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, who fell a win short of reaching their first World Series last season, a second left-handed reliever, joining veteran Gabe Speier . Ferrer, 25, has a fastball that averaged 97.7 mph, a walk rate that ranked in the 95th percentile and a 64.3% ground ball 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.

Ford, a first-round pick in 2021, was 65th in the August top-100 prospect rankings from ESPN's Kiley McDaniel and fif

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