Offishial news, 8/7/21: Rogers’ innings limit; Ichiro’s anniversary; Alvarez’s Olympic medal

New Marlins Game Recap

• Friday’s minor league scores: Triple-A Jacksonville won, 3-2; Double-A Pensacola lost, 4-0; High-A Beloit won, 11-0; Low-A Jupiter won, 9-7; FCL Marlins won, 3-1; DSL Marlins won, 3-0. Daniel Castano (left shoulder impingement) began his minor league rehab assignment with three scoreless innings and the Jumbo Shrimp rallied for their 12th victory in the last 15 games.
• Also on the injury update front, Pablo López (right rotator cuff strain) is scheduled to throw a 20-pitch bullpen session today
• Congrats to catcher Derek Vegas on being named the DSL team’s Player of the Month for July.
• FiveThirtyEight gives the Marlins a 46% chance to win their next game against the Rockies.
• Upon returning from a family emergency, Trevor Rogers will be allowed to stick in the Marlins starting rotation through season’s end. Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. tells the Miami Herald’s Jordan McPherson that the NL Rookie of the Year contender is being capped at 175 innings, but that’s a moot point with Rogers currently at 110 and only enough time remaining for 10 more starts.
• Fish Stripes Live previewed the Marlins vs. Rockies series. Our predictions at the end aged poorly!

• Behold: my updated ranking of the Marlins Top 30 prospects.
• Aram Leighton of Just Baseball has a thorough scouting report on Jupiter players Luis Palacios (unranked), Víctor Mesa Jr. (No. 23), Bennett Hostetler (unranked), Javeon Cody (unranked) and a rehabbing Jerar Encarnacíon (just missed Top 30).
• Joe Frisaro of Man On Second Baseball likes the upside of José Salas (No. 9) and Ian Lewis (unranked).
• FOCO is having a clearance sale on face masks! That includes MLB-licensed Marlins and Jesús Aguilar designs, now only $10 each.

• Oakland’s Ramon Laureano has begun serving an 80-game PED suspension. That puts added pressure on old friend Starling Marte, who has a .367/.424/.600 slash line and 187 wRC+ through seven games with the A’s, including a walk-off home run on Saturday.
• On this day in 2016, Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki joined the 3,000-hit club.
• Eddy Alvarez and the USA Baseball team won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics as the runner-up to host Japan. Alvarez becomes the sixth athlete in history to medal at both the Summer and Winter Games (silver medalist in speedskating, 2014).