The Marlins dominated trade deadline day

[Ely Sussman]

Offishial News for 7/31/24

On Tuesday, the Marlins acquired 10(!) new players, all but one of whom are still considered prospects: INF/OF Connor Norby, LHP Robby Snelling, INF Graham Pauley, RHP Adam Mazur, OF Kyle Stowers, INF Jay Beshears, RHP Jun-Seok Shim, INF/C Garret Forrester, RHP Will Schomberg and INF Wilfredo Lara. To get that haul, Miami's front office had to dismantle half of their major league bullpen—Tanner Scott and Bryan Hoeing to the Padres, Huascar Brazoban to the Mets and JT Chargois to the Mariners—send this year's only durable starter, Trevor Rogers, to the Orioles, and move lineup staples Bryan De La Cruz and Josh Bell to Pittsburgh and Arizona, respectively. The stunner of the day was Rogers for Norby and Stowers. I spoke at length about that one on a mid-afternoon Twitter Space. Stowers will be reporting directly to the active roster.

Particularly over the next month, this team is going to be awful at the major league level. The Marlins made that trade-off to come away with a legitimately average-quality farm system after entering 2024 with a barren one. They are banking on being able to develop another wave of impactful relievers out of thin air, and that Jazz Chisholm Jr. won't haunt them for moving on from him too soon (so far, he's been phenomenal with the Yankees). The graphic below summarizes all of the organization's additions and subtractions throughout the week leading up to the deadline.

 

On the field, Edward Cabrera was great through five innings, but exited in the sixth with left knee pain. He'll undergo further testing to determine the severity of the injury. Declan Cronin and Austin Kitchen (making his major league debut) allowed the Rays offense to erupt from there. Home runs by Emmanuel Rivera and Jake Burger were not nearly enough. The Marlins lost, 9-3.

Down on the farm, Triple-A Jacksonville won, 7-3. INF Deyvison De Los Santos homered again. C/1B Agustín Ramírez went 2-for-4 with a walk and a stolen base in his organizational debut. Low-A Jupiter won, 7-3. 1B/OF Angelo DiSpigna hit a grand slam. DSL Marlins won, 14-5. OF Janero Miller hit his first career home run. DSL Miami lost, 10-4.

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🔷 President of baseball operations Peter Bendix released this vague statement on Tuesday evening: "After a busy trade deadline with many tough decisions, we're excited about the layers of talent joining our organization. Our goal is to be a consistently competitive team. With the talented and promising players we've acquired, we're confident that we're moving in the right direction and building a deeper and stronger organization. We thank our fans for their continued support and share their goal of being a contending team that they can be proud of." He will explain his moves in greater detail later today.

🔷 After a three-month carriage dispute, Bally Sports regional networks (including Bally Sports Florida) will be available to Comcast customers beginning on Thursday. However, those channels have shifted into a different "tier"—you will need Xfinity's Ultimate TV package, if you don't have it already.

🔷 On this day in 2014, an inning-ending double play was overturned after an extensive replay review found that Jeff Mathis illegally blocked home plate. Tommy Hutton let loose a memorable rant and manager Mike Redmond got ejected.

🔷 Today would have been José Fernández's 32nd birthday. In nearly eight years since his death, there has not been another Marlins player who exuded so much charisma while also performing at an elite level. This franchise still hasn't recovered from the agonizing loss.

🔷 The most notable non-Marlins-related deadline day trades: Jack Flaherty (Tigers) to the Dodgers for prospects Thayron Liranzo and Trey Sweeney; Isiah Kiner-Falefa (Blue Jays) to the Pirates for prospect Charles McAdoo; Mark Canha (Tigers) to the Giants for prospect Eric Silva; Martín Pérez (Pirates) to the Padres for prospect Ronaldys Jimenez; Gregory Soto (Phillies) to the Orioles for prospects Seth Johnson and Moises Chace; Paul Blackburn (Athletics) to the Mets for prospect Kade Morris; Eloy Jimenez (White Sox) to the Orioles for prospect Trey McGough.

🔷 Today's MLB game: the Marlins (probable starter RHP Roddery Muñoz) and Rays (RHP Taj Bradley) have their final Citrus Series meeting of the season. The Marlins have a 31.3% chance to win, per FanGraphs. First pitch at 12:10 p.m. ET.

🔷 Today's MiLB schedule: 

• Triple-A Jacksonville vs. Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. ET
• Double-A Pensacola at Chattanooga, doubleheader beginning at 7:15 p.m. ET
• High-A Beloit at Lake County, 4:00 p.m. ET (resumption of previously suspended game following by regularly scheduled game)
• Low-A Jupiter at Clearwater, 12:00 p.m. ET

 

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[Slacker Mills]

A lot of A's handed out by Fish on First staff with regard to trade deadline deals. I didn't see much positive, not even in the Norby and Stowers acquisition. Neither one will be OPS average player in my estimation.

The resounding F was the Jazz trade. Next to Hanley Ramirez (in his early years), Jazz is the most overall talented player to wear a Marlins jersey. Don't care if the stat book claims he is just average this year. Nobody has a higher ceiling. 

[Russell]

A few thoughts:

1) Terrible that going into this season the big club was near awful and at the same time the Farm System even worse.  How does that happen? I can't comprehend how a franchise can be terrible at both levels.  Such a fail on the previous regimes.  As an aside, though relevant for trading prospects for veterans, I still puke when I think that this Franchise once traded Josh Naylor and Luis Castillo for Andrew Cashner.

2) Not mentioned in this article, BUT Xavier Edwards is currently hitting .380 in ~ 100ABs, at what point do we consider this not to be a small sample size?  If not done already, please do a write up on the Edwards' outlook as a full-time big leaguer.  I need something to cheer for with this putrid team, even more so now that Dane Myers punched himself into injury.

3) In 30 years only two players in the history of the Franchise have moved the needle, D-Train and Jose Fernandez.  RIP JF16.  And more importantly, I hope those he took with him are at peace as well.

Thanks,

[Russell]

3 hours ago, Slacker Mills said:

A lot of A's handed out by Fish on First staff with regard to trade deadline deals. I didn't see much positive, not even in the Norby and Stowers acquisition. Neither one will be OPS average player in my estimation.

The resounding F was the Jazz trade. Next to Hanley Ramirez (in his early years), Jazz is the most overall talented player to wear a Marlins jersey. Don't care if the stat book claims he is just average this year. Nobody has a higher ceiling. 

You bring up a very good point that most of these trades will not matter in the Marlins favor, if who they brought back are average at best.  For years this team has lacked someone who provides meaningful impact, a hitter that can move the scoreboard.

[One Regend]

57 minutes ago, Russell said:

You bring up a very good point that most of these trades will not matter in the Marlins favor, if who they brought back are average at best.  For years this team has lacked someone who provides meaningful impact, a hitter that can move the scoreboard.

Yeah, and that's the entire point of trading for prospects: Hope that some of them turns into a Stanton/Yelich/Ozuna. Because the guys they had before trading them away this year (and certainly the ones they still have) certainly didn't.

Connor Norby is an absolute stud prospect that's blocked at the major league level. He has dominated AAA, but he's not getting playing time with Ryan Mountcastle, Jordan Westburg, Gunnar Henderson, and eventually Jackson Holliday manning the entire infield. Stowers also has promise and I see a much better future out of him than I do Jesus Sanchez, since he can kinda hit same-handed pitching. (looked at his minors numbers to reflect that) And, to think, we got both for a Trevor Rogers who wasn't going to be tendered a contract for much longer.

[Ely Sussman]

On 7/31/2024 at 10:55 AM, Slacker Mills said:

The resounding F was the Jazz trade. Next to Hanley Ramirez (in his early years), Jazz is the most overall talented player to wear a Marlins jersey. Don't care if the stat book claims he is just average this year. Nobody has a higher ceiling. 

Well since you brought him up...When Hanley was Jazz's age, he had already placed 2nd in the NL MVP race, which was his 4th consecutive healthy (and excellent) full-length season. I don't see them as comparable.

With that being said, I would have preferred extending Jazz over trading him. Doesn't seem as if any progress was made on that front. Assuming there was no path to an extension, I think this was the appropriate time to part ways and they did an OK job (C+) of salvaging a substantial return.

[Ely Sussman]

23 hours ago, Russell said:

2) Not mentioned in this article, BUT Xavier Edwards is currently hitting .380 in ~ 100ABs, at what point do we consider this not to be a small sample size?  If not done already, please do a write up on the Edwards' outlook as a full-time big leaguer.  I need something to cheer for with this putrid team, even more so now that Dane Myers punched himself into injury.

I am astounded by what Edwards is doing. Recorded some of my thoughts here: 

Will write additionally on the topic soon.