Miami Marlins: Does Derek Jeter’s annoyance mean anything?

After moving three franchise players in a matter of 15 months (and trading multiple others as well), is Derek Jeter delusional about his outlook on the Miami Marlins?

In the absence of the most important free agents players’ signings as the opening of spring training finally happened, does Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter’s aggressiveness in regard to his own NL East team mean anything?

Jeter told an ESPN reporter Feb. 11 in Miami he has “no patience” with losing. This came hard on the heels of the Marlins’ trade of catcher J.T. Realmuto to the Philadelphia Phillies.

OK. Charming.

Or as Gary Phillips tweeted: “These words would carry more weight if Jeter didn’t trade Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, Marcell Ozuna, …Realmuto and Dee Gordon.”

Jeter may be thinking now, “Oh jeez, I hate when that happens.”

The issue is here whether or not Jeter can “will” the Marlins into a better than expected competitive stance in the suddenly loaded NL East.

This doesn’t seem likely despite the Yankee legend’s clear “authority” in declaring such a desire to win to the press. Nobody questions Jeter’s ferocity about winning. We’ve all seen the videos of his dives into the stands after fouls and the classic, hustling flip to a catcher in that game against the A’s. But that doesn’t mean a whole lot once the legend has left the field. He now sits way up there in a Marlins executive box.

And his roster looks fairly horrible.

Oh, horrible is nasty, right? Everybody in MLB is a spectacularly impressive baseball player. This is actually true. It’s even true for baseball players who were dominant figures in Division I baseball. Former minor players on D1 teams are recruited onto softball teams as their college careers end, and they astonish at bat and in the field, but that’s sliding off topic.

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The Marlins have problems this season, barring some astonishing move by Jeter’s management team.

Three 2019 Miami infielders will be 29, 33 and 35 on Opening Day. This is not to say that’s actually a bad thing, but yeah, it sort of is. Starlin Castro? Neil Walker? Martin Prado? Hey, they’re scrappy.

As for the pitching staff, Adam Conley had a reasonable WHIP. Last year. Only.

One doesn’t like to be rude, but this team has a bunch of people on their 25-man roster sporting embarrassing or no WHIPs at the MLB level, and considering the catcher the Fish just acquired from the Phillies can’t actually catch, who cares who’s in the outfield?

Jeter needs find his own glove and get onto the field. His recently acquired catcher, unnamed above purposely, might be the second or third best player on the Miami Marlins right now.

Posturing won’t do it, Derek.