Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 Miami Marlins.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.

Last year, the Marlins continued their losing ways as a small market team and sold off assets before they became high-priced.  Nevertheless, there was one new entrant based on the 2024 campaign, and of course, that player is no longer in Miami.

As always, we present our top five, which had no changes.

1. Giancarlo Stanton

2. Hanley Ramirez

3. Josh Johnson

4. Luis Castillo

5. Miguel Cabrera

You can find the entire list here.

Staring Pitcher Sandy Alcantara remains at #7.

Jazz Chisholm, who is now a New York Yankee, went up nine spots to #31.

Pitcher Tanner Scott enters at #39.

Luis Arraez, who was traded early in the year, went up two spots to #43.

Jesus Luzardo comes in at #49.

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Jesus Luzardo began his pro career with the Oakland Athletics in 2019, and during the 2021 season, the Venezuelan southpaw was traded to the Marlins; going from one perpetually cash-strapped team to another.

The starter dis not have a good 2021 (4-5, 6.44 ERA), but showed significant improvement in 2022 (4-7, 3.32 ERA) and the season after started 32 Games going 10-10 with a 3.58 ERA and 208 Strikeouts.  In 2024, Luzardo battled with injuries, and it would turn out to be his Swanson for the Marlins, as the perpetually rebuilding club traded him to Philadelphia in the offseason.

Tanner Scott had five nondescript seasons with the Baltimore Orioles before he was traded to the Marlins where he had the best run of his career.

Scott was a serviceable hurler in his first year in Miami (2023), but in 2023, he exploded with a 9-5/2.31 year where he appeared in 74 Games and led the NL in Win Probability Added and Championship Win Probability Added.  Scott was an All-Star the following season, where he posted an 1.18 ERA, but the always-rebuilding Marlins sent him to San Diego.

Scott had an overall 19-15 record with a 2.70 ERA and 50 Saves for Miami.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2023 revision of our top 50 Miami Marlins.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Marlins made the playoffs but did not go very far as they were eliminated in the first round.  There were two new entrants, and one elevation.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Giancarlo Stanton

2. Hanley Ramirez

3. Josh Johnson

4. Luis Castillo

5. Miguel Cabrera

 

You can find the entire list here.

Of note, former Cy Young winner, Sandy Alcantara remained at #7.

The only elevation was Jon Berti, who climbed to #34 from #50.  The new entries are Jazz Chisholm and Luis Arraez who debut at #41 and #44 respectively.

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We are very aware that Luis Arraez has only been with Miami for one year, but as we have said before:

The Marlins have not been around long.
They don’t keep good players when it is time for them to get paid.

As such, Arraez is here after a season where he eclipsed what he did in his last year in Minnesota, where he also won a Batting Title but did so after flirting with .400 (he finished with .354). He also had an OPS of .861, which was impressive for a man with only 10 Home Runs. Arraez also went to his second All-Star, won his second Silver Slugger, and was eighth in MVP voting.

Arraez would win another Batting Title in 2024, but most of that was as a San Diego Padre, as he was traded early in the season.

Jazz Chisholm, who debuted for Miami in 2020, is one of the most entertaining baseball players to watch. He is also one of the fastest players to ever grace the diamond. In 2021, Chisholm became the permanent Second Baseman and had a decent year, collecting 115 hits, 18 home runs and 23 stolen bases. He was named to the All-Star Game the following year, but unfortunately, an injury took him out of the mid-season contest and the rest of the year. Injuries continued to plague him in 2023, with Chisholm appearing in only 97 games. However, he still managed to steal 22 bases and hit 19 home runs.

The speedster became another victim of ths short-sighted Marline, as he was traded to the Yankees during the 2024 Season.  He amassed 362 Hits and 81 Stolen Bases with the Marlins.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022 revision of our top 50 Miami Marlins.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Marlins were not able to make the playoffs, and we had one new entrant and one huge ranking jump.

As always, we present our top five, which was not affected by the last season:

1. Giancarlo Stanton

2. Hanley Ramirez

3. Josh Johnson

4. Luis Castillo

5. Miguel Cabrera

You can find the entire list here.

Cy Young winner, Sandy Alcantara had a monstrous jump from #30 to #7.

Third Baseman, Brian Anderson, moved up from #31 to #29.

Pitcher, Pablo Lopez, who is now with the Minnesota Twins, climbed from #49 to #32.

Jon Berti is the only debut, and he enters at #48.

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Jon Berti was taken with the Toronto Blue Jays in the 19^th Round in 2011, but despite his low selection, he eventually made it to the Majors, appearing in four Games for Toronto in 2018.  He was a Free Agent after, and was signed to a Minor League deal by the Miami Marlins.

Berti proved valuable with his defensive versatility, and the Marlins used him in the Outfield, Third and Second.  A light hitter, Berti showed speed, and he with increased playing time, he won the National League Stolen Base Title (41), and is arguably the most unlikely winner in this category in NL history.   After another season in Florida (the only one where we had over 100 Hits),  he was traded to the Yankees.

Berti would have 350 Hits and 91 Stolen Bases as a Marlin.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  We have a new one to unveil today, that of the Miami Marlins.

Along with the Colorado Rockies, the Florida Marlins came into existence in 1993, although they have been far more successful than their expansion counterparts.

The Marlins won the Pennant in only their fourth year of existence, but surely, they could not beat the New York Yankees for the World Series!  Florida did precisely that, shocking the world, and then they surprised everyone by conducting a fire sale, dismantling the team, and starting from scratch.

Florida again built a good team in 2003 and once again befuddled the baseball world by winning their second World Series.  True to form, they repeated what they did after 1997 by cost-cutting and getting rid of the parts that won it for them.

Since that time, the Marlins changed their team name to the Miami Marlins but have remained to operate as a small market team.

Our Top 50 lists in Baseball look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Remember, this is ONLY based on what a player does on that particular team and not what he accomplished elsewhere and also note that we have placed an increased importance on the first two categories.

This list is updated up until the end of the 2021 Season.

The complete list can be found here, but as always, we announce our top five in this article.  They are:

1. Giancarlo Stanton

2. Hanley Ramirez

3. Josh Johnson

4. Luis Castillo

5. Miguel Cabrera

We will continue our adjustments on our existing lists and will continue developing our new lists.  

Look for our more material coming soon!

As always, we thank you for your support.

Josh Willingham did what few 17^th Round Selection did by making it to the Majors. 

Playing a combined 28 Games in 2004 and 2005, Willingham entered 2006 as the Marlins starting Leftfielder, and offensively he proved to be decent, although he never developed his skills defensively.  Willingham was ninth in Rookie of the Year voting, hitting 26 Home Runs with a .852 OPS, and had similar numbers the year after (21 HR, .827 OPS).  Willingham missed 50 Games to injury in 2008, costing him a third 20-HR year, but he would obtain that in 2009, albeit in a Washington Nationals uniform, as Florida traded him in the 2008/09 offseason.

Willingham collected 378 Hits with a .266 Batting Average as a Marlin.

One of the most fascinating people to rank on a list of all-time Marlins is Livan Hernandez, the star of the 1997 Playoffs.

Hernandez began his career with Florida, signed by the Marlins after the Cuban defected to the United States in 1995.  He appeared in one Game in 1996 and made it to the starting rotation during the 1997 season, finishing the year with a 9-3 Record and a 3.18 ERA.  Florida made the playoffs, and Hernandez was incredible, winning the NLCS MVP and the World Series MVP, going 4-0 overall.  Hernandez struggled the year after and was traded to San Francisco in July of 1999.

Hernandez would have greater individual success with the Expos/Nationals, representing them in the All-Star Game twice.  As a Marlin, Hernandez had a record of 24-24, with a 4.39 ERA and 333 Strikeouts.  Notably, he was also an excellent defensive player and an above-average hitting Pitcher, accumulating 35 Hits with a .222 Batting Average for the team.

Winning the starting Shortstop job as a rookie in 1996, Edgar Renteria was second in Rookie of the Year voting, losing to Los Angeles’s Todd Hollandsworth.

Renteria, who batted .309 as a rookie, followed it with years of .277 and .282, and though he had no power, he was quick and stole a combined 73 Bases in 1997 1998.  An All-Star in 1998, Renteria was part of the 1997 World Series Championship team, scoring eight runs in the playoffs. 

Renteria was traded to St. Louis after his third season, where he made three more All-Star Teams.  With Florida, Renteria batted .290 with 450 Hits.

Oft-injured with the Toronto Blue Jays, Al Leiter bolted from the Jays as a Free Agent in 1996 for the sunnier skies of Florida.  It was there where he was finally healthy and showed what he was capable of all along.

Leiter posted a 16-12 Record with an ERA of 2.93 in his first Marlins year, and he was an All-Star for the first time in his career.  The year after, Leiter was not as good (11-9 4.324 ERA), but he was part of a rotation that took Florida all the way to the World Series, which they won by beating the Yankees.

Like so many 1997 Championship Marlins players, Leiter was part of the biggest baseball fire sale until the team did it again after their 2003 Title.  He was traded to the Mets, though he returned as a Free Agent for an ineffective year in 2005.  With the Marlins, Leiter won 30 Games against 28 Losses with a 4.07 ERA.

If Leiter's rank comes across as low, he was prone to walk too many batters and had a Marlins WHIP well over 1.4.

Henderson Alvarez was one of the many players that the Miami Marlins acquired from Toronto in the 12-player transaction after the 2012 Season, and for a brief time, it looked like Alvarez was going to be the best player they netted.

In his first year as a Marlin, a shoulder injury kept Alvarez to only 17 Starts, but he was decent with a 3.59 ERA over 102.2 Innings, which was bolstered by a no-hitter in the season finale.  Alvarez had his best season in Baseball in 2013 with a 12-7 Record with a 2.65 ERA.  The Venezuelan went to the All-Star Game that year, and it appeared that his career could shoot to the moon, but it was not to be.

Shoulder problems would rear its ugly head again in 2015, and he only threw in four Games, none of which were effective.  His contact expired, and he would only play three more Games in the Majors (Philadelphia in 2017), before he retired.

With the Marlins, Alvarez had an even record of 17-17 with a 3.28 ERA.

Signed by the Seattle Mariners as an Amateur Free Agent in 2012, Venezuelan-born Pablo Lopez was traded as a minor league player to the Marlins in the summer of 2017.

Lopez made the Marlins during the 2018 Season, and as of this writing, he has been in South Beach since.  Pitching in the starting rotation since his debut, Lopez has dealt with shoulder problems but proved that he had the goods to deliver when healthy.  In 2021, Lopez set the record for the most strikeouts to begin a game (9), and in a healthy 2022, he went 10-10 with 174 Strikeouts.

Miami traded Lopez to the Twins before the 2023 Season, and he accumulated a record of 28-31 for the Marlins.

The ninth player taken in the 1996 Baseball Amateur Draft, Mark Kotsay, appeared in 14 Games the year after, but he was not on the roster that won the 1997 World Series.  As the Marlins conducted a fire sale after the title, Kotsay was elevated to one of Florida’s starting Outfielders, and he held his own for the next three years.

Kotsay batted over .270 in all three of his full campaigns as a Marlin, which was decent, but he did not draw enough walks and had only 31 Hone Runs in this stretch, a number that was low for his position.  Traded to San Diego before the 2000 Season, Kotsay compiled 463 Hits with a .273 Batting Average.

Steve Cishek first made the Marlins roster three years after he was drafted in 2007 and the year after he was called up again to stay.

Pegged as a Relief Pitcher from the beginning, Cishek moved into the closer's role during the 2012 Season and would lead the National League in Games Finished (62) and had 34 Saves.  Cishek compiled 39 Saves in 2014, though his ERA climbed over three.  That would be his last full year with Miami, as he was traded to St. Louis the following summer.

Cishek finished 191 Games for the Marlins with 94 Saves.

Alex Gonzalez is an interesting player to rank, as the traditional stats, an All-Star (1999) and 788 Hits should place him much higher on a team like the Marlins.

Playing at Shortstop for the Marlins from 1998 to 2005, Gonzalez did have a decent hit count, but his ability to draw walks was non-existent, and he only had a .291 OBP.  Defensively, Gonzalez was inconsistent and had only one season as a Marlin where his Defensive bWAR was over one, which is not what you need for a Shortstop.  His overall Marlins bWAR is under two, reflecting his deficiencies, though he had moderate power, most notably hitting the walk-off Home Run that won Game 4 against the Yankees in the 2003 World Series.

That aside, Gonzalez's rank is the one we feel we revisit yearly.

A First Round Pick and former High School Player of the Year, Preston Wilson made the Mets in 1998, only for him to be traded two weeks later to Florida.

Wilson only played 14 Games the rest of the year for the Marlins, going back to the Minors, but the year after, he was a starting Outfielder, and was second in Rookie of the Year voting (26 HR, .280).  In 2000, Wilson was a 30/30 player (31 HR, 36 SB) and led the NL in Strikeouts with 187.  He had back-to-back 23 Home Run years in 2001 and 2002 but would be traded the year after to Colorado.

Wilson had 104 Home Runs, 87 Stolen Bases, and 549 Hits with the Marlins.

Brad Penny is best known for his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he was a two-time All-Star, but before that, the Pitcher won a World Series Ring with the Florida Marlins.

Penny began his career in the Diamondbacks organization, but before being promoted to the parent club, he was traded to Florida in the summer of 1999.  Making the Marlins' Starting Rotation the following year, Penny was a middle-of-the-rotation starter over the next three years, going 26-24 in that time frame with a notable 154 SO year in 2001.  Penny won 14 Starts in 2003, fanning 138 and helping the Marlins win the 2003 World Series.  He was especially effective in the WS, winning both his Games, with a 2.19 ERA.

He was traded to the Dodgers at the 2004 Trade Deadline but returned for a brief stop a decade later, though he did not play much in his second run.  With the Marlins, he had a record of 50-43 with a 4.12 ERA and 583 Strikeouts.