Helping ensure strength remains strength smart strategy by Miami Marlins

The backbone of the Marlins remains their starting pitching, so bolstering the rotation could be the best path to success in 2026.

Miami Marlins v San Diego Padres | Orlando Ramirez/GettyImagesStop me if you've heard this before: the strength of the Miami Marlins is their starting pitching.

While this article is concerned with this current Miami Marlins core, truth be told, you could argue there has never been a successful Marlins team that was able to claim otherwise. Certainly not in terms of translating that success to the postseason, at any rate. It's no coincidence that Miami's two respective World Series MVPs in 1997 and 2003 were both pitchers, and that both of those clubs featured…