This is the 15th installment in what will be a series of articles that will cover all 30 teams, going in alphabetical order.
Baseball fans will remember the off-season leading up to the 2013 regular season. The then Florida Marlins in preparation for opening a brand new stadium re-branded themselves as the Miami Marlins, got new uniforms, a new logo and inked several of the biggest name free agents available. After the on-field results were far less than desired, the ownership traded away all of those big-name talents in a move that reverted the franchise back to its modus operandi of developing young talent and hoping to squeeze all it can out of those players before they get too pricey.
After the overhaul was done, the management crafted the plot line from Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal” to their purposes and made a prophecy about 2015. All the missing…
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