Marlins prospect updates: Griffin Conine’s residence runs, Eury Perez’s return and extra

If one factor is definite about outfielder prospect Griffin Conine, it’s that he can hit for energy when he makes contact. That has been on show for every of the previous two years because the Miami Marlins acquired him from the Toronto Blue Jays in 2020 for Jonathan Villar.

And this season, his residence run prowess put him within the Double A Pensacola Blue Wahoos’ report e book.

Conine, the No. 25 prospect in Miami’s system in line with MLB Pipeline, on Saturday belted out his twenty fourth residence run of the season. That quantity not solely leads all Marlins prospects this season, nevertheless it additionally set a Blue Wahoos single-season report, breaking the mark of 23 set simply final 12 months by Peyton Burdick.

In two seasons within the Marlins group, Conine has hit 60 whole residence runs, with 37 of them coming in 154 video games with Double A Pensacola. The residence runs, together with 15 doubles and two triples this season, play an enormous half in Conine’s .796 on-base-plus-slugging mark coming into this week, the ultimate of the Double An everyday season.

But considered one of Conine’s largest issues nonetheless persists as effectively. He has 172 strikeouts in 476 plate appearances this season — a 36.1-percent strikeout price. It’s an enchancment over his 40.1-percent strikeout price from a season in the past however continues to be a quantity that he’ll wish to proceed slashing down as he climbs the minor-league ranks.

Eury Perez returns

It doesn’t seem like Eury Perez missed a beat.

After being sidelined for a month as a result of a minor shoulder harm, the Marlins’ prime prospect and the No. 10 prospect in all of baseball in line with MLB Pipeline returned to the mound on Friday and pitched two shutout innings for the Jupiter Hammerheads towards the Lakeland Flying Tigers in a 14-1 rout. Perez returned six of the seven batters he confronted, 4 through strikeout. His fastball topped at 99.1 mph, a pitch that induced a swinging strike of Jose De La Cruz, who’s ranked because the Detroit Tigers’ No. 28 total prospect.

On the season, Perez has pitched 75 innings over 17 begins, three innings shy of what he pitched final season in his skilled baseball debut. All of his begins previous to Friday’s minor-league rehab outing have include Double A Pensacola, which nonetheless has one week left in its common season and has clinched a playoff berth.

Dax does it once more

Dax Fulton, a 20-year-old left-handed pitcher and Miami’s No. 9 total prospect, struck out eight batters over 5 innings for Double A Pensacola on Friday. All three runs he gave up within the outing got here on a three-run residence run.

Through three begins with the Blue Wahoos, Fulton has struck out 21 batters in 16 innings whereas posting a 2.25 ERA and a .127 batting common towards.

This and that

▪ In his remaining 24 video games with Single A Jupiter after lacking three weeks in the midst of the season for disciplinary causes, Kahlil Watson posted a .258 batting common with a .801 OPS, 11 extra-base hits (5 doubles, 5 triples, one residence run), 9 RBI and 14 runs scored. He had six multi-hit video games.

▪ Another identify to observe on the decrease minor-league ranges: Yiddi Cappe. The 19-year-old and prime signee from the Marlins’ 2021 worldwide free agent class hit .290 this season over 67 video games cut up among the many rookie-level Florida Complex League (30 video games) and Single A Jupiter (37 video games) with 12 doubles, one triple, 9 residence runs and 40 RBI. He’s a gentle defender as effectively.