The Miami Marlins farm system, at once in the recent past ranked as low as 30th in the 30-team MLB, is now ranked by Baseball America as the number four system in baseball. They’ve done this through trades, international free agency, and the draft. Unlike Loria and Company, this group leaves no stone unturned.
The international signing program, long mostly ignored by the prior managing group, has yielded a lot of goodies for the Miami Marlins. Edward Cabrera, Victor Victor Mesa, Victor Mesa Jr., Jerar Encarnacion, and shortstop Jose Salas to name the five who currently reside in the MLB Pipeline’s top 30 team-prospects.