Offishial News: Bruce Sherman asks for more fans to attend games despite lack of Marlins upgrades

[Ely Sussman]

Marlins news roundup for 2/21/24

Here's what you should know with 36 days to go until Marlins Opening Day...

Fish On First will have boots on the ground for today's Marlins spring training workout. Follow Noah Berger and Alex Carver for live updates from the Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium complex and check out our staff's 2024 Spring Training Journal (new entries every day).

 🔹 José Devers was spotted in Jupiter on Tuesday. That leaves Huascar Brazoban and Jhonny Pereda as the only players still absent from Marlins big league camp (both due to visa issues).

 🔹 Here is the full audio (and mostly full video) of Bruce Sherman and Peter Bendix addressing the media at the start of full-squad workouts. Bendix continued to deflect questions about why the Marlins are not offering Luis Arraez a contract extension (Arraez has only two years of club control remaining). In a private meeting with the players, Sherman says he reiterated his "commitment to this organization for the long term"...even though he has lowered payroll from where it was entering 2023. All in all, an awkward and uninspiring event.

 🔹 Bob Nightengale of USA Today is the latest to confirm that the Marlins have offered a major league deal to Tim Anderson. He believes it guarantees "about $2M," which is less than I would've expected. "Waiting on him" to respond to the offer, Craig Mish of SportsGrid tweets. 

 🔹 Elsewhere around baseball, Amed Rosario (1/$1.5M) signed with the Rays for what I'd consider one of this offseason's most team-friendly deals. Even acknowledging his poor defensive metrics at shortstop, the 28-year-old Rosario has tantalizing bounce-back potential that I assumed would merit far better compensation. Also, Hyun Jin Ryu returned to his native South Korea on a deal that will make him the KBO's highest-paid player.

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 🔹 Derek Dietrich took a player development job with the Yankees. That made me realize how much the Marlins' aversion to getting hit by pitches held back their offense last season.

 🔹 Kevin Barral spoke to Bennett Hostetler about his conversion to catcher and 2023 swing adjustments.

 🔹 The majority of respondents to the latest View from the Bleacher's poll gave the Marlins an "F" grade for their offseason (in)activity. About two-thirds of them project the team to finish fourth or fifth in the NL East standings this season.

 

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[One Regend]

You're joking, right Ely? Please, tell me you're joking.

Bruce Sherman is seriously asking us to attend games while we lost 2 key players in the offseason (one to injury, the other to free agency) that we can't replace internally. The Marlins spent the entire offseason doing absolutely nothing, while every single team, even teams projected to finish last place, spent money on a free agent. And Sherman's expecting us to show up in baseball games now?

Please, Ely. Please tell me this is just a joke.

[Stanley J Makowski]

We fans should do just the opposite. Not only that, but we should all send a message to the commissioner. Better yet, someone should organize us into group what would have some clout. I still like the idea of all of us ignored fans sending our esteemed owner a penny in the mail. This team actually had a chance to stay in the playoffs for another year. Not now. Rather the team, through Bendix, is seeking to rebuild the farm system. Translation of that...spending much less on young kids. If one discounts the signing of more front office personnel, a fact that would be lost on the casual fans, there hasn't been any favorable publicity since the season ended. The situation has become so bad, that it would be laughable if it weren't such a concern to us that care.

The selfish nerve of this owner is beyond comprehension. Let him perform a bodily function in his hat!