already an elite defender<\/a> and still only 20 years old. However, it does seem to safe to say that Miami should have held on to Luzardo longer rather than selling low coming off a back issue.\n<\/p>\n\n\tUnfortunately for the Marlins front office, their franchise’s spending constraints repeatedly pressure them to rush into decisions like this. Luzardo was two years away from free agency at the time of the deal. Despite his shaky track record of durability and effectiveness, he received a five-year, $135 million extension from the Phillies last March. Bruce Sherman would have never given the green light for such an investment…at least not under MLB’s current financial system. So Peter Bendix made the trade to ensure he got\u00a0something\u00a0in return before Luzardo inevitably tested the open market.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThere could be a light at the end of the tunnel for Marlins fans as the league’s collective bargaining agreement nears its expiration and owners are reportedly united around the framework of operating with a salary cap and corresponding salary floor.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tRaising the minimum on what teams must commit to their payroll could be enough to save Miami from the next Luzardo deal. If you’re not trying to contend and have to pay someone anyway, players like him with extremely high ceilings would be the obvious ones to gamble on. It would provide more margin for error. Right now, Bendix has none of that, hence why the 2026 Marlins rotation was Sandy Alcantara surrounded by pre-arbitration-eligible arms under less than a million dollars apiece.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThis would not entirely level the playing field considering the massive gap in local revenues between large and small markets, but definitely a step in a more equitable direction. For the Marlins’ sake, it’s time for some reform to this broken system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When healthy and on his game, Jes\u00fas Luzardo is an awesome pitcher. He already showed that during his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,6,1816,778,58,4171,4,2144,4164],"class_list":["post-802464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-baseball","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-payroll","tag-trade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117253574746126879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}