{"id":635079,"date":"2026-03-21T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:17:27","slug":"marlins-option-left-hander-garrett-to-triple-a-jacksonville-leaving-junk-as-teams-fifth-starter-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635079\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins option left-hander Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville, leaving Junk as team\u2019s fifth starter \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUPITER \u2014 The Miami Marlins optioned left-hander Braxton Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville on Friday, opening for right-hander Janson Junk to begin the season as the team\u2019s No. 5 starter.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett missed the 2025 season following Tommy John surgery. Garrett, 28, is 16-19 with a 4.03 ERA in 65 career games, including 63 starts, for the Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>Junk, 30, was 6-4 with a 4.17 ERA for Miami in 2025. He pitched in 21 games, including 16 starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins\u2019 rotation is expected to include Sandy Alcantara, Eury P\u00e9rez, Max Meyer, Chris Paddack and Junk.<\/p>\n<p>Marlins manager Clayton McCullough told reporters Garrett will continue to build up while pitching for Jacksonville. McCullough said he expects Garrett will be needed in the Marlins\u2019 rotation this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER \u2014 The Miami Marlins optioned left-hander Braxton Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville on Friday, opening for right-hander Janson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,853,1816,778,58,4171,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-635079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-marlins","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-marlins","13":"tag-miamimarlins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116265946045965937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635079","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=635079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}