Offishial News, 2/1/24: Jazz Chisholm Jr. goes to arbitration, celebrates birthday

 🔹 The 2024 Caribbean Series is now underway at LoanDepot Park! Thursday's games are Nicaragua vs. Puerto Rico at 10:30 a.m., Curacao vs. México at 3:30 p.m. and Venezuela vs. Dominican Republic at 8:30 p.m. Both Kevin Barral and Noah Berger are covering the tournament for Fish On First.

  🔹 Happy 26th birthday to Jazz Chisholm Jr. The middle infielder turned center fielder has accrued 6.0 fWAR in 302 games played over parts of four major league seasons (all with the Marlins). Chisholm and the Marlins went to an arbitration hearing on Wednesday, per the Associated Press, so we should be finding out shortly whether the panel awarded him a salary of $2.625M or $2.9M for this season.

 🔹 The Marlins announced on Wednesday that they've reached a five-year deal with ESPN to air Spanish-language broadcasts of the Caribbean Series. Every game of this year's tournament is streaming on ESPN+ and most are also available on ESPN Deportes. English broadcasts will be on Bally Sports Florida and Bally Sports Sun.

🔹 Isaac Azout got his ninth career Marlins Jeopardy win in dramatic fashion. Real-life Jeopardy! champion Alec Chao earned a respectable 3,425 points in his debut on our program. Fish On First LIVE is now presented by Berger & Hicks! If you've been injured as a result of somebody else's negligence, give them a call at (305) 670-7050.

🔹 Daniel Rodriguez's Small Pod discusses Trey Mancini, Adalberto Mondesi and top Marlins prospects. Periodic reminder: we have a new Apple Podcasts feed. Apple listeners, make sure you are following the channel that has our new logo (and please considering rating/reviewing).

🔹 RHP Noble Meyer ranks 76th on Kiley McDaniel's Top 100 MLB prospects list on ESPN. Meyer continues to be seen as a consensus top-100 talent on 2024 preseason lists, though most other outlets have him ranked even higher than McDaniel does.

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Meyer's fastball shape is more good than great and he has relied on his breaking ball too much at times while rarely using his changeup. But those are pretty typical knocks on heralded high school righties, and Meyer seems to have the other elements—like delivery and ability to repeat it—to imagine him shooting up this list if things go well in the next year.

—Kiley McDaniel, ESPN

🔹 FIU student Carlton Gillespie did an excellent job detailing the origin of Peter Pratt's Marlins fandom. Peter's latest Locked On Marlins episode is embedded below. 

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