The Washington Nationals traded left-hander Jose Ferrer to the Seattle Mariners for top catching prospect Harry Ford and minor league pitcher Isaac Lyon, the teams announced Saturday.

The move gives the Mariners, fresh off falling a win short of reaching their first World Series, a second left-handed reliever along with veteran Gabe Speier . Ferrer, 25, is a hard thrower with a fastball that averaged 97.7 mph, a walk rate that ranked in the 95th percentile and a 64.3% groundball rate that ranked in the 99th percentile last season. He finished with a 4.83 ERA in 72 appearances, but his 3.03 FIP suggests he was unlucky. He was projected to become the Nationals' closer next season.

The price to land Ferrer was high. Ford, a first-round pick in 2021, was 65th in the August top-100

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