The Chicago Cubs didn’t have room for Matt Mervis.
The Miami Marlins are reaping the benefits.
On Sunday, Mervis crushed a home run to deep dead-center in Miami for his fifth home run in his last six games.
It’s gotta be a good feeling for Mervis, who was traded in the offseason for utility infielder Vidal Brujan.
Mervis didn’t have a spot at first base after the emergence of Michael Busch.
In retrospect, it didn’t seem wrong for the Cubs to trade him. The Marlins are just being proven right that they thought there was something there to benefit them.
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Mervis, 26, is batting nearly .300 on the young season.
Matt “MASH” Mervis is on one heck of a heater. It’s his fifth home run in 6 games. He’s taking advantage of an opportunity he just wasn’t going to get in Chicago.
pic.twitter.com/zokbq87oZR— Greg Zumach (@IvyFutures) April 13, 2025
He’s an incredible story, really.
Mervis was taken in the 39th round of the MLB Draft out of high school, but he didn’t sign.
He went to Duke instead, and Mervis wound up undrafted after college due in part to the draft being shortened in 2020 because of COVID-19.
Mervis took a little while to work his way up the minor league ranks, but he had run out of stuff to prove at Triple-A by the time the Marlins got him.
And now, Mervis is proving he belongs in the bigs. It’s just in a Miami uniform and not a Chicago one.
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