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Marceaux scattered four hits, and walked one with six strikeouts. The right-hander has enjoyed a solid first professional season with the Dust Devils, and improves his K/BB ratio to 54/13 with a 3.23 ERA over 64 innings in 13 starts. A third-round pick out of LSU, Marceaux doesn’t have an obvious out pitch, but there are three above-average secondary offerings that help a low 90s fastball play up, as does his ability to command those four pitches. He’s more high-ceiling than high-floor, but it’s easy to see Marceaux being a solid -- if unspectacular -- part of a rotation.

The White Sox released Wade Jr. after spring training when he didn’t make the big league club. After taking a week to survey his other options, he’s back with them and will report to Triple-A Charlotte. He made a strong case to get a major league roster spot in camp with a .289/.429/.605 slash line over 49 plate appearances and is just one year removed from a two-season stretch with a .777 OPS working as a strong-side platoon starter with the Giants.

Hader was scheduled to throw a bullpen and it went off without a hitch, which is great considering how back and forth his health status has been of late. If he stays on track, the expectation is that he would face live hitters in a few weeks before likely going on a rehab assignment. If everything goes perfectly, he could be back by the beginning of May. Keep an eye on his status though because things have not gone perfectly since his shoulder injury towards the end of last season.

It’s nice to here that Rodriguez is with the team as they opened the season and actually throwing to some degree. This is the first report on him since he was placed on the injured list with dead arm and shoulder inflammation and we know that based on his extensive injury history that any morsel of good news is worthwhile.

Chafin was cut loose by the Twins at the end of spring training despite their lack of compelling bullpen options. Now, he’ll try to catch on with the Reds as an additional lefty to add to their mix. He probably still has something in the tank too after putting up a 2.41 ERA across 42 appearances with the Nationals and Angels last season while still displaying strong swing-and-miss stuff. Walks became an issue for him though with 19 over 33 2/3 innings.

It’s nice to hear that Yates’ surprising trip to the injured list with knee inflammation appears to be a minor issue. After throwing a bullpen, it likely won’t be long before he’s back with the club. Jordan Romano secured the save for them on Opening Day with a scoreless ninth inning and it’s anyone’s guess as to who will be ahead in the pecking order for saves when both are in the bullpen together.

Fernando Cruz, Tim Hill, Camilo Doval and David Bednar finished up with 3 2/3 hitless innings. The Yankees wanted to keep Schlittler at 70 or so pitches today, yet he was able to get 16 outs anyway. He recorded four strikeouts with his fastball, which averaged 98.5 mph, and only two of the nine balls in play against him were hit hard. Based on how he’s looked since day one this spring, he should be one of the AL’s better pitchers if he remains healthy.

Bednar walked Matt Chapman with two outs in the 3-0 game but then retired Rafael Devers to end things. Bednar’s velocity was down all spring, including in the WBC, but he was up to 96.3 mph on average with his fastball tonight. That’s back to within 0.7 mph of last year. He was at 94.6 mph in his five Grapefruit League appearances.

Ray kept the Yankees scoreless until Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the sixth. He got Cody Bellinger to ground out afterwards and then exited. Ray’s early spring velocity boost hasn’t really held up, but control is more important for him anyway and he went without a walk today. He’s due to face the Mets next week in his second start.

Judge took advantage of the ABS system on what was called a 1-0 strike from Robbie Ray, getting it overturned when it turned out to be 0.1 inches low. He later homered with a full count on the seventh pitch of the at-bat, sending the ball 405 feet to left.

Rafael Devers also fanned three times in an 0-for-4 day, and only Heliot Ramos had a hit in the 3-0 loss. The Giants did quite a bit of lineup experimenting this spring before going with a top six of Luis Arraez, Matt Chapman, Devers, Adames, Jung Hoo Lee and Heliot Ramos in each of their first two games here. Given that they’ve totaled four hits while being shut out both games, there might be a bit of a shakeup Saturday, though the names figure to stay the same. There were a couple of times in Cactus play in which Ramos hit cleanup and Adames hit sixth, so that might be one possibility.