Welcome to yet another offseason of the Marlins not being in the playoffs! Long accustomed to the feeling by now, some Fish fans decide to tune out of baseball entirely once the Marlins’ season ends, and if that’s you, you’re probably not reading this right now.
But if it isn’t, maybe you’re wondering who you should bandwagon. From a personal standpoint, it’s pretty rare for teams that I care about to even get to the postseason, let alone do anything meaningful in it, so going through the pros and cons of the teams that are left in order to extract some sort of vestigial fandom has become an important ritual to me.