Three Reasons Miami Marlins Should Consider Major Trade

All the focus is on the usual big market suspects, but the Miami Marlins should consider shocking MLB by making a major move this summer.

What if I told you the star of the 2021 MLB Trade Deadline….will be the Miami Marlins?

And just to be clear, I don’t mean as sellers either. There is absolutely a path to the most improved 2021 MLB roster between now and July 30th being the boys from Miami.

Partly, that’s due to the players already in the organization that should be returning from injury in that timeframe. Adding Starling Marte and Sixto Sanchez to a team that has three elite starting pitchers and two of the top three RBI leaders in the NL will pay huge dividends for Miami. Indeed, a case could be made that those additions are more than enough, and effectively are the Marlins “trade deadline move”. Actually, the Marlins organization has already come scarily close to suggesting as much themselves.

The problem with that logic is two-fold. For one, it is just a return to the status quo from the start of spring training. A point in time in which Miami was already viewed as being behind the pack in the division. For another, for the logic to make any sense, the rest of the roster would have had to have stayed healthy. It hasn’t.

Still, Miami finds themselves just three games out of first place, and in prime position to make some noise this season if the breaks can finally start falling their way. If things start falling their way….and they have the foresight to do the second thing they need to do to improve:

Make a major splash in the trade market this summer. Like a Trevor Story, pick a Cub sized splash.

Why should the Marlins consider such a move? Three reasons should loom large in the minds of Kim Ng and Derek Jeter when they decide how to best proceed over the next two months. Although, the best reason might be one that is so obvious I haven’t even included it in the list.

Marlins fans would be ecstatic. 

But let’s stick a pin in that one, particularly since the new regime has been pretty steadfast in acting as if they didn’t actually inherit any baggage from how former regimes ran the franchise. Leaving us to focus instead on three much more practical reasons this could be the time to kickstart the offense with a major move.

The first of which being…