Taking it 'personal' Catcher

 


Receipts is our Son Los Marlins word of the day. That's because Sandy Alcantara's personal Catcher may have picked up quite a few of those, and not at Wal-Mart, but rather 'Offensive'ly during this 2nd Half of the 2023 Season. 




Jacob Stallings, you may know him as part of the Kyle Nicolas Trade with Pittsburgh back in November of '21 😉, had himself let's jus say, *another rough First Half in 2023. Stallings' Batting Line sat at .191/.280/.260 for the Season on July 18th of this year. His Offensive slash on July 21st 2022 (almost a year to the date) was .180/.240/.228 in year 1 of the former Gold Glover's Marlins Career.


Something about the 2nd Half for this North Carolina Tar Heel. From July 23rd (Coincidently the 1st Game back in Pittsburg for the former Pirate) to the finish line during a lost final stretch of 2022 for the Marlins, Stallings quietly Hit .289 with a .370 On Base Percentage over his last 42 Games in year 1 with the Fish. It gave the Organization enough confidence going into '23 with both Stallings & Nick Fortes as their Backstops.




Unfortunately the calendar turned all the way to August 23rd this year for Stallings, in a Season that finds the Marlins competing for the Playoffs til the very end, and the Catcher had dropped his Batting Average 10 Points in a month! Jacob Stallings produced 8 TOTAL Extra Base Hits in his first 62 Games of 2023!!



Yet at of seemingly nowhere, Stallings has flipped a switch coming into September! He has 8 Extra Base Hits just in his last 16 Games alone!! His RBI Total went from 12 to 20 in the last month, and has picked up some massive Hits here in the 2nd Half for the Playoff hungry Marlins. 





Even Stallings' Catching partner Nick Fortes, who you can make a case was having even a more dismal Season at the Plate (.140/.203/.202 from June 22nd into a week of September baseball), picked up a big Hit in Philly, and was literally Hit by 2 Pitches yesterday that helped lead to 2 Marlins Runs.



All of this can not be coming at a better time as far as the Marlins are concerned. With 10 Games remaining and the Fish right in the middle of the National League Wild Card race, let's see if Jacob Stallings continues to pick up more receipts. #GoFish          

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