Ryan Mayer
Just last week, it was announced that former Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and former Florida governor Jeb Bush had topped the bidding to buy the Miami Marlins from current owner Jeffrey Loria for a price tag of around $1.3 billion. The baseball public as a whole immediately got excited and started imagining what the new ownership group would do for the franchise.
Then, later in the week, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred threw water on those claims by saying that there were still multiple bidders for the franchise. The Miami Herald further cast the Jeter/Bush deal into doubt by reporting that the group still needed to raise the money necessary to buy the club.