The Bradenton Marauders have become a bit more of a proving ground than Low Class A teams used to be. The elimination of the short season leagues, leaving nothing between the now-Single-A Florida State League and the imaginatively named Florida Complex League means more players getting thrown into the deep end.
In the first year of the new regime, 2021, the Marauders were loaded with raw but (seemingly) high-upside players, particularly among their position players. A lot of those players probably would have gone to the New York-Penn League, had it still existed. Instead, they got a chance to put things together in the FSL.