Offishial news, 10/20/23: Hall of Fame candidate Jim Leyland; LIDOM season underway

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• Thursday's fall/winter ball notes: It was Opening Day for LIDOM in the Dominican Republic. The only Marlin on an active roster was CF Dane Myers (Gigantes del Cibao), who went 0-for-2 with a run scored. In the AFL, C Paul McIntosh and SS Nasim Nuñez each recorded a hit. LHP Evan Taylor pitched a scoreless inning of relief.

• Listen back to Thursday's State of the Fish, our first Twitter Space of the Marlins offseason.

• In postseason news, NLCS Game 3 starters Ranger Suárez and Brandon Pfaadt threw up zeroes into the sixth inning. The Phillies took a 1-0 lead on a wild pitch in the seventh, but the Diamondbacks immediately answered back and then walked off to victory on Ketel Marte's RBI single. The Phillies are still up 2-1 in the series. Both ALCS Game 4 starters had lousy outings, but the Astros bullpen was exponentially better than the Rangers. Another big night at the plate for Yordan Alvarez (2-for-4, 3 RBI) helped even up the series.

• Elsewhere around the majors, Jim Leyland is among eight nominees to be considered by the Baseball Hall of Fame's Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for the Class of 2024. The 1997 World Series champion needs to receive votes from at least 75% of the committee members to be elected. Veteran right-hander Michael Fulmer underwent UCL revision surgery that's expected to cost him the entire 2024 season. He pitched for the Cubs this past year.

• Both League Championship Series matchups resume tonight. Road teams are undefeated so far in the ALCS and the same goes for home teams in the NLCS.

• Our 2023 Marlins Season Review series keeps expanding. The latest installments cover Luis Arraez and David Robertson. Check back daily for more articles from the FOF staff.

• It isn't hard to find national media columns roasting the Marlins, including Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic, Jay Jaffe of FanGraphs, Marc Normandin of Baseball Prospectus and Jon Heyman of the New York Post. I have found that many of these articles overlook key facts to push a neat narrative, though at least in Heyman's case, there is interesting reporting about how Kim Ng overruled the majority of the club's decision-makers to select Skip Schumaker as manager over Matt Quatraro.

• Nasim Nuñez tells Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald why it's so important to disconnect from baseball when away from the field.

• Barely a week post-surgery, Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s right foot is tough to look at, though his recovery appears to be going as planned.

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