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Jurickson Profar

ATL Left Fielder #7

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Jeff Passan of ESPN reports that Jurickson Profar is facing a 162-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.

Profar will get the full-season ban for testing positive for a PED for the second time. The 33-year-old missed 80 games due to suspension in 2025 and hit .243/.353/.434 with 14 homers in his 318 at-bats. Mike Yastrzemski and Eli White seem likely to platoon with Profar unavailable in 2026, but it’s possible Atlanta could look outside the organization.
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Sandy Alcantara

MIA Starting Pitcher #22

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Sandy Alcantara retired all nine batters he faced, striking out four of them, in the Marlins’ 2-0 defeat of the Astros on Thursday.

Of the five batters who did make contact against him, not a one hit the ball hard. Alcantara gave up three runs to the Nationals last time out and threw 28 pitches to get his three outs. Today, he needed 43 to get nine.

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Robby Snelling

MIA Starting Pitcher #93

Robby Snelling pitched three shutout innings and struck out six after relieving Sandy Alcantara against the Astros on Thursday.

Snelling gave up five runs to the Phillies last time out, so this is a nice return to form for him. He’s going to be sent down unless the Marlins rotation gets battered by injuries between now and Opening Day, but he might not stay in Triple-A for long.

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Tatsuya Imai

HOU Relief Pitcher #45

Tatsuya Imai worked a pair of scoreless innings and struck out three Thursday against the Marlins.

The Marlins swung at seven of Imai’s 11 sliders today and whiffed six times, with the other producing a foul ball. In all, Imai had a 40% CSW. He’s yet to allow a run in three innings this spring.

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Spencer Arrighetti

HOU Starting Pitcher #41

Spencer Arrighetti pitched three innings out of the pen and allowed one run Thursday against the Marlins.

He struck out two and walked three, finishing with a poor 22% CSW. Arrighetti, who had a 5.35 ERA in his seven starts for Houston last season, has a chance to crack the Astros’ expected six-man rotation, but he’s given up five runs in five innings so far.

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Dominic Smith

ATL 1st Baseman #7

Dominic Smith hit a two-run homer and walked Thursday in Atlanta’s 9-5 win over Toronto.

Smith’s chances of making the Braves got a huge lift with the Jurickson Profar suspension. Barring an addition, he seems likely to open up as the DH against right-handers and then perhaps hang around in a reduced role once Sean Murphy comes off the injured list. He probably wouldn’t be a mixed-league option.

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Chris Sale

ATL Starting Pitcher #51

Chris Sale yielded one run over three innings Thursday in a no-decision against the Blue Jays.

Sale gave up five hits, but most of them were weak, with the lone extra-base hit being a 67-mph double. He wound up striking out two and walking one in his second start of the spring.

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Spencer Strider

ATL Starting Pitcher #99

Spencer Strider struck out four while allowing two runs in 2 1/3 innings Thursday against the Blue Jays.

Strider wasn’t great today, but the important thing was that his velocity was back up. He averaged 95.9 mph with his fastball during his first inning of work and 95.0 mph for the day. That latter mark is still down 0.5 mph from last year, but it’s 1.9 mph better than in his spring debut last week. Ideally, he’ll keep building from there and get a bit closer to the 97.2 mph he averaged while winning 20 games in 2023.

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Rafael Lantigua

TOR 2nd Baseman #19

Rafael Lantigua singled in both of his at-bats off the bench Thursday against the Braves.

Unless maybe they’re good friends of something, Lantigua, who rejoined the Blue Jays as a minor league free agent this winter, has to be hoping that out-of-options Leo Jimenez fails to make the Blue Jays and gets claimed off waivers. That’d probably put Lantigua next in line for any infield spots that open up due to injury. The 27-year-old is a lifetime .270/.381/.380 hitter in Triple-A, and he’s off to an 8-for-13 start this spring.

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Dansby Swanson

CHC Shortstop #7

Dansby Swanson went 2-for-3 and walloped a two-run homer on Thursday, powering the Cubs to an 8-1 victory over the visiting Diamondbacks in their Cactus League affair.

Swanson singled off of Ryne Nelson in the opening inning, but was left stranded there. He then strolled to the dish in the third and pulverized a Spencer Giesting sinker for a 375-foot (100.2 mph EV) two-run shot that increased the D’Backs’ advantage to 4-0. Swanson has been absolutely locked in at the plate to start the spring, hitting .500 (5-for-10) with a pair of homers and five RBI.

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Carson Kelly

CHC Catcher #15

Carson Kelly went 1-for-3 and cranked a two-run homer as the Cubs throttled the Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon in spring training action.

The 31-year-old backstop victimized Ryan Thompson in the fifth inning, belting an 0-1 slider for a two-run blast to left that extended the Diamondbacks’ lead to 7-1. That would be his only hit in three at-bats on the day. For the spring, Kelly is now hitting .267 (4-for-15) with a pair of homers and four RBI.

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