The Marlins announced that right-hander Matt Andriese has been designated for assignment. Calvin Faucher has been called up from Triple-A Jacksonville to take his fellow right’s spot on the 26-man roster.
Signed to a minor league deal during the offseason, Andriese had that contract selected on April 4, resulting in his first taste of Major League action since the 2021 campaign. Andriese had a 5.40 ERA over five innings and three appearances with Miami, eating some innings in a mop-up capacity while also allowing two homers in this brief sample size.
The home run ball was often an issue for Andriese during his seven-year run in the bigs from 2015-21, as he had a 14.5% homer rate over 509 innings with five different clubs. Andriese’s 2022 campaign was spent in Japan with the Yomiuri Giants, and he returned to North America last season on a minor league deal with the Dodgers, posting a 6.05 ERA across 93 2/3 innings for Triple-A Oklahoma City without ever getting a call-up.
Should Andriese clear waivers, Miami could opt to keep him around at Triple-A as bullpen depth, even if his lack of minor league options makes him an imperfect candidate to be shuffled back and forth between the majors and minors. Andriese can also refuse an outright assignment to Triple-A in order to become a free agent, as he has previously been outrighted off a 40-man roster earlier in his career. Given his rather long path back to the Show, it seems possible that Andriese might prefer the relative stability of remaining in the Marlins organization rather than again testing the open market.
Entire bullpen needs to be DFA’D
You do NOT want to upset Calvin’s Mom: the mother Faucher
Not all…but certainly most.
Surprisingly, Tanner Scott is carrying his 2023 success over to 2024. I thought Max Meyer might be a key set up guy this year, but he became the ace starter by default.
Um, Tanner Scott has not looked good at all. Most stats are deceptive for relievers. And even with those, you can see what I’m talking about with Scott. He has pitched 6.2 innings and already has 9 BBs. And he was lucky to only have only 1 of the 3 runs he’s given up counted as an earned run. His 0-2 record is not lying about his performance either.
Yeah, echoing Banned’s post. Scott has only been “not bad” if all you look at is ERA, After today’s predictable blown save, the ERA is more align with how bad he’s been.
Yep, we saw that coming. It’s like watching Renyel Pinto again. Not as bad as Pinto, but Scott is making a run for matching Pinto.
Ok, stand corrected, sounds like Scott is doing poorly, which would have been my original expectation.
@MannyBeingMVP
I think somewhere in the back of Tanner Scott’s mind, he was determined to confirm that he sucks for this discussion. 😛
But with relievers, I have always gone with the rule of not paying attention to their ERAs because bad ones can have decent to good ERAs a number of ways.
For me, when determining whether a reliever I haven’t seen is bad, good, something in between, I look for stats like Hold %, SV/BSV stats, WHIP, BBs in comparison to IPs, and if I’m digging deeper, at the stats, how they performed against good teams vs bad teams, and how they perform in high-leverage situations (no matter what tools they have). All of this gives a good idea what a reliever you haven’t seen pretty much is.
And even after these stats, when I see the reliever, I go with the good ole eyeball test at a combination of what a reliever has as far as pitches and stuff, but also I watch his composure, body language, and eyes. The pitches and stuff show the ability, but the psychological tells with the rest, tell you whether he can handle pressure. In the case of Tanner Scott, we all know the guy has stuff with his tools. However, you can see it in his body language and eyes that he’s not comfortable or confident in his abilities when he’s out there – even when he’s had his good streaks.
Don’t see the words “Marlins” and “stability” used in the same sentence much.
But if he is seeking the team that is most likely to run out of better pitchers, the Marlins seem as good a spot as any.
Sure you do. I’ll give you one: The Miami Marlins have no stability whatsoever on their roster.
Andriese was one of many failed analytics signings by Bloom, he gave him a $2M contract in 2021 despite horrible legacy numbers the prior 3 seasons. “Great peripherals” Bloom said.
Sox released him in August of that same season, he pitched 16 innings total since then.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
As a Marlins fan, we had the same problem years ago with Ricky Nolasco – of course that wasn’t as bad as Andriese. But the contract decision was worst because the Marlins opted to sign Nolasco to an extension instead of Anibal Sanchez – mainly based on analytics.
How’s your Faucher?
It’s funny you should ask.
This team’s top BWAR player is Declan Cronin. Unshockingly, the despiration is palpable.
Yes , yes , yes and yes but he did pitch in the MLB “ AllStars “ Tour of Japan in 2018 representing the Diamondbacks.
This could be addition by subtraction, but we need to subtract more of those bullpen arms on the roster.
The Marlins bullpen still sucks!