Miami Marlins starting pitchers have been scared off like rabbits to start ball games in the infancy stages of this season.  

Ryan Weathers is striving for a case to cement his spot in a rotation surrounded with question marks, but he hasn’t pitched into any deep frames.

He has offered a concerningly high exit velocity to opposing bats, posting a 19.2 percent barrel rate through nine total innings with a lowly ranked .381 xwOBA. 

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Weathers takes the mound against the New York Yankees at the Stadium on Wednesday seeking to improve his favored fastball — a pitch that’s putting away batters at only an 8 percent rate and has made for a .429 batting average against. 

The Yankees’ Marcus Stroman has maintained a 3.09 xERA in two competitive starts while delivering a sparkling 0.83 WHIP.

I’m not so sure the Marlins present the same challenges for Stroman: They swing at everything, leading MLB in swing percentage yet not reaching bases consistently (.270 OBP). 

Miami has pumped out the highest ground-ball rate in the league.

Stroman is generating a supreme volume of ground-ball outs at a 57.4 percent rate.

The veteran righty has accumulated a positive pitching run value of seven in contrast to Weathers’ minus-17.  

The Fish are simply too slippery to trust, considering they entered Tuesday with an MLB-worst runline record of 1-11. 

THE PLAY: Yankees -1.5 runs (-107, BetRivers Sportsbook)