{"id":9989,"date":"2015-01-24T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2015-01-24T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:20:28","slug":"vin-mazzaro-signs-with-marlins-rockies-re-sign-jair-jurrjens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/24\/vin-mazzaro-signs-with-marlins-rockies-re-sign-jair-jurrjens\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Mazzaro signs with Marlins, Rockies re-sign Jair Jurrjens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Marlins have added another arm to their organization signing right hander Vin Mazzaro to a minor league contract. Mazzaro will also receive an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n

Mazzaro, 28, spent most of the 2014 season at Triple-A Indianapolis for the Pirates where he posted a 2.52 ERA, 1.34 WHIP and 34\/20 K\/BB ratio over 50 innings.<\/p>\n

Mazzaro appeared in five games at the big league level pitching 10 1\/3 innings finishing with a 3.48 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP. Only one year removed from a fine 2013 season in which he had a 2.81 ERA and 1.21 WHIP in 73 2\/3 innings for the Pirates the Mazzaro stands a good chance of cracking an increasingly thick Marlins roster.<\/p>\n

The Marlins also signed another former Pirates minor leaguer in Ryan Reed.<\/p>\n

Jurrjens returns to Rockies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Years ago Jair Jurrjens was an unassuming front of the rotation starter for the Braves. Fast forward to 2015 and he is a minor leaguer with the Rockies again.<\/p>\n

The Rockies re-signed Jurrjens to a minor league deal and will invite him to spring training where he will be allowed to compete for a rotation spot.<\/p>\n

Jurrjens is still just 28-years-old but \u00a0knee injuries have wrecked his career.\u00a0Jurrjens has appeared in just 15 games since the end of the 2011 season posting a 7.20 ERA and a 1.89 WHIP.<\/p>\n

At the Triple-A level split between the Reds and Rockies organizations he struggled while\u00a0starting 14 games but going 2-8 with a 4.54 ERA and a 1.51 WHIP.<\/p>\n

Given there is no real financial commitment here the Rockies have nothing to lose by throwing Jurrjens a bone here but expecting him to suddenly return to the All-Star level he showed in 2011 is probably asking for too much. If he fails to win a rotation spot the Rockies will likely keep him around as organizational depth.<\/p>\n

Much like the aforementioned Mazzaro, Jurrjens does not throw hard enough to get scouts\/organizational members excited but could find a bit role and be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Marlins have added another arm to their organization signing right hander Vin Mazzaro to a minor league contract. Mazzaro will also receive an invitation to spring training. Mazzaro, 28, spent most of the 2014 season at Triple-A Indianapolis for the Pirates where he posted a 2.52 ERA, 1.34 WHIP and 34\/20 K\/BB ratio over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[190,182,24,501,933],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-jair-jurrjens","10":"tag-miami-marlins","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-vin-mazzaro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}