Just prior to putting my fingers to the keyboard, management of the Marlins in all their collective wisdom decided to discard the team’s most electric player with yet untouched talent to the Yankees for three good, but unproven, players.
The team had improved since the All-Star break, but the season was lost well before that except that it was always fun to watch Jazz Chisholm at the plate as well as floating around the outfield. We wish him all the best in New York.
Other than Jazz, at this writing the team is around 20th in the league in batting, last in the National League East standings, and had only two remaining players, Josh Bell and Bryan De La Cruz, both of whom were recently traded, with decent stats other than in home run production, where no one has reached the 20 HR level although we are long past the half-way point of the season.
Pitching remains the strong suit of the team, but without consistent power a lot of great outings by the pitching staff will end up in the loss column. Management either needs to address this or turn over the keys to the next interested group.
One way to address the current power problem is to mortgage some of the team’s strength on the mound to land older or unproven consistent power hitters. This is a gamble because the wins potentially generated by the added power may be lost before they are entered into the record book when the weakened pitching staff blows the save. Many teams have this conundrum, but the Marlins need to come out on top of this decision. Otherwise, we will experience another few seasons of watching a few innings and then going out for some fun on the golf course, boat or cavorting with our water toys.
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