SEPT. 22: The Marlins announced that Rodriguez has been outrighted to their alternate site after clearing waivers.
SEPT. 20: The Marlins have designated utilityman Sean Rodriguez for assignment, the team announced. Utilityman Jon Berti has been activated from the 10-day injured list to take the open roster spot, while southpaw Braxton Garrett has also been added to the roster as the extra 29th player for today’s doubleheader with the Nationals.
Rodriguez was only activated from the injured list last Tuesday, as he had spent the rest of the season out of action for unspecified medical reasons. Rodriguez appeared in four games for the Marlins, recording two hits in 13 plate appearances and playing second base and left field. The 35-year-old has now been a part of 13 consecutive Major League seasons, the bulk of which with the Rays and Pirates from 2010-18. Rodriguez inked a minor league contract with Miami last winter.
The club is essentially swapping one multi-purpose bench piece for another in welcoming Berti back into the fold. Berti hit the 10-day IL on September 10 due to a right finger injury, so he’ll return after only a minimal absence. Over two seasons with the Marlins, Berti has already appeared at six different positions, and it seems likely he’ll mostly play second base the rest of the way this season in a semi-platoon with rookie Jazz Chisholm. Beyond his versatility, Berti has also been a useful hitter for the Fish, batting .267/.350/.392 with eight homers over his 401 PA in a Miami uniform.
Not a surprise. It was clear that Sean Rodriguez was done. He would be doing himself and MLB teams a favor if he just retired instead of using his family connections to keep getting him opportunities over players who are more deserving of roster spots. He needs to just become a coach…and it’s sad that I have to say this about one of our South Florida locals.
It’s not like he’s an outlier. They have maybe three major league hitters.
Good job with showing how informed you are about the Marlins roster.
Rodriguez has been “done” for four years now
he hasn’t been the same since the crash.
Yes, and it’s a sad story, but there is coaching. It leaves a bad ending to a respectable role player career when he keeps using his networking to get roster spots he doesn’t deserve over guys that do deserve them. He can use his networking advantages to get coaching jobs. That’s where he has belonged for a while now. It just leaves a bad taste in the mouth of fans and locals when he forces his way onto rosters when he clearly has been done for a while now. It’s not a good look for him after being a regarded roster depth guy for so many years.
And we’re fighting for a playoff spot. We don’t have time to play nice. We need every roster spot for guys that can help in some capacity. We can do these generous things when we’re well out of contention and it doesn’t adversely affect our season or development of a prospect.
Wow I did not know about that. Just looked it up. That’s terrible.
Exactly. But unfortunately he keeps networking his way onto rosters over more deserving players. He’s looked really foolish. I’d rather have Will Ferrell or Michael Jordan out there over Rodriquez at this point.
It’s sad when a player refuses to retire, networks his way onto rosters, and ends up on a team where one of the owners can suit up and be more productive. Jeter needs to tell Mike Hill, “Can you at least get guys that should still be playing, and shouldn’t have retired when or before I did.”
Can someone explain the familial connections landing him MLB jobs? Like drop a link or something?
His father Johnny Rodriguez has coached and managed in several organizations minor league systems. He has a brother that played in a few systems and runs a baseball academy that is connected to MLB scouting. I forget about which other relatives he has that are involved with MLB organizations, but they’re there.
He needs to retire already. It’s looking ridiculous when he was done at least a couple of years ago, but keeps networking his way onto rosters.
that’s a little toxic, isnt it?
He basically is just copy and pasting a similar statement on any reply. He’s clearly a troll who doesn’t like a genuinely decent guy and player.
Hey, I like Rodriguez, but facts are facts. Ask a fan of any team he’s played on over the last couple of years, and they’ll tell you that he was done.
And if you doubt what I’ve stated, look up Rodriguez’s family. Then let’s see if you doubt what I say.
Being genuinely a decent guy does not earn you the right to be on a MLB roster. Production and the ability to play does that.
Feel bad to the Fish. They only get 1 fan in this whole app and it’s this guy.
Well, he is half their fan base. (I kid, I kid)
I assume he’s a Marlins minor leaguer and Rodriguez has been keeping him off the major league roster.
Lol you know there are plenty of us out there. I just get tired of commenting and then people telling me I have no knowledge or am a loser for being a Marlins fan.
The real travesty any Marlins fan should be talking about is why Mattingly keeps putting Joyce cleanup when he’s batting like .125 over his last 20 games. Meanwhile Brinson who everyone wrote off is having a phenomenal September basically saving his career in the majors. Also he needs to shave those sideburns!!!!
Yeah, I agree about Joyce. I personally felt we shouldn’t have signed him in the first place. At least we know he’ll be gone and the battle for RF will be between Ramirez, Brinson, Sierra, Harrison and Sanchez next Spring.
As for the comments us Marlins get, there is also the comments related to our number of fans. And my personal favorite over the years about how all the Marlins had to do was acquire pitching instead of trading away our hitters or the greatest one of how “Jeter gifted the Yankees Stanton.” This last one may be my favorite for a very long time.
We are really missing Sierra. He was the catalyst for a while (what Villar was supposed to be). He seemed to always get on base when we needed it.
They need to figure out the future of the offense cause if Aguilar or BA get cold we can’t do anything. Dickerson woke up a bit but is no where near career numbers. Marte has been bad (aside from some clutch hits ) overall. Cooper comes and goes. Brinson is having an amazing Sept and they keep playing Joyce (aside from today and Brinson got the game tied before the implosion). They have a lot of potential rookies but I wish we had that one true veteran bat.
Miami supports winners. Jeets knows this. They are building one. The joke is going to end. And that whole adding pitching thing drives me crazy….there was no one to trade for and the FAs were Arrieta and Darvish who were garbage the next 2 years. Yeah just add magic pitching. Ugh.
The real win is the new logo and uniforms.
Yes, being without Sierra is a loss. Since his time on the DL, there have been a few times where we can cite that he would have made a difference over the guys we trusted in certain situations, and also with having one less guy that we could pinch run with.
We’ve got 4 games to figure out how to get some extra production from a bat. My thought is, that since Alfaro has started to hit more, they could move him up in the lineup now to see if that can spark something.
Yes, the “just get some pitchers” annoys me because it comes from those uniformed morons that just echo E!SPN and FOX Sports rhetoric. As you point out, the biggest free agents were Darvish and Arrieta. With where our pitching staff was at that moment after Fernandez’s death, we would have had to sign both of them and another one of the pitchers like Alex Cobb or Lance Lynn that year, and that’s just to have a decent pitching staff on paper entering the season…before those contracts would have burned us. And the thing those people don’t see is that Chen, Stanton and Prado’s contracts were jumping from deferred payments; and many salaries were jumping from arbitration (Ozuna, etc.). Our payroll would have flirted with $200 million if we signed the pitchers that theoretically could have helped us then, while keeping the bats we had. Those people and those biased media outlets refuse to see that because it goes against the anti-Miami rhetoric.
Yeah, Jeter is doing some nice work. Based on the dynasty Yankees of the late 90s, he may be the right guy to build a good team in our market. As we remember, while those Yankees did have a bunch of All Stars, they really didn’t have those major contract type of guys until later. They had a lineup that was more about an accumulation of talent (Jeter, Bernie, Oneill, Tino, Knoblauch, Brosius, Strawberry, Posada, etc.). That’s what the Marlins can do within our market – kind of like the 2003 Marlins (other than Miggy who eventually matured into an expensive superstud).
And yes, the Marlins rebrand was great! I actually kept doing their “Dimelo Miami” survey and kept mentioning a new uniform, of which I asked for one being something that flirted with the original teal look and the blue of Loria’s brand. When I saw this new brand, it felt like they listened to us. Now I’m just hoping that they add more ‘Marlins’ branded jerseys to balance out with the ‘Miami’ branded jerseys. I love the Miami Blue jersey.
4 more games and we’re still in position! We need to make this happen!
The A’s would give up Jesus Luzardo for Sean Rod
If Billy Beane and the A’s are that stupid – done deal!. LOL!
I do hope there is an analytics stat that says that this trade would make sense for them. If Sean Rodriguez was a Met, I’m sure certain Mets fans would come up with how, not only Rodriguez matched Luzardo’s value, but the A’s would also have to add a couple of their top prospects in the package to get Rodriguez.
I’m super excited for Berti. He’s a BGSU alumni like me, and there’s not a lot of BGSU alums in the majors. Seeing him take a minor league deal and turn it into regular work has been a nice story this year.
Berti has been a good role player for us ever since we got him. I’m surprised it took him so long to make it to MLB. Nice little player.
How does a guy who has a batting average of .100 play 10 years when dudes like Keon Wong can’t catch a break?