MINNEAPOLIS — Hoping to set up a rubber match Thursday at 1:40 p.m. ET against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field, the Miami Marlins announced two roster moves Wednesday.
Reliever Pete Fairbanks (nerve irritation), Miami’s prized offseason acquisition who last appeared April 27, was reinstated from the 15-day injured list.
Fairbanks has a bloated 10.00 ERA in his first season as a Marlin, allowing 10 earned runs in nine innings of work.
In a corresponding move, left-hander Robby Snelling, who made his MLB debut May 8 against the Washington Nationals at loanDepot park, was placed on the 15-day injured list with what the team is calling a “left elbow UCL sprain.”
Snelling, 22, pitched five innings, allowing three earned runs and walking four on 86 pitches.
His max velocity reached 97.2 mph.
Manager Clayton McCullough spoke to reporters in the dugout pregame Wednesday and said Snelling “reported some discomfort yesterday following his bullpen sessions.”
He will undergo further evaluation, and the team will make a decision at a later time.
The rookie was scheduled to start Thursday, but it will instead be left-hander Braxton Garrett, who returns to the club to make his first start in two years.
He joined the team Wednesday in Minnesota.
Garrett, 28, missed the entire 2025 season while recovering from left elbow surgery (UCL reconstruction, Tommy John surgery).
Meantime, the Marlins (19-23) will start right-hander Max Meyer (2-0, 2.79 ERA) in the second game of the series.
Meyer, 27, grew up in Woodbury, Minnesota. He committed to play college baseball at the University of Minnesota during his junior year.
Wednesday will mark the first time Meyer takes the mound to face the Twins.
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