{"id":1717,"date":"2025-04-30T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/1717\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:12:09","slug":"griffin-conine-expected-to-miss-remainder-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/1717\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Conine Expected To Miss Remainder Of 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlins outfielder Griffin Conine<\/a> underwent left shoulder surgery yesterday, as previously reported<\/a>, but the team announced this morning that Conine is expected to miss the remainder of the 2025 season. A firm timetable for his absence hadn\u2019t been previously established. He\u2019s expected to be ready for spring training 2026, the Marlins added.<\/p>\n

Conine, 27, made his big league debut with Miami late last season and hasn\u2019t stopped hitting since he arrived in the majors. He\u2019s appeared in only 50 games and tallied just 160 plate appearances but has impressed with a .274\/.338\/.445 slash (116 wRC+) in that time. He\u2019s benefited from a .379 average on balls in play and punched out too often (29.4%), but it\u2019s still an encouraging start to his career \u2014 one that\u2019s been backed up by solid batted ball metrics.<\/p>\n

Conine, of course, is the son of \u201cMr. Marlin\u201d Jeff Conine \u2014 a two-time MLB All-Star who won the World Series both with the 1997 Marlins and 2003 Marlins. Griffin was originally a second-round pick by the Blue Jays in 2018 (one of many second-generation talents drafted\/signed by Toronto in that time) but made his way to the Fish as the player to be named later in a trade sending infielder Jonathan Villar<\/a> from Miami to Toronto.<\/p>\n

The younger Conine\u2019s big league batting line closely mirrors the .260\/.341\/.454 line he\u2019s logged in parts of two Triple-A seasons (135 games, 528 plate appearances). With Miami\u2019s outfield \u2014 really, its entire roster \u2014 in a general state of flux, Conine appeared to have a runway for regular playing time as he sought to establish himself as a viable everyday big leaguer. That endeavor will now be put on hold until next season. In the meantime, Conine will accumulate major league service time and pay.<\/p>\n

The Marlins are currently deploying longtime corner outfielder Jesus Sanchez<\/a> in center field on most days, although Derek Hill<\/a> and Dane Myers<\/a> have both played there this season as well (particularly when Sanchez was injured to begin the year). Hill is currently out with a wrist injury, leaving Sanchez, Myers, Eric Wagaman<\/a>, Kyle Stowers<\/a> and Javier Sanoja<\/a> in the mix for outfield playing time.<\/p>\n

Outside of Sanchez and Stowers, it\u2019s a group composed primarily of journeymen and\/or utility players. Sanchez, controlled through the 2027 season, could very well be a summer trade chip if he\u2019s performing well later this season. The 27-year-old Stowers came to Miami alongside Connor Norby<\/a> in the deal sending Trevor Rogers<\/a> to Baltimore last July. He\u2019s hitting well to begin the season (.293\/.374\/.413) but has been aided by a massive .410 average on balls in play and has fanned at a 29% clip. Prospects Jakob Marsee<\/a>, Andrew Pintar<\/a> or Victor Mesa Jr.<\/a>\u00a0could get looks later this season, but given the lack of long-term solidity in the group, Conine should still have a path to playing time if he returns next spring and continues hitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marlins outfielder Griffin Conine underwent left shoulder surgery yesterday, as previously reported, but the team announced this morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,547,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-griffin-conine","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114427798765280657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}