TODAY: The Marlins have officially announced Bendix’s hire. Principal owner Bruce Sherman spoke glowingly of Bendix in a press release, saying that “Peter is an established industry leader with an extensive skillset and deep experience that will continue the momentum we have made on the Major League level, while also strategic building the foundation for sustained success.”
Nov 5: The Marlins are set to hire Rays general manager Peter Bendix as the club’s next head of baseball operations, according to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal and Andy McCullough (links to X). Rosenthal reported earlier tonight that Bendix was Miami’s “leading candidate” for the job, and Bendix has informed some Rays co-workers that he will be leaving for the Marlins job.
Bendix would become the latest in a long line of Tampa Bay executives hired away by other teams. Andrew Friedman (Dodgers), Chaim Bloom (Red Sox), Matt Arnold (Brewers), and James Click (Astros) all got rival front office jobs due in part to the Rays’ consistent ability to draft and develop talent, all while fielding competitive teams on small player payrolls. Other organizational attempts to replicate the Rays’ success has been somewhat mixed, though obviously Friedman and Click both won World Series titles with their teams.
The Rays’ track record is undoubtedly of interest to Marlins owner Bruce Sherman, who reportedly hasn’t been happy with how his team has been developing its younger talent. These concerns led to Sherman’s plan of installing a new head of baseball operations above general manager Kim Ng, which resulted in Ng declining her end of a mutual option on her contract for the 2024 season. It isn’t known if Bendix or any other candidates were already being targeted by Sherman prior to Ng’s departure, yet naturally Ng balked at the idea of suddenly being demoted after the Marlins reached the playoffs last season. Rosenthal reports that Bloom was also on the Marlins’ radar, but the former Red Sox chief baseball officer declined to be a candidate for the Miami job.
This will be Bendix’s first time in full command of a front office, as Erik Neander is Tampa’s president of baseball operations, and former PBO Matt Silverman is now the team president. Bendix has been a member of the Rays organization since starting as an intern in 2009, and worked his way up the ladder through multiple roles in the research and development department. The 38-year-old Bendix earned a VP title in 2019 as the team’s director of baseball development, and was promoted to general manager just under two years ago.
Sherman’s purchase of the Marlins franchise in 2017 has led to quite a bit of front office turnover in that limited timeframe. Michael Hill was kept on as the president of baseball operations, though CEO Derek Jeter was known to be making the bigger-picture baseball decisions as the team was going through a rebuild. Ng was hired to be the GM when Hill’s contract was up after the 2020 season, but the picture was shaken up again when Jeter himself left prior to the 2022 campaign.
Jeter’s public statement that “the vision for the future of the franchise is different than the one I signed up to lead” only led to more questions, and some reports suggested that Jeter wasn’t pleased with Sherman’s apparent desire to spend less on payroll, though that was apparently far from the only issue between the two. The Marlins have increased spending to some extent under Ng, up to a $92.5MM Opening Day payroll in 2023 that still ranked 23rd of 30 teams.
However, even with the Marlins securing a wild card berth this past season, Sherman still wasn’t satisfied. The hiring of Bendix now provides a full break from the Jeter era, and in theory makes it seem as if the Marlins will try to emulate Tampa Bay’s strategy of perpetual contention with modest spending. This doesn’t mean that Sherman couldn’t green-light higher levels of spending than the Rays are accustomed to, yet it also doesn’t seem like the Marlins will exactly be approaching the luxury tax any time soon.
Adopting “the Rays’ plan” is far easier said that done, of course, and the next step will be seeing exactly how the Marlins will operate under Bendix in 2024. Sandy Alcantara will miss all of next season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, Jorge Soler is a free agent after opting out of his contract, and it can be argued that Miami’s 2023 club might have gotten to the postseason due more to good fortune than to championship pedigree. The Marlins were outscored by a 723-666 margin, but enjoyed a whopping 33-14 record in one-run games.
As much as Miami fans would be exasperated at seeing another step back or some sort of rebuild, Bendix could be given perhaps at least a season to remake the team in his image, if restocking the farm system is a larger priority for Sherman than another playoff push. Or, since the Fish already have a good deal of talent in place, Bendix might try to hit the ground running by trying to compete and add some prospect depth at the same time.
From the Rays’ perspective, they’ll have to again fill a hole in their front office. Assistant GMs Chanda Lawdermilk, Will Cousins, and Carlos Rodriguez stand out as natural candidates to be promoted to the full general manager job as Neander’s new No. 2, though any number of candidates might emerge for a franchise that likes to promote from within.
would you take cashman, stanton,and a couple of picks to become GM of your team ???
Kim Ng was a top 12-to-20 GM, very middle of the pack. She made some great trades, hired a competent manager, and they had a mixed bag signing free agents – it is not easy getting elite talent at market rate to come to a franchise like the Marlins owned by a cheap owner.
Bendix could easily be better than Ng, he also comes from a franchise with spending restraints. But “In Seager” is fixated on Ng’s gender rather than on her specific transactions. There are several other GMs who were just awful and he does not dwell on them the way that he is fixated on Ng. Even after his Rangers won it all. Dude, let it go. Misogyny is a bad look.
In fairness though, Fair/Foul Territory’s reaction to Ng’s decline, and Sherman’s shakeup was completely embarrassing, specifically Scott Braun, Ken Rosenthal & Erik Kratz’s reactions were lefty feminist overreactions. Almost as if they took it as a personal affront that Ng’s teeth was going to be pulled by Sherman, something that as an owner he has every right to do, without being accused of being every “ism” in the world. Ng imho is also a “middle of the pack” GM. But her hiring and ultimate demise in the role and the overreaction to it by certain people associated with The Athletic was embarrassing and does nothing but hurt the progress of women in the game, because that exact reaction is why alot of those with that power just go “pass”. Because they know when they do make a change, the media is going to try to publicly assassinate their character, simply because they have their political religion. I think these were the reasons also why Kim herself has stayed largely silent, instead of Britt putting feminist talking points in her mouth, when Kim hasn’t said a word. Kim should have every opportunity to progress in that world because she’s the right PERSON for the job. Not because she’s just some token being thrown around because Braun, or Rosenthal or Kratz have their CNN uniforms on.
I don’t even know where to start…so I just won’t.
These are the kinds of unhinged rants we have now I guess. Where you have Republican voters claiming every Democrat just sits home all day collecting freebies. Check my bank statements if you’d like. Not a single freebie. You’ll actually see two large deposits a month from my employer, but I guess that’s a freebie now.
Meanwhile, at the top of every list of most dependent states on federal tax dollars, are red states. Consistently. But I guess those aren’t freebies.
@NJBird Please stay in NJ permanently, thanks
I don’t see a single word about baseball in this post, and certainly nothing resembling an actual counter argument, just an “unhinged rant” about MUH RED TEAM vs. MUH BLUE TEAM.
@curveball
Some truth in what you wrote. I’ll stay out of the political but the Marlins have taken more heat than the Astros. The stros won a series and let Click be a lame duck. The marlins obviously didn’t have that level of success. I personally believe Ng deserved a chance to play out her contract as the FO leader for one more year. But overall she’s been ok. I don’t think the Marlins have a particularly special organization.
I wonder if Bloom returns to TB.
There’s no shot bloom returns to TB. He’s getting paid by the Red Sox this year to not work and after tasting real PBO money he’s not gonna go back to making Pennie’s for the Rays.
I personally believe Ng deserved a chance to play out her contract as the FO leader for one more year.
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She had that option and declined. I’d bet against them being a .500 team this year, so maybe Ng wanted to go out on top.
Scott Braun, Ken Rosenthal & Erik Kratz’s reactions were lefty feminist overreactions. Almost as if they took it as a personal affront that Ng’s teeth was going to be pulled by Sherman
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That’s my biggest problem. With Ng, it was never about results, and always about gender. When she initially declined, the crowd was evenly split, with some pro-Ng comments praising her.
When I asked what they like about Ng, I don’t think I received a single response.
Several times, I laid out what I thought she did well and did badly, but it seemed no one wanted to discuss the facts, only the feelings. Once women start getting hired, they will start getting fired. Folks will have to deal with that.
Joe: anytime you or anyone else quotes are tries to shoehorn in a terrible political take into the conversation their argument is pretty much lost. Your complaints about “feelings:” could also be leveled at you for inserting what you think someone is saying about gender when discussing Ng.
Your complaints about “feelings:” could also be leveled at you
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When people list the reasons for liking or disliking a GM, then it is factual (right or wrong).
If they do not explain why they like or dislike a GM, then it is “feelings”.
FWIW, you can feel free to explain the good, bad and ugly.
Joe: complaining about “leftists feminists” along with being a worthless political take in a baseball conversation is a useless argument based only on the feelings of the person you quoted. Describing Katz etc as having leftists feminist overreactions is inserting their feelings into the argument along with their own subjective interpretations. Quoting them and expanding on what they said is furthering that argument.
@joe
You did this same song and dance that “no one wanted to discuss the facts, only the feelings” with Nakken being interviewed for the Giant’s managerial position. What’s even more odd is that you played up Ng’s effectiveness and experience in comparison to Nakken in that conversation, a narrative which strangely disappears when we are talking explicitly about Ng here.
You are also vastly mischaracterizing every pro-Ng comment as pro-woman, the same way you did with Nakken, a boogeyman that doesn’t even exist (or maybe in a handful of very select comments, but you can select for anything if you look hard enough). The vast majority of pro-Ng comments thought she did well this year and felt she deserved at least one more season to see it through. Instead, she effectively received a demotion, and it stands to reason pro and anti-feminists can agree an exec that showed results should be given a longer leash than that.
“Once women start getting hired, they will start getting fired. Folks will have to deal with that.”
– That’s a weird position to take when no woman was fired here, and nobody is saying this. Nobody. Ng made the decision on her own to move on, so maybe get your “facts” straight. You’re acting as though Ng took the Astros or Dodgers and turned the into the A’s, and people are crying “but…WOMAN!!” Again, she showed results, and was demoted. There’s a good debate to be had as to whether or not it would’ve been sustainable, but it’s fair to regard that her results were at least worthy of giving her the opportunity. If the Reds decided to hire a PBO to oversee Krall after his team made vast improvements, for example, a lot of the dialog would be similar to the dialog surrounding Ng.
Plenty of people replied to you with those answers. You just chose to ignore them because of your biases.
Post your physique
She was at best mediocre and yet when criticized the words are attributed to someone being a bigot. Just because she’s a woman and of non-caucasian descent doesn’t mean she’s immune to criticism and that we must speak of her in hushed tones.
When people literally claim she got her job because she is a female ethnic minority, it’s not silencing criticism to call that out as nonsense.
You can criticize her record all day long, but some users specifically fixate on her gender and loudly shout that she was an affirmative action hire or didn’t actually deserve the job. That’s pure nonsense.
@mathblaster
I’ve been critical of her after I saw the first year, but I have been fair to her along the way. I don’t care who or what the Marlins GM is as long as the person is competent and brings us more playoff appearances and a championship.
Here’s my final assessment of Ng as GM of the Marlins. She was a mixed bag of results, no matter when anyone wants to say she was responsible for moves (Day 1 of her hire or the day after Denbo was fired). She had good and bad moves…period. She had moments when she seemed more interested in self-promotion or as an ambassador for MLB. She had a good 2023 Trade Deadline and went out on a good note. Because of that, she can dictate what she does because that made her earn that right. Overall, I’d have to agree with those that have said she was middle of the pack as a GM. She had too many bad moments to say she was good or top tier. And she had good moments to the point that she should not be considered a bad GM. Based on this year’s trade deadline, she having good results can be seen as a sign that prior she was learning the role on the job, and may have figured some things out. She ending on a good note earns her another job whenever she decides to take it, and she certainly deserves to get whatever role she wants next within MLB. Personally, I think she’d be doing a greater good for the game by taking on a role in the MLB League Office, and also permanently being an ambassador for the game for women and internationally for all people from all backgrounds.
Now despite myself always taking the fair approach with Ng, some of the dimwits on the site have accused me of making my comments because she’s a woman. And for anyone to say I’ve been on her too much, she was the GM for my favorite team, so why wouldn’t I talk about her when she was our GM. I still take shots at Mike Hill and he has been gone for three seasons, but I’m sure some dimwit will say I’m a racist…which will be laughable considering what I am.
Yes, there are posters that take shots at Ng’s gender, but there are also some dimwits that take shots at anyone critical of her for fair reasons that had nothing to do with her gender, but solely on the facts of her performance.
And one last statement. Thank you Kim for the Playoffs this year. And thank you for finally ridding us of that waste of time Garrett Cooper…and doing so with getting a return that was a lot better than we could’ve expected (Ng made Preller her lapdog in that trade). Kim Ng, that Cooper was the least you could do after bringing us guys like Anthony Bass and Avi Garcia. We’re good to a certain extent with that Cooper boot.
Trevor Bauer dindu nuffin!
The blind cheerleading for Kim Ng will never not be both hilarious and pathetic.
it is not easy getting elite talent at market rate to come to a franchise like the Marlins
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I’d rate her overall performance as weak, except for this. The FA signings were awful, but also complicated by having to play in an empty stadium with weak results.
Bendix could easily be better than Ng,
drafting along and staying away from bad contracts.
Marlins already Bendix.
*hired
I take back what I said about 100 loss season next year. The Marlins could sell this off-season and still be a near .500 team with Mr. Bendix in charge.
Well, that’s big of you. Will the other Marlins bashers own up to what they said? Probably not. lol
I like it, it’s clear that we need to operate more like the Rays to ever contend on a consistent basis because we are never going to be a top spending team. This past years success wasn’t remotely sustainable and we were probably gonna take a step backwards this year no matter what. Hopefully he can fix the parts of the organization that were not doing well and build a sustainable contender.
Bendix is coming from an organization that is used to doing more with less and developing their draft picks, he’s going to be quite alright with the Marlins low spending constraints.
Yeah exactly, he already has experience being a major part of a low budget organization and he will probably have a little more financial flexibility here than Tampa. That’s why I thought Bloom may have been a good option for us, but sounds like he wasn’t interested. I’m glad we have someone in place and can have him in the building for the start of the offseason.
Bendix is a good GM, but I still can’t believe why the Marlins let Ng go.
Think NG walked out/ was not renewed due to difference of opinion with ownership. Bendix was brought in to put the brakes on excessive spending.
I wouldn’t mind Sherman “putting the brakes on spending” if it meant not signing another Avisail Garcia, Jean Segura, or Johnny Cueto ever again.
@Big Smoke
Yeah, those Avi Garcia, Jean Segura and Cueto Let’s go fish! deals make a fan base not want their team to spend money. And to remember farther back…Anthony Bass and Corey Dickerson. At least Jeter “gifted” Stanton to the Yankees.
I’m thrilled we have a guy in place now.
Let’s go fish!
Bendix is 100% pure analytics, enjoy!
thank you
and stay away from them bad trades.
Acquired veteran reliever Matt Barnes from Boston for left-hander Richard Bleier.
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Ben, Rat!!!!!
But… they did have a real GM! Albeit an extremely mediocre one.
Descendant of William Bendix.
William Bendix played Babe Ruth in the movies. Also, was said to have once been a batboy. Not sure that was true.
Weird that despite being the most talented mind that baseball has ever known every team is not scrambling to hire her.
Dude, what the fudge is wrong with you? She’s played softball since she was young and has worked her way up to the role she had with the marlins. What’s with the cooking show comment? Are you that pathetic and fragile in your own skin?
You seem to have an ax to grind with Kim ng. Pathetic.
@Rezimondos Probably because, unlike casuals and journalists who never pay attention to the Marlins to begin with, MLB owners and executives are well aware of her track record.
Yep. All the journalists looking for clicks, and the E!SPN caliber of casual fans that they cater to, always have the most to say without actual knowledge of the situation. To them, Ng never signed Anthony Bass, Avi Garcia, Jean Segura, or Johnny Cueto. She never had a bad 2022 Trade Deadline. She never released Jesus Aguilar weeks after teams were willing to trade for him. She never held onto Joey Wendle and Stallings when she was getting offers for them. She never failed at getting the Marlins a legit Closer to address the many blown saves over two years – only lucking into Puk having a good first half this year, and things being pieced together for the second half eventually going back to Tanner Scott who is also a risk. Also, Ng never failed at fixing the bullpen for the 2021 season after she said upon her hire that she’d fix the bullpen. She also didn’t hibernate for the 2022-23 offseason until we were weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting.
Ng apparently never did any of these screwups. She only had good moves.
@Rezimondos: There aren’t many open positions available that are for the top baseball decision maker, which is what she’d be looking for.
That’s what makes me question why anyone would turn down a RS interview. Good young talent with plenty of money, albeit a messy FO, sounds like a golden opportunity to me.
? her lol
You better hope he’s not Chaim Bloom 2.0.
What about Bloom 2.1 with generative AI?
Red Sox fans always trying to bash GMs that are out. How’d that work with Dombrowski?
I questioned, I didn’t bash. Huge difference there.
Non Red Sox fans are always trying to generalize about Red Sox fans. If we are playing that game…
@Cora the Explora
“You better hope he’s not Chaim Bloom 2.0.”
This does not look like a question.
I questioned in my mind. It was easily implied. You’re just wanting to pick a fight now.
You like Chaim Bloom? You seem to be not supportive of my post, which, by the way, was another implied statement.
I actually know nothing about this hire, I posted more as a joke. So not seeing where the unnecessary hostility comes from…
Oh, you questioned in your mind. Well,, I apologize for not being a mind reader. Because I couldn’t read your mind, I was only limited to the actual text that you wrote in your post.
And I could care less about Bloom. My response was more about you trying to use that situation to whiz on the Marlins hire of Bendix.
But again, I clearly got it wrong due to my lack of being able to read your mind to fully understand the actual text that you wrote with the actual words and punctuation that you used.
Your disposition and generalizations towards Sox fans in general didn’t help the situation. You didn’t bother to listen or read into what i was saying, you just flat out attacked with Dombrowski comments. But to each is own.
No offense, but you sound bitter.
I kind of liked Kim Ng. I think there’s too much turnover for Marlins right now, and honestly, I was hoping they’d take the division. Not that you care about my opinion.
I attacked in response to what was a clear quip about Bloom who your Red Sox moved past, and it clearly was in line with what your fan base did with Dave Dombrowski in the whole attempt to rip the guy’s reputation. To me, Red Sox fans need to know that their rips of Dave Dombrowski destroyed their credibility in such efforts, and in this case, was also not welcomed to a Marlins article as a passive shot at the Marlins in that RSN effort to bash Bloom. And to me, opened the opportunity to remind Red Sox fans how that bashing of Dombrowski laughably and predictably failed – which kind of does when you bash everyone out the door, and eventually try it on a future Hall of Famer. Therefore, not a good move to try to take another shot at the latest dismissal on an article about a Marlins move.
As for Ng, you won’t see any Marlins fan crying over her departure. Pretty much every person taking issue with Ng being gone from the Marlins are people who have nothing to do with the team or even follow the team. In fact, I think, if Bruce Sherman didn’t say it, every Marlins fan and South Florida media person (both male and female) would say to Ng, “Don’t let the door hit your rump on the way out”. And this statement is based on Ng’s performance as Marlins GM; not her gender like so many dimwits like to claim.
I’m thrilled and relieved by this move.
Thrilled – We got a guy with a history of developing players and working with payroll constraints. And the fact that the Marlins are inclined to spend more than the Rays is a good thing. Bendix goes from a team that will go to a Dollar Tree for players to a team that will go to a Five and Below for players.
Relieved – As we were going through the postseason, and with Ng’s departure, I was wondering if Sherman had his conversation and mentioned hiring someone above her without actually having been targeting guys already. that would’ve been plain stupid if he did because you don’t have that conversation unless you already are looking or talking to someone. This move happening now, a day after the Rangers parade, indicates that Sherman very likely already had his eye on his candidates/targets…and make have already had those discussions prior to meeting with Ng.
Now, let’s see if Bendix works out for us. We’ve needed a person that can build our trust in decision making the way Dombrowski did when he was running things at the beginning of our franchise’s history.
You keep saying guy and not PoBo? passive aggressive are we?
For me, getting value in deals, and understanding asset management is what I’m hoping for with this
@formerlyz
Yeah, I’m for that. Other than the 96-97 offseason, we got a lot of that from Dombrowski, and really no one since.
Although, there was a time in the early 2000s when we did pretty well with finding low-risk/high reward guys, but we kept hurting ourselves with bad trades during the same period.
05-06 offeseason was good. After that………
Yeah, after that, that’s when Mike Hill went into stupid mode of trying to outdo himself with trades to get less value than giving up.
– Josh Willingham and Scott Olsen for Emilio Bonifacio (the 2-week wonder)
– Mike Jacobs (off a 30-HR season) for Leo Nunez or whatever his real name is.
– Miggy Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis for future journeyman 4th OF Cameron Maybin; Andrew Miller, the eventual excellent reliever who we had no benefits from because we insisted it was SP or bust for him; Burk Badenhopp who was unfortunately the most productive for our team of these guys; and Mike Rabelo who’s legend is based on his spike of the ball on home plate in what turned out to be a meaningless game.
– Dan Uggle to a division rival for the coveted (but easily replaceable) Omar Infante and Mike Dunn (essentially Renyel Pinto with far less damage caused)
These long before Yelich.
Sheesh! We’ve been brutal for a long time
Some of those things you mentioned are entirely Loria situations, and also during Beinfest’s time, but things he explained at the time, as in he knew they were bad, but he had no choice b/c of Loria. Mike Hill stuff was a lot later
Peter Bendix would be a great porn star name
Seems like these GM & HOBO positions are redundant Just put someone in charge and go from there. Enough with the stupid titles already.
Marlins becoming the Rays. They already have the empty stadium going and working on developing a good, competitive team on the cheap.
I think this looks like a decent hire.
Unfortunately he probably will have the same issue as some prior marlins GMs which is an unwillingness to spend both on mlb players and coaching/development/analytics.
Bendix is a smart guy and is a good hire, but unless Sherman decides to allow him to make the calls on FO and baseball operations personnel and increase spending on player development, analytics, and scouting as Ng wanted its not going to matter.
I’d agree. The Rays are known for operating lower player payrolls, but they do have an extensive analytics and scouting departments. That’s where they spend. The Marlins will need to do similar. It’s not just one person. It’s an organizational approach. That doesn’t get created overnight. It took the Rays years to get to the point when they could build sustained winners.
I think there isn’t enough credit for the Rays owner handling this. There is a lot of talk about the rays being cheap and the front office being so good but their owner continues to have great front offices even though they lose guys every year.
A lot of teams talk about copying the rays but it is really their owner who continues to hire the right guys and creates an environment where they can do their job including paying for off field stuff like coaching and scouting.
Many teams don’t have that, they might hire a rays AGM but they are not willing to spend on off the field stuff , are not supporting the GM when it comes to fights with longer tenured old school guys (looking at you white sox) or the owner is meddling with front office decisions.
I would say the rays owner plays a huge part in their success even though he is not spending a ton of money.
Agreed. Owners, for better and worse, have the biggest impact on any organization. To me the “Rays Way” is organizational, starting at the top. It’s not just one person, which is why the Rays have been able to absorb talent going to other organizations. My point is even if Sherman is committed to developing his own form of the Rays Way, it will take more than one person and a number of years to really build it out.
Agreed. Domingo111 and LordD99, great points both of you.
It is about the hiring into that organization. It seems there is another following in the previous footsteps, groomed well enough to jump into the next position up.
I’d love to read the Rays’ Mission Vision Value statements, and see an their succession planning matrix.
I really can’t believe that comments like “It was his mother’s maiden name” are allowed on this site. Do you guys have no moderation at all?! I’m going and reporting this to the cybepolice. Mothersmaidenamism is a huge problem in society.. stop perpetuating it!
Jokes, jokes 😛
agree
See now, the Tigers could have traded Beamer Harris, the Hedgehog, for a prospect.
Another missed opportunity!
Hire the Superfife!
What is Chris thinking?
Well we have a boss in time for the GM meetings. Will the Marlins be reimbursing Peter’s travel costs to the General MAnager’s Meetings?
If I were interviewing him for the job I would have asked him the Rays World Series question. Assuming he was sitting in the stand with access to a TV screen or monitor, did he realise it was the day to flip the script, sit Nick Anderson for the night and live or die by Snell.
It is the best example I know of when gut should have taken precedence over Analytics
Peter Bendix……
That’s the most adult film sounding name I may have ever heard.
Are the Marlins being ran by 13 year old boys that look up funny names to crank call in the phone book to hire as their president of baseball operations?
Heh heh. Shut up Beavis
your comment make you sound like your high.
or a teenager needing help.
Look at that mug. He is so going to get wedgied on the first day of school. His manager should be Eric Wedge.
This is the most positive Marlins news to happen in several years. Hopefully this is the first step away from the same smugness, ineptitude, downright abhorrent asset management, and all around clownery that has gone on the last 20+ years
I had said the last couple of years that b/c of the mistakes made the last 3.5 years, the Marlins would need to get drastically lucky to avoid having to start over at some point this coming year, and the opposite happened, b/c of their incredible incompetence, where they lost the one guh they absolutely couldn’t lose with Sandy. So now I say it’s time to start over and not make the same mistakes they have, especially the last couple of seasons, which have been an instant replay of 2014-2017
Jazz is the Anthony Davis of baseball, but I also call him “empty stats” for a reason. The only meaningful moments he has ever had came twice at the end of this season. I would personally trade him, although now that he had surgery again, I’m not sure how much value he even has
Personally, the only players I would keep are Eury Pefez, Trevor Rogers, Jesus Sanchez, and Nick Fortes. Everyone else should be a trade piece, and hopefully for actual value, and not Marlins value where they give up 3/4 of their body for a fingernail.
Hopefully, doing that will allow them to quickly figure something out in the next 2-3 years, instead of another 7+ year rebuild where they likely make the same mistakes again, instead of actually getting it right when it came time, the way we thought would happen once we finally got rid of Loria