Sunday marked the regular season finale for all Low-A and High-A minor league affiliates. The Beloit Sky Carp will compete in the Midwest League playoffs beginning on Tuesday with a roster featuring many of the Miami Marlins’ 2025 MLB Draft selections, but the book has been closed on their official MiLB stats for this year.
The tables below show how the draftees have handled their transition to the pros. All 21 of them got their feet wet to various extents with either the Sky Carp or Jupiter Hammerheads.
The headliner of the class, Aiva Arquette, reported straight to High-A, where he was approximately a league-average offensive player. Not as much loud contact as the Marlins probably envisioned—only one home run, which was a wall-scraper to right field—but at least defensively, he does look like a viable shortstop.
Ignoring draft position and signing bonuses, the most outstanding overall performers thus far have been fourth-rounder Drew Faurot and 19th-rounder Peyton Fosher. Faurot was riding an 11-game hitting streak when Jupiter’s season wrapped up. Fosher has retired 37 of the 43 batters he’s faced.
Down on the farm, Triple-A Jacksonville lost, 9-7. Griffin Conine went 0-for-2 with a walk in the first game of his rehab assignment. Expect him to spend another full week with the Jumbo Shrimp before potentially being reinstated from the injured list. Double-A Pensacola lost, 4-1. High-A Beloit won, 7-5. The Sky Carp had a 68-63 record and plus-16 run differential. They led all High-A affiliates with 334 stolen bases. Echedry Vargas was awful overall, but he wrapped up his regular season on a high note, slashing .314/.385/.514 over his last 10 games. Low-A Jupiter lost, 13-1. The Hammerheads had a 59-72 record and minus-116 run differential. They led all Low-A affiliates in both walks allowed (767) and hit-by-pitches allowed (154)
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🔷 Otto Lopez had a huge day at the plate on Sunday as the Marlins celebrated Childhood Cancer Awareness Day at loanDepot park. MLB.com’s Christina De Nicola recapped how Lopez and other members of the team interacted with the cancer patients who attended.
🔷 With his younger brother in the starting lineup, former Marlins prospect Victor Victor Mesa attended Sunday’s game with his wife. He went on the field postgame to take photos with Victor Jr. As far as I can tell, Victor Victor still has not been officially released by the Marlins, but he’s an inactive player who is two and a half seasons removed from his last game.
🔷 The Marlins had originally projected Kyle Stowers to return from the injured list right around now, but his rehab assignment was paused over the weekend due to “general fatigue.” There’ll be another update on him this afternoon.
🔷 Kevin Defrank, Adriano Marrero, Pedro Montero, José Paulino and Luis Arana were included among Baseball America’s top Dominican Summer League prospects. Following Jakob Marsee’s graduation from prospect eligibility, Arana has been added to our Fish On First Top 30 list.
🔷 Continuing my series of MiLB highlight reels, here are PJ Morlando’s top plays of 2025.
🔷 The Prediction Time leaderboard has been updated through the first 46 series. Become a SuperSub and we’ll keep track of your predictions all season long!
🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, a monster day at the plate (2-2, 2 HR, 3 BB) propelled Shohei Ohtani‘s season OPS back over 1.000. With three weeks left to play, the National League MVP award is his to lose. Aroldis Chapman has made 17 consecutive relief appearances without allowing a hit. The Atlanta Braves got throttled by the Seattle Mariners, 18-2, the franchise’s largest margin of defeat in any game since 2003. Nine different Mariners recorded multiple hits.
🔷 Today’s MLB game: the Marlins and Washington Nationals kick off a four-game series (probable starters RHP Janson Junk and RHP Cade Cavalli). Junk is back after a minimum-length IL stint for right ulnar nerve irritation. The Marlins have a 48.0% chance to win, per FanGraphs. First pitch at 6:40 p.m. ET.
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