From bad to worse: Marlins suffer another drop in their pitching

They say well that when the poor washes, it rains. Unfortunately, the Miami Marlins They are in that position today. On the one hand, the currency’s high command seems to have sought to fall into such a situation, but on the other hand, baseball has also decided to take aim at the organization.

After a 2024 campaign in which the fish had terrible fortune from the mound, especially when having to deal with the absence of a Sandy Alcantara who missed the entire year due to Tommy John surgery, things don’t seem to improve heading into the next tournament.

Just a few weeks after the team’s top brass made the decision to trade Venezuelan Jesús Luzardo to the Philadelphia Phillies, the news came that left-hander Braxton Garrett will also be sidelined throughout 2025 due to an elbow injury. to throw.

Garrett has already missed most of 2024 due to physical issues. He was only able to make seven appearances in the course, in which he left an ERA of 5.35; However, the sinister was an essential weapon for then manager of the team Skip Schumaker in 2023, when he posted a 3.66 earned run percentage in 30 starts, striking out 156 rivals in 159.2 innings.

That loss of Garrett joined that of Alcántara and that of also Dominican Eury Pérez. Both plan to return in the next tournament, although although the former Cy Young Award winner could be available from the opening day of the season, the second does not figure in the team’s plans until much later.

No respite

Garrett’s injury continues a string of negative news for the Fish, whose fans have suffered raw since the organization made the playoffs in a surprise way in 2023.

Since then, Miami let go of praised executive Kim Ng, lost Cuban Jorge Soler in free agency and dealt with the losses of Alcántara, Pérez, Garrett, Luzardo and Edward Cabrera from its pitching staff.

As a result, the Marlins finished with a 62-100 record last year, which moved them to the bottom of the NL East. Schumaker left the team at the end of that tournament and in addition to the Luzardo trade, the club also got rid of the powerful Jake Burger in another recent transaction.

Perhaps better times await the fish and their fans, in the midst of a reconstruction that could also see Alcántara leave the team at some point in 2025. However, for the moment, the light still does not appear at the end of the tunnel in the south of Florida.