairly promising young player, he was blocked out of the regular infield by the trio of Francisco Lindor, Jason Kipnis and José Ramírez. González didn’t perform especially well when given opportunities, and Cleveland traded him to the Pirates over the 2018-19 offseason.
He spent three years with the Bucs, getting a little more run than he’d had in Cleveland. Between 2019-21, the right-handed hitter accrued roughly the equivalent of one full season of playing time. He managed just a .236/.268/.324 line in that time, making a fair amount of contact but hitting plenty of ground-balls and only walking in 4.3% of his plate appearances. The Pirates outrighted González off their 40-man roster last August, and he elected minor league free agency at the end of the year.
The Fish signed the 30-year-old to a minors deal during the lockout. He’s gotten off to a scorching .392/.417/.526 start in 103 plate appearances, although that’s in large part due to an unsustainable .481 batting average on balls in play. Nevertheless, González is a solid defender all around the dirt and can offer some insurance behind Miami’s primary infield of Jesús Aguilar, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Miguel Rojas and Joey Wendle.
Miami brought up both González and Joe Dunand over the weekend after losing infield options Brian Anderson and Jon Berti to the COVID list. Bleier became the third player in as many days to land on the shelf, subtracting perhaps skipper Don Mattingly’s most trusted late-game lefty from the mix. Bleier, who signed a two-year extension during Spring Training, has allowed four runs in 8 2/3 innings with six strikeouts and a pair of walks in 2022.
We are now 1-7 in our last 8 games following Sunday’s brutal 3-2 loss to the Padres at Petco Park. To make matters worse, the loss was of the walk-off variety and authored by none other than our very own Jorge Alfaro. The former Marlin crushed a walk-off three-run blast, sending the Padres to victory and our demoralized team to the showers.
We apologize to our fans for this skid, especially the select fans over at MLB Trade Rumors who had been prematurely pounding their chests 10 days ago. Those fans have now retreated back to their silent obscurity, and for them, we feel truly sorry.
This troll account of yours is almost as pathetic as your normal trolling account.
Must be a Mets fan.
#FreeLaTortuga
On a roster that has Jorge Soler, Avisail Garcia, and Jesus Aguilar, when Joey Wendle is batting cleanup you are probably in trouble
Aguilar has been better of late, but he has his limitations. They need Soler and Garcia to produce, but they also need to spend some of their capital (prospects and $) to upgrade their glaring weaknesses in the bullpen and in CF.
If Elieser gets bombed again today they need to bring up Meyer. Maybe Sixto comes back and is a high-leverage reliever.
I’d trade for Melancon and Laureano. Get rid of Soler and bring up Bleday. Then again, I’m a Mets fan and want to see none of those things!
Laureano almost feels too obvious to happen, like how Starling Marte to the Phillies over the winter made too much sense and didn’t happen. For whatever reason the Marlins either signed or constantly linked to corner Outfielders.
you are calling everyone except one Miguel Rojas.
pinch hit the other day with base loaded fail 183 ba is failing
you and everyone.. refuse to call biggest problem. with pitcher hitting numbers . combine with better defense catcher Jacob Stallings ( like alex jackson i think they gave up on to soon) ba 162 . you cant have two many low ba hitter in lineup and hope for best like don. or use other number claim they close to hitting again. like you hear announcers doing . and keep jinx marlins.
before hr on Mother day was hit they said he always hit against marlins.
but they also need to spend some of their capital (prospects and $) to upgrade their glaring weaknesses in the bullpen and in CF. i dont agree
they need to call more people up. see what they got. none can be worse than lewis brison.
Okay, I’m confused. With only 1 player on the 60day IL The MLB Marlins Roster page has 41 players on the 40 man roster (42-1)
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Glad for Erik. He was the consummate trooper as a Pirate, until they realized that they’d assembled about 8 other younger guys who could basically do the same thing. As an added bonus, the trade for Gonzalez not only gave the Bucs 2 decent pitching prospects, but it rid them of Max Moroff, who for some reason the Bucs kept trotting out and trying to convince fans that he was a big leaguer.
*TALLAHASSEE TURTLES