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Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins game. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. These notes apply to Miami's home exhibition game against the New York Mets. Starting Lineup SS Xavier Edwards (S) 2B Otto Lopez 1B Jonah Bride RF Jesús Sánchez (L) CF Dane Myers LF Griffin Conine (L) C Agustín Ramírez DH Matt Mervis (L) 3B Graham Pauley (L) P Max Meyer View full article

Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins game. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. These notes apply to Miami's road exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox. Starting Lineup CF Kyle Stowers (L) RF Derek Hill 3B Connor Norby DH Graham Pauley (L) 1B Eric Wagaman LF Albert Almora Jr. 2B Javier Sanoja SS Max Acosta C Rob Brantly P Edward Cabrera View full article

Today's news roundup also includes a lopsided Marlins spring training loss. Friday's Grapefruit League game was record-setting in the worst way for the Miami Marlins. Comprehensive spring training stats are available dating back to 2006 and this is the only instance where they've allowed 20 runs in a single exhibition game. Starter Edward Cabrera faced 13 batters and retired only five of them. The Boston Red Sox scored in each of the eight innings that they batted, homering six total times. Marlins Opening Day is 19 days away. More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 Alex Carver's overview of the Marlins' Spring Breakout roster highlights Thomas White, Starlyn Caba, Andrew Salas, Noble Meyer, Robby Snelling, Dillon Head and Dax Fulton. The only prospects repeating as participants from the inaugural 2024 showcase are White, Meyer, Joe Mack, Andrés Valor, Javier Sanoja, Karson Milbrandt and Kemp Alderman. 🔷 For the second straight year, Fish On First's Kevin Barral participated in Effectively Wild's season preview series. His interview with Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley about the state of the Marlins is embedded below (begins at the 1:35:27 mark). 🔷 The Marlins are 16th in MLB Pipeline's preseason farm system rankings. They had been 29th at this time a year ago. 🔷 Following the news of Jessica Blaylock's departure last month, Jeremy Taché announced that he'll be an in-game reporter on FanDuel Sports Network Florida Marlins broadcasts this season. Taché has done the same assignment for occasional Miami Heat home games on the network. His history covering the Marlins dates back to Swings and Mishes, the podcast he co-hosted with Craig Mish in the late 2010s and early 2020s. He will split the reporter reps with Kelly Saco. 🔷 Happy birthday to Dane Myers. Health permitting, the pitcher-turned-outfielder is set to make the Opening Day roster for the first time in his career at the age of 29. 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, Lawrence Butler and the Athletics agreed to a seven-year, $65.5 million contract extension that includes a club option for the eighth year. Butler broke out as one of MLB's best offensive players during the second half of last season. After missing half of the 2024 campaign due to a right elbow injury, New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole is set to undergo an MRI on the same elbow. Brazil clinched the final spot in the 2026 World Baseball Classic field, the country's first WBC berth since 2013. 🔷 Today's Grapefruit League game: the Marlins (probable starter RHP Max Meyer) host the New York Mets (LHP David Peterson). It is only being broadcasted on the Marlins Radio Network. It'll be the latest scheduled start time of spring training with a 6:40 p.m. first pitch. Meyer's sitdown with Jack McMullen and Stephen Strom discussing his offseason gains is embedded below. Marlins podcast episodes View full article

Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins game. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. These notes apply to Miami's road exhibition game against the Atlanta Braves. Starting Lineup SS Xavier Edwards (S) CF Jesús Sánchez (L) 3B Jonah Bride 1B Matt Mervis (L) LF Griffin Conine (L) RF Dane Myers C Liam Hicks (L) 2B Otto Lopez DH Heriberto Hernández P Ryan Weathers View full article

The video game's ratings are supposed to reflect "real life." Whoops! It is admittedly going to be difficult to anticipate what sort of production most Miami Marlins players will provide this season given their brief MLB track records. The obvious exception, of course, is Sandy Alcantara. The last time he was healthy for a full season, Alcantara was the league's most productive pitcher. This spring, he has reverted to Cy Young-caliber form and he's still in the prime of his baseball career at age 29. He is unequivocally the club's best player. Alcantara's character in MLB The Show 25 will not reflect that, though. As revealed on Wednesday in anticipation of the game's release later this month, he'll begin the 2025 season with only a 78 player rating (the maximum is 99). Fans took to social media to express their disapproval. So did fellow MLB players like Marlins shortstop Xavier Edwards. The top-rated Marlin in MLBTS is Alcantara's protégé, Eury Pérez, at 81. Injured left-hander Braxton Garrett is tied with Alcantara as a 78. Otto Lopez (77) and Griffin Conine (76) lead the position player group. xzlbcv_1.mp4 At the start of the ratings reveal special, senior live game designer Ruairí McCann was asked about the methodology behind the ratings and said this: "We're looking at a lot of stats. We're looking at a lot of analytics, a lot of data, and put it all together, it gets all the attributes you have on a player. Any attribute you look at, you can go to a stat, some metric, and it really does give you a one-to-one. That's our goal: always putting the one-to-one, our game to real life." However, McCann later shared that there is also some subjectivity involved. While discussing somebody else who's coming back from an injury (Matt McLain of the Cincinnati Reds), he said that ratings drop whenever a player misses the whole previous season. Looking back at MLBTS 24, Pérez was an 89 overall and Alcantara was an 83. Both of them were sidelined throughout 2024 while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. If the game had simply left those ratings unchanged, I bet there'd be much less public backlash. From both a run prevention and peripheral standpoint, Garrett was slightly better than Alcantara when they were last rotation mates on the 2023 Marlins. Still, it's hard to rationalize how they currently share the same overall rating when Garrett's upside is so much lower and he's coming off an injury-marred season of his own. During the past year, Conine has ascended from organizational afterthought to likely member of the Opening Day roster. In a late-season, 30-game sample in the majors, the powerful outfielder was an above-average hitter and an above-average defender. Easy to root for considering his father is a two-time World Series winner with this franchise and part of the inaugural Marlins Legend Hall of Fame class. With all due respect to Conine, the juxtaposition of his overall rating being only two points lower than Alcantara's is embarrassing. He accumulated 0.7 bWAR during his initial cup of coffee, which would merit this rating if you could confidently extrapolate that over the course of a full year. Realistically, the chances of him overcoming his well-documented contact issues to maintain that pace are remote. If I was in charge of MLBTS ratings, this is how I'd rank the top five Marlins: Sandy Alcantara Eury Pérez Xavier Edwards Ryan Weathers Jesús Sánchez Let me know if you like that better than what the game designers came up with. View full article

Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins game. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. These notes apply to Miami's home exhibition game against the Washington Nationals. Starting Lineup SS Xavier Edwards (S) RF Griffin Conine (L) CF Derek Hill 3B Connor Norby LF Kyle Stowers (L) C Nick Fortes 2B Otto Lopez 1B Graham Pauley (L) DH Eric Wagaman P Sandy Alcantara View full article

Today's news roundup also includes updated Marlins prospect lists. Fish On First has a robust video section that houses exclusive player interviews, highlight reels, segments from our podcasts/livestreams and more high-quality Marlins coverage from other creators. For those of you who have had a poor experience with our video player in the past because of excessive ads, I just wanted to update you that the settings have been changed to address that. Moving forward, you should only be seeing a maximum of one pre-roll ad and one post-roll ad in between videos. Please let me know if you continue to experience an ad overload by mistake! Marlins Opening Day is 22 days away. More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 Andrew Nardi has paused his throwing progression for at least the next few days due to back tightness. At this point, it is clear he will begin the regular season on the injured list. Nate Karzmer already factored that into his new roster projection and tabbed fellow left-hander Josh Simpson to fill his shoes. Personally, I don't think handedness will matter much when deciding the next man up. More likely, it'll be a pitcher already on the 40-man roster who is capable of eating multiple innings. 🔷 Although the Marlins haven't publicly stated it themselves, Sandy Alcantara will have his innings limited early in the season, Jeff Passan of ESPN reports (hence my previous comment about bullpen construction). Over the course of his career, Alcantara has averaged nearly 6.5 innings per start. All indications are that he'll work on a normal, every-fifth-day schedule, just without the opportunity to pitch as deep into games as he's accustomed to. 🔷 Our Fish On First Top 30 list has been updated. Thomas White remains firmly in a tier of his own and we also feel there's a noticeable drop-off from the first 10 prospects to the rest of the farm system, though the system as a whole has impressive depth. The rankings are a collaborative effort between myself, Alex Carver, Isaac Azout and Kevin Barral. 🔷 MLB Pipeline also updated their Marlins Top 30 this week. Jim Callis, who manages the list for Pipeline, is much higher on PJ Morlando (sixth) and Kemp Alderman (11th). 🔷 Ryan Weathers' fastball velocity sat at 98 mph in his spring debut on Saturday, according to data obtained by Lance Brozdowski. More importantly, the shape of the pitch has been "overhauled" compared to last year. If this combination of velo and induced vertical break carries over to the regular season, it could become "one of the best left-handed fastballs in MLB." 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, a cracked rib will sideline Atlanta Braves catcher Sean Murphy for 4-6 weeks. Murphy suffered the injury on Friday when he was hit by a 94 mph fastball from Marlins prospect William Kempner. Reigning AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil will be shut down from throwing for at least six weeks due to a lat strain. The MLB free agent pool continues to dry up with José Quintana joining the Milwaukee Brewers (1-YR/$4.25M). Mike Moustakas is retiring after a 13-year MLB career. 🔷 Today's Grapefruit League game: the Marlins (probable starter RHP Sandy Alcantara) host the Washington Nationals (LHP Shinnosuke Ogasawara). Alcantara will be stretched out to three innings, as will Valente Bellozo coming out of the bullpen. It's only being broadcasted on the Marlins Radio Network. First pitch is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. Marlins podcast episodes View full article

Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins games. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. It's a split-squad day. These notes apply to both Miami's home exhibition game against the Houston Astros and road exhibition game against the New York Mets. Game 1 Starting Lineup SS Xavier Edwards (S) LF Kyle Stowers (L) RF Dane Myers CF Jesús Sánchez (L) 3B Jonah Bride 1B Eric Wagaman DH Liam Hicks (L) C Nick Fortes 2B Javier Sanoja P Max Meyer View full article

Today's news roundup also includes another frustrating injury setback for a former Fish star. Seven Miami Marlins players are tied for the team lead in spring training with one home run apiece. Jared Serna joined the club on Sunday with a solo shot off of Steven Matz. The 22-year-old infielder also made an excellent catch in the game and has yet to strike out through his first eight Grapefruit League plate appearances. The initial round of cuts from big league camp will be coming any day now. Although Serna is destined to begin 2025 in the minor leagues regardless of performance, he clearly deserves a longer look before being officially optioned. Marlins Opening Day is 24 days away. More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 State of the Fish has returned to its regular weekly schedule! Every Sunday (typically in the late afternoon/early evening), listen live to Fish On First staffers give their takes on Marlins trending topics and call in to share your own takes. SuperSubs get their calls answered first. The original recording of the new SoTF can be found here, or check it out on our podcast channel. 🔷 Recently designated for assignment by the Marlins, reliever Seth Martinez was claimed by the Seattle Mariners. 🔷 Christina De Nicola of MLB.com details Agustín Ramírez's development as a catcher and the votes of confidence he has received from president of baseball operations Peter Bendix and catching coach Joe Singley. "Ramírez knows what the doubters say about his ability to be a big league catcher," the piece mentions (I continue to count myself among those doubters). De Nicola also wrote about Marlins players and coaches who are connected in unconventional ways. 🔷 Sean Millerick laments how no players ever spend their entire career with the Marlins like Clayton Kershaw has with the Los Angeles Dodgers. 🔷 loanDepot park hosted back-to-back, sold-out Banana Ball games on Saturday and Sunday. 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, the New York Yankees have determined that old friend Giancarlo Stanton will begin the season on the injured list due to soreness in both elbows. Stanton had significant health issues during his Marlins tenure, playing in 986 games across eight seasons, but staying on the field has been even more challenging since his trade to NY. The former NL MVP is at only 663 total games as he enters his eighth Yankees campaign, and that's despite making the vast majority of his appearances as a designated hitter. Colorado Rockies RHP Jeff Criswell will be undergoing Tommy John surgery and miss the entire 2025 season. 🔷 Today's Grapefruit League games: it's the first split-squad day for the Marlins this spring. With Max Meyer on the mound, they'll be hosting the Houston Astros (probable starter LHP Framber Valdez) at 1:10 p.m., while RHP Connor Gillispie and the B squad visit the New York Mets (RHP Kodai Senga) at 6:10 p.m. The latter game will be televised by the Mets' broadcast crew on SNY (available to watch via MLB.TV). 🔷 Please join us in wishing longtime SuperSub Chase Blake aka "Loud Miami Fan" a speedy and full recovery as he battles cystic fibrosis complications. Marlins podcast episodes View full article

In a spring training interview with MLB Network, Miami Marlins shortstop Xavier Edwards breaks down his hitting mechanics and looks ahead to the 2025 season. View full video

What Leo meant was, all the chatter about him eventually getting traded has already begun, which takes away from the excitement of him making this comeback in the first place when it just feels like an audition for his next team.

Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins game. Mired in a three-game Grapefruit League losing streak, here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. These notes apply to Miami's home exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Starting Lineup 3B Connor Norby CF Jesús Sánchez (L) 1B Jonah Bride RF Kyle Stowers (L) DH Dane Myers C Liam Hicks (L) SS Max Acosta LF Javier Sanoja 2B Jared Serna P Edward Cabrera View full article

Every season, there is something new about the Miami Marlins organization, and that's an understatement. There have been turbulent times where barely anything stays the same from year to year. Witness the turnover and enjoy a broad overview of the franchise's history by browsing this collection of annual media guides. Fish On First has compiled digital copies of more than half of all the media guides ever published by the Marlins, from 2009 to the present. Following most of those seasons, they also published a season summary/season in review/postseason guide. Guides from the last five seasons are free for all. Everything pre-2022 is exclusive for SuperSubs at the bottom of this page. Download the 2026 Media Guide Download the 2025 Media Guide Download the 2025 Season in Review Download the 2024 Media Guide Download the 2024 Season In Review Download the 2023 Media Guide Download the 2023 Postseason Guide Download the 2022 Media Guide SuperSubs, continue scrolling for links to download all of the available pre-2022 Marlins media guides and season summaries... View full article

Today's news roundup also includes a new interview with Caroline O'Connor. Fish On First's Kevin Barral and 11,389 fans were on hand for Tuesday's exhibition between the Miami Marlins and New York Yankees, which featured lineups that were seemingly very similar to what each team will be using for their regular season openers. Cody Bellinger's solo home run gave the Yankees a lead in the first inning, though they only scored one (unearned) run after that. Matt Mervis and Graham Pauley homered for the Fish. In relief of Max Meyer, four arms from Marlins minor league camp combined to toss four hitless innings. Marlins Opening Day is one day away. More Marlins news and content below: 🔷 Per manager Clayton McCullough, the Marlins' initial starting rotation order will be Sandy Alcantara, Connor Gillispie, Valente Bellozo, Max Meyer and Cal Quantrill. That sets up Gillispie and Bellozo to make three starts apiece by the time Edward Cabrera potentially comes back to bump one of them out of the rotation. 🔷 With the confirmation of Bellozo's imminent recall from Triple-A and the implication that Pauley will follow suit, here's the most likely 26-man roster configuration for the Marlins on Thursday: 🔷 President of business Caroline O'Connor is our latest Fish Unfiltered guest (episode embedded below). O'Connor discusses marketing the team in the midst of yet another rebuild, motivating fans to come to loanDepot park, hosting non-baseball events at the stadium and beginning work on the Miami Live! project. 🔷 FanGraphs completed the 2025 edition of its Positional Power Rankings series. The Marlins project to receive below-average production from every position, ranking 25th out of the 30 MLB teams at catcher, 29th at first base, 26th at second base, 20th at shortstop, 27th at third base, 29th at left field, 29th at center field, 21st at right field, 29th at designated hitter, 24th at starting pitcher and 27th at relief pitcher. 🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, Cal Raleigh and the Seattle Mariners are finalizing a six-year, $105 million contract extension that includes a vesting option for 2031. Jared Jones of the Pittsburgh Pirates is being shut down from throwing for six weeks due to elbow inflammation. That obviously sidelines him for the opening series in Miami. Jordan Montgomery will be undergoing Tommy John surgery next week. He'll finish his Arizona Diamondbacks tenure having posted a disastrous 6.23 ERA in 117 innings pitched while being paid $47.5 million along the way. Los Angeles Angels RHP Ryan Johnson will be making his major league debut without having thrown a single pitch in the minor leagues. Johnson, the younger brother of Marlins prospect RHP M.D. Johnson, was selected by the Angels in the second round of the 2024 MLB Draft. 🔷 Today at loanDepot park, the Marlins are holding their final preseason workout from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Sandy Alcantara will be addressing the media in advance of his fifth career Opening Day start. Marlins podcast episodes View full article

Player status updates, insightful stats and more information to fully equip you for today's Marlins game. Here are the latest Miami Marlins game notes, produced by the Marlins communications department and relayed to our loyal SuperSubs. These notes apply to Miami's road exhibition game against the Washington Nationals. View full article