The first steps of Jakob Marse in the Major Leagues They continue to be in the right direction. The prospect of the Miami Marlinswhich premiered in the maximum stage on August 1, was consecrated as the “rookie of the month” in the National Leaguea distinction that is not completely strange within the organization, but not of the most frequent.
The patrolman became the first player of the fish to claim the distinction since the left-handed 2006), Aníbal Sánchez (September 2006), Chris Coghlan (August 2009), Gaby Sánchez (June 2010), José Fernández (July and August 2013), Justin Bour (September 2015) and Rogers.
Marse, 24 years old, connected for an offensive line of .352/.430/.629, with 11 doubles, three triples, four home runs, 25 pushed races, 18 scored and nine bases stolen in 30 played games. He led the qualified rookies on average, towed, slugging, PAHO (1,059), hits, double, triple, extrabases (13), bases reached (66) and scammed. In addition, he matched in the second box in tickets and was located third in ObP and scored.
Likewise, the rangers became the fourth rookie of the Marlins with at least 25 filled in the same month, according to the records of Elias Sports Bureau. And it was the third Miami player with less than 25 years of age and at least 35 hits and 25 promoted in a month, along with Giancarlo Stanton (May 2012) and Cabrera (three times).
Words of its leader
“Congratulations to Jakob. Without a doubt very deserved,” said the manager Clayton McCulloughin statements collected by MLB.com. “He won it. It was an incredible month. A great start of the career in the elders for him.”
For his part, Marse said that nothing of what happened so far was in his plans, mainly because specific objectives were not usually set.
“Actually I never set expectations to myself,” he admitted. “But getting successful and everything else is obviously very satisfactory and exciting.”
