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Caminero spent the majority of this season with the Marlins’ Double-A affiliate, where he had a 3.61 ERA over 42 appearances. The 26-year-old will provide bullpen depth.

The homer was a 336-footer down the left field line that he got just enough of. It doesn’t sound like Mack has a real shot of making the Marlins, as they still want to see if Agustín Ramírez can improve behind the plate. Mack, however, is almost certainly the future at the position for the team, and there’s a good argument for him in the present, too, since he’s just that much better defensively than Ramírez.

Paddack hit Trea Turner to start the game and then gave up a single, but he likely would have gotten out of the inning unscathed if catcher Joe Mack hadn’t made an error on a pickoff throw. Paddack tried out a new, slower version of his slider today, throwing it five times in his 21-pitch outing. He never has had much luck coming up with a reliable breaking ball, so he doesn’t have much to lose by tinkering.

Johnson was last seen in the majors striking out five in two scoreless innings on Aug. 4. The Phillies then sent him down the next day and never brought him back. The 27-year-old averaged 98.2 mph with his fastball today, which was up one mph from his 10 major league outings last season. He should have a chance at winning a spot in the Phillies pen, but that he has an option year left works against him.

The first hit was a popup that Max Clark had problems with in left, but the homer was absolutely crushed. Olson, who finished last year as the Braves’ No. 2 hitter, has hit third in both of his appearances this spring. New manager Walt Weiss apparently wants a more traditional No. 2 hitter in between him and Ronald Acuña Jr., and he has some perfectly fine candidates in Drake Baldwin, Jurickson Profar and Mike Yastrzemski.

He struck out two. Statcast, which crapped out halfway through his outing, had López’s fastball velocity down four mph from last year in the first inning, but he seemed comfortable on the mound. Hopefully, he’ll build up from here.

Statcast was down while Holmes was on the mound, but the in-game velocity readings were good for the rehabbing right-hander. Holmes is a near lock to open up in the Braves rotation with Spencer Schwellenbach and Hurtson Waldrep down.

Just an odd day. Clark’s misses came back-to-back in the first inning. He whiffed on a Matt Olson popup, which was scored generously as a single, and then had Austin Riley’s fly to the warning track go off his glove and bounce over the wall for an error. One batter later, he wound up with the ball again, having collected Ozzie Albies’ groundball double that went down the line and bounced off the side wall, and he slipped while making a poor throw to second. Finally, the one time he reached base, he had to be told to go to first, since he didn’t realize it was ball four (the scoreboard said it was 3-1, so that wasn’t so much his fault). Clark, who is Baseball America’s No. 6 overall prospect, is likely to open this season back in Double-A.

Counsell added that Long is feeling better after being diagnosed with a left elbow sprain following a collision at first base last weekend. The 24-year-old slugging prospect mashed 20 homers in 607 plate appearances for Triple-A Iowa last season. The expectation is that he’ll still be medically cleared to join Team Chinese Taipei for the upcoming World Baseball Classic.

Díaz’s one ball in play was pushed 372 feet down the right field line. It’s his first spring homer since 2024, as he went without one in 40 at-bats last year. Díaz hit second today after leading off in his spring debut. He’ll almost certainly occupy one of those two spots on Opening Day, but which will probably come down to whether the team thinks it has anyone worth hitting ahead of him.

Boyle got the weaker split-squad, as Royce Lewis was the only regular the Twins brought with them today. Still, that Boyle went without a walk was nice. He allowed one hit and struck out two. As a result of the Nick Martinez signing, it will probably take an injury to open up a spot for either Boyle or Ian Seymour in the Rays rotation.