GOING…GOING...GONE? Will Luis Arraez be the next in the long line of popular and productive Marlins to be traded away for financial reasons? (Photo courtesy of Getty Images.)
With the Marlins’ 2023 season in the books and the start of Spring Training 2024 approaching, VIEW FROM THE BLEACHERS continues its look ahead to 2024 in this multi-part series in which we’re discussing some of the primary burning questions the organization will need to answer this offseason that could go a long way toward defining its short- and long-term future.
If you missed our previous installments in the series, you can read them here…
“The Marlins are suggesting to teams they are willing to listen on almost everyone (everyone but righthander Eury Perez, one rival said). It’s uncertain, but could that include back-to-back batting champion Luis Arraez?
“One rival exec says ‘everything is on the table’ for the Marlins. But the consensus is the greatest likelihood is they deal either Jesus Luzardo or Edward Cabrera.
“One rival said Arraez should probably go since he’s two years from free agency ‘and they have zero chance to hold onto him [long term].’ ”
Today we conclude our series of 10 Burning Questions for the Marlins’ offseason, a list I’ve rewritten multiple times based upon the approach we’ve seen the organization take to the winter—most notably the team’s inaction since Kim Ng was forced out atop baseball operations and replaced by Peter Bendix.
Coming off an improbable 84-win season and an unexpected National League Wild Card berth in 2023, the Marlins have failed to act in any way to improve their roster to this point in the offseason while also losing 36-home run slugger Jorge Soler to free agency and ace Sandy Alcantara to Tommy John surgery that will sideline him for all of 2024.
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