{"id":664809,"date":"2026-04-05T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664809\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:37:26","slug":"hicks-defense-a-problem-marlins-cant-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664809\/","title":{"rendered":"Hicks&#8217; Defense a Problem Marlins Can&#8217;t Ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/shortUrl\/2pEgMJD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Hicks<\/a> has been one of the best early surprises on Miami\u2019s roster from an offensive standpoint. Through his first six games of 2026, according to Baseball Reference, he is slashing .368\/.435\/.895 with three home runs, 12 RBI, and a ridiculous 1.330 OPS. For a team that badly needs impact bats, that kind of production matters. It is the kind of start that forces people to pay attention and gives the Marlins a reason to keep penciling him into the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catcher Liam Hicks has been one of the best early surprises on Miami\u2019s roster from an offensive standpoint.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-664809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116352846907639529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664809","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=664809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}