Could Marlins actually sign a 2-time All-Star this winter?

As usual, the Miami Marlins enter 2025 in the midst of yet another rebuild. One of the consistently worst teams in Major League Baseball — in spite of winning two World Series titles — since its inception in 1993, the Marlins will once again begin this season with a roster chock-full of relative unknowns.

A brief glimmer of success in 2023 was stamped out by another morose 2024 in Miami, as the team shipped out all of its star talent to load up on prospects again.

The team's starting staff, once the envy of much of MLB, has been decimated. Former Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara returns from Tommy John surgery, but no one knows whether he can return to his once-dominant ways — and if he does, he'll likely be wearing another team's uniform before the pennant race heats up.

However, through it all, Just Baseball's Leo Morgenstern muses that Miami would be the "perfect match" for a two-time All-Star pitcher available on the free agent market: Patrick Corbin.

The 35-year-old Corbin is used to bad baseball. He joined the Washington Nationals in 2019 in time to celebrate an MLB title but stuck around as the organization melted down soon thereafter.

He's not a "sexy" signing, with a career ERA of 4.51 to go with a 103-131 record and fairly paltry strikeout numbers since 2019.

One thing he does do is eat innings. Over the past four seasons, Corbin has dutifully taken the mound for no less than 31 starts a year. 

As Morgenstern notes: "At the point in his career, Patrick Corbin can only offer one thing: He can pitch a full season. As for the Marlins, there’s only one thing we know for certain: As bad as things get, they still have to play all 162 games."

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