{"id":535516,"date":"2026-03-20T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535516\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:59:08","slug":"marlins-option-left-hander-garrett-to-triple-a-jacksonville-leaving-junk-as-teams-fifth-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535516\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins option left-hander Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville, leaving Junk as team&#8217;s fifth starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins have optioned left-hander Braxton Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville. The move opens for right-hander Janson Junk to begin the season as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>JUPITER, Fla.(AP) \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&#8217;s 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&#8217; 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&#8217; rotation this season.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Marlins have optioned left-hander Braxton Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville. The move opens for right-hander Janson Junk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-535516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}