The Atlanta Braves need to upgrade the pitching staff after losing Max Fried and Charlie Morton. Their dream replacement looks sharp for the Miami Marlins.
The avalanche of shiny new Statcast data makes it extremely challenging for fantasy managers to decipher signal from noise, especially when dealing with small sample sizes. The overwhelming majority of the spring training data overload winds up being completely useless (often narrative-driven spin) that doesn’t wind up having any tangible impact,
Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcántara threw one scoreless inning against the New York Mets in a spring training game on Sunday as he continues his comeback from elbow surgery that caused him to miss last season.
“Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara took the mound for the first time in 521 days, maxing out at 99.3 mph on the radar gun and tossing a scoreless inning in Sunday afternoon’s 1-1 Grapefruit League tie with the Mets at Clover Park,” De Nicola wrote.
Sandy Alcántara hadn't taken the mound in a game setting in well over a year, but the righty showed no signs of rust when he made his first appearance of spring training over the weekend.