Marcell Ozuna thought he would remain a Marlin. ‘But they said bye-bye.’

JUPITER -- After Dee Gordon struck out to end the Marlins’ half of the eighth on Oct. 1 -- the final game of the season -- Marcell Ozuna, Christian Yelich and Giancarlo Stanton grabbed their gloves and headed out to the field for the top of the ninth.

But instead of racing to their assigned positions, the three gathered on the outfield grass in shallow left-center and embraced. Stanton and Yelich sensed that it might be their last game together, that an outfield ranked by many as the best in the Majors would be dissolved under new ownership.

Ozuna didn’t want to believe it, and he expressed that feeling to his two teammates in their private huddle. Surely, Ozuna told them, this was not the…