Our All Time Top 50 Miami Marlins have been revised to reflect the 2024 Season.
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.
3. Josh Johnson
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.
We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.
Our All-Time Top 50 Miami Marlins have been updated to reflect the 2022 Season
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:
3. Josh Johnson
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.
We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.
3. Josh Johnson
As of this writing, the man we are anointing as the greatest Pitcher in Marlins history is Josh Johnson, the lefthander who went to two All-Star Games.
Johnson made his MLB debut in 2005, appearing in four Games, and he was fourth in Rookie of the Year of voting in ’06 on the strength of a 12-7/3.10 ERA year. Injuries and Tommy John surgery held him to a combined 18 Games in 2007 and 2008, but in 2009, he emerged as the staff ace, going to the All-Star Game with a 15-5 record and a 3.23 ERA. This was good, but the year after is what placed Johnson this high on the list.
The southpaw repeated as an All-Star and led the NL in ERA (2.30), ERA+ (180), and FIP (2.41). Johnson was fifth in Cy Young voting, and it looked like he could lead the Marlins for years to come, but he was again injured, through most of the year, this time with back issues. 2012 was not a great year for Johnson, and he was one of the many players who was traded to the Blue Jays at the end of the season in a transaction that will be mentioned often on this list.
With all due respect to Johnson, the fact that he is the man we have placed in this spot is more a reflection of the business practices of the Marlins and the relative youth of the organization.
Seriously though, how weird is it that Johnson is the top Marlins hurler, with led than 60 Wins and not having anything to do with the team's two World Series wins! What a strange team.
Josh Johnson Retires
Johnson, who is only 32, has already gone three Tommy John surgeries and it became clear that his elbow would not rebound.
The now former Pitcher played eight of his nine seasons with the Florida/Miami Marlins, before being traded to the Toronto Blue Jays. Johnson’s best seasons were in 2009 and 2010, both of which saw him go to the All Star Game. In 2010, Johnson would lead the National League in Earned Run Average, ERA+, FIP and HR/9 and finished 5th in Cy Young voting.
Johnson will not be part of our Baseball Futures, as he only played nine seasons and thus is ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Josh Johnson the best in his post playing career.