So a wink of hope presents itself to beleaguered Miami Marlins fans who could use some of that. It is a breath of oxygen amid the thick smoke of a fire sale. It is maybe a first indication that the new ownership led by Derek Jeter might know what it is doing, after all, or at least have a plan.
We are exercising benefit of doubt here. It is the most exercise we’ve had in months.
Less than three weeks from the start of spring training, after a payroll-gutting decimation that has seen the departures of Giancarlo Stanton, Dee Gordon, Marcell Ozuna, now Christian Yelich and perhaps soon J.