Offishial news, 9/26/23: Final week; off-day roster moves

[Ely Sussman]

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• Monday's Marlins roster moves: Enmanuel De Jesus was recalled from Triple-A Jacksonville and Jeff Lindgren was optioned to make room for him. This transaction occurred on the first day that De Jesus was eligible to be recalled after previously being sent down on September 10 (15 days prior). My suspicion is that De Jesus will be on standby for mop-up duty today before getting replaced by Huascar Brazoban on Wednesday.

• NL Wild Card race updates: the Diamondbacks lost. They blew three separate leads to the Yankees and fell behind for good in the eighth inning. The Marlins are one game back of both the second (D-backs) and third (Cubs) Wild Card spots.

• Elsewhere around the majors, Justin Verlander (8.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K) pitched arguably his best game of the season to beat the Mariners. The Rangers blasted back-to-back-to-back home runs to secure their sixth straight win.

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• The Marlins have a 47.5% chance to win their series opener against the Mets, per FanGraphs. Double-A Pensacola (7:05 p.m. ET) is hosting a must-win Game 2 of the Southern League Championship Series. LHP Luis Palacios is their probable starter.

• With six games left, Glenn Geffner's View from the Bleachers breaks down the status of the Marlins and the two teams they're chasing in the Wild Card race.

• The Marlins are teaming up with bars and restaurants to host local watch parties for each game of this season-defining road trip. Tonight's event is at Sports & Social in Dolphin Mall, tomorrow's will be at Sandbar Sports Grill, etc.

• On this day 20 years ago, the Marlins defeated the Mets to clinch a postseason berth.

• , the Marlins returned to the field following the tragic death of teammate José Fernández. Bearing Fernández's name and number on the back of his uniform, Dee Strange-Gordon, who had not homered all season, took Bartolo Colon deep.

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[Guest Hans Herrera]

I couldn't read Glenn's article, but I was chatting with the British couple (Peter and Shaun) about the potential "rotation" for these last 6 games. I came up with this:

 

Tue: Garrett

Wed: Cueto (3/4 inn) + De Jesús (2/3 inn) - I had Lindgren originally, but same. I guess Brazobán can throw more than 1 inning as well, if called up this day.

Thu: Luzardo

Fri: Hoeing + Soriano

Sat: Cabrera

Sun: Garrett

 

This is like living on the edge for starting pitching.

 

It is kind of funny that Braxton Garrett was out of the rotation (he started the year as a reliever, remember?) and now the team is relying on him to go through this last week. It was that ugly outing vs. the Braves kind of a breaking point... But still, some of us (Marlins fans) still didn't believe in him as late as August, when he had a rough patch after the ASG.

 

Sandy, Luzardo, and he have been the only true dependable arms in the rotation this year, and yet someone will come to ST next year and say: Braxton Garrett should head into the bullpen.

 

We don't want to think about Sandy's situation this week. Eury, Trevor, and Max Meyer will be on inning limit next year... why don't they start slow and then build up later in the year? I think Meyer is heading to the bullpen anyway. I mean, what else does Braxton have to do to secure a rotation spot?

 

Any news from Arráez?

[Ely Sussman]

Wednesday's outlook is messy for sure. There shouldn't be any confidence in Cueto and De Jesús at this point despite their ability to eat innings. The fantasy is for Braxton to go deep tonight in a blowout win and have Cueto/De Jesús finish it up, leaving all of the relievers that Skip actually trusts fully ready to handle Wednesday.

 

Hopefully Arraez can pinch-hit tonight, but I would be very surprised if he's in the starting lineup. If this was any other time of the season, he'd be on the IL.

[Guest]

Good points Hans and Ely. I am really happy with the season. I think we would all take it to be in a playoff race this late in the year. The last couple months of games have been fun! Let's go Marlins!

[Guest Kommenter]

You are all wrong. The correct answer is to call up Monteverde for a start. Screw the Wahoos championship. The wild card is on the line. Using weak cobbled together bullpen games just guarantees losses and sends the Cubs and Dbacks to the postseason. This is the same conventional thinking that got Mattingly fired. Do something creative Kim. Your next contract with the Red Sox may be on the line.

[Guest]

What happened to Daniel Castano? I thought he hung in there better than Cueto and desrved a call up

[Ely Sussman]

Monteverde has had a good year, but it's a bold leap to expect him to be an upgrade over the existing arms. Different story if he had overpowering stuff. It's an unusual pitcher profile that might not translate to the majors, especially when he's pitching deeper into the year than he ever has before.

[Ely Sussman]

Castano was sent back down to Triple-A. Discouraging final appearance down there (4.0 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 4 BB, 3 K).