Offishial News: Marlins executive David Oxfeld axed; get well soon, LMF

[Ely Sussman]

Today's news roundup also includes a new loanDepot park concession item for the 2025 season.

The Miami Marlins parted ways with chief commercial officer David Oxfeld, according to Fish On First's Isaac Azout. Oxfeld had been promoted to the position in November 2022 after previously serving as head of partnership development and strategy. He joined the organization originally at the start of the Bruce Sherman/Derek Jeter era in November 2017.

Marlins Opening Day is 14 days away.

More Marlins news and content below:

🔷 It's already slightly outdated following the Oxfeld news, but you can browse the 2025 Marlins media guide as well as those from the previous 15 seasons here.

🔷 In the aftermath of Troy Johnston being reassigned to minor league camp, I wrote about the trend of recent Marlins Player of the Year award winners accomplishing next to nothing in the majors.

🔷 Watch the replay of Wednesday's Fish On First LIVE episode, bantering about Marlins roster battles/roles, previewing Friday's Spring Breakout game and more.

🔷 loanDepot park is adding pull-apart sliders to the gameday menu this season, per cllct's Darren Rovell. There is an annual taste test of new concessions at the ballpark prior to Opening Day, so we'll have an FOF staffer deliver a first-hand report, but based on Rovell's description, I'd probably love these.

🔷 Happy belated birthday to Max Meyer, who turned 26 on Wednesday. With an uptick in fastball velocity and a new sweeper in his pitch mix, the former first-round draft pick is poised to have a significantly better season than he did in 2024.

🔷 As SuperSub Loud Miami Fan remains hospitalized due to cystic fibrosis complications, it was heartening to see the Marlins deliver a care package to him, including a "get well soon" card signed by most members of the team.

🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, the 2025 MLB trade deadline has been set for 6:00 p.m. ET on July 31. Most teams are off that day, including the Marlins, so there won't be a repeat of last year's fiasco when Miami traded away seven big leaguers on deadline day and didn't even have time to make corresponding moves for all of them prior to that evening's game (they played with a 25-man active roster). The Los Angeles Dodgers signed manager Dave Roberts to a four-year contract extension that establishes a new record at the position for average annual salary.

🔷 Today's Grapefruit League game: the Marlins (probable starter RHP Edward Cabrera) host the Houston Astros (RHP Ronel Blanco). Cabrera could really use a decent outing after surrendering a ton of loud contact in his previous spring training starts. It is only being broadcasted on the Marlins Radio Network. First pitch is scheduled for 1:10 p.m.

 

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[rurrusuno]

Aw man, it's early for me to be getting hungry for some sliders!!

[THOMAS JOSEPH]

Damn. Those sliders look great. Definitely looking for them on my LDP visits this year.

I was glad to see LMF on the Locked on Marlins podcast. I also noticed his avatar on the last FOF live show on X.

Surely, the odd circumstances around the Marlins Minor League POTY won't continue. I read your full article thinking the earned more opportunities and it was a shame that circumstances in Miami ,mitigated against them.