Marlins right-hander Nick Neidert recently underwent surgery to address a right knee injury, tweets Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald. The 25-year-old has been on the minor league injured list since August 9. Further details about the procedure aren’t clear, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if that brings his 2022 season to an end.
It has been a frustrating year for Neidert, a former second-round pick of the Mariners. Traded to Miami in the Dee Strange-Gordon swap, Neidert was at one point viewed as a potential back-of-the-rotation stalwart. He’s generally performed well in the minor leagues but hasn’t managed to translate that into MLB success. Neidert carried a 4.70 ERA through 44 MLB innings heading into this season, and the Marlins outrighted him off their 40-man roster just before Opening Day.
He’s subsequently had a solid run with Triple-A Jacksonville, pitching to a 1.96 ERA through 46 innings. The Georgia native fanned an above-average 26.1% of batters faced while only walking 4.9% of opponents, and he reclaimed a spot on the 40-man roster in July. Neidert came up for a spot start, tossed five innings of two-run ball, and was optioned back to Jacksonville. After one additional Triple-A start, he landed on the shelf.
Neidert continues to count against Miami’s 40-man roster while he’s on the minor league injured list. The Marlins could recall him and place him on the MLB 60-day IL if he’s indeed out for the season, although doing so would require paying him at the prorated $700K minimum rate.
Had his knee nicked in the dirt
Just a season where nothing has gone right. Law of averages should see the Marlins be better next season.
As a Halo fan I tell myself the same thing every year friend.
I feel for you Trumbo. Your situation would be very frustrating. I hate to say it, but I think the Marlins fans have more to look forward to in the near future than Angels fans. I think the Angels need an organizational overhaul and I don’t mean that to be negative.
You are just speaking the cold truth. I think they need about 3-5 years myself. Getting to watch Trout the past 10 years has been my only solace….And Shohei as well, and I of course want him to stay but who knows..
There aren’t very many teams with as bleak of a future as the Angels, however the sale of the team gives some hope for better direction.
Regardless, at this point there’s really only two options for the Halos to return to real competitiveness. They either go full Steve Cohen and overpay for sorely needed depth, or go full rebuild and trade anyone and everyone they possibly can. Arte was unwilling to do either because of their respective effects on his wallet, but hopefully a new owner and front office will pick a direction and go for it.
I personally feel that the Angels should got full rebuild. Just trading Trout and Shohei will get them a ton of prospects to work with in that rebuild. They’ll have to hope for the best with Rendon though. That’s been ugly, so they are stuck with him. Maybe just hope for mentorship from him for incoming young players.
You never know. The Angels remind me of the late aught Cardinals. We were top heavy with stars but had very little young talent and a management team with very little interest in developing players. The organization got stale, old, injured and eventually mediocre. Fortunately Jeff Luhnow, Mo, and others were able to deftly change the organizational philosophy without going through a tear down. Anything can happen in baseball. Look at last year’s Giants and Red Sox.
Another injury for the Marlins.
the positive though is that we may have our pitching for 2023 shaping up.
Sandy Alcantara
Edward Cabrera
Jesus Luzardo
Trevor Rogers
Braxton Garrett
Pablo Lopez very likely will be traded for a bat. I see him in the AL next year with teams like either the Yankees for a Gleyber Torres revisited traded or Toronto for one of their bats (Teoscar Hernandez?). Who knows.