Postgame: Turner Throws 1st Career CG, Marlins Win 7-1

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Every position player had at least 1 hit except for one.

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It was Polanco.

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Of course it was.

[Ramp]

Turner yay

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41ip 33ha 8er 12bb 27k in 6 starts now

[Nick]

Gotta be excited about Turner and Eovaldi.

[Miamarlin21]

We're gonna have a good problem on our hands with Fernandez, Turner, Eovaldi, Alvarez, Heaney and Nicolino.

[Nick]

Heaney and Nicolino haven't made it to AA yet. I think both will be good, but there's a lot of time for stuff to happen before that is an issue.

[HUGG]

Yep, those problems almost never actually become problems.

[Miamarlin21]

Well of course. But still, they are looking good so far. So is DeSclafani, even though most think he'll go to the bullpen.

[HUGG]

Gotta be excited about Turner and Eovaldi.

Eovaldi is averaging 96.8mph on his fastball. That's insane.
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Well of course. But still, they are looking good so far. So is DeSclafani, even though most think he'll go to the bullpen.

And Flynn, although he's cooled off some. He had a weird start tonight (4.2ip 8ha 4r 2er 3bb 8k). Hard not to be intrigued by his K rates (74k in 71.2ip in AAA, 99k in 94.2ip overall), if nothing else.

9.3k/9 as a starter in AAA is hard to ignore.

[Mainge]

Turner needs to miss more bats before I start getting excited about him. Good start today.

[dim]

I'm not sure Descalfini goes to the 'pen. At this rate he's set to earn a rotation spot, as long as he dominates AA like he did A+ ball.
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Also went to the game tonight. Fun game to watch. Stanton hit some balls hard, especially the home run. Ozuna with a big base hit early, Dietrich with some nice AB's, even Mathis had one nice hit.

Turner is probably never going to amount to an ace, and tonight's performance wasn't the most dominant complete game you will ever experience. But he's going to turn out to be a decent #2 or 3 starter over the long term. I can deal with that as long as Fernandez is here to stay.

[Erick]

Turner needs to miss more bats before I start getting excited about him. Good start today.

He's missing some bats (10.4 swstrk% heading into tonight's game); it just hasn't translated into a lot of strikeouts yet.

He's getting a lot of groundballs so far.

[HUGG]

12.6% tonight (14/111)

[AdamRavs]

Some strikeout pitchers translates into high pitch counts. I like him getting ground balls and some strikeouts when needed

[HUGG]

Turner's updated SwStr% is 10.9%, which would be tied for 10th in baseball if he qualified.
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            SwStr    K/9
Darvish     13.7%  12.07
Anibal      12.6%  11.13
Harvey      12.4%  10.15
Hamels      12.2%   8.41
Scherzer    12.1%  10.69
Latos       11.7%   8.71
Samardzija  11.3%   9.73
Hernandez   11.3%   9.49
Iwakuma     11.2%   7.88
Bumgarner   10.9%   8.83
Kershaw     10.9%   8.75
Turner      10.9%   5.93

He was 9.6% last year, which would have been top 25 in baseball.