{"id":415900,"date":"2026-01-16T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415900\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:12:14","slug":"mariners-acquire-yosver-zulueta-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415900\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Acquire Yosver Zulueta – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mariners and Reds announced a trade sending reliever Yosver Zulueta<\/a> to Seattle for minor league pitcher Dusty Revis<\/a>. Zulueta was just designated for assignment by Cincinnati a few hours ago when they made their Pierce Johnson<\/a> signing official. Seattle designated<\/a> infielder\u00a0Samad Taylor<\/a> for assignment in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n

Zulueta, who turns 28 next week, has a limited major league track record. He has thrown 23 2\/3 innings for the Reds over the past two seasons. In that time, he has allowed 5.32 earned runs per nine frames. His 10.9% walk rate is on the high side but his 24.8% strikeout rate and 54% ground ball rate are both strong figures.<\/p>\n

Despite the short r\u00e9sum\u00e9, the stuff is intriguing. His four-seamer and sinker have both averaged in the upper 90s during his time as a big leaguer. He has also thrown a slider and changeup in the upper 80s. His minor league numbers are also enticing, though with similar control issues as his time in the majors. At Triple-A last year, he tossed 60 1\/3 innings with a 3.28 ERA, 31.2% strikeout rate and 56.5% ground ball rate but a 12.8% walk rate.<\/p>\n

Zulueta first got a 40-man spot from the Blue Jays in November of 2022. He has mostly been on optional assignment in the three seasons since then, with a waiver claim by Cincinnati along the way.<\/p>\n

That would normally position him to be out of options but he may qualify for a fourth option. A player can qualify for a fourth option if he doesn\u2019t have five \u201cfull\u201d seasons as a professional, with a \u201cfull\u201d season usually consisting of 90 days on an active roster. Zulueta made his professional debut in 2021 but only made one appearance in Single-A that year, so he may only have four \u201cfull\u201d seasons. That\u2019s likely why his FanGraphs page lists him as still having an option.<\/p>\n

The Mariners have a pretty good reputation of getting good results from unheralded relievers. That doesn\u2019t mean they succeed with every guy they pick up but Zulueta clearly has a powerful arm, so perhaps Seattle can figure out a way to make good use of it. If things go well, Zulueta has less than a year of service time and can be affordably controlled into the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati takes a flier on Revis, whom Seattle drafted in the 11th round last summer. The 6\u20192\u2033 righty turned in a 4.04 ERA across 15 starts during his final season at Western Carolina University. He didn\u2019t pitch after the draft. Josh Kirshenbaum of MLB Pipeline<\/a> wrote on draft day that he held his fastball velocity in the mid-90s while working out of the Catamounts rotation.<\/p>\n

Francys Romero of BeisbolFR.com<\/a> first reported that Zulueta was being traded to Seattle. Photo courtesy of Katie Stratman, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mariners and Reds announced a trade sending reliever Yosver Zulueta to Seattle for minor league pitcher Dusty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,219469],"class_list":["post-415900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yosver-zulueta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}