TODAY: The Marlins have selected Valente Bellozo from Triple-A Jacksonville, the team announced. In a corresponding move, left-hander Kent Emanuel has been designated for assignment. Emanuel will likely clear waivers and be sent outright to Jacksonville. He has already accepted multiple outright assignments to Triple-A this season.
JUNE 25: The Marlins will select the contract of right-hander Valente Bellozo before tomorrow’s game with the Royals, reports Craig Mish of SportsGrid (X link). He’ll take the ball opposite Brady Singer in the series finale. Miami will need to open a spot on the 40-man roster.
It’ll be the major league debut for Bellozo, a 24-year-old native of Mexico. He signed with the Astros as an amateur free agent back in 2017. Bellozo pitched through Double-A in the Houston farm system. The Astros dealt him to Miami for depth infielder Jacob Amaya in April. Bellozo has split his time with the Fish between the top two minor league levels.
The 5’10” hurler hasn’t had great numbers this season. Bellozo has allowed a 5.02 ERA in 52 innings between Double-A Pensacola and Triple-A Jacksonville. He has decent strikeout and walk numbers, punching out more than a quarter of batters faced against a tidy 6.7% walk percentage. Home runs have been an issue since he was promoted to Triple-A, though. Bellozo has given up seven longballs in 20 2/3 frames with Jacksonville.
Bellozo has never gotten much prospect fanfare. Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs gave him a brief mention on his write-up of the Miami system earlier this month, crediting him with a solid changeup but few other weapons. The Fish have needed to dig into their rotation depth this season after being pummeled by injury.
They placed Jesús Luzardo and Braxton Garrett on the shelf last week. That duo joins Eury Pérez, Sandy Alcantara, Edward Cabrera, Ryan Weathers and Sixto Sánchez on the injured list. Trevor Rogers has been the lone consistent presence. Bellozo will be the 14th starting pitcher they’ve used over the course of the year as they’ve cycled through depth arms.
Wasn’t he the umpire in Naked Gun?
Beat me to it.
Pretty close… Haha. That would be Enrico Pallazzo
My new favorite player.
Was your old favorite Remy Hermoso?
Antonio Alfonseca, just because I can always hear Harry Caray introducing him in the game as “anTOneeo Al-fon-SEEE-kuh”
AND he having 6 fingers on one hand is pretty cool too.
Does anyone know what’s going on with Max Meyer? And why they haven’t called him back up yet? I thought their Skipper Skip said in an interview that he “expects Meyer to be called back up to the Majors very soon.” That said interview was almost 3-weeks ago(19days). And I believe they have now called up 2-3 SP’s from the minors since those comments were made. None of them being Max Meyer
It is beyond criminal the way that clown Bendix and his POS FO been treating Meyer.
They are destroying the start of his career. Max and his agents will remember this, and it will take a few yrs to get out from under the hellhole that is Miami organiz. and Bendix, but one day he will be able to throw for a team and franchise that actually cares aboot winning.
Max is a sad, cautionary tale that occasionally bad luck strikes a pro athlete when a potential star is Drafted into a shvthole dysfunctional franchise, being managed at the top by total incompetence.
Hopefully in about 4 or 5 yrs Max will be helping the Yankees or Dodgers win, far, far away from that horrible cesspool that is the Marlins disastrous franchise.
@Denunzio
I take it you’re not a Marlins fan. Doesn’t matter. The Fish’ll be fine going forward, and so will Meyer. As to why he’s still in AAA, who cares? It’s a lost season anyway, and he needs to get in a steady volume of work at that level. He’ll be in the rotation next year.
It’s way too early to judge Bendix. And as far as the Yankees & Dodgers are concerned, I couldn’t care less. They have plenty of fans already. I’m a Marlins fan, been a loyalist since the jump. Marlins haters are a dime-a-dozen, and don’t even rate a response.
herd they was limited him . because right elbow discomfort, of the 2022 season . my bet is 2025 most of full season . Eury Pérez, Sandy Alcantara , Edward Cabrera and Jesús Luzardo could force that if stay health and marlins can limit inning on some pitchers
@RShore He started Wednesday night and threw 76 pitches over 4 and a third innings. He would need at least one more minor league start to get his pitches up, but I always thought they would try to bring him back after the all star break, possibly as late as August.
He has already pitched 56 innings this year between Majors and Minors. I would guess they are thinking under 150 for the season
Marlins are pulling out all stops to avoid promoting Max Meyer.
Is Max Meyer not performing well in the minors? I thought he was doing alright last I checked, but haven’t kept up with him…
I buy that if both Eury Pérez, and Sandy Alcantara, where pitching this year.
and mlb pitcher injure rate went from 32 a year so far 49 this year, sent pitch clock been use. same with minors pitcher s injure rate more then double.
at lest in minors you can limit amount of time he use.
if he health and Eury Pérez, and Sandy Alcantara, returns full swing. marlins did right thing.
remember skip schumaker a return in 2025 reportedly “is not considered likely . it his choice not marlins . .
with Avisaíl García gone and skip gone . you have to have mangers want to come in and prove their the one.
Max Meyer. should get two starts before season ends.
I do feel Xavier Edwards should get more mlb time share with tim anderson