Casey Kotchman

In uniform with the Marlins’ Sunday: sidelined first baseman Logan Morrison. He was just visiting, but Morrison is inching closer toward wearing Marlins' colors every day. Monday, he’ll begin a rehab assignment with Class-A Jupiter. He can...

   Previo al arranque de la temporada de 2012 lancé una maldición a los Angelinos de Los Angeles —y en particular a Albert Pujols— que aún sigue atormentando a los serafines y al slugger dominicano. Entonces, un sábado 24 de diciembre de...

The No. 3 hitter had three big-league games under his belt. The cleanup hitter was a veteran of two weeks. Derek Dietrich and Marcell Ozuna expected to be hitting in the middle of the lineup for Double-A Jacksonville this season. Tuesday they did so for...

Like every catcher, Jeff Mathis' body is a catalogue of hard knocks. "I've broke my face, wrists. Nothing compared to the pain that was in my collarbone," said Mathis, who finally became an active member of the Marlins on Tuesday. One of the players...

LOS ANGELES A.J. Ramos on the Marlins' off day in San Diego earlier this week set out to do something few have accomplished. Turned out he didn't have the stomach for it. Before the team departed for Los Angeles Thursday, Ramos and fellow pitchers Tom...

SAN DIEGO It's going to happen. At some point, probably within the next month to six weeks, the Miami Marlins' mile-long list of injured players will shorten and they'll return to relatively good health. That's when President of Baseball Operations...

First he clutched, then he hopped, then he belly-flopped onto the Marlins Park grass down the first-base line. The hamstring fairy shot another arrow through a Marlins’ player’s hind quarters. Giancarlo Stanton could be facing another...

Ex-Marlin Mike Mordecai was a master at detecting when pitchers were tipping their offerings. The Marlins didn't need Mordecai to alert them Jose Fernandez was having an issue. Fernandez between his last start at Minnesota and Monday's outing against the...

The worst-case scenario for Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria is luckily not the case. Hechavarria said Thursday that his right arm injury, which landed him on the 15-day disabled list, shouldn't keep him out of the lineup much longer. Hechavarria...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...

A familiar cast of characters helped the Washington Nationals complete a lopsided, season-opening three-game sweep of the payroll-slashing, talent-trading Miami Marlins. Now should come more of a test: A visit to the reigning NL Central champion...

All it took was two at-bats on his first opening day in the majors for Bryce Harper to hit two homers — and hear some “M-V-P!” chants. The Washington Nationals’ other recent No. 1 overall draft pick, Stephen Strasburg, did his...