The Miami Marlins made one of their biggest roster moves on the second-to-last day of spring training.
In what manager Don Mattingly called “easily our toughest decision,” the Marlins announced Saturday afternoon before their night game against the Houston Astros that they have optioned Peter O’Brien to Triple-A New Orleans.
“A lot of factors are going into it,” Mattingly said, “and you know what, when you make a decision like that, you don’t know if it ends up being the right one or not, but we’ll find out. We had to make one.”
O’Brien, a Hialeah native, is one of the Marlins’ few pure power hitters, but he still had trouble with consistency at the plate.