Rebuilding always hurts. It’s a process that every team in the MLB has been through. For the Marlins, it will be well worth if they ultimately win it all.
Still far away from contending, the Marlins are being very cautious with their farm system. Young, promising men like Sixto Sánchez, Monte Harrison, and Jesús Sánchez will not debut until 2020. In the meantime, the franchise’s only preseason top 30 prospects who debuted in 2019 were 2B Isan Díaz, RHP Jordan Yamamoto, and RHP Robert Dugger. (RHP Zac Gallen would have been included in that group, but the Fish traded him to the Arizona Diamondbacks.