Braxton Garrett, who will play his career masterpiece in 2023 and is ready to become the future young starter of the Marlins, will only play 7 games in 2024 due to injury but is about to return to the major leagues this year.

Garrett had Tommy John surgery in 2017 as early as the minor leagues, and he entered the major leagues in 2020 and began to show his prominence in 2022, with 17 starts that year although 3 wins and 7 losses, the ERA was only 3.58, and in 2023, he has a full 31 games, including 30 starts, with a record of 9 wins and 7 losses, and a ERA of 3.66.

Garrett, along with Sandy Alcantara, Jesus Luzardo, Eury Perez, and Edward Cabrera's good performances in 2023, is the most direct factor for the Marlins to make the playoffs.

However, Garrett did not return to the team until mid-May after missing the season due to shoulder pinching in the preseason in 2024, but he did not expect to start 7 games and then enter the injury list again because of a strained left hand rotating tendon, but he was scheduled to return to the team in late September, but he felt that the back of his elbow was strange and could only remain on the injury list. After the season, it was found that the elbow was also pinched.

Garrett's re-operation not only allowed him to enter a long period of rehabilitation, but also disrupted the Marlins' starting rotation this year. Last year, the Marlins had a 62-100 season due to multiple pitcher injuries and surgery, and this year, with Alcantara returning from injury and Perez returning in the middle of the season, this year's starting rotation has been in the spotlight again, but after they traded Luzardo to the Phillies after the season, it is now determined that Garrett will miss a year due to injury, which will make them have to strengthen the starting rotation from the free market or the trade market.

The Marlins currently have Alcantara, Cabrera, Ryan Weathers, Max Meyer, Valente Bellozo, Adam Mazur and others.

Among the big pitchers in the free market are Jack Flaherty, Nick Pivetta, Andrew Heaney and others, but all three are looking for multi-year contracts so the chances are not very good, while the pitchers who are likely to sign one-year contracts are Kyle Gibson, Patrick Corbin, Chris Flexen, Lance Lynn, Ross Stripling, Jose Quintana, Jakob Junis, Colin Rea, Spencer Turnbull and others, it's up to the Marlin executives to decide.