By james art 
On Monday, the Miami Marlins announced their 24 invitations for Ne-Roster for spring training. Among them was the Hylaea -born Albert Almora, Jr., who joins his team in his hometown in a minor league deal.
Almora has spent the bigger part of his professional career with the Chicago cubes. He was selected for the first round in 2012 and reached the specialties in 2016, contributing to their World Series title in the same year in the role of part -time. It remains with the cubes until 2020, mainly a central field game. He then had annuals with New York Metz (2021) and Cincinnati Crys (2022). In 600 MLB career matches, he posted .259/.300/.383/.683 Slash Line and 80 WRC+.
Almora did not spend the 2023 season with an organization of MLB, but played a winter ball with Cangrejeros de Santurce by Puerto Rico. In 2024, it was a spring training NRI with Arizona Diamondbacks. He failed to make their list and spent the whole season in Triple-A Reno.
In Renault Almora, cut .292/.349/.439/.787 with nine home tracks and 69 RBI. It struck only 14.1% of the time, while reducing the speed of its breath, especially inside the impact area. However, all this should be taken with grain salt, given that it was in the extremely convenient attack on the Pacific Coast League. He set a new one -season top with 20 stolen bases, but did not demonstrate this ability against the basic league race with seven career thefts in 13 attempts.
The 30-year-old Almora is a first defense player. In his peak in 2018, the Saved (12 DRS) protective runs and proceeds above the average (14 OAA) agreed that it was elite in the center of the field. During his last MLB action in 2022, he continued to evaluate very well (8 DRS and 6 OAA).
Derek Hill is already on the list of 40 people and He publishes 78 WRC+until he hit 34.1% of the time in his 32 games with Marlins 2024. Almora will be in competition with him for the role of a defensive underlying and platoon facing a leftist. Descending from a back injury, pRosepte Victor Mesa -JR. He will hopes to make the list both, showing that he is ready to debut.
Almora will enter the camp as a Marlins Position player with the most experience (5 years and 110 days to service MLB), exceeding Hesus Sanchez (3.118). He will have the second time for service among all Marliners players, with only Sandy Alcantara above him (6.100).
