If a team has already played the Miami Marlins this season, then they are extremely fortunate because those who have not could face 2013 All-Star and NL Rookie of the Year Jose Fernandez.
Fernandez, who was recalled from Single-A Advanced Jupiter to make his Major League debut in 2013, took Major League Baseball by storm his rookie season by going 12-6 with an earned run average of 2.19 and one hundred and eighty-seven strikeouts in twenty-eight starts as a twenty year old! After getting selected to the 2013 All-Star Game and collecting 2013 National League Rookie of the Year honors, Fernandez continued his dominance of batters by going 4-2 with seventy strikeouts and a 2.44 earned run average in eight 2014 starts for Miami. His start to the 2014 season had baseball analysts saying he was the front-runner for the National League Cy Young, but no one knows if he would have won since he tore his ulnar collateral ligament resulting in him having Tommy John Surgery on May 16.
One year and twenty-one days later after having surgery, Jose Fernandez was back on a mound, this time in Port Charlotte, Florida, throwing for the Jupiter Hammerheads, but his first start did not go as plan result-wise. Yes, the right hander was able to finish three innings as hoped, but in the three innings he did not have his best stuff and allowed five earned runs on eight hits. Fernandez simply did not look like the same pitcher, but he soon began to resemble his former self and rebounded with three good starts, one in which he went seven innings allowed only one earned run and four hits with nine strikeouts Monday at Roger Dean Stadium.
This afternoon, the twenty-two year old will suit up for the Jacksonville Suns, Double-A affiliate of the Marlins, against Biloxi, who has the Milwaukee Brewers' two top organizational prospects suiting up for them (Orlando Arcia and Tyrone Taylor), in his final rehab start before rejoining the Miami Marlins for his season debut on July 2 against the San Francisco Giants.
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