Morning Marlin Maniacs- Happy First Day of Full Squad workouts to you. That’s right, you better believe we’ll celebrate anything this early into Spring Training. But this is huge, as any doubt that baseball season is upon us can now be shelved. We’ll do our best here to get you fired up for the season, and keep you up to date on all the major storylines coming out of camp. Be it new sneakers or new injuries, this is the place to come and tune out work (I’m doing it now) and soak up the latest on all things Miami Marlins.
And now to the Fish Flash. From remembering a classic moment, to the pointless, to the actually newsworthy, we’ve got you covered. Let’s dive in.
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Remember how awesome you thought it was when Jose Fernandez hit his first major league home run? Remember how not awesome that Braves third baseman thought that was, or at least the fact the Fernandez acted like he thought it was awesome too? Three years later, the two are teammates, and the two still remember the moment well according to the Miami Herald’s Clark Spencer.
Well, the ones who used to have beards will be anyway. Word came down from on high that, after a two-year hiatus, the team will be reinstating an old policy for the 2016 campaign. Maybe they thought the beard was messing with Jose’s arm motion. In any case, the Associated Press and ESPN share the above rundown- including the manager Don Mattingly‘s take.
Fresh from MLB.com’s Marlins beat reporter Joe Frisaro is the above story on the club’s talented young backstop J.T. Realmuto, entering his first big league camp as the incumbent starter. J.T. is reportedly working hard on all the finer points of the catching craft, and has already made one noteworthy change for 2016 already.