Marlins recall power-hitting infielder who had brief spring training stay with Guardians 

In 2024, infielder Deyvison De Los Santos had a quick 18 game stint with the Cleveland Guardians during spring training. 

Although he always had a bit of an uphill battle to make the Guardians’ roster since his Rule 5 status meant the only way they could keep him is if he stayed on their big league roster all season, he didn’t help his case with a .227/.227/.318 slashline in 19 spring games. 

They ended up returning him to the Diamondbacks at the end of March, and the Guardians’ world kept turning. But De Los Santos is going to get a chance to crave his big league path by calling him up on Thursday in place of struggling infielder Leo Jiménez. 

That promotion may not have a huge impact on this year’s postseason race since the Marlins are hanging on the periphery of the Wild Card Race, De Los Santos now has a clear pathway to stake a claim to an everyday roster spot in Miami.

Deyvison De Los Santos is back in the bigs with the Marlins

De Los Santos joined the Marlins in 2024 as part of their package for reliever A.J. Puk, and he’s slowly blossomed into a more everyday player in the time since. 

When the Guardians claimed in ‘24, he was a 20-year-old coming off a season where he posted a .306/.348/.499 slashline in 126 games across Single-A, High-A and Double-A. 

And while he followed that up with a productive first stint in Triple-A with the Diamondbacks in 2024, he hit just .240 in 50 games with Miami’s Triple-A affiliate after the trade, which took away some of his shine. 

He also struggled in Triple-A last season (.241/.311/.363), though part of that likely stemmed from a left quad strain that cost his five walks of play. 

He made his MLB debut earlier this year and went 3-for-9 in limited action, and made his first appearance in his new stint with the Marlins on Thursday as a late-game substitute. 

De Los Santo’s current promotion provides a bit of an interesting trip down memory lane when it relates to the Guardians’ current first base situation. 

For a brief moment in De Los Santos’ stint with the Guardians, it looked like he had a legitimate chance at being the team’s everyday first baseman after they reassigned Kyle Manzardo to their minor league camp, but that ended up being a precursor to Josh Naylor being the team’s everyday first baseman in what was his final season in Cleveland. 

Now we’re at a point where Manzardo’s in Triple-A and the first base picture is led by a rental in Nathaniel Lowe. 

While the Guardians have done plenty of winning over the past two seasons, their first base picture has been a bit more unstable than initially anticipated. Do Los Santos was never going to fix that, but he is going to get a chance to prove he’s the Marlins’ first baseman of the future. 

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