Video: MLB Players Slam Marlins Organization in The Athletic's 2025 Player Poll

[Fish On First Staff]

Fish On First LIVE reacts to an anonymous poll of MLB players conducted by The Athletic. The Miami Marlins have a bad reputation around the sport, according to more than two dozen players who participated.

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[Leo Armbrister]

I don't know or care if the Marlins feed their players subway or steak on the road. However this management team is not willing to spend a dime on players to improve this team. When a player shows some promise this team is shopping that player as trade bait. How are you ever going to build a winning team when you trade away all of your best players. It is hard to be a Marlins fanwith this ownership group tearing down the team when they see a glimmer of progress.

[Robert Hanson]

If the players came out and said I wouldn’t want to play for a team that’s bad or rebuilding, completely understandable, especially for a player whose career is near its end.

   Young players on these teams have only been in one MLB clubhouse, so nothing to compare to, though players do talk to players on other teams.

  The fact that all teams at the bottom of this poll are teams that are all bad, is a red flag. Bottom line, rookies & 2nd year players are grateful to be in MLB. Veterans don’t want to play on bad teams.