ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (3-2) (RHP Jake Westbrook; 0-0, 0.00)
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MIAMI MARLINS (3-1-1) (RHP Jacob Turner; 0-0, 0.00) at ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (3-2) (RHP Jake Westbrook; 0-0, 0.00) ROGER DEAN STADIUM, JUPITER, FL Thursday, February 28, 2013 – 1:05 p.m. TODAY’S GAME: The Marlins will be on the visitor’s side of the scorebook as a team last season. Among active players (min. 2760 PA) since 2004, today when they take on their Roger Dean Stadium cohabitants from Pierre’s plate appearances-per-strikeout ratio of 17.64 is the highest in the St. Louis. It is the second of eight Grapefruit League games between the Majors, while Polanco (15.34) is second-highest, and Kotchman (10.03) is Clubs this spring. The Fish took round one by a score of 8-3, on Feb. 23 in 12th. each team’s GL opener. After today, the Clubs will next meet on March 6, when the Cardinals will again play host to Miami. WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC: The Marlins have three players participating in the 2013 World Baseball Classic: RHPs Henderson Alvarez (Venezue- TODAY’S SCHEDULED PITCHERS la) and Steve Cishek (United States), and OF Giancarlo Stanton (United States). Alvarez will join his countrymen in Pool C play in San Juan, Puerto MARLINS CARDINALS Rico from March 7-10, while Cishek and Stanton will travel to Phoenix for RHP Jacob Turner RHP Jake Westbrook Pool D play from March 7-10. Miami will play host to Second Round action RHP Kevin Slowey RHP Trevor Rosenthal at Marlins Park from March 12-16, including a doubleheader on the first RHP Ryan Webb RHP Mitchell Boggs day. The double-elimination round in Little Havana will feature the win- RHP Sam Dyson LHP Randy Choate ners and runners-up from Pool C (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Spain, LHP Zach Phillips LHP Barret Browning Venezuela) and Pool D (Canada, Italy, Mexico, United States) competing RHP Arquimedes Caminero LHP Kevin Siegrist for two berths in the semifinals in San Francisco from March 17-19. The RHP Evan Reed RHP Keith Butler other seminfinalists will be determined at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan from March 8-12. TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER: RHP Jacob Turner will make his spring debut for the Marlins today against the Cardinals. Turner was acquired by Miami FROM THE ROOT TO THE FRUIT: First-year Miami manager Mike Redmond in a July 23, 2012 trade with Detroit. He went 1-4 with a 3.38 ERA in seven skippered the Dunedin Blue Jays in the Florida State League in 2012. It starts for the Marlins following the trade; he was 2-5, 4.42 in 10 starts on was his second assignment as a Minor League manager since retiring the season. as a player in 2010; he also managed Lansing in the Midwest League in 2011. Redmond was 5-3 managing the D-Jays in eight FSL contests YESTERDAY’S ACTION: Miami got a strong effort from its pitching staff in a here at Roger Dean Stadium last season, four each against the Jupiter 5-1 road victory over the Washington Nationals at Space Coast Stadium. Hammerheads (Miami) and Palm Beach Cardinals (St. Louis). He guided Starter Nathan Eovaldi earn the win with 2.0 hitless innings, allowing just Dunedin to a 3-1 series victory over Jupiter from July 11-14, and a split one walk and striking out three. Tom Koehler followed with 2.0 scoreless against Palm Beach from July 30-August 2. Ten Miami players in Major innings, allowing a hit and striking out two. Alex Sanabia pitched a per- League camp were on the field for Jupiter against Redmond last season: fect fifth inning, with one strikeout, and A.J. Ramos dominated the sixth INF Danny Black, RHP Michael Brady, RHP Arquimedes Caminero, LHP and seventh innings, striking out four without allowing a base runner. Ed Adam Conley, LHP Grant Dayton, LHP Raudel Lazo, LHP Edgar Olmos, OF Lucas (1x1) keyed a three-run seventh inning with a two-run single. Dono- Marcell Ozuna, C J.T. Realmuto and OF Christian Yelich. van Solano was 2x2 with a run, RBI and stolen base; Derek Dietrich (1x2) and Chris Coghlan (1x3) drove in the other runs. BROADCAST INFORMATION: This season the Marlins will have 150 games broadcast by FOX Sports Florida, all of which will be available in HD. The CURRENT ROSTER: The Marlins currently have 73 players in camp, including 2013 campaign kicks off on April 1, when the Fish travel to Washington, a full 40-man roster and 33 non-roster invitees. The Club currently has 22 D.C. to take on the Nationals at 1:05 p.m. Rich Waltz and Tommy Hut- pitchers (seven left-handers), three catchers, seven infielders and eight ton are back calling all action from the booth, and they will be joined outfielders on the 40-man roster. There were 11 additions to the 40-man throughout the season by Frank Forte, Craig Minervini and Allison Williams, roster during the offseason: RHP Henderson Alvarez (trade), LHP Braulio as well as former Marlins Jeff Conine, Cliff Floyd and Preston Wilson. All Lara (MLB Rule 5 Draft), LHP Scott Maine (waiver claim), LHP Edgar Ol- home games broadcast on FOX Sports Florida will be broadcast with SAP, mos (contract selected), C Jeff Mathis (trade), INF Adeiny Hechavar- and as in previous years, fans will recognize Raul Striker, Jr. and Cookie Ro- ria (trade), INF Joe Mahoney (waiver claim), INF Placido Polanco (free jas calling the action in español. On the radio, AM 790 and FM 104.3 The agent), OF Marcell Ozuna (contract selected), OF Juan Pierre (free Ticket will broadcast all 162 games, with Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave agent) and OF Alfredo Silverio (MLB Rule 5 Draft). Among non-roster in- Van Horne and Glenn Geffner returning for their sixth season together. vitees in camp, there are 15 pitchers (five left-handers), three catchers, For all Spanish listeners, Hall of Famer Felo Ramirez and Yiky Quintana nine infielders and six outfielders. will call all 162 regular season games in what is the duo’s 12th season to- gether, and sixth on the Marlins flagship Spanish station, WAQI (710 AM). GUEST APPEARANCE: Former Marlin Mike Lowell is scheduled to be in camp with the team beginning today through March 2 as a guest in- MARLINS CREDENTIALS: Once again this season, media members request- structor. Lowell was a teammate of Miami manager Mike Redmond on ing a daily credential must do so using MLB’s online credential system, the Marlins’ 2003 World Series Championship squad. located at https://credentials.mlb.com. The Marlins WILL NOT issue full- season credentials for the 2013 season; MLB passes and BBWAA cards INTRASQUAD GAME SATURDAY: The Marlins have scheduled an intra- will be honored at all home games. Daily credentials for regular season squad game for Saturday. Ricky Nolasco, John Maine, Jonathan Al- games must be requested at least 48 hours in advance. Once a decision baladejo and Chad Qualls are currently scheduled to pitch in that scrim- on approval is made, the requesting party will receive e-mail correspon- mage. dence from the Marlins. If you are not contacted by someone from our office, please call at least one day in advance to confirm that you have JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: The Marlins, who struck out 1,228 times credentials before arriving at Marlins Park. last season, signed OF Juan Pierre and INF Placido Polanco to one-year contracts in the offseason, and also have INF Casey Kotchman in camp as a non-roster invitee. Since 2004, Pierre (321), Polanco (326) and Kotch- man (338) have combined to strike out fewer times (985) than Miami did UPCOMING SCHEDULE DATE TIME (ET) OPPONENT MARLINS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER BROADCASTS Friday, March 1 1:05 p.m. vs. Minnesota RHP Henderson Alvarez RHP Vance Worley --- Saturday, March 2 1:10 p.m. at Mets RHP Alex Sanabia RHP Matt Harvey WAXY/WAQI Sunday, March 3 1:05 p.m. vs. Mets RHP Nathan Eovaldi RHP Dillon Gee --- Monday, March 4 OFF DAY TODAY’S STARTER AND BULLPEN RHP JACOB TURNER (2012) LHP ZACH PHILLIPS (2012) CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK Lakeland 1-2 1.66 4 4 0 21.2 17 8 4 1 7 17 1 0 Norfolk 2-2 3.17 42 0 7 54.0 56 22 19 1 22 45 2 0 Toledo 4-2 3.16 10 10 0 62.2 52 23 22 2 24 40 1 0 BALTIMORE 0-0 6.00 6 0 0 6.0 7 4 4 2 3 5 0 0 DETROIT 1-1 8.03 3 3 0 12.1 17 11 11 4 7 7 1 0 New Orleans 2-0 1.98 5 5 0 27.1 27 6 6 2 12 16 2 0 2013 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY MIAMI 1-4 3.38 7 7 0 42.2 33 21 16 5 9 29 4 0 DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER BB SO 2/25 @ATL --- 1.0 4 3 3 1 0 RHP KEVIN SLOWEY (2012) CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK RHP ARQUIMEDES CAMINERO (2012) Columbus 3-3 5.14 8 8 0 49.0 52 31 28 7 13 34 2 0 CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK Jupiter 1-0 0.44 19 0 1 20.2 12 2 1 0 9 27 1 0 2013 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY Jacksonville 0-0 3.06 12 0 2 17.2 16 6 6 0 10 17 3 0 DATE OPP.