Offishial News: Our first look at the full 2025 Marlins

[Ely Sussman]

Today's news roundup also includes Max Meyer's offseason adjustments and a hypothetical redesign of the Marlins' uniforms.

Today, the Marlins will hold their first full-squad workout of spring training. We're expecting 67 players to be involved. Chairman & principal owner Bruce Sherman and president of baseball operations Peter Bendix will be speaking to the media. Follow Kevin Barral and Isaac Azout for live coverage from Jupiter!

Marlins Opening Day is 38 days away. Beginning today and continuing through October, Offishial News returns to its usual Monday-Friday schedule.

More Marlins news and content below:

🔷 Early spring training GIFs have been added to Fish On First's Marlins GIF database. Database access is a SuperSub perk. For as little as $4 per month, become a SuperSub to fuel our coverage.

🔷 Designated for assignment last week, Xzavion Curry cleared waivers and was outrighted to the minors. Curry is highly likely to make it back up to the majors at some point in 2025, whether it be as a long reliever or spot starter.

🔷 To put the Cal Quantrill signing in perspective, I did a roundup of other veteran pitchers who received comparable contracts in free agency this offseason.

🔷 With the 2025 college baseball season getting fully underway last weekend, Sean McCormack published his initial big board of top MLB Draft prospects.

🔷 The Marlins have more talent from Duke than any other college/university. Kevin Barral spoke to Matt Mervis and Griffin Conine about how that familiarity has helped with Mervis' transition to the organization.

🔷 Max Meyer discussed his expanded pitch mix with MLB.com's Christina De Nicola, most notably how his new sweeper can complement his signature slider. “My slider is going to be more down in depth and my sweeper's going to come across the plate,” Meyer said. “I feel like with the movement, there's definitely a big separation between those two." Pitching coach Daniel Moskos also identified a sinker grip based on Meyer's arm path and delivery, so let's see if that becomes a more significant piece of his attack plan after accounting for only 2.1% of his total pitch usage in 2024. Meyer underwent LASIK eye surgery, De Nicola adds, so no more pitching with goggles.

🔷 Unsurprisingly, the Marlins have MLB's youngest GM/manager/hitting coach/pitching coach quartet, per BrooksGate, with an average age of 39.5 years old.

🔷 Left-handed reliever Richard Bleier announced his retirement. A South Florida native, Bleier had stints with eight different MLB organizations, but the vast majority of his work was split between the Orioles (3.15 ERA in 154.1 IP) and Marlins (3.16 ERA in 122.1 IP). Fun fact: he is the last player to receive a contract extension from the Marlins—it was a two-year, $6 million deal signed in March 2022. Also, Bleier owns the highest groundball rate in franchise history (60.2 GB%) among pitchers with a minimum of 100 innings. "Looking back on my career I don’t think I would have done anything differently," he said in an Instagram post.

🔷 PGHconcepts is doing a series of jersey design refreshes for each MLB team. Here are the Marlins ones:

 

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[MarlinFaninGA]

While I like the teal color, it's kind of "boring." Is it supposed to be boring? I guess I need to look at other team jerseys. 🫤

[rurrusuno]

1 hour ago, MarlinFaninGA said:

While I like the teal color, it's kind of "boring." Is it supposed to be boring? I guess I need to look at other team jerseys. 🫤

They do nothing for me either. It’s not the same as the original Florida Marlins jerseys.