“It’s going to be weird for me,” Giancarlo Stanton said.

It’s going to be weird for us, too. And wonderful and bittersweet and sad. It’s going to be a reason to get out to Marlins Park. To feel the power of the emotional tug of sports.

It’s going to be South Florida’s first real chance to say thank you.

Not quite 11 months ago, last Oct. 1 , the Marlins season ended for Stanton with a strikeout, and 59 home runs for the year. It ended with an “M-V-P!” chant, an ovation and curtain call.

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