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.
7. Sandy Alcantara
Sandy Alcantara is the perfect example of why you can’t judge a Pitcher solely on their record.
As of this writing, Alcantara has been with the Marlins for four years after being traded from St. Louis, where he played in only eight Games. Alcantara mainly played in the Minors but became a permanent starter the year after. It was bittersweet for Alcantara, who became Miami's best hurler, but due to a lack of run support, he led the NL in Losses (14). He had a good 2020 (3-2 3.00 ERA) but again had a poor record (9-15) in 2021 though he had a nice ERA of 3.19.
Alcantara won the Cy Young in 2022, making him the first Marling to do so. He also went to his second All-Star, and had a 14-9 Record with a 2.28 ERA and 0.998 WHIP. He did not follow that with another Cy Young caliber year (7-12, 4.14 ERA, 151 SO), but he missed the entire 2024 Season recovering from Tommy John Suregery.
If he returns healthy and becomes one of the few players who stays in Miami for a long time, he could reach the top of this list.