Marlins sign SS Miguel Rojas to two-year, $10M extension

Miami Marlins shortstop Miguel Rojas, the club's longest-tenured player, isn't going anywhere.

Per the Associated Press (h/t ESPN) and Christina De Nicola of the Marlins' website, Rojas and Miami agreed to a two-year extension that keeps him linked with the club through the 2023 season and is worth $10 million total. 

The veteran, who turns 33 years old in February, hit .265 with nine home runs and 48 RBI during the 2021 campaign. 

"For us, this was an easy thing to do," Marlins general manager Kim Ng said during a Thursday news conference. "Miguel embodies a lot of the things that we want as Marlins: on the field, [a] consummate professional, a great stabilizer for our defense. In terms of a leader, there's no one who showed more leadership skills out on that field than Miguel Rojas." 

Rojas made his MLB debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2014 but joined the Marlins via a trade before the 2015 season. He is ninth in Marlins history with 730 games played on his resume and had been mentioned in trade rumors ahead of this past season's summer deadline for such transactions. Instead, he'll look to return to the postseason with Miami. 

"Bottom line is for me to continue to get better every single year to help this organization get to where we're going to get, which is winning a championship and being on the right side of things," Rojas explained. "Winning, and winning it all. It's not just making it to the playoffs. It's not just being a competitive team."