Miami Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix did not mince words and phrases when reflecting on the trade he concluded Friday evening.
“We are unlikely to make the playoffs this year,” Bendix bluntly claimed to reporters in a push conference.
The Marlins traded two-time batting champion Luis Arráez to the San Diego Padres in exchange for 3 prospects and reliever Woo-Suk Go.
Arraez was a staple in the Marlins’ lineup since the team obtained him in a trade in January 2023, batting .343/.384/.450 throughout 180 video games with Miami. He’ll now sign up for a Padres crew attempting to maintain up with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.
The Marlins have been 1 of baseball’s most surprising stories previous year, winning 84 game titles and producing the playoffs as a wild-card group. But they got off to a horrendous start out in 2024, dropping their to start with 9 video games and 16 of their very first 20.
Getting into Saturday’s slate of games, the Marlins are 9–25 and in last area in the NL West, 13 1/2 online games driving the first-spot Philadelphia Phillies. Fangraphs at the moment provides the Marlins just a .5% prospect to make the playoffs.
There is certainly a extensive way to go in the normal season—128 game titles stay on the Marlins’ schedule—but Bendix is ideal. Miami likely is not going to make the playoffs. It can be why 1 of baseball’s finest contact hitters is now carrying brown and gold in San Diego.
