That sound you hear? It's big league baseball exiting the southeastern United States with gale force.
Oh, sure, the Sunshine State is technically home to two MLB franchises. The Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays will play "meaningful" games in 2018.
For all intents and purposes, however, Florida's teams are dead in the water. They've spent the winter jettisoning their assets and engaging in embarrassing selloffs that have set them up for irrelevance.
It's ugly. It's going to get uglier.
The Marlins have made an indelible mark on an otherwise slow-developing offseason by trading their entire 2017 outfield.