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Thursday's GamesMarlins Podcast Episodes Thursday's Marlins MiLB Notes: LHP José Castillo (Jacksonville) cleared waivers and was outrighted to the minors. That opens a spot on the 40-man roster, which I anticipate going to the rehabbing Tommy Nance in the near future. OF Jerar Encarnación hit his 21st and 22nd homers of the season. The Jumbo Shrimp picked up their sixth win in a row. SS Nasim Nuñez (Pensacola) extended his hitting streak to 16 games. RHP Zach McCambley has now allowed runs in five straight relief appearances (though not all of them have been earned runs). FCL Marlins INF Jesús Hernández was named Student of the Month for July by the Marlins education department.NL Wild Card race updates: the Phillies were the only relevant team in action and they won. The Marlins hold the third Wild Card spot by 0.5 games.Elsewhere around the majors, Matt Olson tied Shohei Ohtani for the MLB lead with his 40th home run. Olson's 101 RBI are by far the most in the league. The Dodgers won for the ninth time in their last 10 games—they're really starting to pull away from everybody else in the NL West.We’ve got a new episode of Fish On First LIVE streaming tonight at 5:30 p.m. ET on /Twitch/Twitter. Super Subscribers, submit your series predictions before first pitch. 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! /la-pop/The Marlins have a 58.5% chance to win their series opener against the Yankees, per FanGraphs. Triple-A Jacksonville (7:05 p.m. ET), High-A Beloit (7:35 p.m. ET), Low-A Jupiter (doubleheader beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET) and DSL Marlins (10:00 a.m. ET) are at home, while Double-A Pensacola (7:15 p.m. ET), FCL Marlins (10:00 a.m. ET) and DSL Miami (11:00 a.m. ET) are on the road.This weekend's series is projected to have the largest crowds of the season. There won't be enough parking available for everybody at LoanDepot Park, so the Marlins are urging fans to use alternate modes of transportation (or park at their Government Center transportation hub and take a shuttle from there). To make this Flashback Friday extra special, 2003 World Series winners Josh Beckett, Jeff Conine, Derrek Lee, Mike Lowell, Carl Pavano and Juan Pierre are among the Marlins alumni who'll be in the house./game-coverage/yankees-vs-marlins-preview-tickets-parking-details/Ethan Budowsky of Just Baseball believes the last two Marlins wins were crucial to saving their season. He looks ahead to the rest of their 2023 schedule.Enrollment for 2024 Marlins memberships is now open. The lowest price point averages out to $11 per game. Early enrollment continues through Sept. 5.Jorge López explains to Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald how his 10-year-old son Mikael serves as his source of inspiration.Jake Burger's sister, Ellie, was especially excited about his trade to the Marlins because of her aspirations to follow in Kim Ng's footsteps, writes Christina De Nicola of MLB.com.MLB Pipeline updated their Marlins Top 30 prospects list. I've been harsh on Pipeline the last couple years, but they align relatively closely with myself and the FOF team on this one. I was impressed that they had to guts to drop INF Jordan Groshans entirely out of the Top 30; entering the 2022 season, Pipeline ranked Groshans among their Top 100 overall prospects in the entire league.Speaking of Top 100 overall lists, Baseball America ranks RHP Noble Meyer 48th and RHP Max Meyer 73rd on theirs.Jazz Chisholm Jr. gives The Infatuation five Miami-area restaurant recommendations.Our partners at Homage have Flashback Friday-flavored products in their Miami Marlins collection. Shop here.Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images

Today's Marlins news roundup also includes highlights from Baseball America's updated Top 30 prospects list.Wednesday's Games/game-coverage/marlins-reds-josh-bell-home-runs-8-9-23/https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-08/09/8a791610-60dc34e1-c489115c-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_16000K.mp4Marlins Podcast Episodes Regular Fish On First visitors may notice that something's different around here. Indeed, I spent Wednesday night switching up the design template that the website uses. New font and color scheme, more navigation options, new sidebar (on desktop), etc. Still a work in progress! Please let me know how you feel about it in the comments. OK, now onto the news roundup...Wednesday's Marlins MiLB Notes: C Austin Allen (Jacksonville) was outstanding in his return from a hand injury, driving in all three Jumbo Shrimp runs and working well with the pitching staff (only two runs allowed). RHP Jacob Miller made his return to the Jupiter starting rotation (3.2 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K). In the second game of the Hammerheads doubleheader, RHP José Salvador exited with an apparent injury after facing only one batter. OF José Gerardo took over the FCL Marlins team RBI lead with his 26th, 27th and 28th of the season. He's still striking out in 42.2% of his plate appearances, though.Josh Bell became the first player in Marlins history to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in the same game (it was also Bell's first time ever doing it in the pros). A.J. Puk touched 99 miles per hour for the first time this season and Tanner Scott showed no signs of fatigue despite working for the third consecutive day. Miami's .722 winning percentage in one-run games continues to be the best in the league. Wednesdays have been the most prosperous day of the week for the 2023 Marlins (h/t Loud Marlins Fan). They have a 13-5 record in such games.Fish On First's Cincinnati correspondent Grant Kiefer was busy. Read all of his features and recaps from the Reds series in our At The Ballpark section.NL Wild Card race updates: the Phillies won, while the Cubs, Diamondbacks, Giants and Padres lost. The Marlins hold the third Wild Card spot by 0.5 games.Elsewhere around the majors, Michael Lorenzen threw a no-hitter against the Nationals. It took him 124 pitches to complete it, the highest single-game total for any pitcher this MLB season. Triple-A Jacksonville (7:05 p.m. ET), High-A Beloit (7:35 p.m. ET) and Low-A Jupiter (6:30 p.m. ET) are at home, while Double-A Pensacola (doubleheader beginning at 5:15 p.m. ET), DSL Marlins (11:00 a.m. ET) and DSL Miami (10:00 a.m. ET) are on the road.I have brought the Fish Stripes concept of FanPosts to FOF. They will be published here. Submit your own Marlins articles and we'll share them with the rest of our community. Details below./fish-on-first-updates/marlins-fanposts/Baseball America updated their Marlins Top 30 prospects list. OF Victor Mesa Jr. (ranked 4th) and OF/INF Dane Myers (10th) were big risers after entering the season unranked. Each of the Marlins' top six picks in the 2023 MLB Draft are 18th or higher as is seventh-rounder LHP Justin Storm. The strangest inclusion would have to be RHP Jhon Cabral (ranked 27th). As young as he is, it's difficult to imagine a major league future of any kind for somebody with such severe control issues (29.2 BB% in the FCL this season) and very little strikeout ability to offset it (3.1 K%). The most notable exclusions are LHP Patrick Monteverde and 1B Troy Johnston. FOF Super Subscribers can see the full list here.Happy 20th birthday to RHP Jacob Miller. Including Wednesday's start, Miller has a 4.45 earned run average through 54 2/3 minor league innings, mostly at the Low-A level. He hasn't been getting quite as much swing-and-miss as the Marlins probably envisioned.On this day 30 years ago, Bob Natal’s walk-off triple pushed the Marlins past the Cubs in 15 innings.Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images

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Today's Marlins news roundup also includes a birthday shoutout to one of the top prospects in Miami's farm system.Tuesday's Games/game-coverage/marlins-reds-jorge-soler-braxton-garrett-8-8-23/https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-08/08/e741c0ce-989f6f5e-6b2e7329-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_16000K.mp4Marlins Podcast Episodes Tuesday's Marlins MiLB Notes: 1B Troy Johnston has hits in all 13 of his games since joining Jacksonville, including extra-base hits in nine of those games. In Pensacola, SS Nasim Nuñez is riding a 14-game hitting streak (though none of those hits have gone for extra bases). In the fifth appearance of his minor league rehab assignment, Tommy Nance (Pensacola) had an effective 16-pitch outing (1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K). OF Osiris Johnson (Beloit) continues to quietly play the best ball of his pro career. Over the last 30 days, he's slashing .379/.453/.606. Mesmerizing box score in the first half of the FCL Marlins doubleheader. The two teams combined to draw 31 walks in a seven-inning game. OF Davis Bradshaw moving up from Beloit to Pensacola and INF/OF Javier Sanoja going from Jupiter to Beloit were among the latest series of minor league promotions. Kevin Barral put those transactions in their proper context./news/marlins-prospects-roster-moves-8-8-23/Jorge Soler now has eight home runs this season in what Baseball-Reference defines as "late-and-close" situations. That's tied with Shohei Ohtani for the most in Major League Baseball. The Marlins won their 25th one-run game, surpassing their total from the entire 2022 season.Elsewhere around the majors, Rays ace Shane McClanahan is expected to miss the rest of the season due to a forearm injury. Surgery is being considered. Kyle Schwarber reached the 30-homer milestone for the fifth time in his career. Orioles closer Félix Bautista, who had allowed only five earned runs all year, blew a save on Kyle Tucker's ninth-inning grand slam. The Marlins gained a half-game on the Phillies in the NL Wild Card race and a full game on the Giants, Diamondbacks and Padres (and obviously, the Reds). The Angels won for the first time in August.The Marlins have a 47.2% chance to win their series finale against the Reds, per FanGraphs. It'll be Johnny Cueto's 102 career start at Great American Ball Park. Triple-A Jacksonville (7:05 p.m. ET), High-A Beloit (7:35 p.m. ET), Low-A Jupiter (6:30 p.m. ET), FCL Marlins (12:00 p.m. ET) and DSL Miami (11:00 a.m. ET) are at home, while Double-A Pensacola (7:15 p.m. ET) is on the road.I have brought the Fish Stripes concept of FanPosts to FOF. They will be published here. Submit your own Marlins articles and we'll share them with the rest of our community. Details below./fish-on-first-updates/marlins-fanposts/Hall of Famer Wade Boggs explained to Jerry Beach of Compare.bet why it's "kind of refreshing" to see Luis Arraez thrive with an old-school, contract-oriented approach.Super Subscriber Paolo Torres is running a fantasy football league this NFL season and encourages Marlins fans to join him.Happy 24th birthday to Xavier Edwards. Edwards made his major league debut on May 2, but has spent most of the season with Triple-A Jacksonville, posting a .374 batting average and 5.3% strikeout rate. Both marks are the best among qualified full-season MiLB players. It will be almost impossible for the Marlins to deny Edwards of a September call-up, and he could make it up sooner if any infielders suffer an injury.Our partners at FOCO have dozens of products in their Miami Marlins collection. Shop here.Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images

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Today's Marlins news roundup also includes a well-deserved prospect promotion.Monday's Games/game-coverage/marlins-reds-eury-perez-loss-8-7-23/https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-08/07/197f22fb-75f1a816-da3fa2b3-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_16000K.mp4Marlins Podcast Episodes Monday's Marlins MiLB Notes: OF Griffin Conine has been promoted from Pensacola to Jacksonville, according to Aram Leighton of Just Baseball. Conine had been stuck at Double-A for parts of three seasons, becoming the all-time Blue Wahoos home run leader in the process. He gradually raised his wRC+ there from 86 in 2021 to 103 in 2022 to 126 this season, coinciding with a reduction in his strikeout rate (47.4% to 36.9% to 34.0%). Swing-and-miss issues still hinder the 26-year-old's long-term outlook, but now he's just one call away from The Show. Meanwhile in the Florida Complex League, the FCL Marlins erupted for 12 runs, led by INF/C Carmine Lane. Eury Pérez excelled in his first trip through the Reds lineup, but it was a very different story the next time through. His inability to throw his secondary pitches in the zone allowed hitters to sit on his fastball. He threw 78 pitches overall, tied for his second-fewest in any MLB start. The leash should be a little longer for his next outing (projected to be Sunday vs. Yankees).Jazz Chisholm Jr. put his hamstring cramp behind him by homering as a pinch-hitter. Chisholm has barely played in recent months due to various injuries, but here's some small sample size fun: since returning from his initial IL stint (turf toe) on June 27, he's slashing .359/.405/.769(!!!) with a 214 wRC+. Alas, that's only 12 games. Across the board, his 2023 rate stats are comparable or better than his career numbers. Just gotta stay on the field.Elsewhere around the majors, the Angels remain winless since the All-Star break after allowing the Giants to rally for six runs in the top of the ninth. The Rangers expect a six-week absence for Josh Jung after he suffered a broken left thumb in Sunday's game against Miami. Spencer Strider had one of the worst starts of his career in a Braves loss to the Pirates (2.2 IP, 5 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, 3 K). The Orioles suspended their television play-by-play announcer, Kevin Brown, for simply reflecting on how much the franchise struggled to compete with the rival Rays while rebuilding. In the event that Brown leaves the O's altogether, he'd be a welcome addition to Marlins broadcasts, in my opinion.Rewatch the latest episode of and remember to join us prior to every Marlins series opener. 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 have a 58.4% chance to win their next game against the Reds, per FanGraphs. Triple-A Jacksonville (7:05 p.m. ET), High-A Beloit (7:35 p.m. ET), Low-A Jupiter (6:30 p.m. ET), DSL Marlins (10:00 a.m. ET) and DSL Miami (11:00 a.m. ET) are at home, while Double-A Pensacola (7:15 p.m. ET) and FCL Marlins (doubleheader beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET) are on the road.I have brought the Fish Stripes concept of FanPosts to FOF. They will be published here. Submit your own Marlins articles and we'll share them with the rest of our community. Details below./fish-on-first-updates/marlins-fanposts/Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald calls out Chisholm, Jorge Soler and A.J. Puk as the Marlins players who need to step up most to halt this midseason collapse.Super Subscriber Paolo Torres is running a fantasy football league this NFL season and encourages Marlins fans to join him.Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images

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