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1998 Florida Marlins season

Field	Value
name	Florida Marlins
season	1998
league	National League
division	East
ballpark	Pro Player Stadium
city	Miami Gardens, Florida
record	54–108 (.333)
divisional_place	5th
owners	Wayne Huizenga
general_managers	Dave Dombrowski
managers	Jim Leyland
television	Sports Channel Florida
WBFS-TV
(Joe Angel, Dave O'Brien, Tommy Hutton, Jay Randolph)
radio	WQAM
(Joe Angel, Dave O'Brien, Jon Sciambi)
WQBA (Spanish)
(Felo Ramírez, Manolo Alvarez)

WBFS-TV (Joe Angel, Dave O'Brien, Tommy Hutton, Jay Randolph) (Joe Angel, Dave O'Brien, Jon Sciambi) WQBA (Spanish) (Felo Ramírez, Manolo Alvarez) |}} The 1998 Florida Marlins season was the sixth season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in the National League. It would begin with the team attempting to defend their World Series Champion title, having won the title in 1997. Their manager was Jim Leyland. They played home games at Pro Player Stadium, and finished with a record of 54–108, the worst record in all of baseball. The team is notable for having arguably the biggest fire sale in sports history, auctioning off nearly all of their most notable players. The 1998 Marlins were the first defending World Series champions to finish last in their division and the first to lose 100 games. To make matters more embarrassing, their record that season was worse than both of that year's expansion teams, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks, who also finished last in their own divisions (the AL East and NL West respectively), were nine and eleven games better than the Marlins, at 63–99 and 65-97 respectively.

The Marlins won on opening day against the Chicago Cubs, but it would be the only time they were over .500 all season. They promptly lost 11 straight, the most consecutive losses by a reigning champion. By the end of May, they were 17–38, 21 games under .500, and their season was all but over. The Marlins would finish 0–9 against three teams: Cincinnati, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. The 1998 Marlins are the most recent team to finish winless against three separate opponents.

Offseason

November 18, 1997: Devon White was traded by the Florida Marlins to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Jesus Martinez (minors).
December 15, 1997: Scott Podsednik was drafted by the Texas Rangers from the Florida Marlins in the 1997 rule 5 draft.
December 15, 1997: Derrek Lee was traded by the San Diego Padres with Steve Hoff (minors) and Rafael Medina to the Florida Marlins for Kevin Brown.
December 21, 1997: Kevin Millar was signed as a free agent with the Florida Marlins.

Regular season

Opening Day starters

61	Livan Hernandez	P

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

April 15, 1998: Jacob Brumfield was signed as a free agent with the Florida Marlins.

The Mike Piazza trades

May 14, 1998: Mike Piazza was traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers with Todd Zeile to the Florida Marlins for Manuel Barrios, Bobby Bonilla, Jim Eisenreich, Charles Johnson, and Gary Sheffield.
May 22, 1998: Mike Piazza was traded by the Florida Marlins to the New York Mets for Preston Wilson, Ed Yarnall, and Geoff Goetz (minors).

Citrus Series

The first interleague game between the Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays took place at Tropicana Field. The rivalry would be known as the Citrus Series. The Marlins won the game in twelve innings by a score of 3–2 and would go on to win the season series 3 games to 1.

June 22 - Marlins @ Devil Rays: 3 – 2
June 23 - Marlins @ Devil Rays: 4 – 6
June 24 - Marlins vs Devil Rays: 8 – 4
June 25 - Marlins vs Devil Rays: 5 – 1

Roster

1998 Florida Marlins
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; Avg. = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Pos	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	Avg.	SB
C	106	298	19	56	5	29	.188	5
1B	141	454	62	106	17	74	.233	5
2B	107	335	43	84	4	40	.251	3
3B	66	234	37	68	6	39	.291	2
SS	133	517	79	146	3	31	.282	41
LF	153	588	85	166	22	90	.282	27
CF	116	434	53	109	5	28	.251	5
RF	154	578	72	161	11	68	.279	10

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; Avg. = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	Avg.	SB
	81	182	18	57	2	21	.313	3
	28	97	11	27	4	15	.278	0
	7	19	0	3	0	3	.158	0
	104	171	19	43	1	10	.251	2
	44	153	21	31	1	10	.203	3
	10	15	0	3	0	3	.200	0
	30	64	9	16	1	7	.250	2
	25	86	11	13	3	7	.151	0
	111	260	26	65	5	31	.250	1
	31	113	13	25	7	23	.221	0
	15	49	4	10	2	11	.204	0
Kevin Millar	2	2	1	1	0	0	.500	0
	48	175	23	46	6	17	.263	1
	5	18	1	5	0	5	.278	0
	37	118	10	39	2	12	.331	0
John Roskos	10	10	1	1	0	0	.100	0
	40	136	21	37	6	28	.272	4
	53	88	10	20	0	5	.227	1
	14	31	4	2	1	1	.065	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	33	234.1	10	12	4.72	162
	31	174.1	11	13	5.21	88
	35	173.0	7	9	4.47	137
	17	74.2	3	8	9.64	43
	12	67.1	2	6	6.01	49
Joe Fontenot	8	42.2	0	7	6.33	24
Chris Hammond	3	13.2	0	2	6.59	8

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts; SV = Saves

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO	SV
	58	70.2	4	6	4.08	46	8
	59	71.0	0	7	3.68	74	1
	43	59.1	4	3	3.79	32	0
	15	20.0	0	0	8.55	19	0
	41	41.0	0	3	5.49	38	2
	42	54.2	3	4	2.96	63	9
	23	33.1	0	1	5.13	26	0
	33	36.1	4	4	4.21	24	3
	18	19.1	0	3	8.38	15	0
	38	48.0	2	4	5.63	30	1
Manuel Barrios	2	2.2	0	0	3.38	1	0
Gabe Gonzalez	3	1.0	0	0	9.00	0	0

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts; SV = Saves

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Kirt Ojala	41	125.0	2	7	4.25	75
	14	54.2	1	5	7.08	35
	13	32.2	1	4	7.44	27

Farm system

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/w/whitede03.shtml Devon White Statistics] Baseball-Reference.com
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/podsesc01.shtml Scott Podsednik Statistics] Baseball-Reference.com
"Derrek Lee Stats".
"Kevin Millar Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/brumfja01.shtml Jacob Brumfield Statistics] Baseball-Reference.com
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bonilbo01.shtml Bobby Bonilla Statistics] Baseball-Reference.com
"Box Score of Game played on Monday, June 22, 1998 at Tropicana Field".
"1998 Florida Marlins Statistics".
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

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