After eight seasons with the Marlins, Miguel Rojas modified organizations this night. Miami traded the infielder to the Dodgers in a one-for-one deal that despatched infield prospect Jacob Amaya to South Florida.
Rojas is coming off a tricky season through which he hit .237/.282/.324 by way of 504 journeys to the plate. A proper wrist difficulty appeared to play a task in that subpar offensive output, because the veteran underwent surgical procedure in October to restore a torn triangular fibrocartilage complicated (TFCC). Craig Mish of SportsGrid reported this night that Rojas had one other minor difficulty come up lately and is anticipated to endure one other process to handle the matter (Twitter hyperlink).
There’s no indication this newest difficulty will have an effect on Rojas’ readiness for Spring Coaching, a lot much less the beginning of the common season. It’s clearly not of a lot concern to the Dodgers, who have been little question made conscious of it throughout commerce discussions. Rojas acknowledged this night there’s “nonetheless a pair issues I would like to determine with the wrist” however added he’d “be prepared for Spring Coaching if every part goes nicely” (through Matthew Moreno of Dodger Blue).
Rojas, 34 subsequent month, provides a glove-first utility choice to the combo in L.A. Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Instances writes the membership plans to bounce the nine-year MLB veteran across the infield in a multi-positional capability. That leaves open the potential of Gavin Lux taking the first shortstop job, with Max Muncy and Chris Taylor available to see time at second and third base (and for Taylor to proceed logging loads of outfield motion). Prime prospect Miguel Vargas is anticipated to get an opportunity on the sizzling nook as nicely.
As for Miami, they’ve subtracted some certainty from the short-term infield combine. Mish tweets that Joey Wendle is more likely to function the membership’s major shortstop in the beginning of the season. He’d pair within the center infield with younger star Jazz Chisholm Jr., whereas offseason signee Jean Segura is ticketed for third base responsibility. Mish and Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald wrote final week that Chisholm was focused on getting an opportunity to maneuver again to shortstop in some unspecified time in the future. It doesn’t appear that’ll be into consideration for now, although.
Amaya, a glove-first infielder, is already on the 40-man roster. He’s coming off a .259/.368/.381 exhibiting in Triple-A and figures to get an opportunity for his huge league debut in some unspecified time in the future in 2023. Fellow rookies Jordan Groshans and Xavier Edwards are additionally on the 40-man, as is speedy utility participant Jon Berti.
