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Jesús Luzardo Diagnosed With Mild Flexor Muscle Strain

By Darragh McDonald | April 29, 2024 at 6:21pm CDT

Marlins left-hander Jesús Luzardo has been diagnosed with a mild left flexor muscle strain, the club announced to members of the beat, including Isaac Azout of Fish on First. The team didn’t announce if this would impact his expected timeline.

Late last week, the lefty was scratched from his scheduled start and placed on the 15-day injured list due to left elbow tightness. That naturally led to some concern, as is always the case when a pitcher’s throwing arm is mentioned as part of an injury. On top of that, the Marlins had already seen their rotation hit hard by Tommy John surgery. Since Sandy Alcántara and Eury Pérez were already on the IL recovering from Tommy John surgeries, seeing Luzardo go down the same path would be another devastating blow.

Thankfully, it doesn’t seem as though anything like that is in the cards. Shortly after being placed on the IL, Luzardo said his IL placement was precautionary and that he felt he would only miss one or two starts, and there hasn’t yet been anything to suggest that plan isn’t possible. He played catch at the ballpark today, with some video relayed on X by Christina De Nicola of MLB.com. With his injury also reported as muscular in nature and not seemingly related to any ligament damage, that also perhaps suggests the worst fears have been avoided.

That’s undoubtedly good news for Luzardo and the Marlins, even if their season is going incredibly poorly. They are currently sporting a record of 6-23 and FanGraphs has their Playoff Odds down at 0.5%.

MLBTR’s Anthony Franco took a look earlier today at who the club might be looking to sell this summer, with Luzardo one of the most attractive pieces they could offer. He made 32 starts for the club last year with an earned run average of 3.58, striking out 28.1% of batters against a walk rate of just 7.4%. He stumbled out of the gate this year with a 6.58 ERA through five starts, but that’s a fairly small sample size and the injury could have plausibly played a role in that.

Luzardo is controllable for another two seasons after this one, so the Marlins certainly don’t have to trade him this summer. But non-rental pitchers are generally the most sought-after assets at the trade deadline. Given that ownership and the new front office under president of baseball operations Peter Bendix have seemingly been focused on overhauling the club’s farm system and player development apparatus, it stands to reason that they would have interested in selling Luzardo now. By waiting into future, his salary will rise via arbitration and his window of club control will shrink, thus reducing his value.

For Luzardo, he will obviously want to get healthy and back on the mound. Getting traded is always challenging but perhaps he would welcome the opportunity to join a competitive club for the final months of the season. On top of that, greater health and performance will help him increase his salary via arbitration in the coming seasons. He’s making $5.5MM this year and is slated for two more passes through the arb system.

Elsewhere on the roster, infielder Jake Burger is expected to start a rehab assignment in the coming days, per Azout on X. He was out of a bit of a slow start this year, hitting .228/.281/.421 through 16 games for a wRC+ of 92 before landing on the IL due to an oblique injury. But that performance may have been driven by a low batting average on balls in play, as his .233 mark so far this year has been well below average and his previous rate.

He had a breakout 34-homer campaign last year, split between the White Sox and Marlins after a midseason trade. He hit .250/.309/.518 on the year overall for a 120 wRC+. He’s not considered an especially strong defender but the lineup could use his bat. The team has a collective wRC+ of 73 so far this year, a mark that puts them ahead of just the White Sox. The club has been using Josh Bell, Emmanuel Rivera and Vidal Bruján to cover the infield corners lately, but none of that trio is hitting especially well, making it fairly easy for Burger to get back in the lineup once he’s healthy.

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  1. formerlyz

    1 year ago

    There is beyond zero reason to rush

    Reply
  2. Never Remember

    1 year ago

    Watch out. Marlins only six or seven good players away from being a .500 team.

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    • Blackpink in the area

      1 year ago

      Any team that loses their top 3 starters would no longer be a good team.

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      • GangGreen23

        1 year ago

        “ Can NEVER have enough Pitching “.

        So true.

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  3. CardsFan57

    1 year ago

    Miami is no longer flush with pitching. Why would they be looking to trade them?

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    • Blackpink in the area

      1 year ago

      If everyone is healthy they have

      Alcantara
      Luzardo
      Perez
      Garrett
      Cabrera
      Rogers
      Meyer
      Weathers
      Sanchez

      They have pitching to trade, at least at some point.

      Reply
      • Roll

        1 year ago

        and if the dodgers were healthy they would have

        Ohtani
        Yamamoto
        Glasnow
        Kershaw
        Buehler
        May
        Gonsolin
        Paxton

        etc etc

        but i dont see them trading any of those right now either

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        • Blackpink in the area

          1 year ago

          The Dodgers knew before the season started that Kershaw, May and Gonsolin were out with injury. And they knew Buehler might not be at full strength when the season started. They planned for those things. The Marlins knew Alcantara was out but then they lost Perez, Luzardo and Garrettt.

          And the Dodgers have tons of money to spend of course.

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        • Roll

          1 year ago

          Garrett had his issue very early in spring training when there were multiple quality starters available. Also the fact they decided since end of last year to stretch out Puk into a starter they knew the rotation was going to be a concern.

          Reply
        • Blackpink in the area

          1 year ago

          Yeah there were starters available but the Marlins don’t have an unlimited budget like the Dodgers do. And if everyone had been healthy I don’t think Puk would have been used as a starter.

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        • Roll

          1 year ago

          mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/marlins-listening-on-st…

          from december they planned on moving him to starter and alcantara was the only one out at that time. So he more than likely would have been used as a starter.

          The team is worth 1.2Billion they can spend atleast 1/10 of that on payroll. Currently they are a shade under 100M so they had atleast another 20 or so mil to even get to that level If you want to compare even last season they were at 110M so thats 10M more that could have been spent and you also forget that Alcantara is most likely receiving his salary from insurance which is another 10M available. So they have money available they just choose not to spend it.

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        • Big Smoke

          1 year ago

          Except the Dodgers have no reason to trade their pitchers for hitting talent because they already have that.

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        • Roll

          1 year ago

          they could use an upgrade to lux or taylor .. they just have players to compensate for their current attrocious bats as ohtani freeman betts and smith are top hitters for their positions

          taylor actually has a negative ops+ but still playing 3-4 times a week. so yes they have reason to trade pitchers for hitters to improve atleast on those two and maybe the bench especially with the expectations they have for this year after this past offseason.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      1 year ago

      Bc they aren’t ready to compete right now as constructed. If Sherman doesn’t want to increase future payroll, then Bendix should just blow it up and rebuild as he desires. Any marginal wins Luzardo brings won’t make a difference.

      Reply
  4. Deleted Userr

    1 year ago

    If the Marlins sign Bauer but no one is around to see it…

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    • Roll

      1 year ago

      i think every starting pitcher is trying to stay away from miami at this point lol

      Reply
    • MacGromit

      1 year ago

      good to see it’s not TJ. hurry back Luzardo. your league audition starts as soon as you get off the IL.

      Reply
    • Brew88

      1 year ago

      Nobody wants your Bauer, clearly

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  5. LambchoP

    1 year ago

    Luzardo or the other young hard throwing SP to the Twins at deadline. We need SP, just like every other team…

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