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On July 5th, the Miami Marlins decided to demote young outfielder Marcell Ozuna to Triple-A New Orleans due to his struggling performance at the big league level.
Ozuna kicked off his stint with dominance, knocking two homers in his first six games. The Marlins refused to call him up, however, in effort to delay Ozuna’s arbitration clock. So there he stood, a medium-tier MLB outfielder, undoubtably a top-tier Marlin, in the middle of a Triple-A lineup.
Ozuna’s power numbers dropped, and he only finished with five homers in his 33 MiLB games, including just one home run in his last 16 games with the Zephyrs.