March 26: Optioned to Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
May 27: Recalled from Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
After earning the call-up towards the final stretch of the 2021 season, Nick Fortes slashed a whopping .290/.353/.677/1.030 with 4 HR and 7 RBI in the 14 games he played. Fortes impressed so much, even in a small sample, that it begged the question of whether he should be a candidate for the starting catcher’s job entering 2022.
The answer was no. The Marlins traded for Jacob Stallings, the reigning NL Gold Glove award winner, which left Fortes in a competition with Payton Henry for the backup job.