Marlins left-hander Trevor Rogers didn’t make his scheduled rehab start yesterday due to an issue in his non-throwing shoulder, according to Craig Mish of the Miami Herald. The club is currently waiting for medical results before making a decision on how to proceed with Rogers, who could be back on the mound in Triple-A as soon as early next week if the impending medical update is encouraging. Rogers has made just four starts for the Marlins this year while battling a biceps strain. In those starts, Rogers posted a solid 4.00 ERA (111 ERA+) with a 4.11 FIP and 19 strikeouts in 18 innings of work, though he did struggle with his command as he hit three batters and walked six in that time.
After Rogers’s setback, the Marlins may be left looking for rotation options in the near future, as Mish indicates that the club is hoping to “slow down” youngster Eury Perez, who has already pitched 60 innings this season between Triple-A and the majors after throwing just 77 innings total last season. The 20-year-old phenom has been excellent in 29 innings in the majors this season, with a sterling 2.17 ERA. That being said, Perez’s 24.8% strikeout rate, 10.7% walk rate, and unsightly 27.3% groundball rate all leave something to be desired, resulting in a less inspiring 4.34 FIP.
Mish suggests that the Marlins may limit the young right-hander to somewhere between 100 and 115 innings during the 2023 campaign, and the club is hoping to have Perez available later in the season. A natural time to slow Perez down seemed to be on the horizon with Rogers’s pending return, but with the lefty’s timetable less clear, the Marlins may need to look elsewhere to cover for Perez’s starts if they wish to manage his innings headed into the summer.
More from around the NL East…
- Phillies fans got positive injury news regarding a pair of young right-handers yesterday, as Rule 5 draft pick Noah Song is set to begin work in sim games in the coming week, as noted by Alex Coffey of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Song posted impressive numbers in 2019 after the Red Sox drafted him in the fourth round of that year’s draft, though he has not thrown a profession pitch since due to his service as an officer in the US Navy from 2020-2022 and this year’s injury woes. Coffey also notes that top pitching prospect Andrew Painter, who has been out since Spring Training while rehabbing a UCL sprain, threw a 20-pitch bullpen session yesterday. A consensus top prospect int he sport ranked as high as #5 by Baseball America entering the 2023 season, the 20-year-old Painter seemed poised to claim the fifth starter job in Philadelphia before the UCL injury left him shut down from baseball activity. Painter’s return to the mound is sure to breed optimism among fans in Philadelphia, though Coffey notes that manager Rob Thomson gave no update to Painter’s timetable for return ahead of yesterday’s bullpen session.
- Mike Puma of the New York Post suggested today that the Mets could look to skip the next start of right-hander Tylor Megill, who has struggled to a 5.14 ERA in 63 innings as a regular member of the club’s rotation this season. Things have gotten particularly difficult for Megill over the past three weeks, and the young right-hander has posted a ghastly 8.64 ERA in his last four starts, walking a whopping twelve batters while striking out just fourteen in 16 2/3 innings of work. As Puma notes, the club won’t require a fifth starter until they face the Astros on June 20, allowing them to either skip Megill’s next start and use him out of the bullpen for a period of time, or perhaps option Megill to Triple-A before giving Joey Lucchesi or David Peterson a look in the rotation. Manager Buck Showalter acknowledged that coming off days provide the club with flexibility, “especially in the bullpen if we wanted to add an arm.”
Haven’t seen it on here yet, but Rockies Charlie Blackmon has a broken hand.
Check the Coco Montes article
You would think that the injury to Blackmon would be the headline.
Coco is not exactly a household name.
That Marlins “depth” sure is looking just as strong as everyone claimed; definitely well enough to be getting rid of arms in pointless trades…
No injuries to half the guys in the minor leagues, or lesser performance at all
Pointless trades? That pointless trade resulted in the most important piece of their offense, while Lopez has been his usual self looking like an ace one start and getting shelled in a bunch of others.
Let me guess, they could’ve just kept Chizholm at 2nd(underperformed till he got hurt) and signed any number of currently underperforming outfielders to put in cf, any one of which wouldnt come near the production of arraez.
Come on @formelyz
You bash the trade that got us Arraez, but always disagree with us Marlins fans that want to move on from Garrett “IL” Cooper?
Also, with our starting staff, we never expected that Alcantara would be stepping back to what he was earlier in his career. And no one could’ve predicted Cueto’s injury.
Besides, if the pitching is still thin from injuries at the deadline, I’m sure that we’ll add someone if we are still contending (which looks likely),
Song needs to come back to the Red Sox.
He probably will. He needs to spend at least 90 days on the active roster (i.e. NOT on the IL) this year to satisfy the rule 5 stuff. That means he has to be activated by early July and remain on the active roster the remainder of the season. If he’s just starting throwing now it’s not all that likely that he’ll be ready for an active roster spot in time.
Seems weird the Phillies would even try to retain him then? I’d think they’d have held onto him this long with the intention they’d be able to keep him.
What the Phillies are doing with Song really sucks for him. If he’s even hurt right now it’s only because they rushed him directly onto a mound after he came back after not throwing at all for years. Now, they basically have to mess with his DL/rehab timing to try and manipulate his service time enough to keep him on the active roster for 90 days BETWEEN this year and next year. In other words if they mess with things enough and only have to carry him on the active roster in September (roster increase to 28) then next year they’d only have to accumulate another 55-60 days on the roster to start next year. Sure there’s a chance they won’t be able to and will return him to the Sox thus allowing him to pitch in the minors like he should be doing but I feel like at this point they’re going to manipulate things as much as possible to try and sneak him onto their roster full time and be able to demote him to develop 1.5/2 months into next season. Really sucky for him and disappointing to see after all these years of wishing he’d get a shot to play ML baseball.
Wrong Eury Peréz linked
LOL Mets,
I watched Megill’s last start and he wasn’t so bad. The defense cost him with Lindor’s error in what should have been an inning ending DP followed by Escobar’s throwing error which opened the floodgates to a 5 run inning.
David Peterson in AAA yesterday couldn’t get out of the 1st inning. Good one.
yes a lot of that was not megill’s fault. but that was just the last start. this season megill is a guy who can’t get the out pitch when he needs it, has shoddy control, and barely gets through 4 innings. every time he starts he adds pressure to the bullpen that has to come out and pitch 6 innings. he also has the tendency to lose focus if anything (error, cheap hit or bad call) goes wrong. he needs to get himself together out there because he does have good stuff when he is on.
Great to see Painter and Song news that’s actually new. Hopefully Painter is ready by August for the stretch and can give them 8-9 starts?
Dombrowski definitely has a plan for Song and it’s not handing him back to the Sox. Looking forward to seeing it…
Seeing the Red Sox fans continually lose their minds over Song is hillarious and I’m here for it.
Same. It’s hilarious that people think there’s some conspiracy there.
It doesn’t matter who is playing for the Mets they have found ways to lose. They score 5 or 7 or 10 runs and they lose. They get 4 plus scoreless innings from the bullpen and are only one run down, and they lose.
The magic that they had at the beginning of last year, when they could string together hits for rallies and use rallies for comeback wins is long gone. They are now a team like many otherhhh teams who don’t score runs unless the ball is “outta here” as their radio guy likes to say.
They don’t find ways to win. They find ways to lose. So bring up Lucchesi or Peterson. It doesnt matter. They passed on bringing up Mauricio, and ie tos needs to relax or head back to AAA to find himself again.
No life on the bench. No guts in the front office. No Shakeup. You get what you get what you get, Mets fans.
It doesn’t matter who is playing for the Mets they have found ways to lose. They score 5 or 7 or 10 runs and they lose. They get 4 plus scoreless innings from the bullpen and are only one run down, and they lose.
The magic that they had at the beginning of last year, when they could string together hits for rallies and use rallies for comeback wins is long gone. They are now a team like many otherhhh teams who don’t score runs unless the ball is “outta here” as their radio guy likes to say.
They don’t find ways to win. They find ways to lose. So bring up Lucchesi or Peterson. It doesnt matter. They passed on bringing up Mauricio, and Vientos needs to relax or head back to AAA to find himself again.
No life on the bench. No guts in the front office. No Shakeup. You get what you get what you get, Mets fans.
Not optimistic about Painter. If it’s inferred, TJS is going to happen.
I blame the Phillies for mishandling Painter.
Cezanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I disagree. I’ve read nothing to suggest the Phillies handling of Painter involved spilling, splattering, or smudging. I believe their handling of Painter has been considered by most to be a stroke of genius.
You’ll only get a spattering of applause at that observation.
Painter needs to be dealt to the Mariners for A.Jackson Pollock.
Only question that remains is…Have you seen fire AND rain?
How have they mishandled Painter? They shut him down at the first sign of trouble.
Pity about Rogers. He was cruising through rehab starts. Hopefully it’s just an extra week, but so often it doesn’t happen that way.
On the other side of the coin, Cueto managed a scoreless rehab start in Pensacola, but had a lot of traffic. He is looking vulnerable to getting scored upon, heavily
Isn’t Lugo coming back soon?
HA forgot he wasn’t a Met no mo