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Caleb Smith le ganó el duelo a Corey Kluber

Caleb Smith sigue siendo el stopper de los Marlins, y sigue venciendo a aces contrarios.

Hace cinco días los Marlins vencieron a los Filis de Filadelfia en extrainnings en un duelo emocionante entre Smith y Aaron Nola.

Esta vez, le tocó a Corey Kluber ser la víctima de los Marlins, que se inspiran cuando tienen al zurdo en la lomita.

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Caleb Smith sigue ganándose el mote de as de la rotación de los Marlins tras dominar a la poderosa ofensiva de los Indios de Cleveland en siete innings de labor la noche de este miércoles.

Le siguen dando jonrones

La única carrera que aceptó, tal y como sucedió en aquel duelo ante el número uno de Filadelfia, vino producto de un cuadrangular.

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Esta vez, del bate del boricua Robert Pérez.

Lástima que solamente 7,262 tuvieron la oportunidad de presenciar este bonito duelo, con una actuación majestuosa de Smith, la mas larga y efectiva de su carrera.

Así, Smith puso su record en 3-0, con una efectividad de 2.00, entre las mejores de las Grandes Ligas.

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Con sus ochos abanicados de esta noche, el zurdo llegó a 45 en 36 innings de labor.

El juego salvado fue para Sergio Romo, quien permitió un cuadrangular de Carlos Santana, pero pudo dominar a Carlos González y Jason Kipnis, quien significaba la carrera del empate, para adjudicarse su quinto salvado de la temporada en igual número de oportunidades.

Sergio Romo closing a game for the Miami Marlins in 2019. Picture by Tony Capobianco

Te invitamos a leer un análisis del primer mes de la temporada de los Marlins haciendo click en este link.

 

Lewis Brinson was optioned to New Orleans

Lewis Brinson has not been the star the Marlins thought were trading for Christian Yelich a couple of offseasons ago.

He has not played as a regular major league baseball player either.

He has actually been pretty bad, as has been the entire Marlins offense.

Craig Mish, of Swings and Mishes, reported on Tuesday afternoon that Marlins’ patience with Brinson had come to an end.

Brinson had been the starting centerfielder for the major part of the first month of the season, and was not able to make the adjustments to hit in the majors.

In this first month, he could only hit .197, seven points above his average in the majors.

Lewis Brinson’s lack of contact

Is what we saw from Brinson in a little over a season in the big leagues the player he really is?

Probably not. But he definitively needs to work on putting the ball in play.

He has struck out 165 times in 505 at-bats in his career.

That means that Brinson did not even put the ball in play in around 33 percent of the times he went up to the plate.

For someone with that speed, and not much power, this is unacceptable.

The Marlins prefer to keep working on it in Triple-A, after giving him an entire month, and an entire season last year.

Will we see Lewis Brinson back in the majors soon?

If he hits, we will.

If not, it will be time to move on…

Caleb Smith: el as de los Marlins en Abril

Caleb Smith ha lanzado como un as de rotación durante sus primeras cinco aperturas en 2019.

Los Marlins vencieron 3 a 1 a los Filis la noche de este jueves gracias un jonrón del dominicano Starlin Castro en la parte alta del décimo inning en el primer juego de la serie de fin de semana que Miami disputa en Filadelfia.

Para los Marlins fue la cuarta victoria en los últimos seis encuentros, tras vencer dos de tres en la serie ante Washington y dividir en Cleveland.

Caleb Smith y Aaron Nola se enfrascaron en un duelo típico de dos número uno de rotación.

Smith es el quinto en el esquema de Miami, pero en la práctica ha funcionado como un stopper.

Sus cinco salidas han sido de calidad, incluyendo dos ante los propios Filis de Filadelfia.

Para Smith, esta ha sido una prueba de fuego.

Se ganó su puesto a pulso en el Spring Training, y ha dejado bien parado al cuerpo técnico de los Marlins, que lo escogió por encima de Wei-Yin Chen.

Los números de Caleb Smith en Abril

Caleb Smith está entre los zurdos con más abanicados por cada nueve innings, con 37 en tan solo 29 innings.

El zurdo de Texas ha sabido salir de las situaciones complicadas que ha enfrentado en lo que va de campaña.

El jueves, retiró a Bryce Harper y Rhys Hoskins con hombre en tercera y un out, para sacar el sexto inning de los Filis y cerrar su gran actuación.

A Smith aún le falta ir más allá del sexto episodio.

Nunca ha pitchado más de seis innings, y ese quizás sea su próxima meta.

Por ahora, los Marlins seguirán cuidando ese brazo que se está convirtiendo poco a poco en la referencia de esta joven rotación.

Lewis Brinson y su decepción continua

Lewis Brinson tiene casi 500 turnos en Grandes Ligas y su bate no termina de despertar.

De hecho, la muestra es realmente preocupante.

Alarmante.

Austin Dean recibió bastantes menos oportunidades que Brinson, y Peter O’Brien hace rato que fue enviado a ligas menores por no poder batear.

¿Porqué los Marlins no lo envían a Ligas Menores?

¿Hasta cuándo van a esperar los Marlins de Miami para enviar a Lewis Brinson a las ligas menores?

Además, ¿es la campaña de Major League Baseball Let The Kids Play puro mercadeo sin un mensaje claro? ¿Qué pueden hacer las Grandes Ligas para atraer a una audiencia más amplia?

Lo discutimos en el EP 31 de Cinco Razones Podcast, con Ricardo Montes de Oca, Leandro Soto y Alejandro Villegas:

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Granderson leads Marlins to first series win of the season

Granderson came to Miami to be a leader. And he finally led on the field.

The Marlins won their first two games against the Washington Nationals to obtain their first series win of the season.

Pulling off a victory on Friday with their nails and tails, and ambushing the best pitcher of the league on Saturday.

That’s baseball. When you least expect it, it comes to surprise you.

After a rough homestand that started being shutout twice in three games by the Cubs, the Marlins rose up and won twice against one of their four division real contenders.

Caleb Smith was phenomenal on Friday tossing six scoreless innings allowing just one run to earn his second victory of the year.

Besides, he struck out eight batters.

Then, the arms in the bullpen did what they’ve been doing, to save that enormous effort.

After that win, however, Marlins hitting coach Mike Pagliarulo was fired.

He wasn’t the one striking out and putting poor at-bats together, but somebody had to pay the price.

The Marlins bats woke up on a Saturday night again. One week ago, it was Austin Dean’s show, but tonight, it was a group effort.

Curtis Granderson’s RBIs lead the way for the Marlins the first series win of the season.

The veteran has been struggling, like almost everybody else in this lineup, but Mattingly and his staff keep giving him chances.

And it is finally paying off.

Granderson was hit with the bases loaded to bring the third run of Friday, in a 3-2 win, and ignited the party on Saturday.

A base hit to start the game against Scherzer, scoring from first with a Brian Anderson double and then hitting his third home run of the season to give the Marlins a 4-3 lead in the middle innings.

Max Scherzer paid for all those starters that have totally dominated the Marlins offense. Unbelievable.

That’s the beauty of this sport.

Rosell Herrera hit it about five feet from the mound and brought in two runs.

Victor Robles almost loses his head catching a fly ball (hit by Granderson again) and Herrera scored from second.

Even Berti, who got to the stadium in the fourth inning, got a walk, a great sprint to second, a dirt-ball read and scored in his first game as a Marlin.

It was meant to be for the Marlins this weekend.

It all started with Curtis Granderson. We’ll see how long they can keep it up.

 

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First series win slips through Chen’s hands

Chen just did it again.
The Miami Marlins engaged in a 14-inning pitching duel with the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday afternoon, but failed to win their first series of the season. Wei-Yin Chen allowed his fifth home run in the same number of innings pitched this year off the bat of Jean Segura, and the Phillies took the third game of the series, 3 to 1.

The Marlins, who scored 10 runs on Saturday night, came back to their old ways scoring only once in 14 innings, with only four hits. Marlins’ lonely run came thanks to Brian Anderson’s solo shot. One of the positive news of this series…
The other one, was José Ureña, who finally had an ace-like start, allowing one run in seven frames.

However, all the effort by Ureña, Steckenrider, Anderson, Kinley and Conley was not enough to get the win.
And then, there was Chen.
The owner of the worse contract in Marlins’ history had allowed 10 runs in his last appearance, in a blowout against the Reds.

His ERA got better after Sunday’s inning of work, despite getting rocked by McCutchen and Segura (McCutchen hit a moonshot foul ball right before hitting it to the wall before Segura’s homer).
How much more time will the Marlins wait to release Chen?

They sent O’Brien down because he wasn’t hitting.
They better pay Chen and give another young arm an opportunity to work in the majors.
Jarlin García and company are waiting for their call…

JT Realmuto knows comeback to Miami will be quiet

JT Realmuto will play for the first time in his career against the Miami Marlins.

However, he doesn’t expect much of a revolution in Marlins Park’s stands today when he steps up to the plate.

The All-Star catcher knows it will be a quiet atmosphere.

The best hitting catcher in baseball, along with Buster Posey and Willson Contreras, who crushed two balls out of Wrigley Field today, knows Miami and the fans here.

Will he get a big ovation? Probably not.

And not because he doesn’t deserve it, because he does, but because as usual, Marlins Park will look like an empty mall (which doesn’t happen here in Miami).

“It will be just like any other at-bat. I don’t expect too much out there for me,” were Realmuto’s words before the first of the three-game series between the Marlins and Phillies.

Miami struggled a lot swinging the bats during the road trip, scoring only eight runs in six games, getting swept by the Cincinnati Reds.

But for Realmuto, life is beautiful right now. He forgot about playing for the losing Miami Marlins and is finally playing for a competitive team.

There, with Bryce Harper and company, he is having the opportunity to play in a pennant race.

Harper wanted him in Washington, as he publicly confessed, and he even whispered a couple of times in Realmuto’s ear when he was a member of the Washington Nationals.

Now, they can both be happy slugging for a city that loves baseball and supports their team.

 

JT Realmuto’s comeback to Little Havana will get most of the headlines, but we will come back to reality soon  to realize this team had the best catcher in baseball, the best outfielders in baseball and the best pitcher in baseball at some point, and the stands were empty.

Good luck to Sandy Alcántara tonight, by the way.

 

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Jorge Alfaro’s pending project: blocking

Jorge Alfaro was not the main piece in the JT Realmuto trade, but definitively the one that will make an impact right away.

The catcher from Sincelejo has the responsibility of replacing JT Realmuto, the best Marlins player during the last couple of years.

Blocking is one of the things he wants and needs to work on, as Brian Schneider, Catchers Coach, told Leandro Soto a couple of days ago.

Alfaro missed a block with two outs and a man at third during the first game of the series against the New York Mets that led to a run that erased the 2-1 lead the team had at that point.

One of those details that go unnoticed, especially after Pete Alonso crushed a ball to center field in the 4-run ninth inning against Drew Steckenrider.

The Marlins lost that game 7 to 3, and probably very few Marlins followers will remember that second run that tied the game after a wild pitch.

It’s not an error, but it should’ve been blocked.

The Marlins have a very young and talented rotation and will need a wall that they can trust when they need to execute a pitch to the dirt.

Will Jorge Alfaro be that wall for the next years?

Here’s what Brian Schneider told Leandro Soto of Cinco Razones about it:

Los Shifting Marlins de Miami

Shifting. La palabra que ha inundado el vocabulario de quienes seguimos el beisbol día a día.

Los Marlins de Miami han estado haciendo shifting (formaciones defensivas especiales) desde el propio primer pitcheo de la temporada 2019.

De hecho, Leandro Soto mostró su molestia con cuando vio moverse a Brian Anderson hacia el terreno corto del jardín derecho justo antes del lanzamiento inicial de José Ureña.

Ambas tendencias continúan su curso. Los Marlins haciendo shifting, y Leandro Soto, quejándose por ello.

André Fernández, de The Athletic, escribió sobre el aumento del uso del shifting defensivo, y cómo esto se han vuelto mucho mas común en lo que va de temporada para Miami.

Los Marlins están haciendo muchas mas formaciones defensivas en comparación con lo sucedido en años anteriores.

Decidimos irnos al Marlins Park para debatir con Andre al respecto, y esto fue lo que nos dijo:

Opiniones en el terreno

Mas allá de lo que podamos decir los analistas que seguimos al equipo, lo primordial es saber la opinión de los protagonistas, quienes son los que en la práctica se ven beneficiados o afectados por estas nuevas medidas.

Visitamos el clubhouse de los Marlins y conversamos con JT Riddle y Brian Anderson, quienes vienen jugando juntos subiendo por el sistema de ligas menores del equipo.

Los peloteros vienen trabajando con los shifts desde el Spring Training y dicen que lo principal es acostumbrarse a los nuevos ángulos en los que la pelota está saliendo del bate.

Tanto para Riddle como para Anderson, las grandes jugadas seguirán ocurriendo, pero en diferentes áreas del terreno.

Vea la entrevista completa a los infielders de los Marlins:

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¿Qué opinan? ¿Están de acuerdo con la estrategia de los Marlins de Miami?

Vea qué nos dijo Brian Schneider, coach de receptores de los Marlins, sobre el uso del scouting report y la manera en que los receptores llaman el juego usando las nuevas formaciones defensivas:

Brian Anderson: “We feel confident”

Brian Anderson was the only consistent bat the Miami Marlins had during the 2018 season.

This year, Marlins fans hope to continue to see the growth of this player, who was involved in the Rookie of the Year race, especially up to the All Star Break, and before Acuña and Soto just blew away.

For Anderson, it has been a hard start of the season.

But don’t worry. He’s really not doing anything bad…

Brian Anderson on his first at bat of the season on Opening Day against the Colorado Rockies / Photo by Alejandro Villegas

He’s just been unlucky, if you can talk about luck in baseball. So far, he’s 4 for 24, with a double and an RBI.

Both of those came on last night’s game, right after I had this conversation with him about hitting the ball hard, and not being rewarded about it.

“I feel good. I have barrelled a couple of balls. It’s a grind when you’re not getting those hits, but there are a lot of good things to take away from this start of the season,” Brian Anderson said, before the 6-5 loss against the Mets on Tuesday.

No Pressure, yet

It’s still early in the season, but as numbers keep piling up, it gets harder and harder to recover from a “slow” start. For Anderson though, there’s no pressure. “If anything, I just feel pressure to help my team. If I’m going out there and getting good at bats, I am helping my team. It’s not always about getting a hit”, Anderson said. “Being there defensively, talking to my teammates, there are a lot of things I can do to help.”

Here’s what Anderson had to say about the renovated Marlins Park, and the team being in such a hard division, with four contenders for the National League title: