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Marlins Re-Sign Kevin Slowey
By Steve Adams [January 8, 2014 at 10:51am CST]
The Marlins have re-signed right-hander Kevin Slowey to a minor league deal,
according to Baseball America's Matt Eddy (on Twitter). Slowey is a client of
Relativity Baseball (formerly known as SFX).
The 29-year-old Slowey pitched 92 1/3 innings for the Marlins in 2013, posting
a 4.11 ERA with 7.4 K/9, 1.8 BB/9 and a minuscule 28.7 percent ground-ball
rate. Slowey has always been an extreme fly-ball pitcher but has long boasted
elite command as well, as evidenced by his career 1.5 BB/9 rate. Last season
marked his first big league action in a uniform other than that of the Minnesot
a Twins, who selected him out of Winthrop University in the second round of the
2005 draft.
Slowey will face an uphill battle to earn another rotation spot in Miami, as Jo
se Fernandez, Nathan Eovaldi, Henderson Alvarez and Jacob Turner all figure to
be locks. He will have competition in the form of Tom Koehler and Brian Flynn,
with top prospects such as Andrew Heaney and Justin Nicolino not far behind.
Eddy also reports that Miami signed right-hander Craig Westcott and lefty Jose
Gonzalez. The 27-year-old Westcott posted a 4.19 ERA with 5.8 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9
in 144 innings for the Giants' Double-A affiliate in 2013. Gonzalez, 23, posted
a 5.17 ERA with 9.0 K/9 and 4.0 BB/9 in 54 innings of relief across High-A and
Double-A with the Twins last season and yielded a .276/.364/.442 batting line
to his opponents.