The Marlins knowledgeable assistant basic managers Dan Greenlee and OzOcampo that their contracts is not going to be renewed in 2025, report Barry Jackson and Craig Mish of the Miami Herald. The entrance workplace adjustments transcend the AGM ranks. ESPN’s Alden González experiences that the Fish are overhauling a number of their participant growth division and are parting methods with worldwide scouting director Roman Ocumarez.
It’s widespread for brand spanking new baseball operations leaders to interchange a number of their high personnel pretty early of their tenure. Miami employed president of baseball operations Peter Bendix final November. Shortly earlier than Bendix’s hiring, former GM Kim Ng declined her finish of a mutual possibility after proprietor Bruce Sherman knowledgeable her the group was planning to rent a baseball ops president (thereby dropping Ng to second within the entrance workplace hierarchy).
Greenlee and Ocampo predated Bendix within the Miami entrance workplace. The Fish employed Greenlee again in 2017 and promoted him to AGM on the finish of the 2020 marketing campaign, simply earlier than they tabbed Ng to run baseball operations. Ocampo was an Ng rent, becoming a member of the group over the 2022-23 offseason after spending time with the Astros and Pirates in worldwide scouting.
The Marlins operated with 4 assistant GMs this season. They don’t even have a basic supervisor following Ng’s departure. Brian Chattin has been part of the group for greater than 1 / 4 century and has held an AGM title for 9 seasons. Bendix surprisingly tabbed former Giants supervisor Gabe Kapler as an assistant GM final December. Jackson and Mish report that Chattin is anticipated to stay with the group.
Each The Miami Herald and ESPN write that Kapler is anticipated to proceed serving as an assistant GM subsequent season as nicely. That ought to finish any hypothesis about Kapler probably making the leap again to the supervisor’s workplace in Miami. The Fish are usually anticipated to half methods with second-year supervisor Skip Schumaker at season’s finish. Whereas Schumaker received the Senior Circuit’s Supervisor of the 12 months award in his first season, the Marlins agreed to void a 2025 membership possibility on his contract final winter after the supervisor reportedly voiced his displeasure with the group’s dealing with of Ng’s scenario.
It’s fully doable that Bendix would have put his stamp on the entrance workplace no matter how the group carried out in 2024. The best way the group performed instantly solidified that they had been headed for an organizational overhaul. Bendix oversaw a quiet first offseason from a participant personnel perspective. The Fish by no means appeared sturdy believers that they’d repeat final yr’s stunning playoff berth.
An 0-9 begin tanked their season from the start and the Marlins pulled the set off on a Luis Arraez commerce simply six weeks into the season. They adopted up with trades of Jazz Chisholm Jr., Bryan De La Cruz, Josh Bell, Trevor Rogers and most gamers of notice from their bullpen (e.g. Tanner Scott, A.J. Puk, Huascar Brazoban). Had been it not for a brutal stretch of damage luck within the rotation, they’d in all probability have dealt Jesús Luzardo and probably Braxton Garrett or Ryan Weathers as nicely.
It’s yet one more full rebuild in Miami, one which’ll actually proceed into subsequent offseason and fairly probably the ’25 commerce deadline. There are prone to be extra adjustments all through the roster, teaching workers and probably within the entrance workplace as they attempt to flip the web page on one of many worst seasons in franchise historical past.
