Offishial news, 8/25/21: Updates on rehabbing pitchers; submit your prospect questions

New Marlins Game Recap

• Tuesday’s minor league scores: Triple-A Jacksonville won, 4-3; Double-A Pensacola won, 1-0; Low-A Jupiter won, 8-7 (F/11—resumption of previously suspended game), and won, 4-0 (regularly scheduled game); FCL Marlins won, 6-4; DSL Marlins lost, 5-3. Through five Double-A starts (26.2 IP), Kyle Nicolas has allowed just two runs on 10 hits.
• Encouraging lines for Trevor Rogers (3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K) and Zach Pop (1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K) to begin their rehab assignments with Jupiter. Pablo López continues his rehab assignment with Jacksonville on Thursday.
• Ethan Budowsky’s new Griffin Conine piece covers everything from his early childhood in the Marlins clubhouse to the next steps that he’ll need to take to make it to the majors himself.
• Later today, I’ll be recording a podcast with JJ Cooper, executive editor for Baseball America! Please comment below with any prospect/minor league/MLB Draft questions that you have for him.
• The Marlins are third in MLB Pipeline’s farm system rankings, trailing only the Orioles and Mariners.
• FiveThirtyEight gives the Marlins a 47% chance to win their next game against the Nationals.
• Sandy Alcantara (No. 19), Edward Cabrera (No. 57), Elieser Hernandez (No. 58), Zach Thompson (No. 66) and Jesús Luzardo (No. 100) all rank among Pitcher List’s Top 100 starting pitchers for fantasy baseball.
• Locked On Marlins wonders if Cabrera’s walk issues at Triple-A can be attributed to a tighter strike zone and hypes up Peyton Burdick as a Top 100-caliber prospect.
• In case you missed it, Fish Stripes Live covered a ton of Marlins topics.

• On this day in 1996, Edgar Rentería recorded his first career walk-off hit (it certainly wouldn’t be his last).
• The underachieving Phillies are shaking up their player development staff under Dave Dombrowski.
• Old friend Caleb Smith is appealing the 10-game suspension he received for having a foreign substance on his glove. It is unlikely to be overturned. Humberto Mejía, who was traded to Arizona along with Smith last year, impressed in his Diamondbacks debut.
• In his final installment of The Olympic Diaries, Eddy Alvarez describes the hero’s welcome he received upon returning from Tokyo and how he’s getting reacclimated to minor league life.