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The rebuild of the Marlins was made necessary by two things, the trades from a dew years ago that brought Dee Gordon and two other guys who are no even playing affiliated ball any more for three prospects Hatcher, Hernandez, and Barnes, all reliable major leaguers now. Gordon is long gone so that's over. Nathan Evoldi and two other guys were traded for Marin Prado is is decent but I'd rather have Evoldi back. The drained the cream of the farm system for a team that won 150 games in two season because there is no depth left in the system Someone gets hurt and you're done.
Then Jose Fernandez died. They tried to replace him with Chen but he's done and overpaid to boot. There is exactly 0 major league talent playing above short season ball. And little enough at that level.
Add to that an ownership that has done every imaginable thing to infuriate the few fans that do come and the fish soup is pretty rotten.
So the new ownership has a choice, throw good money after bad (remember the team is some $400M in debt the day Jeter walks in the door) and maybe go from 77 wins to 85 (still won't get you there) or blow it up and start over. They made the right choice. The reason this has a negative connotation here is it's been done so often out of cheapness that no one here associates fire sales with future success. Everyone forgot already the end result of the Great Fire Sale of 1998 was the 2003 WS.
As for me, I'm cutting the new owners some slack. I'll still be there in my seat for every game this year, and next. But if another fire sale follows this one like that cheap b-----d Loria did over and over then I'm done.
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