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Miguel Rojas Diagnosed With Broken Thumb

By Jeff Todd | May 8, 2017 at 9:33pm CDT

The Marlins will be without utility infielder Miguel Rojas for several months, MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro reports on Twitter. He has been diagnosed with a broken thumb that will require a cast.

That news comes at a particularly inopportune time for the Fish, who also just lost third baseman Martin Prado to the DL. It’s likely that Rojas would have helped cover at the hot corner along with Derek Dietrich, while continuing to fill in at short and second base. Instead, the club will be forced to lean on rookie J.T. Riddle for quite a bit longer than had been hoped when Rojas was hurt yesterday.

Rojas has somewhat quietly played a notable reserve role for Miami over the past few years. But his importance to the club has grown substantially early in the current season. Rojas has already taken 73 plate appearances — more than both Dietrich and shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria — and provided a useful .338/.389/.400 slash line with just eight strikeouts.

While there’s not much reason to think that Rojas’s high-contact, power-less approach will ever allow him to be even an average hitter over the long haul, that doesn’t mean he can’t be a useful player. Metrics have graded him as a positive around the infield, and perhaps he can do enough offensively to hang on as a solid utility piece if he can hold onto his current increase in walk rate (up to 8.2%).

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  1. RiverCatsFilms

    8 years ago

    God damn that’s unfortunate! Guess whoever buys the Marlins has some rebuilding to do. Is Stanton’s contract too large to be a deadline deal?

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    • HubcapDiamondStarHalo

      8 years ago

      So that just begs a thread…

      You’re the GM of your favorite MLB team. You get a call that says, “What would you give us for Stanton?” Your reply?

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      • bastros88

        8 years ago

        depends on the team, I know the astros might not have the financial capacity to take on a Stanton contract, so I probably wouldn’t take him

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      • aceofrainbows

        8 years ago

        A hot dog? Stanton’s contract is 2x too big for him and 2x too long. No one wants it.

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      • ReverieDays

        8 years ago

        Nothing, because he makes way too much and isn’t worth it in my eyes.

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  2. tim815

    8 years ago

    I guess I look at this the other way.

    If the Marlins can make a trade to replace Rojas, are they still considering themselves contenders?

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  3. notagain27

    8 years ago

    Apparently the people bidding 1.3 BILLION Dollars aren’t worried too much about Stanton’s contract.

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  4. formerlyz

    8 years ago

    I’m obviously still missing something. Stanton only has about 3 years/$77 million left on his deal after this year

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    • AidanVega123

      8 years ago

      That’s if he opts out, I believe

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      • formerlyz

        8 years ago

        So when he opts out…if he is healthy until then, he’ll put up numbers to get him more than the 7 years/$218 million remaining after the fact.

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  5. Phillies2017

    8 years ago

    They really have nothing at AAA, so I’m assuming they just hope for an infielder to hit the waiver wire or they call up a non-competitor like San Diego and grab an Erick Aybar type for a C prospect like Raudel Lazo or John Norwood

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