The loss of Jose Fernandez was one of the biggest stories in all of baseball to end last year, and shaped the entire Miami Marlins‘ off-season. The club worked to best address the subtraction of that much talent by crafting a superb bullpen to back up a less than stellar starting five.
What may be a secret, though, is just how rare an occurrence this is for the soon to be twenty-five-year-old franchise.
With only six winning seasons and two playoff berths to show for themselves during that time, it would be easy to assume the Marlins have routinely lacked a No.