Through their first 28 seasons of play, the Florida and Miami Marlins have employed 630 players in total for at least one plate appearance or batter faced.
Fish Stripes is looking at each of them in turn this offseason as 2020 turns to 2021. Today’s group of five all had between 75 and 249 PA/BF, and all finished above WAR, according to Baseball Reference.
José Veras is a six-foot-six relief pitcher from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A right-hander, he signed his first professional contract to play ball for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998 at the age of 17.