Jeffrey Loria makes Miami Marlins a laughing stock in Major League Baseball - MLB Part 4
Most of the big Major League clubs never treat their players as apathetically as the Marlins do. It sounds ridiculous that a player lifted so high by them at the time of his joining stands nowhere the next year.
It is just an insult to the player who was just about to develop sentiments of loyalty before he is ditched and sent packing.
Jose Reyes will be dejected after he joined the Marlins last year as part of their offseason extravagant spending in the free agent market. While he may find another organisation a good place to be a part of, he will never forget the humiliating treatment
he received from the Marlins.
The only way which the Marlins can climb toward becoming successful now is developing a local infrastructure. They should be smart while drafting players. By devising a proper Minor League mechanism which produces great players, they can reduce reliance
on external options.
By the way when it comes to external choices, hardly any player will happily accept coming to the Marlins after it has become a well-established fact that they do not keep their members for long and that sword of being traded always looms large while playing
for them.
First and foremost task the Marlins need to do now is to forget what they have done in the past and look ahead at the future. The management must take steps to restore confidence of the disgruntled fans and the potential players.
The effort to nullify the impression that the Marlins are a bad club for players and that respect is not accorded to them there must start now.
Indeed, it will take some time but if the journey toward attaining this objective does not begin now then it will be too late.
If they do not do this then they must prepare for the hordes of players asking for the inclusion of no-trade clause in their contracts. They must be ready for meeting high demands of the players due to the risks they take by joining them.
If most of the players available for hiring, team up against the Marlins or even if independently they refuse to become a part, then their officials will wander in the market with money in hand but no one interested.
Then they will be like a defaulter who has learned from his mistakes but no one believing in him. No matter how expensive an asset he offers as collateral, he never gets the loan.
Similarly, the Marlins will never earn the confidence of the players. They will always be viewed with suspicion.
Dave Cameron, senior writer of FanGraphs, has thoroughly criticised the Marlins, pinpointing the troubling situation they have put themselves in by trading star players. He has claimed that now the free agents will have the Marlins as their last option while
they choose from different organisations available.
“And if you can’t keep a 22-year-old superstar, then what’s the point of any of this? The whole point of having cheap young Major League talent is that you can get quality performance at a low cost, allowing you to redistribute the majority of your payroll
to expensive veterans and build a good team around them. But if you alienate your franchise players and have lost any credibility in negotiations with free agents, then all you are left with is a bunch of minimum salary kids who aren’t good enough to win on
their own,” Cameron said.
It is a time for the Major League to step in the matter and resolve it, because the future of the game in the city is at stake.
By letting top officials of the club doing what fits well with their greedy motives, they will do a great disservice both to the fans and the game.
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