Jazz Chisholm Jr. on expressing displeasure on social media: ‘I got it out of my system’
.JPG "Miami Marlins’ Jazz Chisholm Jr., is greeted at home plate by Jon Berti, left, after hitting a two-run home run off San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Camilo Doval in the ninth inning inning of a baseball game Friday, April 8, 2022, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)")
Jazz Chisholm Jr. has said this season was going to be one of growth. The Miami Marlins’ second baseman is striving to find that balance between being disciplined and still being the flashy, high-energy, fun-loving player fans grew accustomed to seeing last season.
He learned another lesson Saturday in attempting to strike that balance.
Chisholm took to social media pregame to express his displeasure of not being in the starting lineup for Miami’s 2-1 win over the San Francisco Giants by retweeting a handful of posts on Twitter from Marlins fans who want to see him playing daily. The retweets were undone shortly afterward.
The Marlins have the depth among their position players to set different lineups to maximize matchups. On Saturday, they faced a left-handed starting pitcher in Carlos Rodon. As a result, eight of Miami’s nine starters were right-handed hitters (center fielder Jesus Sanchez was the only lefty).
That means decisions have to be made and some players — Chisholm included — who would normally be on the field on a regular basis might spend more days on the bench as manager Don Mattingly rotates players into and out of the lineup.
Players aren’t always going to agree with those decisions. Chisholm expressed as much on his end Saturday.
But Chisholm said using social media to express his displeasure wasn’t the proper avenue after reflecting on it a day later.
“I got it out of my system,” Chisholm said. “Small things. Something you learn from every time. That’ll be it for me.”
Mattingly’s take?
“I don’t expect anyone to be happy [about not starting],” the manager said postgame. “I talked to Joey Wendle about it; he told me he wants to play every day, but he understands. None of these situations here are things we didn’t talk about. We talked about this in spring training, how we’re going to mix and match. There’s nothing different that happened [Saturday] than what we’ve discussed as a ballclub.”
Chisholm said decisions he made on social media Saturday stemmed from his passion for the game. It’s his livelihood.
But he also noted that he and Mattingly are on the same page now.
“Donnie knows that I’m a guy that wants to be out there every day and wants to win,” Chisholm said. “He knows I’m the guy that wants to help the team win and I want to be the one out there. If anything, everybody knows that I’m a lover of baseball, and that’s all I love to do is play baseball. If I’m not out there trying to help my team win, I’m mad anyway — even if it is my off day. Donnie knows me personally and I feel like he understands that. Me personally as a kid that really loves baseball and loves playing and always wants to be on the field to help my team win at any cost — he knows that I have very keen emotions to that type of stuff. Just with me and him, he just knows that I’m that kid that just loves to play. He knows I wear my emotions on my sleeve all the time.
“Like, you can’t walk past me and say ‘OK, today Jazz is happy, but he looks upset.’ That’s never the case,” Chisholm continued. “If Jazz looks upset, he’s upset. If he looks happy, he’s happy. So everybody knows that. They know that that’s the type of guy I am. He knows me. I just love playing baseball and I just want to help the team win at any cost. That’s just me. I want to be out there on any given day just like Miggy [shortstop Miguel Rojas] wants to be out there and help the team win. Everybody always wants to be out there. That’s just the guy I am.”
Edward Cabrera on minor-league IL
Right-handed pitcher Edward Cabrera, the No. 34 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipeline, is on the Minor League injured list with right biceps fatigue. Marlins general manager Kim Ng said Cabrera was shut down for a couple days and is expected to start throwing again on Monday.
Cabrera arrived at the Marlins’ spring training site in Jupiter shortly after the team finished its first workout on March 14 and was behind the rest of his starting pitching colleagues in terms of his build up. He made one Grapefruit League appearance, throwing three scoreless against the Washington Nationals on March 28. At that point, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said Cabrera had a “tougher path” to cracking the Opening Day roster “just because he’s a little bit behind.”
And now the latest setback. This is the second consecutive year Cabrera has dealt with an early-season biceps issue. He had right biceps nerve inflammation during spring training last year that sidelined him until June.
Ng on Thursday said the Marlins decided to keep him in Jupiter so that he “could be monitored with a number of our different medical professionals.”
“He’s just progressing,” Ng added.
Cabrera, 23, made his MLB debut last season and pitched to a 5.81 ERA with 28 strikeouts against 19 walks and a .247 batting average against over 26 1/3 innings spanning seven starts. The results were not ideal, but the Marlins and Cabrera both said they believe his time in the big leagues last year will be beneficial long-term.
“Being there,” Cabrera said, “I got a lot of experience with some major league players. [I] mostly learned not to make too many mistakes. The margin for error is very low.”
In addition to Cabrera, Sixto Sanchez is still not throwing while he deals with a shoulder issue.
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