Florida Marlins News

Spring training games just started and already two Florida Marlins are out with injuries. Pitcher Sergio Mitre was diagnosed Friday with a forearm muscle strain, and outfield prospect Cameron Maybin limped off the field with a tight left hamstring. Mitre, who arrived at camp as the only right-hander assured of a spot in the rotation, [...]

Alejandro De Aza is off to another spectacular spring start for the Florida Marlins. This year the team hopes it will get to see how good he is in the regular season, too. De Aza led off the game with a homer and drove in two runs as a Florida Marlins split squad beat the [...]

Baltimore Orioles leadoff batter Brian Roberts was off and running Friday, to the annoyance of Florida Marlins pitcher Mark Hendrickson. Roberts started the Orioles’ 7-5 victory with a leadoff double in the first inning against Hendrickson and promptly stole third. He stole third again in the third inning against Rick VandenHurk.

Sergio Mitre began his first spring training start with a four-pitch walk. He also walked the third batter he faced. Then the Florida Marlins right-hander somberly walked off the mound with a stiff elbow. “It’s disappointing. It’s something I wasn’t expecting at all. It came out of nowhere,” Mitre said in the middle of Florida’s [...]

Nationals first baseman Nick Johnson had a frightening flashback Wednesday night in his first game since breaking his leg 17 months ago. In the second inning of Washington’s 3-3 tie with Florida, Robert Andino lofted a high foul pop down the right-field line. Taking off in pursuit were Johnson, second baseman Felipe Lopez and right [...]

Top Florida Marlins prospect Cameron Maybin was with the Single-A Asheville Tourists when he began to catch the eye of major league talent hunters. At the time, he was a 12-year-old batboy. Mike Hill was farm director for the Colorado Rockies, the Tourists’ parent club. He remembers young Maybin shagging flies and taking batting practice [...]

Alejandro De Aza had two hits and an RBI to help the Florida Marlins beat the University of Miami 7-2 Tuesday. Chris Seddon struck out three in two scoreless innings for Florida, which used eight pitchers and allowed only one walk. “We threw strikes and made a couple of nice plays defensively,” Marlins manager Fredi [...]

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians are leaving Florida’s Grapefruit League for Arizona next year, and the Cincinnati Reds may not be far behind. No wonder Gov. Charlie Crist wants to show Major League Baseball a little love Tuesday by reviving the annual governor’s dinner celebrating the start of spring training.

For the Florida Marlins, high hoppers to the pitcher were a problem last year. So were grounders to shortstop. And to third base. As were flyballs to right field. Pretty much any batted ball was a challenge for the Marlins, whose 137 errors were a team record and the most in the major leagues. Manager [...]

In the Florida Marlins’ clubhouse, closer Kevin Gregg stands out. Partly it’s because he’s 6-foot-6 and weighs 238 pounds. And then there’s the $2.5 million contract, which makes him the best-paid player for the National League’s most frugal franchise. “I laugh at it, but it’s cool,” Gregg says. “It’s the dynamics of this team.