{"id":735964,"date":"2026-06-26T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:21:19","slug":"marlins-outright-christopher-morel-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735964\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Outright Christopher Morel – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marlins sent first baseman\u00a0Christopher Morel<\/a> outright to Triple-A Jacksonville, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. Miami designated him for assignment over the weekend when\u00a0Griffin Conine<\/a> returned from hamstring surgery.<\/p>\n

Morel will surely accept the assignment and remain in the organization. He has less than five years of service time, so he\u2019d forfeit the remainder of his $2MM salary to test free agency. Teams passed on taking that money off Miami\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

Miami made four big league free agent signings last offseason, all on one-year deals.\u00a0Chris Paddack<\/a> and Morel have already been jettisoned from the roster. Their big acquisition,\u00a0Pete Fairbanks<\/a>, has a 6.75 earned run average over 24 innings. Lefty sinkerballer John King<\/a> \u2014 signed for just $1.5MM on the eve of Spring Training \u2014 has been by far their best of the free agent pickups. King has given Miami 34 2\/3 innings of 2.08 ERA ball while handling hitters of either handedness.<\/p>\n

The Fish added Morel to take over first base even though he\u2019d been coming off consecutive replacement level seasons. The position unsurprisingly remains an issue.\u00a0Connor Norby<\/a>, their leader in first base playing time, was just optioned<\/a> to Triple-A this evening.\u00a0Liam Hicks<\/a>\u00a0has had a breakout season but went on the injured list over the weekend with a lower back strain. Miami has used\u00a0Kyle Stowers<\/a> as their primary first baseman of late.<\/p>\n

Miami has been the hottest team in baseball this month. They entered June eight games below .500 but are now 42-39 and within a game and a half of a Wild Card spot. It\u2019s plausible they\u2019ll approach the deadline looking to add a bat. Acquiring a first baseman would allow them to move Stowers back to his natural left field position.<\/p>\n

Morel, who missed most of April after straining his oblique warming up on Opening Day, has appeared in 22 games this season. He hasn\u2019t homered and is batting .162 with 28 strikeouts in 73 plate appearances. He\u2019ll qualify for minor league free agency at the end of the season if Miami doesn\u2019t call him back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marlins sent first baseman\u00a0Christopher Morel outright to Triple-A Jacksonville, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. Miami designated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,891],"class_list":["post-735964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-christopher-morel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116815913554804957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735964","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=735964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}