{"id":553618,"date":"2026-03-20T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:28:08","slug":"marlins-option-lefty-garrett-to-triple-a-keep-junk-as-5th-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553618\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins option lefty Garrett to Triple-A, keep Junk as 5th starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUPITER, Fla. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> optioned left-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40971\/braxton-garrett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton Garrett<\/a> to Triple-A Jacksonville on Friday, opening a path for right-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4881980\/janson-junk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janson Junk<\/a> to begin the season as the team&#8217;s No. 5 starter.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48174347\/mlb-2026-offseason-free-agency-trades-continuity-running-back-yankees-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missed the 2025 season following Tommy John surgery<\/a>. Garrett, 28, is 16-19 with a 4.03 ERA in 65 career games, including 63 starts, for the Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48175759\/mlb-season-preview-2026-jeff-passan-bold-predictions-breakout-stars-fantasy-tips\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0312\/mlb_passan's_ultimate_season_preview_cr_1x1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/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&#8217; rotation is expected to include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35241\/sandy-alcantara\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sandy Alcantara<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eury P\u00e9rez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4345164\/max-meyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Meyer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35999\/chris-paddack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Paddack<\/a> and Junk.<\/p>\n<p>Marlins manager Clayton McCullough told reporters that Garrett will continue to build up while pitching for Jacksonville. McCullough said he expects Garrett will be needed in the Marlins&#8217; rotation at some point this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER, Fla. &#8212; The Miami Marlins optioned left-hander Braxton Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville on Friday, opening a path&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-553618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}