Marlins’ Stanton lost for season

While the marriage of A-Rod and the Marlins has always felt inevitable, it says here that the trappings of some time off and much-needed rest for Rodriguez overwhelm any immediate urge to return to the field, even for a contending team in his hometown.

Rodriguez, 41, was unconditionally released Saturday by the New York Yankees.

In the wake of a season-ending injury for slugger Giancarlo Stanton, the Marlins are considering two veteran additions.

With the Marlins fighting for the final Wild Card spot with the St. Louis Cardinals, the injury could not have come at an absolute worse time for Stanton.

Narvaez, 24, however, has walked through the White Sox’s turnstile at the ideal time: platoon catcher Alex Avila has been out (and is expected to be out for a few more weeks with a strained hamstring) and Dioner Navarro is batting.209 with his shining moment of the season being when he headed home on Saturday against the Marlins on a dropped third strike to score the game-winning run.

Hill said Marlins officials are beginning to examine outside options and said former Yankee Alex Rodriguez, a Miami native, will be considered. “We’ll see where that goes”. And the injuries are one thing, but as we’re seeing with Trout, when a great, exciting player consistently puts up elite regular-season numbers as his team consistently finishes out of the money, it starts to get frustrating.

Just so happens there is a player who just retired for the New York Yankees available. I’ve taken the position that without clear guidance on how to deal with players from the steroid/HGH/PED era, I’m probably not going to vote for someone who has had alleged ties to drugs until at least their final year of eligibility, allowing the most possible time for evidence to surface. The 26-year-old outfielder hurt himself trying to stretch a single into a double Saturday.

Gomez, like Rodriguez, is having a down year, batting.210/.272/.322 with five home runs and 29 RBIs.

The Marlins are considering veteran additions in the wake of injuries to Giancarlo Stanton and Justin Bour. For the season, he batted.200 with nine homers and 31 RBI in 65 games. You’re missing, however, a chance to see what could possibly be the catcher of the future for the Sox: Omar Narvaez. It is going to be very hard to live up to that largest contract in Major League Baseball history he signed back in 2014. Conley bruised his pitching hand when he jumped and banged it in celebration of a home run by Jeff Mathis on the low dugout ceiling August 3 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. He hurt his hand banging it on the roof of the dugout at Wrigley Field celebrating a teammate’s home run on August 3.

Marlins: RHP David Phelps (5-6, 2.40) is scheduled to start Monday when Miami begins a four-game series at Cincinnati.