While the 2025 season started off rough for the Marlins, things turned around in a big way once the calendar flipped to June. After going 23-33 through the end of May, Miami went 56-50 from June onward. That’s nearly an 86-win pace if maintained over the course of a full season. Coming off a year where 83 wins was all it took to secure a Wild Card spot in the NL, it’s not hard to imagine the rebuilding Marlins making the jump into legitimate contention next year.
That relative success this season came through steps forward across the roster. Liam Hicks and Agustin Ramirez provided intriguing results from the catcher position. An outfield trio of Kyle Stowers, Jakob Marsee, and Griffin Conine figures to have real potential next year. The combination of Ronny Henriquez, Anthony Bender, Calvin Faucher, Andrew Nardi, and Tyler Phillips has the look of a legitimate relief corps as well. Those areas still need reinforcements, of course. The Marlins are expected to take a look at the high leverage relief market and add a bat this winter for a reason.
The team’s rotation is the one place where there’s really no need for an upgrade. If healthy and firing on all cylinders, a starting five that features Sandy Alcantara, Edward Cabrera, Eury Perez, Braxton Garrett, and Ryan Weathers could be among the best in the majors next year. Arms like Max Meyer, Janson Junk, and Ryan Gusto offer legitimate depth behind that five as well, which will be important given the lengthy injury histories across that group. Thomas White and Robby Snelling, two of the club’s top prospects, reached Triple-A in 2025.
The combination of Miami’s questionable competitive status, that impressive pitching depth behind the starting five, and a number of exciting pitchers within the rotation itself has made the idea of the Marlins trading a pitcher for help on offense a widely-discussed possibility over the years. The team certainly isn’t opposed to the idea in theory, having already traded Pablo Lopez to the Twins to land Luis Arraez years ago and then shipping Jesus Luzardo to the Phillies for prospects last winter.
Now that the team is returning to competitiveness, however, are they really best served by dealing away someone like Alcantara or Cabrera? Alcantara is the Marlins’ only guaranteed contract on the books for next year, and they have zero guaranteed dollars on the books for 2027. Even for a small market team that routinely runs some of the lowest budgets in the league, that’s enough payroll flexibility that no hitter this side of Kyle Tucker appears to be completely out of reach. While it would be a surprise to see the Marlins make a splash for someone like Alex Bregman, it’s not hard to imagine the team being able to build out its lineup in free agency by targeting players like Ryan O’Hearn or Rhys Hoskins.
Signing a player in that tier would hardly be a major financial burden and it would allow them to reshape their offense without having to trade from their strong rotation group. With that being said, it’s unclear what sort of spending Marlins ownership might give the green light to this winter. If there isn’t room in the budget to add, then it would certainly be better to trade from the rotation.
It’s also possible that, in a class of starters that lacks a true shutdown ace like Corbin Burnes, Max Fried, or Yoshinobu Yamamoto from recent years, teams will be hungry enough for starting pitching that the Marlins receive an offer they can’t refuse. As much as this rotation is a strength if kept together, would it make sense to do so if they could get a legitimate upgrade in a trade?
The majority of contending clubs will be likely to pursue starting pitching help this winter. Many of those will have young infield prospects or players they could offer the Marlins in exchange for a starter. If the Marlins see any of those players as a potential anchor for their lineup, giving up a member of a rotation that would remain full of quality options even after a trade might wind up looking like a relatively small price to pay.
How do MLBTR readers think the Marlins should handle their rotation this offseason? Should they hold their starters and try to upgrade the infield through free agency, or would they be better off trading a starter to restock their infield? Have your say in the poll below:
Keep the rotation, find a bat or two (Castellanos if the Phillies release him) and try for a playoff run
That assumes the owner wants to win
Of course he wants to win. Just doesn’t want to do it on a payroll that exceeds 20% of the Dodgers’ payroll;.
I love when people who know nothing about the team try to cover that by using antiquated ESPN narratives about the team not wanting to win.
Pop culture is awesome intellectual material!
Rsox – Personally I feel that requiring their rotation to spend the entire winter together is a bit intrusive in their personal lives. I’m sure they’ve all got family and friends that they’d rather be with throughout the holidays etc.
Took it a little too literal there buddy
Rsox – Sorry it’s the Sheldon Cooper in me that comes out at times ….
It doesn’t matter what they do with their pitching staff. This franchise is not serious about competing.
@Rsox
Agreed. The Marlins really need to look at a smart move at 1B, and then work on a legit Closer.
Essentially, the Devin Williams pursuit is a good idea to try for them. And with 1B, almost anything is an upgrade over Wagaman.
They may need a 3B too, but they’re in a situation where they need to look at whetehr norby’s offense can rebound and if he is passable as a 3B and/or if Graham Pauley can put up enough offense to go with his good defense there. I probably give it a go to start the season, then if we’re within striking distance of the playoffs, if Norby and Pauley aren’t ready to take command of the 3B role everyday, I look at a deadline deal for a 3B.
All of the other positions have pieces that have their jobs pretty much decided.
C – Ramirez, Hicks, Mack
1B – ??? (unlikely Wagaman and Johnston keep the spot
2B – Edwards
SS – Lopez
3B – Norby, Pauley
LF – Stowers
CF – Marsee
RF – Conine/Hernandez
DH – rotation of above-mentioned Ramirez, Hicks, Conine, Hernandez, Norby
Keep the rotation. FA, trade from minors, can make a trade at the deadline. Marlins could be good this year.
Same answer as always
If what they are offered in trade makes them better, trade. If it doesn’t, don’t.
Better when? Immediately, of course. Possibly down the road, nope.
You don’t need a rotation in the winter.
Highly debatable if Castellanos qualifies as “finding a bat”.
He put up 90 wRC+ in 2025. Yes, he hit better in 2024 (104 wRC+) and earlier years, but he may just be showing his age (turns 34 next March).
Add to that the limitations of not wanting to play him in the field due to his defense, which has graded out as consistently bad.
Miami is not a small market. It’s got lots of money
Markets big but there is no interest in baseball in Miami. Ask a local.
Hey they drew more than 3 million though!!….in 1993, their first year. Then the locals were like, “nah”.
I’m a local. There is interest in baseball. The problem is MLB’s failure to give ownership to the correct choices, which alienated the fan base.
Stop going by the ESPN fiction about the Marlins.
Voted no then did some looking and 2023 was their most successful season. Arraez had a GREAT year, that offense was horrible, and their young pitchers stepped up. Sure maybe it was luck, .519 W/L vs .463 pythag W/L, but it’s as good as they’ve been able to do
A bigger question is if anyone should care what the Marlins do because their owner doesn’t care about winning. Plus about 10 other owners.
You point to a valid issue about MLB’s ownership selection.
With the Marlins, the last two owners were all about MLB preserving the ‘boys club’ they’ve always tried to maintain. Bud Selig, John Henry, and Jeffrey Loria pulled off that underhanded deal that allowed Henry to run to the Red Sox and Loria to run to the Marlins, while never placing either team or the Expos on the open market to purchase because they didn’t want Mark Cuban who was looking at MLB ownership at the time. And Gustavo Cisneros, when he was much younger and more motivated at the time, was left unable to bid on the Marlins who he was waiting to jump on to make his feature sports team on his Latin American television empire to make them the “team of the Americas”.
Then, when Loria was selling, after Jorge Mas continued to use his finance to outbid Sherman every single time because he has far far far deeper pockets, Loria came up with that questionable “deadline” for bids, in which Loria and MLB allowed Sherman to put in his last bid, and disallowed Mas from outbidding Sherman again. That’s when the rumors flied when those reports broke loose, and other rumors that Loria was compensated by MLB for agreeing to not let Mas send in another bid to outbid Sherman again..
Just the Marlins scenario alone shows what’s wrong with MLB ownership.
Now when we look further, let’s be honest, look at the ownership hopefuls MLB has turned away with questionable tactics, like Cisneros, Mas, Cuban, and a few others. Then look at some of the owners that are allowed to own teams – essentially the about 10 you allude to. Why isn’t MLB ownership allowing these other ownership hoepfuls to own teams instead of the 10 wastes of time that are allowed to? Is it that those 10 play into what the other MLB owners want? And if so, I’m curious why would they want those owners to keep collecting checks that they don’t invest in their teams? If this were boxing or the NBA, and a league run by Don King or the late David Stern, I know what people would say about that reality of ownerships allowed to get checks while not trying to compete. Does anyone else have an explanation as to why this all occurs?
Again, problem in MLB ownership as you allude to.
The Red Sox will take Eury Perez off their hands for Tristan Casas.
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They should but they won’t
If they are going to trade a starter, look to the Mets to find a young contollable infield bat that the New York fans aren’t patient enough with, like local Mark Vientos, or Ronny Mauricio or Luis Acuna.
Let the Mets pay for Bregman, and Alonso and Edwin.Diaz or even Bellinger. They lost rhis year because of pitching. They could never have enough (lol, 46 used in 2025) but didn’t have too many keepers.
Why would the Marlins trade a young pitcher with talent to a division rival?
I think Alcantara showed enough to land a good return this offseason if they choose to move him. I also think a lot of those SPs, even some of the depth guys, are pretty underrated, so they could survive losing a guy or two.
The Red Sox are looking for a SP1/2 kind of arm, my guess is they move Duran and then eat a lot of the Yoshida money to get him off the roster. Feel like a swap with Alcantara could make a lot of sense to make that happen (and round out with a prospect or two if need be).
Stick Duran in one of the corners, then you have Duran-Marsee-Stowers as your starting 3. Move Agustin to 1B and stick Yoshida at DH. I get that he’s not a huge DH bat but the move out of Fenway would benefit his swing. He had like a .780 OPS in his first two seasons, which would be nice to have in a lineup ultimately.
I don’t really think the Marlins would want Yoshida but I’m certain the Sox are going to do everything in their power to attach him and Duran at the hip. Marlins have some bench players that could be capable regulars, but I think in 2026 they’re not going to have the same runway to experiment with these guys and instead look for a more ‘here’s our everyday lineup for 130 games of the year’
Toast – i’m in the camp of acquiring Alcantara for the Red Sox by (slightly) overpaying in prospects. But, why in the world would the Marlins want a 30yo player and a 32yo player even if the RS paid 80% of their combined salaries?
The Marlins had a little something going on at the end of the season and a few of the Sox 20ish prospects plus a solid mlb’er like Abreu might be of interest…..
Thank you for asking your own Sox fan instead of one of us Marlins fans having to tear into his ridiculous suggestion.
Banned – why wouldn’t the Marlins want to deal with the (according to Mlb.com)highest rated farm system in baseball, who also have major league roster pieces to move? Seems like a simple equation to solve, no? Marlins aren’t paying Sandy $21mm and they dont want a 30yo player who is making $8mm.
Which part of that do you want to rip into as a Marlins fan?
The part that you asked about the 30+ year old players. Marlins are looking for guys within the timeline of the current players. That other poster clearly is commenting without doing some simple research about the Marlins.
But I’m used to it. Many people choose ESPN as their sports resource, all the while not knowing that ESPN is highly incompetent at covering about 20 MLB markets – Marlins being one of them…so it’s made-up narratives that Marlins fans know is total fiction.
Ok, thats cool, I get it.
So, hypothetically, if the Red Sox and Marlins were to work on a deal for Alcantara, would you want Duran?
And who else (i dont expect you could name their prospects so, you could use a # such as “the Sox number 2 overall prospect)
Nope Duran doesn’t work for us at all. We have enough OFs – Marsee and Stowers are locks in CF and LF. Conine (a legacy player) and Heriberto Hernandez are getting the looks in RF, and we have other organzational options to look at. The only position that the Marlins know they need external options is at 1B. and even at 1B, the preference would be a RH bat since we already have many LH bats.
When you consider this and the fact that the Marlins are looking for guys for their MLB roster now, I honestly don’t see a match with the Red Sox. If the Marlins didn’t have the improvement they had this season, and were still in the earlier stages of the rebuild, the Alcantara trade discussions would be as simple as which team is willing to give the best prospects. However, with them in this next stage of the rebuild that involves trying to get into a playoff spot, the trade return for Alcantara has to be overwhelming since he can also be a piece for a potential playoff run, and the pieces would have to include some young, proven players with control that fill our current needs now and in the long-term.
I don’t see anyone in the Red Sox organization that the Red Sox would be willing to give that fits our needs. The guys you’re all willing to give up don’t help us. A couple years ago, maybe a package featuring Triston Casas, but not any more due to his decreased value and his being a LH bat when we need a RH bat.
But this is my view from a Marlins fan perspective of our needs and what Bendix and the organization have stated. But feel free to throw a name that you feel fits young, proven RH bat (at MLB; not MiLB) at 1B that fits the value that wouldn’t get laughed at as an offer for Alcantara.
I’ll be honest SS3, I was thinking Duran was 28 (had only recently turned 29 so I wasn’t too off I guess, ha). Either way it’s still two years at a cheaper rate than what that kind of player gets on the open market.
Given how they finished the year and my belief that this team is ready to be a playoff contender, it made sense to bring in a more reliable bat with multiple years into the OF (and I’m probably in the minority but think Yoshida is that as well-on the hitting side).
I like many of the guys circulating in the OF now (BEGGED for years for the O’s to give Stowers a starting job), but it’s a lot more hope than track record. You’re right, son of Mr. Marlin ain’t going anywhere, but his long time swing and miss issues make him a platoon / 4th OFer at best IMO. Marsee also had significant contact issues in the minors. Personally, I love the skills and OBP approach to the point where if he hits close to .200, he’s still worth being a starter, but not sure if the Marlins feel that way. Caught lightning in a bottle in his debut but I’d wager a lot of money he hits a much closer to .200 than .300.
Personally, I think Hernandez might be the safest of the non-Stowers group, but he’s also only got a half-season track record. Stowers has a good arm, but the defense is a bit suspect. If not for Agustin, he might be more of a primary DH option moving forward.
Basically, it’s been several years of platoon and 4th/5th OFer types taking up a lot of innings in Miami. To me, Duran brings a much more reliable bat that actually plays 150+ games if he’s healthy and doesn’t force a competing team to cycle through four guys for two positions.
Again, don’t really think Yoshida is a player they’d want or fits well (he doesn’t unless they commit to Ramirez at 1B), but Sox want him gone and will pay to do it. Perhaps a guy like Casas is a better second piece (plus, IMO, a top 15ish org prospect)? Maybe a guy like Early or Juan Valera (who they could fast track as a RP option).
I really like the Marlins as an underrated team in 2026, so to me, it made more sense to bring in some proven players rather than another prospect haul of guys that may or may not be near league ready. You’re right Duran probably isn’t an ideal fit in the grand scheme of things, but Alcantara isn’t 1.) cheap and 2.) a long-term fit either (club option in ’27.
Fair statements on all fronts.
But with Alcantara, that’s where the negotiation part comes in. While you see that Alcantara isn’t cheap and isn’t a long term fit, there is the other factor that makes a team looking to acquire him has to note. The Marlins are in position to see if they can make the playoffs, so Alcantara is a piece that is part of that unless a team offers something that the Marlins find as beneficial now for their playoff hopes and going forward. If they don’t get that, they don’t have to trade him.
Also, with 27 and that option, there are other factors. 1 – if they are contending and still haven’t gotten what they want while Alcantara is back to form, they will pick up the option. Additionally, a team would have to make offers that make it better than the Marlins letting Alcantara go to free agency after they certainly will offer him a QO (assuming it’s still around after the next CBA). And the CBA item brings to the next factor. 2- We don’t know what will happen with the next CBS, so the Marlins may have to keep Alcantara due to salary ramifications that come into play with the next negotiations and work stoppage.
There are many layers to a potential Alcantara trade. They all point to a team going to have to give a lot and to do so to convince a playoff hopeful to give up one of their key pitchers. It’ll take the right match willing to give the right players for where the Marlins are now in their rebuild. And it becomes more complicated if it goes into the regular season and the Marlins are contending with Alcantara having a great year.
If this was a typical org, I’d say raid free agency for a 1B and a corner OF (I’m unconvinced Conine deserves an uncontested opportunity or that Stowers is entirely immune from another disaster like 2022-2024).
But, this is Miami, and their money just isn’t as good as other clubs. They have to overpay to land their free agents, i.e. Avisail Garcia, and that’s just not good policy for a club trying to run low budgets.
Honestly, though they pieced together a passable lineup top to bottom, there’s not a single position player who couldn’t be upgraded in that group. Despite good 2025 results, most of those guys demonstrate more downside than upside.
With their positive pitching reputation (good dev results and a big home park), they’d probably have better luck drawing decent rebound candidates like Griffin Canning on reasonable contracts. For these reasons, I’d trade aggressively from the existing rotation to supplement the offense. “Trade for a cleanup hitter” is easier said than done, but that’s what they need.
Hmmm…why sign a corner OF when they have Conine, Stowers and also Hernandez and others in the system to come in and battle for the role?
What I’m saying is I don’t view those guys as reliable. The club could stand to strengthen its foundation. Plus 1B is always an option if all of them turn out well. I figured they’d have an easier time finding their lineup solutions at the traditional power positions.
The Marlins problem is they have a bunch of individually solid players, but their lineup just doesn’t work.
Well, the reality is that, from an organiational standpoint, it makes sense to stick with seeing what they have at those positions until all internal options fail, while focusing on the one position where they know for sure they need to look outside the organization – 1B.
And where you don’t view those guys as reliable, others will disagree…and the reality is that you, me and the many others on these boards opinions don’t matter because, at the end of the day, Peter Bendix has the job to make the decision, and he’s made it clear that 1B is the preferred target. Again, it’s the one position where we already know there are no internal options that work.
Other than clairevoyancy, no one knows for sure if all of Stowers, Conine, Hernandez and the other organizational options will all fail. The Marlins are highly unlikely to make any significant move beyond organization warm bodies in the minors…unless Bendix goes in another direction than what he’s been going on.
I’m not interested in appeals to authority. I understand MLB roster design well enough to comment on the Marlins deficiencies without us waiting for Bendix to wander by and weigh in.
Obviously, 1B is a priority, but the players available there either aren’t going to sign with the Marlins or don’t preclude anything I said. By all means, sign Hoskins or Bell or even O’Hearn (and he’s the best-case target), but understand how little that does for the lineup, especially if one of the outfielders pumpkin-izes. They can protect against that by adding a corner OFer via trade. Or maybe Triston Casas. Whichever position they target to upgrade, to acquire an impactful bat, they have to make trades.
This is an org that utterly lacks positional depth. That they looked passably decent in an unusually healthy season should not be allowed to instill false confidence.
We don’t need to wait for Bendix to wander by. He and the Marlins front office have already made it clear that their preferred offensive target is at 1B. Unless you feel you’re more qualified than he is, that’s what’s the focus by the team. And after this season, I think he’s shown he’s got some competence at evaluating the team needs.
Triston Cases is not as much of a get for us anymore. He’s a lefty bat and we need a righty bat to balance out the lefties in our team – hence why Hernandez is going to get playing time in the OF, and why they’re hoping that Norby can win out at 3B over Pauley.
With other 1B options, the Marlins aren’t trying to win the World Series this year with one move because they are at the rebuilding stage of seeing what is working long term and what isn’t – while trying to see if upgrades at obvious holes can sneak them into a playoff spot. They’re not at a stage where they toss out the guys that are still establishing careers to fill those spots with high priced guys who may not perform much, if any better than the guys we already have. But 1B, we already know there’s really not much there or even hope with Johnston and Wagaman. Those names you mention are actually upgrades and don’t hurt the Marlins because they’ll be what they are – bridges until the Marlins find the long term 1B solution, when they’re ready for that step in the rebuild.
Under whose view do they lack positional depth? They have a bunch of guys in the OF throughout the organization. Do they have any Ken Griffeys, Willie Mays, Hank Aarons in their OF depth chart? Obviously no, but they have guys that are looking like or can be solid everyday players – in many cases players that can stay long term. OF is not the place to add pieces. If you want them to spend money on multiple positions, with many of those positions being already filled, then it would make more sense to take all that money and spend on the one that they don’t have filled – 1B. Why spend on multiple pieces to fill 1B, and one or two OF spots where we already have a lot of options, when we can take the same money, throw it at a bigger free agent, like Florida guy Pete Alonso, who seems like he’s not as valued elsewhere, and that fills the one positional need and a major lineup need in one shot that makes the rest of the team look better? Obviously not going to happen, but neither is them going to spend needless on positions they already have filled.
Reality is that the following is our team next year, and other than 1B, there is no reason to go spend a bunch of money on the guys in this free agent class.
C – Ramirez, Hicks, Mack
1B – ???
2B – Edwards
SS – Lopez
3B – Norby, Pauley
LF – Stowers
CF – Marsee
RF – Conine, Hernandez
DH – rotation of a few of the above mentioned guys.
Other than 1B, what free agent in this class makes you say, “Oh yeah, I aboslutely have to sign that guy to take over this position.”
If trades, what player is available and worth trading for what we’ll have to give up (our pitching), in order to guarantee that we’re getting a player better than what we can easily continue giving a chance to?
In our OF, Marsee and Stowers are not losing their jobs by the start of Opening Day. Conine (a legacy player) is not likely to lose his job, especially when Hernandez will be in the rotation of OFs to platoon and offset lefty starters. Who in this free agent class or realistically in trades is a guaranteed upgrade that is absolutely worth getting to replace the guys we have? Please name them.
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To angels Alcantra Mercado
To marlins Castellanos Klassen Jean Cabrera
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Um…no.
I think they should keep them. The perpetual rebuild is exhausting. They have some good young players. Preller drafted half the team 🙂 but in all seriousness, the owners probably like that sweet revenue sharing MLB cheese. They have no reason to do better or spend any money.
Some of you really need to watch other networks besides ESPN. Even Youtube podcasts seem to have more credible information than what you regurgitated.
Do enlighten me
You can simply do it yourself by answering this simple question.
What do you know about the Marlins and their ownership? I’m a Marlins fan. Do you follow our team? Your post shows you don’t. Anyone that follows the Marlins can easily see that.
You regurgitated ESPN’s continued fiction about the Marlins that their staff in the northeast put together from five seconds of effort between their extensive coverage of their beloved Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, and the rest of their pop culture “sports coverage”.
Now show that you know more about the Marlins than what you saw on ESPN in their 1 second mention during their “covering 30 teams” segments which involves made-up stuff on the 20 MLB teams they don’t care to cover – Marlins being one of them..
I want to make sure I understand this. I make statement, you say I don’t know what I’m talking about, I ask for more information on what I may have gotten wrong, you respond with basically I don’t know what I’m talking about and I should look it up myself.
If you are trying to prove someone wrong you usually provide information on why they are wrong or at the very least mistaken. If your answer is look it up yourself, there was no point in responding to my first post.
So again please enlighten me.
Don’t you get it. The answer to your question is in the questions I asked.
Again…
What do you know about the Marlins and their ownership?
Do you follow our team?
I’m pretty sure the answers are: to the first one ‘not much’ or ‘nothing’; and my second question, the answer ‘No’ because you clearly don’t follow the Marlins based on your post.
So my point is, when you make a statement when you don’t know much or anything about the ownership and you make a statement without following the team, that doesn’t make you take a moment to say, “Hey, maybe I don’t know about that team as much as the Marlins fan who just jumped down my throat for making a statement that I made without really knowing much about the team.”
And this is before I pointed out that your statement falls right in line with the ESPN fiction they do for the few seconds they are forced to talk about the Marlins.
Should I ask you where do you get your Marlins information from? Considering it’s the ESPN fiction, I’m pretty confident that you get it from ESPN.
Look at your statement about the Marlins. Where did you get that information that you stated about the ownership here?
I’m sorry, but if I know I make a statament about something I know very little about or care very little about to know, and someone who would be knowledgable about it says something critical involved with its validity, just that alone makes me know I screwed up. I’d own it. But I’m just a person who wouldn’t make a blind statement that I heard from a source that is highly criticized about their credibility. I wouldn’t need someone to spell it out for me when I know I don’t know the topic well…and I know I got it from a garbage source. Again, but that’s just me.
They’ve proven they can draft and develop arms. It’s time to cash in on that gift and get what they clearly lack- MLB ready bats. They are the antithesis of the Orioles. Clear trade partners.
The Marlins seem to be able to generate great pitching through their system but lack hitter since the Stanton-Yelich-Ozuna days. I would deal one of the starters for at least two major league ready prospects.
I would deal from the back of the rotation, not the front.
Edward Cabrera has a junk elbow noooo thanks
With good controllable pitchers, they need to get some bats and try to win now. Their win cheap philosophy has a small window for success.
Marlins should make every player available and accept the offers with the most top prospects and time it so they all come up approximately at the same time. It’s the best chance of winning if they’re not going to drop any coin on free agents or even attempt to sign their own. They can certainly pull it off and can afford to host a bunch of kids looking to make the best of a situation. The us against the world is motivation enough and they just might land a few top future players if they’re do it right.
Keep the rotation. Build on the young core that was on an 86 win trajectory. Weakest position is 1b and that happens to be the strongest position in FA. Marlins should be in strong on Naylor and O’Hearn.
The last time the Marlins and Orioles traded, it worked out pretty well. Not immediately, but certainly in ‘25, with Rogers and Stowers both breaking out.
The Orioles still need pitching and the Marlins still need hitting… Alcantara going to Baltimore makes some sense. Maybe a deal that centers around Alcantara for Mayo, with other parts included to even it out.
Or perhaps the Cubs could entice Miami with Owen Caissie.
A year ago Caissie for certain, but now, with what we have seen interannly, where would he play?
FYI – the Marlins only have an opening at 1B.