ESPN Chalk's Joe Peta is sharing his season win total projections for every MLB team, including a reason for optimism and pessimism. Plus, he recommends an over/under play, or a pass. This is the entry for the Miami Marlins.
Miami Marlins
Reason for optimism: Seven more years of an outfield that averaged 23 years of age and created 14 WAR in 2014.
Reason for pessimism: Ownership's history suggests the outfielders won't be playing for Miami during those peak years.
Although their words had zero credibility at the time, the Marlins front office insisted their near-immediate teardown of the 2012 team (one built with a fantasy baseball-like roster construction) was done with an eye to the future, and they've certainly been vindicated. While some would opt for the next three years of the Pirates' or the Brewers' outfield instead, you can certainly make a case that the Marlins, with the 2014 emergence of Christian Yelich and Marcell Ozuna, may have assembled the best outfield in the National League, anchored by Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton, 25, is the oldest, which makes the Marlins the envy of any observer with a seven-to-ten-year horizon.