Offishial News: 2025 Marlins minor league coaching changes; projected for 100 losses again

The Marlins overhauled their major league coaching staff heading into this season and there have been substantial changes made throughout the minor leagues as well, Fish On First farm director Alex Carver reports. The Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp will have a new manager, hitting coach and pitching coach with the departures of Daren Brown, Greg Colbrunn and Jeremy Powell from those respective roles. Kevin "Smoke" Randel had been the longest-tenured manager with a Marlins MiLB affiliate, but instead of returning to Double-A Pensacola, he has taken a different role within the organization. At lower levels, Nick Weisheipl (Low-A Jupiter) and Gianni Bloom (Dominican Summer League) have announced themselves that they'll be managing affiliates for the first time.

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🔷 Happy birthday to Anthony Bender. The right-handed reliever is turning 30 years old, which makes him the only 30-something player on the Marlins 40-man roster. Signed to a minor league deal four years ago, Bender has made 141 appearances for Miami, posting a 3.37 ERA, 3.31 FIP and .229 BAA in 133 ⅔ innings pitched. He is highly likely to be part of the Opening Day bullpen.

🔷 Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA has unveiled its 2025 season projections. The median projection for the Marlins is a 62-100 record, identical to last season. They're projected to score the fewest runs in the majors (616).

🔷 Our Marlins Jeopardy trivia competition returns on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. ET! I'm the quizmaster for this one. The questions will focus entirely on the past seven seasons of Marlins baseball (since 2018). If you have trivia from that time period, submit it here for a chance to be featured in our audience questions category.

🔷 Congratulations to Jeremiah Geiger on being named the new host of the Locked On Marlins podcast. He'll be uploading pod episodes every weekday moving forward, beginning today.

🔷 Marlins FanFest week is here. Fish On First will publish a guide to the event as Saturday draws closer. A family of Pensacola Blue Wahoos fans won a free trip to Miami for it after building a Blue Wahoos snowman.

🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, Jack Flaherty is returning to the Tigers (2 YRS/$35M), whom he signed with last offseason. He'll be able to opt out after the 2025 season. Although it's a nice raise for Flaherty, it was widely expected that he'd get a longer deal as a 29-year-old coming off a very productive 2024 campaign. Former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent passed away at the age of 86. Vincent held the position from 1989-1992 and oversaw the birth of the Florida Marlins as an expansion franchise.

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