Surprising Miami Marlins rival off-season notes

This has been a slow off-season for Miami Marlins news, but the rival news are quite surprising. The free-spending New York Mets may be after Juan Soto, but they're seemingly going cheap everywhere else. It appears that the Philadelphia Phillies may not be as aggressive to change the team either. It's been an interesting time to say the least and news are happening daily, even if it's still a bit slow.

Miami Marlins rivals have some interesting new developments.

It turns out that Miami Marlins division rival teams haven't been as aggressive as previously expected. Most notably the Philadelphia Phillies have supposedly been planning to shake up the team. They don't have a core of a World Series winning team. That has been shown over the last few seasons, as despite being able to have strong years, they can't really get the job done. We now know that they never even met with Juan Soto!

I understand that Philly were probably not going to sign Soto anyway, but still to not even meet with him?! For a big market team planning to win the World Series this is really bizarre behavior. You'd think that they would at least look into it, but I guess they don't want to do that.

The other Marlins division rivals the New York Mets, just lost starting pitcher Luis Severino to the Athletics. Severino is injury-prone and hasn't been anything special over the last few years. The three-year $67 million deal for him is surprising. It certainly looks like the Athletics are serious and are here to try and at least look like they're trying to win.

The Mets aren't going to miss Severino, and they don't really need him at all. In fact, they already technically replaced him. It's just a wash and I'm still waiting to see if the Mets will actually pursue real upgrades, besides their pursuit of Juan Soto. Assuming that they don't sign Soto, are they going to take starting pitching upgrades seriously? They just gave out $38 million to Clay Holmes to be a starting pitcher in a bizarre move. He hasn't been a starting pitcher since 2018, when he pitched to a 6.84 ERA/5.40 FIP. This is a really bad move, that seems more like something that a small market club would attempt.

The Miami Marlins may be staying quiet, but the silence could end up being golden.