Jakob Marsee is off to an impressive start in 1st major league action with the Miami Marlins

CLEVELAND (AP) — Jakob Marsee is making quite the impression in his first major league action with the Miami Marlins.

Marsee homered twice and matched a franchise record with seven RBIs in Miami's 13-4 victory at Cleveland on Wednesday night. He hit a three-run drive in the first inning, a tiebreaking two-run shot in the fifth and a two-run double in the sixth.

The last player to drive in seven runs for the Marlins was Adam Duvall on April 13, 2021, at Atlanta.

“It's obviously an honor and super special,” Marsee said about adding his name to the team's record book. “But I mean, that stuff, like doesn't really matter to me. I just want to win, so anything I can do to help the team win.”

The speedy center fielder also singled and swiped second in the second, but he was stranded when Heriberto Hernández struck out swinging. He robbed Steven Kwan of a base hit with a sliding grab for the final out of the third.

The Michigan native who played his college ball for Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant — about 300 miles north of Cleveland — was backed by a big group of family and friends.

“It's been a long journey,” Marsee said. “To have them here is everything to me."

The 24-year-old Marsee was brought up by Miami on Aug. 1. He reached base safely in 10 of his first 12 games, collecting 13 hits and nine walks.

Following his four-hit night against Cleveland, he is batting .436 (17 for 39) with three homers, 13 RBIs and six steals in 13 games in the majors. He also has a .542 on-base percentage.

“I've pictured myself in a lot of these moments. Dreamed about this stuff,” Marsee said, “and I just trust God.”

Marsee was selected by San Diego in the sixth round of the 2022 amateur draft out of Central Michigan University. He was traded to Miami in the Luis Arraez deal in May 2024.

He batted .246 with 14 homers, 37 RBIs and 47 steals in 98 games for Triple-A Jacksonville before he was promoted by the Marlins.

Batting with two out and two runners aboard in the first on Wednesday, Marsee drove a 2-2 sweeper from Gavin Williams deep to right to give Miami a 4-0 lead. Marsee's second homer of the season traveled 403 feet with a 105.4 mph exit velocity.

He connected for a two-run shot in the fifth against Kolby Allard, lifting the Marlins to a 6-4 advantage. The 385-foot drive was the hardest hit ball of his career at 107.6 mph.

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Miami Marlins' Jakob Marsee runs after hitting a two-RBI double during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Miami Marlins' Jakob Marsee is congratulated in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run off Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Matt Festa during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Miami Marlins' Jakob Marsee runs the bases after hitting a three-run home run off Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Gavin Williams during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Miami Marlins' Jakob Marsee hits a three run home run off Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Gavin Williams during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Miami Marlins' Jakob Marsee runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run off Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Matt Festa during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — An economist testified in Michael Jordan's federal federal antitrust trial against NASCAR that the racing series owes a combined $364.7 million in damages to the two teams suing it over a revenue-sharing dispute.

Edward Snyder, a professor of economics who worked in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice and has testified in more than 30 cases, including “Deflategate” involving the NFL's New England Patriots, testified on Monday. He gave three specific reasons NASCAR is a monopoly participating in anticompetitive business practices.

Using a complex formula applied to profits, a reduction in market revenue, and lost revenue to 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports from 2021-24, Snyder came up with his amount of damages owed. Snyder applied a 45% of revenue sharing he alleged Formula 1 gives to its teams in his calculations; Snyder found that NASCAR's revenue-sharing model when its charter system began in 2016 gave only 25% to the teams.

The suit is about the 2025 charter agreement, which was presented to teams on a Friday in September 2024 with a same-day deadline to sign the 112-page document. The charter offer came after more than two years of bitter negotiations between NASCAR and its teams, who have called the agreement “a take-it-or-leave-it” ultimatum that they signed with “a gun to their head.”

A charter is similar to the franchise model in other sports, but in NASCAR it guarantees 36 teams spots in the 40-car field, as well as specific revenue.

Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin for 23XI, along with Front Row Motorsports and owner Bob Jenkins, were the only two teams out of 15 to refuse the new charter agreements.

Snyder's evaluations found NASCAR was in fact violating antitrust laws because the privately owned racing series controls all bargaining because “teams don't have anywhere else to sell their services." Snyder said NASCAR controls “the tracks, the teams and the cars.”

Snyder repeatedly cited exclusivity agreements NASCAR entered into with racetracks after the charter system began. The agreements prevent tracks that host NASCAR from holding events with rival racing series. Prior to the long-term agreements, NASCAR operated on one-year contracts with its host racetracks.

The Florida-based France family founded NASCAR in 1948 and, along with Speedway Motorsports, owns almost all the tracks on the top Cup Series schedule. Snyder's belief is that NASCAR entered into exclusivity agreements with tracks to stave off any threats of a breakaway startup series. In doing so, it eliminated teams' ability to race stock cars anywhere else, forced them to accept revenue-sharing agreements that are below market value, and damaged their overall evaluations.

Snyder did his calculations for both teams based on each having two charters — each purchased a third charter in late 2024 — and found 23XI is owed $215.8 million while Front Row is owed $148.9 million. Based on his calculations, Snyder determined NASCAR shorted 36 chartered teams $1.06 billion from 2021-24.

Snyder noted NASCAR had $2.2 billion in assets, an equity value of $5 billion and an investment-grade credit rating — which Snyder believed positions the France family to be able to pivot and adjust to any threats of a rival series the way the PGA did in response to the LIV Golf league. The PGA, Snyder testified, “got creative” in bringing in new revenue to pay to its golfers to prevent their defections.

Snyder also testified NASCAR had $250 million in annual earnings from 2021-24 and the France family took $400 million in distributions during that period.

NASCAR contends Snyder's estimations are wrong, that the 45% F1 model he used is not correct, and its own two experts “take serious issue” with Snyder's findings. Defense attorney Lawrence Buterman asked Snyder his opinion on NASCAR's upcoming expert witnesses and Snyder said they were two of the best economists in the world.

Snyder testified for almost the entirety of Monday's session — the sixth day of the trial — and will continue on Tuesday. The snail's pace of the trial has agitated U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell, who heard arguments 30 minutes early Monday morning because he was annoyed that objections had been submitted at 2:55 a.m. and then 6:50 a.m.

He needed an hour to get through the rulings, and testimony resumed 30 minutes behind schedule. When the day concluded, he asked the nine-person jury if they were willing to serve an hour longer each day the rest of the week in an effort to avoid a third full week of trial.

Bell wants plaintiff attorney Jeffrey Kessler to conclude his case by the end of Tuesday, but Kessler told him he still plans to call NASCAR chairman Jim France, NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps and Hall of Fame team owner Richard Childress, who was the subject of derogatory text messages amongst NASCAR leadership and has said he's considering legal action.

NASCAR has a list of 16 potential witnesses and Bell said he wanted the first one on the stand before Tuesday's session concludes.

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FILE - Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins, left, and 23XI co-owner Denny Hamlin arrive in the Western District of North Carolina on Monday Dec 1, 2025 in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer, File)

NASCAR vice chair Lesa France Kennedy enters federal court in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday Dec 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer)

NASCAR chairman Jim France enters federal court in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday Dec 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer)

Michael Jordan arrives in the Western District of North Carolina on Monday Dec 1, 2025 for the start of the antitrust trial between 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer)