3 Biggest misconceptions about the Marlins under Peter Bendix

2. He purposely had a bad off-season, not doing enough.

The Miami Marlins signed the best SS available in free agency: Tim Anderson. He may not have een working out to say the least, but that's something that's completely in hindsight. There was no way to assume in advance that he was going to be such a disaster. Not every signing works out and sadly this one didn't. It's still silly to assume that signing the best available SS in free agency was somehow "not doing enough" to fix the position.

Starting pitching injuries could also not have been predicted, so once again it's odd to have expected Bendix to predict that. There was no room in the rotation to sign anyone else. Furthermore, the oft-cited suggestion is that he should've signed an inning-eater. A so-called inning-eater would not have made much of a difference. The Fish would still have been bad this season.

We don't know which potential trade targets were available either. The easiest thing in the world to do is to just assume that certain players were available, and that the price that you personally think is fair, would've been accepted by the other team. The fact is if a player wasn't traded at all, chances are he was never available in the first place.

NEXT: THAT trade...