Offishial News: The Marlins have found their shortstop

Ely Sussman · February 23, 2024

Marlins news roundup for 2/23/24

Here's what you should know with 34 days to go until Marlins Opening Day...

Fish On First will have boots on the ground for today's Marlins spring training workout. Follow Isaac Azout, Kevin Barral and Alex Carver for live updates from the Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium complex and check out our staff's 2024 Spring Training Journal (new entries every day).

🔹 Tim Anderson has indeed accepted the contract that the Marlins offered him last week, agreeing to a one-year, $5M deal. Looks like he's excited about it! We're just awaiting the corresponding roster move to make it official.

🔹 Our staff did an emergency Twitter space reacting to the Anderson news. We're largely in favor of the signing considering the low financial risk and lack of shortstop alternatives.

🔹 The Marlins also signed a pair of 28-year-old right-handers to minor league deals: Vladimir Gutierrez and Lincoln Henzman. Gutierrez received an invite to big league camp and has prior MLB experience with the Reds. Henzman is coming off a chaotic calendar year that began in the White Sox organization, then brought him to the independent Atlantic League, followed by an extraordinary stint in the Puerto Rican Winter League, a pitstop in the Dominican Republic during the LIDOM playoffs and a selection to Puerto Rico's Caribbean Series team.

🔹 Jesús Luzardo is scheduled to start Sunday's game for the Marlins against Nationals, Skip Schumaker announced.

🔹 Elsewhere around baseball, Mitch Keller signed a five-year, $77M extension with the Pirates, which sets a new franchise record for the largest contract they've ever given to a pitcher. Gio Urshela (1/$1.5M) signed with the Tigers (reportedly, the Marlins were in on Urshela as well). Mets ace Kodai Senga will begin this season on the injured list due to a shoulder capsule strain. One year removed from retiring as a player, old friend Justin Bour has been hired by the Brewers as an assistant in their player development department.

🔹 I have updated my Opening Day roster projection, with Anderson squeezing Xavier Edwards to Triple-A, among other modifications.

🔹 Christina De Nicola of MLB.com details what Skip Schumaker has done to instill a winning culture around the Marlins.

🔹 It felt like, “As Tim Anderson goes, so go the White Sox,” explains Jim Margalus of Sox Machine.

🔹 Our partners at Homage teased that Starter throwback jackets for every MLB team are going on sale on Monday. Fish On First will be picking one lucky SuperSub to win a Marlins jacket. Become a SuperSub today to support our coverage and be included in frequent giveaways like this.

🔹 He won't be playing for the Marlins in 2024, but this is Sandy Alcantara's seventh season in the Marlins organization. I made a montage that includes his Photo Day portraits from each year dating back to 2018.

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