Aug. 18: The Marlins announced that Acosta has indeed been recalled for his MLB debut. Pauley will head to the 10-day injured list, as the side discomfort that kept him out of yesterday\u2019s game was due to what\u2019s now been diagnosed as a strained oblique.<\/p>\n
Aug. 17: The Marlins are calling up middle infield prospect Max Acosta<\/a> from Triple-A Jacksonville, El Extra Base\u2019s Daniel Alvarez-Montes<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Only a 26-man roster will need to be made prior to tomorrow\u2019s game between the Cardinals and Marlins, since the 22-year-old Acosta is already on Miami\u2019s 40-man roster.<\/p>\n Acosta will be making his MLB debut whenever he makes his first appearance with the Fish.\u00a0 Playing almost exclusively as the everyday shortstop in Jacksonville, Acosta has hit .232\/.319\/.376 over 430 plate appearances in his first taste of Triple-A ball, while stealing 28 bases in 35 attempts.\u00a0 It took him some time to adjust to the higher level, as Acosta\u2019s season is split between a .215\/.316\/.269 slash line over his first 215 plate appearances, and a much improved .247\/.321\/479 slash line in his last 215 PA.<\/p>\n This power boost over the last two and a half months provides some answer to evaluators\u2019 doubts about his ability to hit at the big league level, though it runs counter to MLB Pipeline\u2019s scouting report<\/a>, which felt Acosta\u2019s ability to hit for average could be his offensive calling card rather than his modest power.\u00a0 His speed is fairly average but he is an effective base stealer, and Acosta provides at least average defense at shortstop and second base (the other position he has played during his pro career).\u00a0 Pipeline ranks Acosta as the 25th-best prospect in Miami\u2019s farm system, while Baseball America has the infielder 28th.<\/p>\n An international signing for the Rangers in 2019, Acosta was added to Texas\u2019 40-man roster for the first time last November in advance of the Rule 5 draft.\u00a0 The Rangers then dealt Acosta and two other prospects to the Marlins in December in the trade that brought Jake Burger<\/a> to Arlington.<\/p>\n Otto Lopez<\/a> has been struggling badly at the plate since the start of July, and while Lopez remains an excellent defensive shortstop, the Marlins might want to give him a bit more time in the outfield or at third base while seeing what they have in Acosta.\u00a0 MLB.com\u2019s Christina De Nicola<\/a> reports that Graham Pauley<\/a> didn\u2019t play today due to side tightness, so if Pauley needs to go on the injured list, that opens up third base for Lopez to share time with Eric Wagaman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 18: The Marlins announced that Acosta has indeed been recalled for his MLB debut. Pauley will head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,48117,462,82],"class_list":["post-79505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-max-acosta","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}