Baseball’s Winter Meetings have come and they have gone, with MLB teams opening up their checkbooks to foster future on-field success.
Then, there’s the Miami Marlins: losers of 93 games, with attendance figures perennially low enough to make one question the sport’s long-term viability down by the seaside, and a neophyte manager, Skip Schumaker, in place for 2023.
“I think we gathered a lot of information,” said general manager Kim Ng. And yet, with the exception of dumpster-diving in the Rule 5 Draft, the Marlins did…absolutely nothing.
In an offseason that has already seen clubs commit more than $2 billion in guaranteed money to major league free agents, the Marlins must’ve not gotten the memo about the league’s financial prosperity.