{"id":15003,"date":"2026-05-09T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/marlins-designate-stephen-jones-for-assignment-mlb-trade-rumors\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:04:26","slug":"marlins-designate-stephen-jones-for-assignment-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/marlins-designate-stephen-jones-for-assignment-mlb-trade-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Designate Stephen Jones For Assignment &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/steveadams\" title=\"Posts by Steve Adams\" rel=\"author\">Steve Adams<\/a> |   at May 8, 2026 10:09am CDT  <br \/>The Marlins announced Friday morning that right-hander <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=jones-010ste&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Jones<\/a><\/strong> has been designated for assignment. His spot on the 40-man and active rosters will go to top pitching prospect <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=snelli000rob&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robby Snelling<\/a><\/strong>, whose <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/05\/marlins-to-select-robby-snelling.html\">widely reported promotion to the majors<\/a> is now official.<br \/>The 28-year-old Jones received his first call to the majors just yesterday after eight years in pro ball, but the Marlins didn&#8217;t get him into a game before removing him from the roster. He&#8217;ll now be traded, placed on outright waivers or released within the next five days. Waivers would take another 48 hours, so his stay in DFA limbo could last up to a week.<br \/>Jones has opened the 2026 season with 16 2\/3 innings and a 3.24 ERA in Double-A. He\u2019s surrendered six earned runs on 10 hits and a problematic 13 walks, tacking on 19 punchouts in the process. Jones\u2019 25.7% strikeout rate isn\u2019t supported by his well below-average 8.5% swinging-strike rate, however, and his colossal 17.6% walk rate presents an obvious red flag.<br \/>Originally a 21st-round pick by the Rockies back in 2019, Jones is in his first year in the Marlins system. Miami signed him as a minor league free agent over the winter. He spent 2025 with the Padres organization &#8212; also after inking a minor league contract. He typically works off a four-seamer that sits 95 mph and a slider that sits 86 mph, sprinkling in an occasional sinker, cutter and changeup.<br \/>Probably gonna end up in phantom ballplayer limbo now<br \/>Dallas Cowboys fans probably got excited for a sec reading the headline<br \/>Please login to leave a reply.<br \/><a class=\"button login-button\" href=\"#\">Log in<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/traderumors.com\/registration\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">Register<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\" title=\"MLB Trade Rumors\">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a> is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com<br \/><a href=\"#\">Do not Sell or Share My Personal Information<\/a><br \/> \t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label> \t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" autocomplete=\"username\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/> \t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label> \t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" autocomplete=\"current-password\" spellcheck=\"false\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/> \t\t\t<br \/><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" checked=\"checked\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><br \/> \t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary submit wp-element-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/> \t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/05\/marlins-designate-stephen-jones-for-assignment.html\" \/> \t\t\t<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traderumors.com\/registration\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQcVFGeVpBU1VfWXh3MmpjdTkwR0VUcWlHMFg3NkVtSE9CcUpCUWlPNDBYSGVRME1ndW5ST3hlVVhNd0l5SXlXb0pmeV9XSy1wWTFvWldLa0VudXNONUZzdFdDSnRmQ3VMZVJjS09SSlQwQlREWTVTSGk1TndXVFdlX0JtalR2WDE2bGo2V01OSm14TUc0?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Adams | at May 8, 2026 10:09am CDT The Marlins announced Friday morning that right-hander Stephen Jones has been designated for assignment. His spot on the 40-man and active rosters will go to top pitching prospect Robby Snelling, whose widely reported promotion to the majors is now official.The 28-year-old Jones received his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}