The Miami Marlins ranked third in the MLB, ahead of the also obviously rebuilding Kansas City Royals and the Detroit Tigers. When listing out the reasons why the Marlins are hopeless, the author (credited simply as “SI Staff“) leaned heavily on the team’s history of fire sales.
The author highlights the Christian Yelich and Giancarlo Stanton deals as particular examples of egregiousness. Jeter and company are accused in the piece of giving them away for “essentially nothing.” Here’s that passage:
once again gestures broadly at the Marlins’ history and forcefully at the decision by Derek Jeter to trade Giancarlo Stanton for essentially nothing—the start of a teardown that has yet to bear any substantial major league fruit
The article goes on to stress that even though the major league roster is light on major league level talent, that the minors are much improved with an “average farm system ranking” of sixth.