{"id":569445,"date":"2026-02-13T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569445\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:18:13","slug":"marlins-designate-josh-simpson-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569445\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Designate Josh Simpson For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marlins announced they\u2019ve designated left-hander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=simpsjo02,simpso004jos&amp;search=Josh+Simpson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Simpson<\/a> for assignment. That opens a 40-man roster spot for fellow southpaw\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kingjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John King<\/a>, who has officially signed his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/marlins-sign-john-king.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one-year deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson made his MLB debut last June. He pitched in 31 games but was rocked for a 7.34 ERA across 30 2\/3 innings. The 6\u20192\u2033 southpaw got ground-balls at a 54% clip with a solid 23.8% strikeout rate but struggled with control. Simpson walked almost 15% of batters faced and gave up nearly 1.5 home runs per nine innings. Poor batted ball luck didn\u2019t help matters, but the command has been an issue for most of Simpson\u2019s career. He has walked 11.6% of opponents in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n<p>A Columbia product who signed for $25K as a 32nd-round pick in 2019, Simpson was never a marquee prospect. He pitched well enough through Double-A that Miami added him to the 40-man roster to keep him out of the Rule 5 draft in 2022. He was called up the following September but didn\u2019t get into a game during his five days on the active roster. Simpson was optioned back to Triple-A, then missed the majority of \u201924 because of a nerve injury in his forearm that required surgery. The Fish dropped him from the 40-man roster at the end of that season.<\/p>\n<p>To Simpson\u2019s credit, he pitched well enough in Triple-A last year to earn his way back up and avoid a \u201cphantom ballplayer\u201d career arc. He worked to a 3.41 ERA across 34 1\/3 innings at Triple-A Jacksonville, albeit with lesser strikeout and ground-ball marks than he had in the majors. The Marlins will likely place him back on waivers within the next five days. Simpson would be able to decline an outright assignment and elect free agency if he goes unclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marlins announced they\u2019ve designated left-hander\u00a0Josh Simpson for assignment. That opens a 40-man roster spot for fellow southpaw\u00a0John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,25795,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":["post-569445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-baseball","tag-josh-simpson","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116061399030518401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}