8:11am: Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports tweets that the Marlins asked the Dodgers
for both Julio Urias and Corey Seager in exchange for Fernandez, illustrating
the fact that the Marlins aren’t shopping him but only looking to move him
if they can receive an overwhelming return. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports asked
one rival exec what he thought the Dodgers would need to part with in order
to acquire Fernandez, and the exec said Urias, Seager and Scott Van Slyke —
an even more sizable haul.
2:52am: The Dodgers and others have checked in on Fernandez but MLB.com’s
Joe Frisaro reports (Twitter link) that “no serious talks” have taken
place. Frisaro says Miami will listen to teams but he reiterates that a
Fernandez trade isn’t likely to happen.
12:48am: Despite public protestations, the Marlins are holding trade
discussions regarding prized righty Jose Fernandez, Jayson Stark of ESPN.com
reports. Talks have been had with the Dodgers and at least two other teams,
one of which appears to be the Diamondbacks, per the report.
That being said, Stark emphasizes that the organization is putting such a
huge asking price on the 23-year-old that it’s still considered “a long shot
” that anything will get done. The Marlins are reportedly advising other
teams that they’d need to a return that would make the team “better next
season than they would be if they kept Fernandez,” while also improving the
future outlook. That’s obviously a tall order.
Miami president of baseball operations Michael Hill said recently that there
was no truth to rumors that the team was interested in considering a trade of
the youthful ace. “Not sure where all of that came from,” Hill said. “He
sits at the front of our rotation. We are not shopping Jose Fernandez. I don’
t know what more I can say. He’s a good pitcher, one of the best in the
league, so you’re going to get asked about him. But we are not shopping Jose
Fernandez.”
To be fair, there’s a significant difference between “shopping” and “
listening” in the baseball lexicon, and the Fish appear to be doing more of
the latter than the former. But as Stark indicates, the discussions could
suggest that Miami is more amenable to considering a deal than has previously
been let on.
MLBTR projects Fernandez to earn just $2.2MM in his first of three
arbitration-eligible seasons. That relatively meager sum is the result of his
Tommy John surgery, which held him to just 116 1/3 frames over the past two
seasons. While the elbow issue remains something of a concern, despite a
strong comeback performance, in another sense it enhanced his value by
tamping down his earning capacity.
Fernandez has been nothing short of dominant when on the hill, of course. All
told, he’s thrown 289 innings of 2.40 ERA ball, with 10.5 K/9 against 2.6
BB/9. There’s little question that he’s one of the game’s most effective
starters, with his low cost and youth making him one of the most intriguing
assets in baseball.
有消息說馬林魚在聽道奇跟其他球隊對Jose Fernandez報價(聽聽而已^^
馬林魚至少要道奇目前最好的新秀Corey Seager跟Julio Urias為主的更好包裹
這個冬天有沒有可能送走Jose Fernandez呢?
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