Miami Marlins have already ensured this season will feel a whole lot better

By season’s end, the standings probably won’t reflect a ton of difference between last year’s Miami Marlins and this 2025 team.

Yet just ten games into this new campaign, the 2025 Marlins have ensured that this season is going to feel a whole better than the last one. 

Last time out, Miami lost nine games before even picking up a win. This year, it’ll be at least eleven games before the team even has a sub .500 record. Thanks to the abysmal start of the Braves, it’ll be at least another week before the Marlins are in any danger of finding themselves in the NL East cellar.

Now, that might well be where the Marlins end up- it probably will be. By season’s end, the math likely shakes out to the losing team every projection system projected. Plenty of time for the numbers to change-baseball has a funny way of doing that, after all. As we all know, it’s a long season.

But that is a world of difference from where Marlins fans found themselves a year ago, and it can’t possibly be overstated how much that matters.

Just think back to that 0-9 start. Marlins fans were certain, certain, that their season was dead not even two weeks in. That uninspiring start was preceded by an uninspiring offseason, making those first couple weeks a very depressing case of confirmation bias. Anything good that did happen last season, happened well after more losses and more blows to fan hopes. The Luis Arraez trade. Word breaking that Skip’s contract was reworked to allow him to walk. Bottom-line, there was never really a chance to hope that the season could be special. Ever.

This 2025 Marlins team though? Their first three wins were all walk-offs! They’re gritty. They’re tough. They’re resilient. They’re fun. Are they good? Maybe. Maybe not. Probably not, if you take good to mean a winning team after 162 games are played.

The thing is, that kind of doesn’t matter right now? This team is entertaining. Marlins fans believe right now that they can win any game, because they’ve seen them do it. There’s proof of concept for the elusive hope that fans thrive on. It might not be rational, but that kernel has been planted, and is going to remain there even as the losses likely mount.

And that changes the perception of everything that follows entirely.

Right now, plenty of Marlins fans are thinking about things like how good the offense could be when players like Connor Norby and Jesus Sanchez return from injury. Fans are already impatient with the poor production at some positions, clamoring for a top prospect call-up or even a trade to augment the roster. Last year, the sense was already there two weeks in that nothing mattered beyond service time games, and trading popular players to get more prospects to play more service time games with. Now…well that might still be how it plays out. A front office doesn’t have the offseason they did if that wasn’t the initial plan.

Still, the hope exists. It’ll be there all year. The thirst, the impatience for the Max Acostas, the Agustin Ramirezes, the Robby Snellings of the world to be called up to help this fun, gritty team reach or even exceed their potential.

When all is said and done, the Miami Marlins might not be winners. Ten games in though, Marlins fans feel like they themselves are. Baseball is worth watching again. The fun is back.

Which already makes this season a heck of a lot more compelling, and successful, compared to last season.