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Mañana a las 4 P.M. tiempo del este, es el día del dichoso "Trading Deadline" en el Major League Baseball. La fecha que siempre a caído el 31 de Julio, a sido retrasado para mañana gracias a esta temporada corta. Los Marlins se encontrarán en Nueva York como un castigo hacía ellos de parte del MLB. Las Grandes Ligas, quien la a traído contras el Equipo (seamos francos), desde que dieron 18 Positivos por el Covid-19, al parecer quieren seguir castigando a los Marlins. Los Fish, que se encontraban en una racha de 8 Juegos consecutivos en el Estado de la Florida, viajarán mañana en su penúltimo día de descanso de temporada, para jugar 1 SOLO PARTIDO contra Los Mets de Nueva York. Se jugará el Juego del Jueves, que se suspendió después que los 2 Equipos protestaron por lo que a estado sucediendo afuera del mundo de los deportes. Los Mets y Marlins tuvieron un juego suspendido en Miami hace una semana también, después que 3 peloteros de Nueva York dieran positivo para Coronavirus....

Every MLB Team is required to have an “alternate site” in order to spread out each Club’s Player Pool, seeing as Covid spreads in large groups, and the Marlins know this too well 🙈. The Fish selected Jupiter Florida as a place not only to bring in Players with past Big League experience, like you see in Spring Training with NRI’s who could be used in case of Injury (Or Covid 🙈). They also brought most of their Top-Prospects to Jupiter, some who I’m sure nobody ever really thought would see action with the Marlins this year. Case in point, Trevor Rogers. Son Los Marlins wrote about Rogers in February, and how impressive he looked in a very small sample. But did anybody really expect to see what we saw last night?! “Pure Electricity” was coming out of Rogers' Left Arm. He has a feel for the Off-Speed, may have even gone to it a little too much, when you got a Fastball going like he did last night, #Whoa. We don’t know if Rogers' will get another chance to Start, but he just m...

  Sixto Sanchez, the real-deal. I couldn’t help but note a resemblance when Marlins Top Prospect Sixto Sanchez made his MLB Debut this Weekend in Washington. You heard all weekend of past Top-Prospect Pitching Debuts in Marlins History, from Jose Fernandez, to Josh Beckett. I didn’t go that far back. My first thought was of current Marlins All-Star Sandy Alcantara when I saw Sixto. That feeling of “this guy has Ace written all over him”. The funny thing is, Sixto is always mentioned in talks of what “will be” the future Marlins Rotation. Headed by Sanchez, followed by Prospects Edward Cabrera, Braxton Garrett, and Trevor Rogers. But what about the present, and the potential, oh the potential.  The very same Sandy Alcantara could join this Marlins Rotation as early as tomorrow, after his battle with Covid-19. A Rotation that was ravished by the illness and has since seen Pablo Lopez pitch like an Ace. A Rotation that has seen Eliesar Hernandez take a huge step forward, as we me...

Son Los Marlins said it many times in the year 2019, extending Manager Don Mattingly to be at the helm of your Club, was not a good idea 🙈 . After the Marlins hot 7-1 start, many were quick to praise Mattingly for all the success.   The truth of the matter was, a lot of Players came in extremely hungry for the Opportunity the Marlins were providing, especially out of the Bullpen.  Many men were put in positions you normally would not see them in (Even with so many guys out), and finding ‘success’ at the Big League level. Now, would you call that good Managing? I guess it depends huh. Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez, who now is an analyst for TBS, once covered a Playoff Elimination Game for the L.A. Dodgers in 2015. The Manager of that Team, Don Mattingly. Pedro joked on air that it seemed Mattingly would put player’s names in a hat, juggle it around a little bit, then pick a name who would either come off the bench or out of the Bullpen 🙈 , based on his decision making. By the ...

We’re seeing a different Eliesaer Hernandez in 2020. We’re seeing what the Marlins saw in a potential future for Hernandez when they selected him from the Houston Astros Organization in the Rule 5 Draft all the way back in December of 2017. At the time, Eliesar hadn’t pitched above A-Ball yet, but along with fellow Rule 5 Pick Brett Graves, they became the first Marlins since Dan Uggla to make it through a full Season on the Roster following the Draft. In order to be maintained in the Organization, a Rule-5 Pick must stay on your Big League Roster the entire year, and as expected, it did not come without growing pains. Hernandez won’t blow you away with velocity, or has the nastiest of breaking pitches, but he has extreme spin-rate. His 90 MPH Fastball gets on hitters extremely quick, and over the last couple Seasons he's begun to get a great feel for his Slider. Eliesar will show you that Slider as a ‘get me over’ pitch, or knock it off the plate to a Righthanded hitter ‘at will’....

HBD Juan Pierre  One of the most complete Games played by the Marlins in a long time. That style of play, of Pitching (as Pablo Lopez gave em 6 Strong & the Pen was solid). Defense (with a very clutch play by Brian Anderson and 2 spectacular plays by Matt Joyce of all Outfielders 👏). Speed (having Eddy Alvarez, Jon Berti, Magnueris Sierra, and Jonathan Villar bunched in the Lineup gives the Club quite a different look 🖒). That style of Play is hard to beat, just ask those Atlanta Braves 🙂. May I even say, was the recipe for a 2003 Championship.  Marlin Notes  Son Los Marlins came to find out Bullpen Coach Wellington Castillo, Bullpen Catcher Koji Tanaka, and Catching Coach Eddy Rodriguez were 3 "Staff" Members on the Club who had tested positive for Covid-19. Not surprising seeing as of the 18 Players who had tested positive, 12 were Pitchers (Adam Conley, Jeff Brigham, Caleb Smith, Yimi Garcia, Robert Dugger, Ryne Stanek, Sandy Alcantara, Jose Urena, Jordan Hallow...

  B.A. July 21st. The Marlins head to Atlanta to play 2 Exhibition Games prior to Opening the Regular Season in Philadelphia. Thursday, August the 13 th , The Fish finally returned home. Manager Don Mattingly joked that “rent would be due” upon returning to a place they haven’t been in almost a month. So what’s all transpired since then? Oh nothing much. 18 Players and a few staff members went down with Coronavirus (Including 4 starting Position Players and you’re top 3 Starting Pitchers). Nobody on the Team was allowed to leave their Philadelphia hotel rooms for over a week. Those contracted with the virus were then bussed to Miami, while those who remained were bussed to Baltimore to play the red-hot Orioles who they swept in 4 Games. 1 Player opted out of the 2020 Season. The Marlins signed, traded for, or claimed 12 Players from outside the Organization, and added them to their Big League Roster. Brought up another 10 Ballplayers to Baltimore that were a part of their squad tra...

Los   “trece”. Así fue como el Presidente de los Marlins (y en español) Michael Hill, se refirió al grupo de trece peloteros del equipo que tuvieron aislados por más de una semana sin poder salir de sus evitaciones de un hotel en Filadelfia. Los Marlins se fueron de Miami el Martes, 21 de Julio a jugar un par de partidos de exhibición en Atlanta, y nunca regresaron. Después de jugar contra los Bravos, Florida se embarco al dichoso Filadelfia el 22 de Julio, donde después de abrir la Temporada Regular, Las Grandes Ligas anuncio que el resto de los partidos que jugarian los Marlins esa semana serian suspendidos, ya que 18 jugadores dieron positivos al Covid-19. Pero los que también pagaron caro fueron esos 13 peloteros que no tenían el virus. Puede durar días para que se demuestre en los exámenes quien tiene Coronavirus o no. MLB no permitió que nadie de los Marlins se fuera del hotel hasta que los 18 Jugadores que habían dado positivo fueran traslados al sur de la Florida, y hasta q...

Marlins version does not include Keanu Reeves or Gene Hackman  😉 One of my personal favorites, 2000's The Replacements, is a movie about a Professional Football Team searching high, low, anywhere, and everywhere for Talent in order to try and form a competitive Ball Club that had lost a majority of their players. Sound familiar 🤔?! Little did I know that my Marlins would be living this movie in 2020. Only for my Fish, instead of a comedy, it was turning into a horror film😨.   18 Marlins tested positive in a week's span for the virus known as Covid-19. Making this past week 1 of the most trying week's this Organization has ever had to experience. The Marlins have not announced who are the 18 individuals that have tested positive yet. We know of Jorge Alfaro, Jose Ureña, Garrett Cooper, and Harold Ramirez's postive test results because they were all placed on the Injured List last weekend without a motive given. Reports have since surfaced that the Marlins' Team Ca...