Maximo Acosta

Maximo Douglas Jose Acosta
(Max)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 187 lb.

• Debut August 18, 2025

• Born October 29, 2002 in Caracas, Distrito Capital Venezuela

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Biographical Information

Infielder Maximo Acosta signed with the Texas Rangers as an international amateur free agent on July 2, 2019. He was supposed to make his professional debut in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic upended those plans, delaying his debut by a year. He was with the ACL Rangers in 2021, batting .246 in 17 games, then spent a full season with the Down East Wood Ducks of the Carolina League in 2022, batting .262/.341/.261 in 108 games while playing shortstop and second base. In 2023, he moved up one level to the Hickory Crawdads of the South Atlantic League where he hit .260/.312/.390 in 110 games with 11 homers and 60 RBIs.

In 2024, he spent a full season with the Frisco RoughRiders of the Texas League, batting .288/.353/.425 in 104 games. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League and was named to play in the Rising Stars Game after hitting .338 in 20 games. Now considered a significant prospect, he was included in a major league trade on December 11th, being sent to the Miami Marlins along with fellow minor leaguers Brayan Mendoza and Echedry Vargas in return for slugging corner infielder Jake Burger.

He started the 2025 season in AAA with the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp of the International League, hitting .232 in 106 games with 12 homers and 49 RBIs. He was called up to Miami on August 18th when 3B Graham Pauley was placed on the injured list, and he made his debut the same day, starting at second base and batting 8th against the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn't the greatest of debuts, as he went 0 for 3 with 2 strikeouts and committed and error in the field while his team lost the game, 8-3. Pauley's injury which came with Connor Norby already disabled, left the Fish short of experienced third basemen, but unfortunately it was not a position that Maximo had played at any point in the minors either. He hit his first big league homer off Andre Pallante on August 20th, after having gone hitless through his first eight big league at-bats.

Further Reading

• Christina De Nicola: "For prospect Acosta, MLB callup a dream shared by late father`Hot-hitting Pauley placed on injured list with right oblique strain", mlb.com, August 18, 2025. [1]
• Christina De Nicola: "Acosta hits first MLB homer, Sandy dominates in Marlins' win", mlb.com, August 21, 2025. [2]

Related Sites

• Maximo Acosta on mlb.com