Miami Marlins: Team preview and prediction for 2020 season
By Sean Basile
A rebuilding Miami Marlins team faces an uphill battle in one of the most highly-contested divisions in baseball. Can they crash the party?
The Miami Marlins certainly aren’t on anyone’s radar to make an impact in 2020, but that doesn’t mean we can’t see a young team have some success with an exciting pitching staff and one of the best managers in the game still at the helm.
Will the Marlins surprise us all this year and pull off some miracle run to win the division? Probably not. But 2020 will be the year we start to see the wheels turning in a positive direction for this organization.
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The Marlins are a very weird franchise. They were powerhouses in the early 2000s, but have always struggled with poor attendance being a Florida team.
There was the whole controversy over their new stadium that nobody really wanted and how it was paid for. And on top of that, player management has just been all over the place from everything that went down with Jose Fernandez‘s accident to the stunning trades of Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, Marcell Ozuna, JT Realmuto, and Dee Gordon all out of nowhere.
Now they have Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada working on things behind the scenes in the front office along with Don Mattingly in the dugout, so you would have to think this organization will be a Yankees 2.0 in a matter of years.
It’s just a very peculiar franchise that has a knack for being really high or really low. So, until they get back to being a top dog, I believe we’re going to see them finish at the bottom of the NL East once again.