Departing Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria didn’t attend the news conference Thursday intended to put a bow on his 16-year stewardship of the franchise, which includes the exhilaration of a 2003 World Series championship and the exasperation of not a single winning season this decade.
With Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman set to take over as Marlins owners after the sale’s closing on Monday, the responsibility of summarizing Loria’s tenure as owner fell to team president David Samson, who said Loria and initial Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga are the only “two people in the world responsible for baseball in South Florida.