The Miami Marlins have a few questions to answer once the season finally gets underway in earnest. Which players will start in the outfield? Who is going to fill the back half of the rotation? Is Francisco Cervelli a better option at backstop than Jorge Alfaro? There are a lot of things the headshop has to figure out before taking the field again.
One such question regards the Miami Marlins seventh, eighth, and ninth inning configuration. One could argue that the seventh- and eighth-inning specialists have become as important to a team’s success as the traditional “closer.