Regardless of the setting—whether you’re at the local barber shop, sports bar, or the comments section under a Fish Stripes article—the conversation about the Marlins rebuild typically takes the same form. The detractors recycle buzzwords like “two MVPs,” “did not get enough,” “Jeter doesn’t know what he is doing,” and so on. Understandably, they have doubts about players currently in the organization being any better than the previous, unsuccessful core.
But these people are missing the forest for the trees.
When asked why I personally believe the Miami rebuild will be successful in the long term, my key figures are not Brinson, Harrison, Alcántara or other individual prospects; they are Gary Denbo, Chip Bowers, Dan Greenlee, Adrian Lorenzo and Fernando Seguignol.