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Throughout this process, there seems to be an incredible amount of faith still being placed in Beinfest and the front office to make decisions. But, I'm wondering if ownership may be giving them one last chance to make this work.
Consider the following:
- There have been reports that Loria was very involved in some of our larger contracts. He allegedly was the main force behind Bell, Buck, and Ozzie.
- We don't know whether people in the front office were against those decisions behind closed doors.
- The Cabrera trade will go down as an all-time flop, but the front office can at least point to the fact that there was almost universal belief around baseball that Maybin and Miller would be studs.
- The prospects we got back from the Toronto deal are not seen in that same light. (So there will be no cover if it doesn't pan out)
- Ownership continues to be very confident in the fact that our front office people are very high on these players.
With all that said, an optimist would argue that the failures from the past year has caused ownership to put the decision-making back in the hands of the people they hired to make decisions. If that's the case, hasn't Beinfest gone all in with these moves? If Brantly, Turner, Eovaldi, Marisnick, and Hecheaverria don't amount to anything, how can they justify keeping him and his people around? There will be no outside force or unlikely event to blame. It'll all rest on his failure to find talent.
How much better would this team have to be for his decisions to be deemed successful? How long does he get to see if this plan actually works?
If I had to predict, I would say that by the start of the 2015 season we will all either be pleasantly surprised that these players are beating our expectations or the Marlins will have a new front office.
Consider the following:
- There have been reports that Loria was very involved in some of our larger contracts. He allegedly was the main force behind Bell, Buck, and Ozzie.
- We don't know whether people in the front office were against those decisions behind closed doors.
- The Cabrera trade will go down as an all-time flop, but the front office can at least point to the fact that there was almost universal belief around baseball that Maybin and Miller would be studs.
- The prospects we got back from the Toronto deal are not seen in that same light. (So there will be no cover if it doesn't pan out)
- Ownership continues to be very confident in the fact that our front office people are very high on these players.
With all that said, an optimist would argue that the failures from the past year has caused ownership to put the decision-making back in the hands of the people they hired to make decisions. If that's the case, hasn't Beinfest gone all in with these moves? If Brantly, Turner, Eovaldi, Marisnick, and Hecheaverria don't amount to anything, how can they justify keeping him and his people around? There will be no outside force or unlikely event to blame. It'll all rest on his failure to find talent.
How much better would this team have to be for his decisions to be deemed successful? How long does he get to see if this plan actually works?
If I had to predict, I would say that by the start of the 2015 season we will all either be pleasantly surprised that these players are beating our expectations or the Marlins will have a new front office.
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