“Elite” might be the favorite adjective in a sports fan’s vocabulary. Those five letters put the subject of your conversation into the top tier without requiring specificity or denigrating anybody else. It’s a sexy, malleable word, and for that reason, it gets ridiculously overused.
Not in this case. After hauling in three more potential impact bats in the days leading up to the MLB trade deadline, the Marlins farm system is elite.
It wasn’t pretty! With new Marlins ownership settling in after the 2017 regular season, we witnessed arguably the 21st century’s largest exodus of established major league talent from a single roster.