As there was no minor league season in 2020, there are some instances where no new information was gleaned about a player. Scouting reports were compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as my own observations. The excess pitching does not yet exist.Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. For all the live young arms in the organization and the 400 combined innings from Alcantara and López, Miami’s rotation still only ranked 12th in the majors in WAR last season. I think you have to hang onto López and only start talking trades once you’re dealing from an actual, rather than speculative, strength. There’s a ton of upside in literally all of Jesús Luzardo, Max Meyer, Eury Pérez, Trevor Rogers, and Sixto Sánchez, but I don’t relish trying to find 180 extra innings from that group. Giving up López for an equivalent hitter just rearranges the deck chairs and rolls the dice on the rest of the staff. There are a lot of talented pitchers on the roster, but a lot of those talented pitchers have lengthy injury histories. Pablo López is the pitcher who comes up the most in trade discussions, and I’m scared that the Marlins will trade for hitting instead of simply using all that shared revenue money to sign someone and keep their no. Thanks to his projected innings, he’s the current WAR leader in ZiPS among pitchers. Sandy Alcantara is the closest thing to a classic workhorse ace as exists in 2020s baseball and the Marlins have him at a reasonable cost for as many as five more seasons. On some level, it would be easier if the pitching was as bleak as the offense, because then you could just say “ha ha, 52-110” and move on with your day. What makes the offense so frustrating to an outsider like me is that there are just so many compelling pitchers here. Whew, we got the bad stuff out of the way. Good teams need that depth because pitchers break! Pitchers And no, swapping pitchers for hitters isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card. 500 record because a pandemic disrupted the world will be their high-water mark. If they don’t, sneaking into an expanded playoff field with a. There’s no one in the organization who projects to be a difference-maker in the years before the pitching gets expensive, meaning that there’s no one in the organization who projects to be a difference-maker before Miami trades its pitchers to larger-market teams for prospects.Īt some point, if the Marlins are actually serious about making the playoffs, they’re going to have to spend significant money in free agency, because they’re already running out of time to develop their own Aaron Judge or Mike Trout to come save the day. There’s nothing wrong with a contender adding Jean Segura, but the team needs so much more than him he’s not the finishing piece in an otherwise playoff-worthy lineup here. What makes this especially unforgivable is that the Marlins intend to contend with this team now. That’s fewer than teams like the Rockies and Pirates. Using the ZiPS plate appearances, only four players in the organization project to have a 5% chance of a 4-WAR season in 2023. The Fish’s third-best projected hitter is an over-30 catcher who had a. There’s just no realistic scenario in which the offense is a significant plus for the team. If Chisholm is the Marlins’ Thelonious Monk, the rest of the lineup is, well, your neighbor’s tone-deaf 10-year-old son who got a guitar for Christmas and suddenly discovered Korn. And while you’ll notice Javier Báez on his comp list, his contact skills are less bleak and he’s nowhere near as over-aggressive. He combines that offensive ability with decent defense at second base, below-average glove work at short that still avoids being disastrous, and speed that will hopefully remain fully intact in 2023. Any pitch he connects with has the potential to be the perfect blend of velocity and launch angle. is a very talented player who is a blast to watch when he’s healthy and things are going well. I say almost none because Jazz Chisholm Jr. Well, I guess we’re getting the bad news out of the way first! There is a lot to like about the Miami Marlins’ roster and almost none of it is contained in this section. The team order is selected by lot, and the next team up is the Miami Marlins. For more information on the ZiPS projections, please consult this year’s introduction and MLB’s glossary entry. For the 18th consecutive season, the ZiPS projection system is unleashing a full set of prognostications.
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