Big outings by Max Meyer, Eury Perez highlight latest Miami Marlins prospect performances

It was a very good week for 2 of the Miami Marlins’ prized beginning pitching prospects, with Max Meyer and Eury Perez every throwing gems of their respective begins.

Meyer on Saturday continued his torrid begin to the season for the Triple A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. The 23-year-old and No. 33 general prospect in baseball in accordance with MLB Pipeline on Saturday gave up only one run on six hits and one stroll with six strikeouts in 6 2/ 3 innings. He threw 92 pitches.

It was his longest outing of his skilled baseball profession, surpassing the six innings that he threw on six completely different events final season whereas with the Double A Pensacola Blue Wahoos. His earlier excessive this season was 5 2/3 innings.

On the season, Meyer has a 1.71 ERA with 33 strikeouts towards six walks over 26 1/3 innings. Opponents are hitting simply .158 towards him and he has but to permit greater than two earned runs in any of his begins. The consistency within the outcomes has been there even when he’s had off nights together with his command.

Now, he’s exhibiting he can work deep into video games.

Perez, in the meantime, might need lastly had his breakthrough outing. After three rocky outings to start out his Double A profession (7.50 ERA, 10 earned runs allowed in 12 innings), the 19-year-old threw 5 innings of one-hit ball whereas putting out a career-high 12 hitters on Friday.

It was the kind of begin the Marlins hope to see persistently from Perez, ranked because the No. 39 general prospect in baseball.

Is JJ Bleday figuring issues out?

The general numbers nonetheless aren’t nice on the plate to date this season for the Marlins’ 2019 first-round choose — a .190 batting common and .675 on-base-plus-slugging-mark — however Bleday has began to string collectively some offensive manufacturing with Triple A Jacksonville.

The outfielder, ranked as baseball’s No. 67 general prospect, has hits in eight of his final 10 video games, a stretch that features a .237 common (9 for 38) with two doubles, two house runs, 7 RBI and eight runs scored.

Others of notice

▪ First baseman Lewin Diaz is as much as a team-leaning 20 RBI for Triple A Jacksonville. He hit an opposite-field house run on Sunday as a part of his first three-hit sport of the season

▪ Proper-handed pitcher Bryan Hoeing, lately moved as much as the No. 30 general prospect in Miami’s system, dropped his season ERA to 0.35 by 4 begins in Double A Pensacola after throwing 7 shutout innings with 8 strikeouts on Sunday.

▪ Infielder Charles LeBlanc, the primary participant the Marlins acquired in minor-league portion of Rule 5 draft this offseason, is hitting .387 with an 1.133 OPS over his first 20 video games with Triple A Jacksonville. He has six house runs, 4 doubles, 18 RBI and 12 runs scored.

▪ After a sluggish begin on the plate, first baseman Troy Johnston has safely reached base in every of his final 10 video games. Johnston is hitting .314 with a .843 OPS in that span.