Now that the Marlins season is over and the organization and its fans can exhale, its time to look back a bit to a story I wrote in May asking whether the blueprint the front office used this season worked.
I think you can make a case for both the affirmative and negative in this situation. A 57-win season on paper looks like a natural disaster touched down in the middle of South Florida. But further examination tells a different story.
I’ll reiterate my stance from before, that the Marlins gambled with their future by trading off star players for future success.