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.
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.