They take over from Jeffrey Loria, perhaps one of the worst owners in baseball history, an owner who can be credited with running not one, but two major league teams into the ground. This time, the new owners - who are fronted by venture capitalist Bruce Sherman - made a big splash, as included in the group that bought the team was recently retired baseball legend Derek Jeter. The Marlins will enter their 25th season with new ownership for the fourth time in their short history. It is the story of people eroding something that could have been very good to make it something that is, well, not. It is the story of people with power - developers, government officials, baseball team owners - acting in their own interests and for their own profits without regard for how those actions will affect the people around them - the Marlins players, the Marlins fans, and the South Florida community at-large. Or maybe, it is a comedy, though one of errors, in which nothing the owners ever do will be right or good enough, a story in which the team seems destined to fail despite its best efforts.īut really, the story of the Miami Marlins is, at its core, the story of South Florida.

Not the failures of the players, but the people pulling the strings, the ones behind the scenes.

The story of the Miami Marlins could be considered a tragedy, defined by the pitfalls and failures of the people at the center. The Marlins have a brand new ballpark, and no one in Miami seems to care.

Marlins at pro player stadium