The Marlins announced Thursday that they’ve selected the contract of right-hander Matt Andriese from Triple-A Jacksonville and designated lefty Kent Emanuel for assignment in a corresponding move. Miami also optioned infielder Jonah Bride to Jacksonville, opening an active roster spot for infielder Emmanuel Rivera, whom they acquired from the D-backs on Tuesday.
Emanuel, 31, was selected to the roster himself earlier this week when Miami designated right-hander Vladimir Gutierrez for assignment. Like Gutierrez, he worked one long relief outing — three innings, four hits, four runs, three walks, two strikeouts — to help spare an overworked bullpen and will now be designated for assignment in favor of a fresh arm.
Emanuel has just 20 2/3 innings of MLB experience under his belt, including this recent brief stay with the Fish. The former third-rounder (Astros, 2013) has a 3.92 ERA and 15-to-7 K/BB ratio in that time. Emanuel pitched well at the Triple-A level in 2019 and 2022 but struggled there with the Pirates organization in 2023. He’s in his final minor league option year, so a new club could acquire him and send him to Triple-A without needing to worry about first passing him through waivers.
The 34-year-old Andriese will be making his first big league appearance since 2021 if and when he takes the ball for the Marlins. Like Emanuel and Gutierrez before him, he could be in for a short stay on Miami’s roster, as the overworked bullpen for a winless Marlins club could find itself in need of a fresh arm yet again in the near future. And, if Andriese enters the game, it’ll likely be in a multi-inning relief setting, which will render him unavailable in the short-term.
Andriese appeared in the big leagues in every season from 2015-21, logging 509 innings of 4.63 ERA ball along the way. The bulk of that work came with the Rays, for whom he pitched 339 innings with a 4.30 ERA, 20.4% strikeout rate and 6.2% walk rate from 2015-19. Andriese spent the 2022 season with Japan’s Yomiuri Giants. He was with the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate last year but never got a look in the majors.
Emanuel out Emmanuel in. Always good to have an extra m when you need it.
He’s close to his mother’s sister. Now he’s got a really pissed aunt.
This is pure video game baseball. How do you make a call on a player after 3 innings?
Lol this DFA situation is already a joke. Just resign Johnny Cueto see if he can hold down a rotation spot for a couple weeks lol
Stretch123: It looks like I’m going to have to RESIGN myself that you AND so many of the other posters on here refuse to use simple grammar. Resign and re-sign are two (not to or too) different words with TWO distinct meanings.
Hey buddy, this is a trade rumors site, not English class LOL
Do you have issues sleeping at night?
The lowly hyphen can make a huge difference. As Lynne Truss points out in her wonderful book “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”, consider the consequences of engaging in an extra-marital affair instead of an extra marital affair!
When “and” is used to start the sentence, there should be no comma after it. Learn how to punctuate, Adams.