With the Minor League season opening this week, here's where the Marlins' Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

JUPITER, Fla. – Kevin Defrank isn’t just the next big thing in Marlins camp. He might be the next big thing in the wide landscape of Minor League pitching prospects.

Standing 6-foot-5 already at only 17 years old, the right-hander has headed stateside for his first Spring Training at the Marlins

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- No Thomas White? No Robby Snelling? No problem.

Marlins No. 10 prospect Karson Milbrandt struck out six Astros prospects over three hitless innings in Thursday afternoon’s Spring Breakout game at CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches.

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It’s nearly time to catch some of the Marlins' top prospects sharing the same field before they potentially do so in the big leagues.

JUPITER, Fla. – The Marlins reassigned Top 100 prospect Robby Snelling to Minor League camp as part of their latest cuts on Wednesday afternoon.

Miami also sent down non-roster invitees Brian Navarreto, Jesús Bastidas, Jacob Berry, Johnny Olmstead and Daniel Johnson.

JUPITER, Fla. – The Marlins optioned Top 100 prospect Joe Mack to Triple-A Jacksonville on Sunday morning as part of their latest round of camp cuts.

Miami also optioned right-hander Ryan Gusto and reassigned Kemp Alderman (Marlins No. 9 prospect) as well as righty relievers Zach Brzykcy and Jack

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Marlins reassigned a trio of Top 30 prospects to Minor League camp on Saturday morning.

Right-hander Karson Milbrandt (Marlins No. 10 prospect) and outfielders Dillon Lewis (No. 11) and Fenwick Trimble (No. 20) as well as first baseman Nathan

On Friday, Marlins club reporter Christina De Nicola conducted an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. You can read the full transcript here. Here are some highlights, edited lightly for clarity and brevity:

Welcome to Blue Wahoos Stadium, where Pensacola Bay glimmers in the distance, Double-A Marlins prospects are close at hand and delicious concessions are all around.

JUPITER, Fla. – Thomas White, the Marlins' top prospect per MLB Pipeline, was among the seven players reassigned to Minor League camp on Tuesday morning as part of the first round of camp cuts.

The 21-year-old White, who ranks as MLB Pipeline’s No. 17 overall prospect, was

The Marlins' farm system is ever evolving and looking stronger than it's been at any point in the past three years. Not only is there plenty of top-end talent, with five Top 100 prospects, but there's rare depth.

Major acquisitions in the past 12 months have been a notable factor.

Miami landed

JUPITER, Fla. -- Marlins top prospect Thomas White sustained a Grade 1 right oblique strain and will be out three to four weeks, preventing him from appearing in another Spring Training game.

According to manager Clayton McCullough, White initially felt the discomfort during Thursday’s Grapefruit League debut against the Blue Jays

Welcome to Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, the only ballpark in Minor League Baseball that hosts two teams. Located in South Florida’s northernmost city, this is the place to see Miami and St. Louis prospects in the early stages of their professional careers.

JUPITER, Fla. -- Marlins shortstop prospect Aiva Arquette underwent core muscle surgery on Friday and will miss four to six weeks.

Arquette, who ranks as MLB Pipeline’s No. 47 overall prospect, arrived in Jupiter with a pre-existing left groin injury that occurred during offseason workouts back home in Hawaii.

JUPITER, Fla. -- One is a quiet kid from Massachusetts with a skater boy aesthetic. The other is a sociable outdoorsman from Nevada with cowboy boots.

Together, Marlins farmhands and roommates Thomas White and Robby Snelling-- ranked as MLB Pipeline’s No. 17 and No. 39 prospects, respectively

JUPITER, Fla. -- About a month ago, Joe Mack caught veteran right-hander Max Scherzer’s bullpen at nearby Cressey Sports Performance.

Moments like that, settings like the Spring Training big league clubhouse and swings like his grand slam on Tuesday afternoon in the Marlins' 6-1 victory over the Phillies at

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Left-handed pitching prospect Robby Snelling has been a non-roster invitee at Marlins big league camp in consecutive years, and that’s where the similarities end.

Though Snelling felt jitters as Miami’s Grapefruit League opener starter on Saturday afternoon, staring down a trio of All-Stars – Marcus Semien,

Top prospects Thomas White and Robby Snelling headline the list of 31 non-roster players invited to Marlins big league camp this spring, the club announced on Thursday afternoon.

White, ranked as MLB Pipeline’s No. 17 overall prospect, combined for a 2.31 ERA, a 1.182 WHIP and a