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Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal readers. These notes apply to the second game of Miami's home series against the Atlanta Braves. Starting Lineup 2B Xavier Edwards (S) RF Jesús Sánchez (L) SS Otto Lopez C Agustin Ramírez LF Kyle Stowers (L) 1B Eric Wagaman DH Liam Hicks (L) 3B Connor Norby CF Dane Myers P Eury Pérez Click HERE to download the full game notes (preview below)

Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal readers. These notes apply to the first game of Miami's home series against the Atlanta Braves. Starting Lineup 2B Xavier Edwards (S) RF Jesús Sánchez (L) SS Otto Lopez C Agustin Ramírez LF Kyle Stowers (L) CF Dane Myers 1B Liam Hicks (L) 3B Connor Norby DH Heriberto Hernández P Janson Junk Click HERE to download the full game notes (preview below)

Last week, our own Kevin Barral listed outfielder Jesús Sánchez among the Miami Marlins players most likely to get moved leading up to the July 31 trade deadline. Per Jim Bowden of The Athletic, at least one contending team already does have Sánchez on their radar. Bowden proposes a deal sending Sánchez to the Twins in exchange for left-handed pitching prospect Dasan Hill: The Twins have made it clear to opposing general managers that they are looking for a left-handed-hitting outfielder. Sánchez is one of their trade targets. He has slashed .251/.324/.412 with seven doubles, seven homers and seven steals in 53 games. Last year he hit .252 with 18 home runs and 64 RBIs. He ranks in the 92nd percentile in bat speed and the 76th percentile in average exit velocity. Sánchez, 27, is under team control through 2027. In return, the Marlins would get Hill, a 19-year-old [lefty] whom the Twins selected in the second round of last year’s draft. He’s been dominant in the Low-A Florida State League this season, posting a 1.65 ERA with 43 strikeouts in 27 1/3 innings. This is the type of trade that’s been prioritized by Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix, who has shown a preference for accumulating talent over big-league readiness. I would pull the trigger on this with no hesitation. As tantalizing as Sánchez's raw power is, his fundamental lapses and non-competitive plate appearances against lefty pitching limit his impact. Between Griffin Conine (currently rehabbing from shoulder surgery) and outfielders in the upper minors, the Marlins have capable internal replacements for 2026 and beyond. Our pals at Twins Daily rank Hill sixth among Minnesota's top prospects. He's on track to get a bump up to High-A before season's end. d2VlUU5fV0ZRVkV3dEdEUT09X1VBa0VVMUVIVndFQUFGUlFVZ0FIVlFGZkFGa0FVbGtBVmxWV0FBRlRBRkJXVkFGZQ==.mp4 Bowden's article also includes mock trades sending Sandy Alcantara to the Baltimore Orioles, Edward Cabrera to the Los Angeles Angels and Kyle Stowers to the Kansas City Royals. View full rumor

Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal readers. These notes apply to the fourth and final game of Miami's home series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Starting Lineup 2B Xavier Edwards (S) DH Agustin Ramírez SS Otto Lopez LF Heriberto Hernández 1B Eric Wagaman CF Dane Myers 3B Connor Norby RF Jesús Sánchez (L) C Nick Fortes P Edward Cabrera Click HERE to download the full game notes (preview below)

We have been here before with the Miami Marlins, most recently in 2019. That team had former All-Stars on its roster and youngsters who would eventually establish themselves as All-Star-caliber, but nobody who deserved a selection based on their first-half performance in that particular season. Rookie Sandy Alcantara had been injury-free and pitching like a typical No. 3 starter, and that was enough to earn him the All-Star nod. Entering Opening Day, Alcantara was the favorite to be the Marlins' 2025 rep. However, with a few weeks to go before the selection show, the revered workhorse is firmly out of the mix, having posted an ERA that is nearly doubled his career average and ranks dead last among MLB pitchers with a minimum of 50 innings. If not Sandy, then who? There is no satisfying alternative. (All stats below were updated entering Thursday unless otherwise specified.) Kyle Stowers initially emerged as the feel-good story of this Marlins season. His slash line peaked at .319/.392/.566 on May 23. Barring injury, it was hard to imagine the 27-year-old outfielder being denied an All-Star nod. Well, seemingly in part due to a brief battle with hand soreness, his offensive production has cratered. Stowers' strikeouts are up and his power has dissipated (it's been more than a month since his last home run). There is a deep crop of more deserving NL outfielders. Dane Myers has overtaken Stowers as the best Marlins player...when he is actually on the field. Myers leads the club with 1.4 fWAR despite only starting about half of their games (37 of 72). It's just hard to see how he fits on the All-Star roster given his position. Pete Crow-Armstrong, James Wood, Corbin Carroll, Fernando Tatis Jr., Kyle Tucker, Andy Pages and Juan Soto have all been comparable or better than Myers as offensive players while also being durable and platoon-proof. On the latest Fish Unfiltered episode, Kevin Barral and Isaac Azout floated the possibility of Edward Cabrera going to Atlanta. It's plausible if he were to rattle off back-to-back-to-back quality starts, dropping his ERA under 4.00. That would be somewhat reminiscent of Alcantara in 2019. The main difference to this point is volume—Cabrera is averaging less than five innings per start. Xavier Edwards is flirting with a .300 batting average, leading the Marlins in walks and stolen bases, and playing surprisingly great defense since moving to second base (albeit in a small sample). An All-Star selection for him would be an amusing plot twist after being viewed as a disappointment through the first two months of the season. The NL is thin on dominant relievers in 2025, but the Marlins are not poised to capitalize on that, either. Very quietly, Calvin Faucher has held opponents scoreless in 22 of his last 24 appearances. If not for a six-run blow-up on May 20, Faucher would have a sub-2.00 ERA, though you can play that game with so many other guys. I could see him sneaking in by raising his save total into double digits with a couple more weeks of perfect high-leverage work. Cade Gibson could've had a case with more time on the active roster. I get why MLB insists on keeping all 30 teams and their fanbases involved in the All-Star tradition, but this is gonna be awkward. Whoever winds up representing the Marlins this year, hopefully they can genuinely enjoy their achievement rather than worry about who got snubbed to make it possible. View full article

After nearly half a season of experimentation, I'm settling on this routine of disseminating daily game notes as forum posts rather than standard articles. Hopefully, everybody who's interested in them can still find them just as easily. Each of these posts will contain the "game notes" tag for convenience. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal readers. These notes apply to the third game of Miami's home series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Starting Lineup 2B Xavier Edwards (S) C Agustin Ramírez DH Otto Lopez RF Heriberto Hernández 1B Eric Wagaman CF Dane Myers 3B Connor Norby SS Jack Winkler LF Javier Sanoja P Adam Mazur Click HERE to download the full game notes (preview below)

Tonight, we will be getting our first glimpse of Adam Mazur pitching for the Miami Marlins in a regular season game. Mazur has maintained his prospect eligibility despite making eight starts for the San Diego Padres in 2024. There's no sugarcoating it: that experience went poorly for him (7.49 ERA and 6.23 FIP while averaging barely four innings per outing). The Padres shipped him to Miami as part of a six-player trade deadline deal. The slender right-hander had uncharacteristic control issues during his previous MLB stint. Mazur has cleaned that up with the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, walking only 5.6% of batters faced in 97 ⅔ innings pitched since the trade. New in 2025, he's using an occasional sweeper to complement his signature slider. The corresponding move to get Mazur on the Marlins active roster is expected to be optioning either Freddy Tarnok or Valente Bellozo. Down on the farm, Triple-A Jacksonville won, 6-4. Jakob Marsee had the first multi-homer game of his minor league career. Jacob Berry hit the decisive three-run blast in the top of the ninth. Double-A Pensacola lost, 4-3. High-A Beloit lost, 5-4. Low-A Jupiter won, 5-3. Andres Valor doubled and homered. Deyvison De Los Santos continued his rehab assignment by going 1-for-2 with two walks. FCL Marlins won, 7-2. Perfect day at the plate for Yiddi Cappe (3-3, 2 HR, BB) to begin his own rehab assignment. DSL Marlins won, 7-6. DSL Miami won, 9-5, and lost, 4-3. Luis Arana is now 45 plate appearances into his MiLB career without a single strikeout. More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 Several pitching prospects received promotions this week. Josh White and Adam Laskey got bumped up from Double-A to Triple-A. Selected in the fifth round of the 2022 MLB Draft, White emerged as a dominant reliever during the second half of last season and has only gotten better here in 2025. He's been striking out nearly half of all batters faced while posting a 1.19 ERA. Filling their shoes in Pensacola, Thomas White (no relation to Josh) and Ike Buxton were promoted from Beloit. The 20-year-old White is the consensus top prospect in Miami's farm system. He's scheduled to make his Blue Wahoos debut on Friday. 🔷 In a corresponding move, the Marlins released Woo-Suk Go. The Korean right-hander was salary-dumped to Miami in last year's Luis Arraez trade. Fun fact: Go is the team's highest-paid reliever in 2025 at $2.25 million. In 55 ⅓ total innings as a Marlins farmhand, Go pitched to a 6.34 ERA and 5.39 FIP. 🔷 Clayton McCullough is an All-Star! Dave Roberts will be managing the National League team as a reward for winning the 2024 NL pennant and he has invited McCullough to be on his staff. McCullough spent the last four seasons serving as Roberts' first base coach in LA. 🔷 On this day in 2010, Giancarlo Stanton clubbed his first career home run. Stanton is now Major League Baseball's active leader with 429 long balls, though he has not added to that total yet this season. 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, the Washington Nationals have lost 10 straight games. The most recent of those was particularly ugly, allowing seven home runs to the MLB-worst Colorado Rockies. The New York Yankees have been held scoreless three days in a row. Cal Raleigh's league-leading 27th homer was a grand slam. 🔷 Today's MLB game: it's the third installment of a four-game set between the Marlins (probable starter RHP Adam Mazur) and the Phillies (LHP Ranger Suárez). The Marlins have a 39.5% chance to win, per FanGraphs. Full organizational schedule below. Marlins podcast episodes View full article

It took seven and a half years, but Giancarlo Stanton finally has some company. On Sunday night, Rafael Devers became the second player in MLB history to be traded in the midst of a $300 million contract. While there are significant differences between these blockbusters, both are rare examples of elite hitters being moved in their primes largely for salary relief and concerns about the long-term fit with their original teams. Back in December 2017, during their first offseason under new ownership, the Miami Marlins shed $270M in sending Stanton to the New York Yankees. They received a package of Starlin Castro, Jorge Guzmán and José Devers (Rafael's cousin, coincidentally). The Boston Red Sox are saving more than $250M and getting Jordan Hicks, Kyle Harrison, James Tibbs and José Bello in return. Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow was hired in October 2023, several months after the Sox extended Devers. As trade assets, I would say Castro was roughly equivalent to Hicks/Harrison, Guzmán to Tibbs and José Devers to Bello. The pre-trade version of Stanton was better than Rafael Devers, though the latter was much more durable, which narrowed the gap in production. Devers also contributed to a World Series title in 2018, whereas none of Stanton's Marlins teams even achieved a winning record. A wide variety of injuries have prevented the Yankees from being fully satisfied with Stanton's tenure, but the Marlins did not capitalize on their side of the transaction, either. Most of the financial savings went back into ownership's pockets—Miami's 2017 payroll remains a franchise record—and the Fish are headed for their sixth season of 90-plus losses since his departure. None of their homegrown hitters have emerged as a worthy successor to Stanton. Likewise, the Red Sox will be judged by how they fill the Devers void and reallocate the quarter-billion dollars that was previously earmarked for him. Down on the farm, Triple-A Jacksonville won, 5-4, completing a series sweep over Rochester. Jakob Marsee stole his 38th base. No other Marlins minor leaguer has more than 25. Double-A Pensacola won, 5-2. Kemp Alderman launched a tape-measure home run. Grant Richardson stays hot since signing with the Marlins as a free agent, slashing .321/.367/.536 in eight games (though with a 40% strikeout rate). Only two runs allowed by Alex Williams in 17 ⅓ innings since being promoted to the Blue Wahoos. High-A Beloit lost, 2-1. Low-A Jupiter lost, 2-1. That's despite an excellent outing from Liomar Martínez (6.0 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K, 86 pitches/57 strikes). More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 How sweep it is! The Fish won three straight at Nationals Park over the weekend. In Sunday's series finale, they blanked the Nats from the second inning onward despite leaning on low-leverage arms, including emergency closer Freddy Tarnok. This felt like the series that Dane Myers cemented himself as Miami's everyday center fielder and vaulted himself into All-Star consideration. He racked up eight hits and boosted his season slash line to .333/.377/.481. 🔷 The Marlins designated Luarbert Arias for assignment to make room for Tarnok on their 40-man roster. The 24-year-old right-hander pitched poorly out of the big league bullpen in six appearances earlier this season and he's been struggling with his control in Triple-A (13 BB in 14.0 IP since the beginning of May). With two more minor league options left beyond 2025 and a good MiLB track record overall, I could still see him getting claimed by another team. 🔷 The Los Angeles Dodgers "are one of the teams lurking" in the event that the Marlins shop Sandy Alcantara this summer, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. Let's take this one with a grain of salt because in the very next paragraph, Nightengale added that Shohei Ohtani was not expected to make his Dodgers pitching debut "until after the All-Star break." As it turns out, Ohtani takes the mound tonight. The last trade between the Dodgers and Marlins was the swap of Miguel Rojas for Jacob Amaya in January 2023. 🔷 On this day in 1995, Miami's own Andre Dawson hit his 400th career National League home run. 🔷 The Prediction Time leaderboard has been updated through the first 23 series. Become a SuperSub and we'll keep track of your predictions all season long! 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, Grant Holmes struck out 15 Colorado Rockies, the highest single-game total for any MLB pitcher this season. The Rockies beat the Atlanta Braves, anyway. Elly De La Cruz homered for the fourth consecutive game. Philadelphia Phillies ace Zack Wheeler told Matt Gelb of The Athletic that he intends to retire once his contract expires at the end of the 2027 season. Since joining the Phillies in 2020, Wheeler leads Major League Baseball in innings pitched. 🔷 Today's MLB game: the Marlins (probable starter RHP Sandy Alcantara) kick off a week-long homestand with their series opener against the Phillies (RHP Mick Abel). The Marlins have a 54.5% chance to win, per FanGraphs. Another victory would mean Miami's longest winning streak of the season. First pitch at 6:40 p.m. ET. 🔷 Prior to the game, Fish On First LIVE will preview the Phillies series beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET. FOF LIVE is presented by About The Fans. Check out our new merchandise collection (coupon code fof10 for 10% off). Marlins podcast episodes View full article

The idea of Jackson Jobe potentially being available would have been absurd entering this season. The 22-year-old Detroit Tigers right-hander was considered a consensus top-10 MLB prospect and slotted to pitch out of the club's starting rotation. He seemed untouchable. However, perhaps the combination of Jobe's shaky rookie performance and the timing of his pending Tommy John surgery has opened the door for a seller like the Miami Marlins to make a blockbuster trade this summer. In 10 starts prior to his injury, Jobe posted a 4.22 ERA, 5.12 FIP and .249 BAA in 49 innings pitched. His 12.4% walk rate ranked in the eighth percentile among MLB pitchers. His fastball velocity was almost as good as advertised, averaging 96.5 mph, but he threw it middle-middle too often. Although his changeup missed bats at a very high rate, it yielded a .600 slugging percentage. There are still adjustments to be made. Meanwhile, the Tigers have been thriving. They went 9-1 with Jobe on the mound despite his pedestrian individual performance and enter Friday with the best record in the American League. Even during their surprising 2024 playoff run, rotation depth was a concern and that is definitely the case again. The Tigers' best opportunity to snap their 40-plus-year championship drought figures to be in 2025 and 2026 before ace Tarik Skubal is eligible to leave via free agency. Jobe is unlikely to throw another pitch for them during that window. The Marlins, on the other hand, aren't seriously eyeing World Series contention for a few more years. They would have to get creative—how about a package containing both Sandy Alcantara and Edward Cabrera? Even if my zany suggestion gets laughed at, these teams ought to be in frequent communication with each other during the month and a half leading up to the deadline. Down on the farm, Triple-A Jacksonville won, 6-4. Matt Mervis was a double shy of the cycle and raised his Jumbo Shrimp OPS to 1.065. Double-A Pensacola lost, 5-4. Kemp Alderman registered a top-of-the-scale 117 mph exit velocity on his RBI single. High-A Beloit lost, 3-1. Garret Forrester's first home run of the season accounted for the only Sky Carp run. Low-A Jupiter won, 5-2. John Cruz's first extra-base hit as a Hammerhead this year came at a convenient time as he doubled in the 10th inning to drive in the go-ahead runs. FCL Marlins won, 5-0. Nate Payne picked up his first professional win (5.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K). DSL Marlins won, 11-1. Only two hits allowed by Bayant Melo, Gerinton Mendez and Albert Ortiz, with one of those being a bunt single. DSL Miami won, 16-2. Five stolen bases for Sandy Presbot. More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 A "rival official" who attended Sandy Alcantara's latest start told Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic that he believes the "Sandy of old" is getting close to returning. Data from Eno Sarris corroborates that the location of Alcantara's pitches was more precise against the Pittsburgh Pirates than it had been in any of his previous outings this season. 🔷 The Prediction Time leaderboard has been updated through the first 22 series. Become a SuperSub and we'll keep track of your predictions all season long! 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, Tarik Skubal has allowed one total run over his last four starts combined (30.2 IP). Jacob Misiorowski threw five no-hit innings in his major league debut. The Colorado Rockies erased a five-run deficit against the San Francisco Giants to record their very first walk-off win of the season. 🔷 Today's MLB game: the Marlins (probable starter RHP Edward Cabrera) open up a three-game set against the Washington Nationals (LHP Mitchell Parker). The Marlins have a 47.0% chance to win, per FanGraphs. First pitch at 6:45 p.m. ET. Full organizational schedule below. 🔷 Prior to the game, Fish On First LIVE will preview the Nats series beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET. FOF LIVE is presented by About The Fans. Check out our new merchandise collection (coupon code fof10 for 10% off). Marlins podcast episodes View full article

Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal readers. These notes apply to the third and final game of Miami's road series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Starting Lineup 2B Xavier Edwards (S) DH Agustin Ramírez RF Heriberto Hernández SS Otto Lopez 1B Eric Wagaman 3B Connor Norby CF Dane Myers C Nick Fortes LF Javier Sanoja P Cal Quantrill Click HERE to download the full game notes (preview below) View full article