The Marlins have gone without prized young righty Sixto Sánchez for the past two seasons. Shoulder injuries have thrown off course his very promising career. As he works his way back from the layoff, Sánchez looks likely to be delayed for the upcoming campaign.
Jon Heyman of the New York Post writes that the 24-year-old isn’t expected to be ready for MLB game action until some time in the summer. The timeline remains rather vague and seems tied to a desire to give Sánchez more runway for his conditioning rather than any kind of setback. He underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery last October.
Upon entering camp, Sánchez told reporters he’d lost almost 50 pounds during the offseason (via Daniel Álvarez-Montes of El ExtraBase). Heyman writes that he is still building back arm strength, an unsurprising development for a pitcher who is two and a half years removed from his last game action. Sánchez hasn’t thrown this spring but has been in big league camp. He went through a simulated throwing motion this morning, and manager Skip Schumaker indicated the club was hopeful he’d be able to throw off a mound at some point next week (via Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald).
While things seem to be trending up, Sánchez has a ways to go to get into game shape. The Marlins have little reason to rush him back. The centerpiece of the J.T. Realmuto trade, Sánchez has twice undergone shoulder surgery since his last MLB action. Before last fall’s arthroscopic procedure, he required a July 2021 operation to repair a tear in his posterior capsule. His first rehab process, in particular, was littered with stops and starts and delayed recovery timetables.
Miami also doesn’t have a pressing need for Sánchez at the major league level. The Fish already have six MLB-caliber starting pitchers. Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara is followed by Jesús Luzardo, Trevor Rogers, Edward Cabrera, offseason signee Johnny Cueto and Braxton Garrett.
Sánchez would not have been in the Opening Day rotation anyhow. Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. indicated this month the club had no intention of moving him to the bullpen. Once healthy, Sánchez looks likely to head to Triple-A Jacksonville to work out of the rotation there as he tries to build back toward peak form. He worked to a 3.46 ERA with an excellent 58% grounder rate over 39 innings during the shortened 2020 schedule, his only MLB action to date.
He was born a 6th starter anyways. Just look at his name.
Ya, so much for the sixto man rotation plan.
One of the better names in BB, you’d better bring your 38 special to the mound
If he’d had 6 fingers he’d be special.
Like Antonio Alfonseca!
It would be like having two Three finger Browns
Good-looking young pitcher at one time. Hope he gets back to that someday.
The rest of their superb rotation can shoulder the load, no doubt
May do better as a relief pitcher and not take the strain but can use that electric stuff.
There it is. Soon it will be Garrett Cooper going on the 60-day IL for goosebumps or a hair follicle strain.
At least we have SPs to fill the Sixto void.
Sources say Cooper has already endured a horrific paper cut when signing his 1 yr deal and has already been ruled out for spring training.
Ng looking to sign another 2b/UT to fill the 1B void.
Papercut and Cooper’s out for Spring Training? Oh no, we know that this means we won’t see Cooper until September, then he’ll go down for the rest of the season for a freckle blister sustained from missing a spot of sunblock when prepping for batting practice with the roof down.
As for a replacement, as long as the guy is shorter than 5’10, he’d be a perfect guy to fill in the 1B void. Wait, maybe Berti is the guy.
Well no duh he’s not going to be ready by late March. The man hasn’t thrown a pitch in over two years. Best case scenario for Sixto is he’ll be stretched out by the All-Star break and will be slotted into the bullpen. I can’t see him going back to being a starter until next season, if it even happens
Still having problems with that SIXTH TOE !!
Maybe he’s only got three on each foot.
Sixto’s six guns ain’t firing right?
In other news, water is wet.
As many have pointed out in this site, water technically isn’t “wet”. Wet is your experience when you come in contact with water.
Does this mean Sixto will ready on Opening Day? No, it does not.
What’s your take on the sky is blue?
Is it actually green but the combination of yellow visible light from the sun makes it appear blue?
The sky is indeed blue due to the scattering of electromagnetic radiation. I believe blue waves are shorter.
When I was a child I thought either the ocean is blue reflecting the sky or the sky is blue reflecting the ocean but neither is the case.
But Benny Goodman is right, “Blue skies, nothing but blue skies . . .”, except at night or when it is overcast.
Is grass green? What about Kentucky blue grass?
I have a mix of tall fescue and Kentucky blue grass and, on the whole, it appears green, except in the winter months when it browns a little.
In the earliest known uses of the word “wet” in English, before the 12th century, it was used both as an adjective connoting wetness and as a noun synonymous with “water.”
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adjective
1a: consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)
noun
1: WATER
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Note that the adjectival form also means “consisting of . . . liquid (such as water).”
It’s really rather a silly dispute. “Wet” is an English word with more than one meaning. To say water in its liquid form is not wet makes as much sense as saying that water in its solid form (ice) is not cold.
This is not the same proposition as “if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?” In that case, sound is the experience of sound waves generated by the impact of a falling tree vibrating the sensory apparatus of the ear. Absent the presence of an ear to experience that vibration, the event of hearing a sound doesn’t occur. A tree, absent the event of that impact and the experience of sound waves striking an eardrum, doesn’t, by its nature, innately possess a property we call sound.
Water in its liquid state, on the other hand, does possess a property we call wetness (“consisting of liquid”), regardless of whether someone dips his toe in it or not.
You made a good argument, but it’s not the 12th Century anymore.
I am interested in how they will score the automatic balls or strikes due to a pitcher delay or batter delay. I assume that they are pitched that do not count like an intentional walk.
Water is still wet in the 21st century, amigo.
I dunno, but I suspect that the new rule is the reason they’re talking about being more diligent about pitchers using sticky stuff, given that it’s said that batters will have a harder time adjusting to the time constraints than the pitchers will. I think the crackdown on sticky stuff is to make the hitters feel better — if, in fact, it does.
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If he can fully recover from this and put these issues behind him he could be extremely deadly. One of the few prospects I’ve truly been hyped to watch.
The Anthony Davis of baseball. Might as well stop fooling yourself and call him the closer in waiting. There’s no way he’s going 6 innings. Too fragile.
Makes too much sense.
It’s the Marlins. They will rather let Sixto go instead if trying him as a Closer over legendary, career Middle Relievers like they’ve done the last two years. The Marlins will insist on Sixto being a starter with them, and will let him go when he can’t do that…just like they did with Brad Hand and Andrew Miller. Clearly those guys prove that if you can’t be a starter, you have no future in the game, so that’s the Marlins philosophy – don’t try a guy as anything other than starting, then let him go be a reliever somewhere else.
Guy threw 39 major league innings and has been broken for going on 2 years now?
I don’t think he’s ever ready.
He’s Miami’s version of Stephen Strasburg. Suffered a setback on the way to the mound to begin his rehab, and he’ll probably be out another 4 months or so.
Yeah, except Strasberg brought his city a title before his career ended.
A Marlins starter who has injuries. What else is new? The team looks so promising on paper.
Looks like both teams lost that trade
Phils would happily that trade again
Meh. I don’t think so.
Why would the Phillies not do this again?
Because they didn’t contend in the 2 years that JT was under arb control and he would have signed with them if they hadn’t traded for him first is why.
It’s gonna come down to Sixto Sanchez vs. Ethan Wilson (who the Phillies drafted with their 2nd round pick that they would have had to forfeit if they signed JT without trading for him first).
If he just had ten toes like the other guys…
I mean, it shouldn’t take three years to come back from an injury, but what do I know? Not everyone is built to be a major league pitcher.
Water’s still wet, so nothing out of the ordinary here.
With only enough health for about 70 starts over 8 seasons he may never be ready
Sheesh, look at that rotation all of the sudden. Get Sixto back and they are looking very formidable there.
They don’t need Sixto in the rotation. It’s silly good without the article even mentioning Max Meyer and Eury Perez. If the Fish ever had a top bullpen…
This trade looks really bad. The Marlins have made some of the worst trades in recent memory.