1:20pm: Also among the cuts were head athletic trainer Lee Meyer and strength & conditioning coach Brendan Verner, . None of the coaches being dismi sed were under contract for the 2025 season, per the report. Still, an overhaul of this magnitude is borderline unprecedented in recent big league history. 11:40am: The Marlins are gutting their coaching staff, as Craig Mish of SportsGrid and the Miami Herald that the entire staff has been informed it will not return for the 2025 season. Mish notes that there are a couple exceptions who have been told theres some interest in a reunion, but even thats dependent on the hiring of the incoming manager and any preferences that person may have. Specifically, that bench coach Luis Urueta and first base/outfield coach Jon Jay have been told theres interest in a reunion, pending the managerial search. Both will be free to pursue other opportunities in the meantime, however. All of this aligns with a report last night from Isaac Azout of Fish On First, who that the Marlins firings were being described to him as a blood bath that extended to the coaching staff, clubhouse attendants, performance staff and more. Manager Skip Schumaker already over the weekend. Zion Williamson Jersey His impending exit was one of the worst-kept secrets around the league. The former big league utilityman and Cardinals bench coach was hired by former Marlins GM Kim Ng and won NL Manager of the Year honors last season in his rookie effort. His original two-year contract included an option for the 2025 season. However, after the Marlins hired Rays GM Peter Bendix as their new president of baseball operations, prompting Ng to walk away from the organization. Schumaker reportedly voiced frustration with the clubs direction understandably so, given last years playoff berth and management on his deal in order to allow him to explore new opportunities. In addition to Urueta and Jay, todays news presumably indicates that hitting coach John Mabry, a sistant hitting coaches Bill Mueller and Jason Hart, pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr., third base coach Griffin Benedict, infield coach Jody Reed, bullpen coach Wellington Cepeda, bullpen coordinator Rob Flippo and field coordinator Rod Barajas will all be at the very least free to pursue other opportunities, if not dismi sed outright. Among the group, Stottlemyre figures to be a particularly hot commodity on the coaching market. Hes spent a dozen years on big league coaching staffs, serving as both a pitching coach and bullpen coach in addition to prior stints as a minor league pitching coordinator. Hes worked with the D-backs and Mariners organizations in the past but has spent the past seven years as the pitching coach in Miami, building a strong reputation along the way. While the Marlins have regularly been a doormat in the NL East with the exception of the 2020 and 2023 seasons a strong core of touted young pitching has been a hallmark of the team in recent years. Stottlemyre alone isnt to credit for that, of course, but his influence on the staff and the organizations pitching development as a whole is clear. Cepeda, it should be noted, has been in lockstep with Stottlemyre throughout his time in the organization. He was hired as the Marlins bullpen coach back in 2019. The two have worked alongside one another for seven years. Thats not to say others on the staff wont be coveted free agents in their own right. Urueta spent 15 years in the D-backs system, rose to their bench coach under Torey Lovullo, and has interviewed for MLB managerial posts in the past. Mabry and Mueller, in addition to lengthy big league careers, have extensive coaching backgrounds acro s multiple organizations. Barajas, who also had a lengthy big league career, has served as the bench coach and interim manager of the Padres and has interviewed for various managerial posts in recent years (in addition to several years as a minor league manager in San Diegos system). Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat that Jay could wind up a target of the Cardinals, for whom he played six MLB seasons though Jay could also join Schumaker wherever he lands his next managerial a signment. Broadly speaking, the Miami coaching staff can hardly be faulted for the disastrous record this season. Bendix spent most of the 2023-24 offseason focused on reshaping the baseball operations department and did little to augment the actual Marlins roster. Injuries waylaid much of the pitching staff, and when Miami opened the season with a significant losing streak, the front office wasted little time in waving the white flag. Luis Arraez was traded to San Diego in early May, signaling exactly what type of direction the new baseball ops staff would be taking. No manager or coaching staff couldve spun the 24 Marlins into a contender, and other clubs will surely be cognizant of that as they show interest in a wave of newly available coaching talent. Josh Hart Jersey