The Marlins have had some truly All-Star fire sales over the last 20 years, starting with the original flushing of finances and talent after the one-season wonder 1997 World Series champions.
Few franchises over the last 20 years can boast (?) that they’ve sent so many good players away because they couldn’t (or wouldn’t) pay big for that big-time player. As far as true mass salary dumps, there was the one after the 1997 World Series title; the one in 2005, two seasons after the 2003 World Series title; the 2012 one that aborted the excitement over brand new Marlins Park; and the current one as new ownership slashes payroll like some financial Red Wedding.