Chatter on the Marlins pitching as spring training begins:
u25aa If there’s one reason to feel good about this rebuild, it’s the starting pitching depth. The Marlins have four young pitchers – besides veterans Dan Straily, Wei-Yin Chen and Jose Urena – who showed enough last year to believe they can be competent starters, or something better: lefty Caleb Smith and right-handers Pablo Lopez, Sandy Alcantara and Trevor Richards, with Alcantara probably having the highest ceiling of that group.
What’s more, there are a bunch of others who could be eventual rotation pieces: Sixto Sanchez (mlb.com’s No.