{"id":80050,"date":"2024-07-14T20:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T00:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=80050"},"modified":"2024-07-14T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T00:51:27","slug":"marlins-lose-dane-myers-to-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/14\/marlins-lose-dane-myers-to-ankle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Lose Solid Bat For 6-8 Weeks Due To Immature Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Miami Marlins will be without outfielder Dane Myers for approximately 6-8 weeks due to a fractured left ankle. Myers was ejected from Saturday\u2019s game for arguing a strike call, then suffered the injury by kicking a clubhouse door out of frustration. He will visit a foot specialist in the coming days to determine the severity. Fortunately for Myers and the Marlins, the injury is not expected to need surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/04\/ten-strangest-reasons-missed-games-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Unconventional injuries<\/a> happen often in sports. However, that doesn\u2019t make them any less frustrating to everyone involved. But to his credit, Myers took accountability for his actions when speaking to the media on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<em>I took a swipe at the door with my foot, and I didn\u2019t think I kicked it that hard, but I fractured my foot<\/em>,\u201d Myers said.\u00a0 \u201c<em>That\u2019s something you have to do as a pro.\u00a0 It\u2019s the last missing piece in my game: staying level-headed and not letting the emotions take over<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dane Myers revealed his fractured left ankle was a result of kicking the clubhouse door in frustration after his ejection yesterday. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Yftxix6eM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/9Yftxix6eM<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZvFXyytLOS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZvFXyytLOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports Florida: Marlins (@BallyMarlins) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BallyMarlins\/status\/1812595589890351250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Marlins Lose Dane Myers For 6-8 Weeks With Ankle Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Myers, 28, has provided solid offense in a small sample size for the Marlins this year. In 95 plate appearances, the outfielder has hit .265\/.337\/.442 (113 wRC+) with two homers and five doubles. Though his quality of at-bats and process at the plate can improve, Myers has made hard contact throughout his career in the bigs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pairs hard contact with a great outfield arm and solid defense. Myers ranks in the 86<sup>th<\/sup> percentile by averaging 90.6 mph on his throws. While he\u2019s seen time at all three outfield spots, defensive metrics view him most favorably in right. He&#8217;s already recorded four assists in 145 innings in right field this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ignoring the fact that a run scored ahead of this throw, Dane Myers just recorded another outfield assist with this DART from right field.<\/p>\n<p>94.0 MPH on the throw which is in the 99th percentile, considered elite. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElExtrabase?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ElExtrabase<\/a> | <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarlinsBeisbol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MarlinsBeisbol<\/a> | <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/alHGKFWYft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/alHGKFWYft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Berger Media (@NoahBergerMedia) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoahBergerMedia\/status\/1811196330645004512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Marlins acquired Myers via waivers in December 2022. A former sixth-round pick of the Detroit Tigers, the Texas native lacks a big prospect pedigree. However, he possesses enough tools and intrigue that Miami would have given him solid playing time in the second half of the season. Unfortunately, the injury will prevent Myers from establishing himself in the majors for a post-deadline Marlins squad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though it\u2019s unlikely that Myers will ever become a star, he\u2019s a player who the new Marlins regime wants to develop. He is making close to the league minimum and has several years of team control left. Even if he develops into just a part-time player, that could provide solid value to what Miami is trying to build.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Sam Greene\/The Enquirer \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins will be without outfielder Dane Myers for approximately 6-8 weeks due to a fractured left ankle. Myers was ejected from Saturday\u2019s game for arguing a strike call, then suffered the injury by kicking a clubhouse door out of frustration. He will visit a foot specialist in the coming days to determine the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":80084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1071,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marlins","category-mlb","category-news"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}