The Marlins have turned their greatest weakness into a strength. There’s no coherent explanation for how a team widely believed to have the worst major league roster in the NL East—one that also lost so much talent and experience due to a COVID-19 outbreak—approaches the one-quarter mark of the 2020 season with the outright division lead, but this is part of it. What are we talking about here? Baserunning.
Last season’s Fish stunk at that. Collectively, that group had inefficient base-stealers. They were reluctant to stretch for an extra base on balls in play (such as advancing from first to third or second to home on a single, or first to home on a double).