Offishial news, 6/5/23: Arraez flirting with .400, expecting new baby girl

Sunday's Games

RECAP: MIA 7, OAK 5 (by Louis Addeo-Weiss)

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• Sunday's Marlins MiLB notes: Trevor Rogers (Jacksonville) tossed five scoreless innings during his latest rehab start, retiring 15 of 17 batters he faced. He leaned heavily on his four-seam fastball (53 of his 70 total pitches). Kahlil Watson (Beloit) snapped an 0-for-30 slump with a home run. Making his first minor league appearance since August 2021, Jake Eder struggled with his control (2.0 IP, 1 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP).
• Luis Arraez's go-ahead infield single brought his batting average up to .392. There is a 61-point gap between him and the next-best MLB qualifier.
• The Marlins batted in 24 innings during the Oakland A's series and scored 23 runs. That'll play!
• Avisaíl García halted his rehab assignment due to a "minor" setback. Frankly, it was difficult to see how he'd fit on the current roster anyway.
• Elsewhere around the majors, the Cardinals got swept by the Pirates and are back to having the worst record in the National League. Jake Burger hit a walk-off grand slam for the White Sox (cancer survivor Liam Hendriks earned his first win of the season in the process). Nathan Eovaldi is undefeated in his last nine starts with five scoreless outings during that span.
• Revisiting predictions from the Marlins vs. Athletics series, almost everybody foresaw a winning series for the Fish. Congrats to Romeo and Paolo on their perfect picks (Luis Arraez won Series MVP honors again). Our new Prediction Time leaderboard is now up. Participate prior to every Marlins series opener (and support the FOF staff) by becoming a Super Subscriber.
• We've got a new episode of Fish On First LIVE tonight at 5:30 p.m. ET on
  /Twitch/Twitter. Special guest: Loud Marlins Fan. With chiropractic care and functional health, La Pop takes a preventative approach that optimizes wellness and quality of life for all ages. Find out more here!

• The Marlins enter this new week with 41.0% odds of making the playoffs, per FanGraphs. They have a 54.3% chance to win their series opener against the Royals. DSL Miami open their 2023 regular season at home (11:00 a.m. ET), while the DSL Marlins are on the road (11:00 a.m. ET).

• Check out the DSL Miami and DSL Marlins rosters, and here's FCL Marlins (season opener on Tuesday).
• John Turlington's latest
  revisits Jorge Soler's walk-off home run against the Nationals.

• Fish On First's Noah Berger has established a 2023 Marlins uniform tracker. He'll update it daily.
• Kim Ng addressed the media for the first time in several weeks...and didn't reveal much (h/t Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald). Ng says there are no ongoing contract extension talks with Arraez and Soler and she didn't tip her hand regarding how the Marlins will align their starting rotation once Trevor Rogers is full stretched out.
• In a new Eury Pérez mini documentary, we see glimpses of his offseason in the Dominican Republic, his first big league spring training and his major league debut.
• LoanDepot Park ranks as MLB’s second-most affordable ballpark for families, according to SportingPost.
• Jayson Stark of The Athletic finds statistical similarities between Luis Arraez and Willie Keeler, Richie Ashburn, Garry Templeton and Ichiro Suzuki.
• Arraez shared in April that he and his wife were expecting another child. Now we know it's a girl. This past weekend, the Marlins surprised him with a gender reveal at the ballpark.

Featured image by Danis Sosa/Fish On First