MLB News: Miami Marlins are in a bind; How will you combat that big problem?

This baseball offseason has been pretty busy thus far, with much of the action involving the National League East. The Atlanta Braves, who have won the last five division titles (since 2018), landed catcher Sean Murphy in a three-team, nine-player blockbuster.

The New York Mets, who won 101 games last year, have reloaded by re-signing Brandon Nimmo and Edwin Díaz, as well as signing Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, José Quintana, Omar Narváez and David Robertson. The Philadelphia Phillies, who just clinched a wild card berth in the World Series, signed Trea Turner, Taijuan Walker and Matt Strahm:

Meanwhile, the The Miami Marlins have done very little. His most significant move so far this offseason was the acquisition of reliever JT Chargois. for his bullpen. Chargois is a nice piece of staff, but he alone won’t move the needle much in the grand scheme of things.

The Marlins were already facing an uphill battle to catch all three of their divisional opponents. aforementioned, as they finished 69-93 this year, 18 games behind the third-place Phillies. Given the contrast in their respective levels of activity, it would appear that the gap has only grown.

The biggest obstacle the club faces is financial. The Marlins have never been a team with a large consistent payroll, with a franchise-record $115 million in 2017. As the season wound down, the club was sold to a group headed by Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter, with payrolls reduced. even more since then.

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Shortly after the ownership change, the Fish traded Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna, and Christian Yelich. A year later, it was JT Realmuto. The club’s payroll shrank to $100 million for 2018, $72 million in 2019 and just $57 million in 2021. It jumped a bit to $79 million in 2022, but that was less than half of what Atlanta, Philadelphia spent or the Mets.

Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover big events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), important players’ signatures. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as an amateur. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but baseball is in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it took almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to radio, providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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