New Marlins owners Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter held their introductory meeting with media today, discussing their vision for the team. Here are some highlights from their comments, as per a transcript by Tim Healey of the South Florida Sun Sentinel…
- Meetings have yet to take place with president of baseball operations Michael Hill about the offseason’s direction, though “we do have to rebuild the organization,” Jeter said. “It starts with player development, scouting. We have to be strong in those areas, because if you’re going to have a sustainable organization over time, you need that pipeline of young players that can come in. So we’re going to focus on everything. We’re going to build it from the top down, bottom up, however you want to say it.”
- This would seem to imply that the Marlins and their fans could be in for more trades of veterans and payroll-cutting, though Jeter stopped short of confirming such moves were coming, as per his upcoming discussions with the baseball operations department. “And look, the best way I can put it is, I don’t like the word ‘teardown.’ Moving forward, there’s going to be at times unpopular decisions that we make on behalf of the organization,” Jeter said. “Just understand that every decision we make is for the betterment of this organization. We have that in mind. The word teardown and rebuild — yeah, we are rebuilding a franchise. But I think a lot of times people associate those words with losing. You never go into a situation and the message is that ‘We’re going to lose.’ “
- In other Marlins news, Jeter personally contacted recently fired long-time team special assistants Jeff Conine, Andre Dawson, Jack McKeon and Tony Perez to say he’d be interested in keeping them on for unspecified roles with the organization, FanRag Sports’ Jon Heyman reports. No reason was reportedly given for Jeter’s change of heart, or why each of the men was initially told they were dismissed almost two weeks ago. Outgoing Marlins president David Samson was asked by Jeter to inform the four of their dismissal, though Heyman confirms that Jeter’s initial instruction was clear about the firings, so it wasn’t simply a case of miscommunication between Jeter and Samson. It isn’t yet known how many, if any, of the four are willing to return.
Hope the Marlins become a good franchise
I don’t think even Derek Jeter can save the Marlins and the fact they play in a low attendance area. They require double the attendance and double the games as opposed to the Heat each year to stay monetarily competitive with other organizations. Baseball is a hard sport to pull in the crowds needed outside the major big cities.
“Even Derek Jeter?” The guy has a high school education and zero experience running a $1.2 billion company, if it comes down to just Derek Jeter the Marlins are doomed….Hopefully he will hire a bunch of smart people, baseball people and business people to turn the ship around…He will certainly be involved and is not without experience on the baseball side, but let’s not act like he has a track record in running a successful business
That’s a load…
Give some examples
Please
Turn two foundation,the players tribune…
Multi billion dollar for-profit corporations dude, those are not
One is a non-profit while the other is commercial…point being he hired and ran companies. I don’t get why you brought up the HS Education…he might have continued his education and plenty of businessmen never went to College.
There’s no point in going back-and-forth with you, it appears to be way more important to you that it is to me, I do wish him all the luck in the world
Gates dropped out of college. Didn’t seem to stop him from becoming a billionaire. Jobs never finished college. In fact, I can only find a few billionaires that didn’t inherit their money that are college grads. Not being a college grad doesn’t seem to be an impediment to being a great business person or successfully running a large enterprise. BTW, the Marlins are a private general partnership, not a public corporation.
And isn’t he only a 5% owner. Fairly certain the majority owner will be looking for experience. Heck, if LAD can have as many former GMs in place, Miami can find one or two. I hear Coppy is available, haha.
“The guy has a high school education”
Everyone involved with promoting the Russia Hoax and everyone who believes it is a college graduate.
The most ridiculous idiots in the USA are college grads. Rachel Maddow is a Stanford grad with a doctorate from Oxford while Keith Law is a Harvard grad with an MBA from Cornell.
“The most ridiculous idiots in the USA are college grads.”
That may be the stupidest thing posted on the entire internets today. Take a bow, troll.
“Everyone involved with promoting the Russia Hoax and everyone who believes it is a college graduate.”
You mean like former FBI Director Mueller, former CIA Director Hayden, former Director of National Intelligence Clapper? I’m afraid you’re in for an unpleasant discovery. Your boy is a traitor. Never thought I’d be writing those words about a sitting POTUS, but it’s true.
Hey, site mods. Can you check the IP this troll is posting from? Sounds like he may be in Vladivostok.
According to Forbes, Jeter’s estimated $185 million net worth today is higher than the $133 million he earned in his baseball career including salaries from the Yankees and endorsements once you take out taxes, agent fees, and union dues.
Today he still has merchandising agreements with Nike’s Jordan brand, Gatorade, 24 Hour Fitness, Rawlings, Steiner Sports, Movada, and Avon. Avon alone brings him $8-10 million alone from the $160 million annual sales of the cologne line bearing his name.
He is a very good businessman or he would not be worth more now than he actually took home during his playing days.
Except when you’re winning
Miami is a major big city. Its DMA, which is what their new TV contract in 2020 will be based on, is ranked 16th in size just ahead of Denver and just behind Seattle and Detroit. At 5.5 million in population, the Miami metro area ranks 8th in the nation.
On another site, I heard the reason for the firings of Conine, Dawson, McKeon, Perez, and some of the other ones is that if they were fired before Jeter’s group took ownership then Loria would still be on the hook for any of their contracts. Technically, Jeter couldn’t fire them until he owned the team. Take any of that with a grain of salt though it does make sense.
“No reason was reportedly given for Jeter’s change of heart”
I think the reason is obvious. The move garnered a lot of heat and Jeter does not like to be the bad guy. He never has. This will be an interesting time watching how he balances his own PR vs. what is good for the team.
Give some examples please…
Him taking the field during his “farewell” tour year.
How does that come close as an example?
Stanton to Boston will be a done deal soon!
Yeah those rumors are about to ramp up for sure
You think Boston is willing to give up on the young players that they just incorporated into the mix? You don’t think Jeter & Co are going to “give the Red Sox a Bargain”…..do you?
Stanton doesn’t need “The Wall” to hit HR’s…..and it could actually take some away from him, as he hits HR’s at one of the lowest trajectory of any ballplayer.
Stanton has a Full No-Trade Clause in his contract.
Disadvantage: Red Sox
If I was Jeter I’d be looking for 2 organizational prospects in the 5-15 range of an average system, and another in the 20-30 plus a lottery ticket and get Stanton’s contract out of there ASAP.
I def hope Stanton gets traded as much of a good season he’s had. Marlins can get two or three solid prospects for him at this point. They’ll def have to include some money to cover his contract beyond 2020 I think.
Can someone clarify Jeter’s power role as CEO? If I understand it correctly, Sherman is controlling owner because he put up the majority of his money, but Jeter will make all baseball decisions regarding firings and hirings. Will he participate in day-to-day operations? Do we look at Jeter as the “owner” of the Marlins in the sense that Sherman won’t have hardly anything to do with the baseball side of things?
It seems like Jeet will be the Pat Riley of the organization. Final say of operational decisions and Sherman is the money man aka Mickey Arison lol
Jeter’s goal looks impossible. How do you get rid of the horrific contracts and reduce payroll by half?
One brilliant stroke. Instant rebuild. Flip the entire 25-man roster, along with the DL list, to Philly for theirs.
Why for the Marlins? It works. A clean slate. A promising young roster for the right price.
Why for Philadelphia? They can’t say no. The Marlins make them a true competitor for next season. How can that be? Philly is allowed to keep a few players. Nola. Fine. A few BP arms. Fine. Whatever it takes.
Why the hell not?
any deal with Stanton going to Philly, will most likely require Nola going to Miami
As a Marlins fan, I’ve been saying for a long time that this isn’t something that’s going to happen over night. I personally would have traded everyone besides Stanton, Yelich, and Realmuto, but then they waited too long, and ended up with more dead money thanks to Volquez TJ surgery. You never want to lose players like that, or Marcell Ozuna, but tge writing is on the wall. These guys are talking about bringing the right people into the organization, and making it a real organization for the first time ever. What fans need to realize is that maybe we have to do this again, which really does bring a lot of frustration…but when we do get there, there won’t be that 1 thing holding us back; that 1 thing that’s just there, and won’t allow us to break through with those 1 or 2 moves that solidify a team. Jeffrey Loria wont be there to ruin everything. Maybe it wont be right now, but for the first time, the Marlins are trying to win. Thats all we can ask for. Its everything we’ve wanted for a long, long time
I also don’t just mean money. I’m talking about the disturbing, petty, ridiculous, unprofessional, unbelievable, embarrassing, etc. things that Loria also pulled. There was sooooo much negativity here for more than good reason. Now, that stuff is over
You mean like suing season ticket holders?
Unfortunately, that’s just the tip of the iceberg
Stanton to LAD for Yadier Alvarez and Alex Verdugo or to BOS for Jay Groome and another top 10 prospect.
Which outfielder would Boston have to sacrifice? No way any of the current 3 would get benched so maybe a DH? Maybe flip Jackie Bradley Junior for prospects somewhere?
JBJ can’t hit, so Stanton could easily push him to 4th OF.
blah blah.. Jeter is in it for the money not baseball or fans or the franchise. He will make 5mil annually to recoup his investment.. on the dime of the 2k fans that show up each day.. on the bright side any new owner should be better than the loser that just left
Yada Yada..boohoo
What a crock. Jeter could not command that Samson do anything. Jeter was not part of the Marlins organization until the sale closed YESTERDAY. The firings were either part of the purchase agreement in which case Samson knew exactly why it was happening or it was something Samson chose to do for his own reasons.
That Jeter immediately contacted to say he would like them to be part of the organization in some capacity moving forward means that he did not fire them. More than likely they were let go so that the remaining portions of their contract were Loria’s responsibility and not the incoming group.
Loria had signed many of his employees including, Samson and Hill, to new contracts shortly before the team was put up for sale officially. I am sure that any buyer would have wanted Loria to pay for those poison pill contracts out of his proceeds and not have those contracts on their payroll once they closed the purchase of the team.