The Seattle Mariners acquired left-handed reliever Jose A. Ferrer in a trade with the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
Seattle sent catcher Harry Ford and minor league pitcher Isaac Lyon to Washington for Ferrer, who set career highs with 11 saves and 21 holds in 72 appearances this year.
The 22-year-old Ford is one of baseball's top prospects, but the Mariners already have All-Star slugger Cal Raleigh at catcher. Ford made his major league debut in September, going 1 for 6 in eight games.
Seattle won the AL West this year for the first time since 2001. It made it to the AL Championship Series before it was eliminated by Toronto in seven games.
The addition of the 25-year-old Ferrer gives the Mariners another big arm in front of closer Andrés Muñoz.
Ferrer had a 4.48 ERA, 71 strikeouts and 16 walks over 76 1/3 innings this year. He ranked among the big league leaders with a 97.7 mph average fastball velocity and 64.3 ground-ball percentage.
Ferrer made his major league debut with Washington in 2023. He is 8-4 with a 4.36 ERA and 12 saves in 142 career games.
The trade was announced on the eve of baseball's winter meetings in Orlando, Florida. It's the first player move of any significance for Paul Toboni since he was hired as the president of baseball operations for the Nationals in September.
Ford was selected by Seattle with the No. 12 pick in the 2021 amateur draft. He batted .283 with 16 homers and 74 RBIs in 97 games for Triple-A Tacoma this year.
He became a mini-celebrity in Britain after he played for the country in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Ford joins a Washington franchise that hasn't posted a winning record since its 2019 World Series championship. The Nationals went 66-96 this year and finished last in the NL East.
Lyon, 21, was a 10th-round pick in this year's amateur draft out of Grand Canyon University. The son of former major league pitcher Brandon Lyon had a 7.30 ERA in 12 1/3 innings over four starts for Class A Modesto.
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FILE - Seattle Mariners catcher Harry Ford throws the ball back to the mound during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Sept. 14, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
FILE - Washington Nationals pitcher Jose A. Ferrer celebrates after a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Sept. 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr., File)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego city attorney’s office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing case in U.S. history.
A resolution authorizing the proposed settlement with the family of Konoa Wilson has been added to the city council’s agenda for Tuesday morning.
“What happened to Konoa was a catastrophic failure of policing,” family attorney Nick Rowley said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Saturday. “A 16-year-old boy was running for his life. He was not a threat and not a suspect, yet he was shot in the back by a police officer who only saw him for one second before deciding to pull the trigger.”
If approved, the settlement would exceed the $27 million the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the family of George Floyd, whose May 2020 murder by a police officer who knelt on his neck sparked a nationwide racial reckoning.
Surveillance and body-worn camera footage from Jan. 28 showed Wilson running away from someone who pulled a gun and fired at him in a downtown train station. As he exited the station, Wilson encountered San Diego Police Officer Daniel Gold.
In a lawsuit against the city and Gold, the family alleged the officer “instantly, without any warning,” fired two shots at Wilson as he ran by, striking him in the upper body. The lawsuit identified Wilson as Black.
“Only after shooting DECEDENT and watching him fall to the ground did Defendant GOLD finally announce ‘San Diego Police,’ ” said the lawsuit, which was filed in June. “Defendants committed acts of racial violence against DECEDENT, a teenager, by shooting him in his back as he ran past Defendant GOLD, in an attempt to get to a place of safety.”
Wilson was pronounced dead at UC San Diego Health Medical Center less than an hour later.
An agenda item posted Friday said the settlement would be paid from the Public Liability Fund.
Lt. Chris Tivanian, a spokesman for the San Diego Police Department, told The New York Times that Gold remained on an administrative assignment pending the results of a case review by the city attorney.
“He was a rookie, and he shot before he even announced who he was,” Rowley said of Gold during a Zoom call with reporters. "I don’t think he’s a bad man. But he did a very, very bad, reckless thing.”
This photo, taken from a body-worn camera video, shows the moment before a San Diego Police Officer fatally shot 16-year-old Konoa Wilson as he ran away from gunfire on Jan. 28, 2025. (San Diego Police Department via AP)
