The Marlins coaching staff and front office have had the good fortune of seeing many of their non-roster invitees show they are ready to make the 26-man roster when the team resumes playing the game. Major League Baseball issued a shutdown of spring baseball due to the Coronavirus epidemic, which will push back the start of the season.
It’s a waiting game the Marlins and 29 other teams did not want to face, knowing the decisions on this roster were going to be tough enough. Losing time on the field while the world deals with a pandemic is not how things were supposed to go with Spring’s right of passage.