The Marlins fanbase—for the most part—is still celebrating the additions of Cuban outfielder Víctor Víctor Mesa and Víctor Mesa Jr. The club controls the highly regarded Víctor Víctor through what figure to be his prime years, while attempting to develop his 17-year-old brother from the ground up.
Signing Víctor Víctor Mesa and Víctor Mesa Jr. ($6.25M total) costs less than Junichi Tazawa’s 2018 salary ($7M)
— Fish Stripes (@fishstripes) October 22, 2018
If you don’t use your international bonus pool, you lose it, and the Marlins didn’t have many realistic targets in Latin America.