SiriusXM’s Craig Mish reports that veteran reliever Brad Ziegler was traded Tuesday morning ahead of the 2018 MLB non-waiver trade deadline.
Zieger owns a 3.98 ERA/4.59 FIP/3.53 xFIP this season in a National League-leading 53 appearances. His 74.0 percent ground ball rate is easily the highest among qualified relievers, and that has been on the rise lately.
Coming out of the All-Star break, Ziegler didn’t allow a single playable ball in the air until Adam Eaton’s long fly out on what proved to be the sidearmer’s final pitch as a Marlin.
In total, the initial two-year, $16 million investment in Ziegler got the Marlins 99 innings of 4.