Miami Marlins

In 2016, baseball fans can still think about Giancarlo Stanton the way basketball fans thought about Stephen Curry circa 2012: With talent like that, just imagine what he might do with good health.

Basketball fans have certainly gotten their answer. But as for us baseball folk, Stanton's if-healthy potential is still a topic for the imagination.

The Miami Marlins will be without one of their top relievers for the entire 2016 season, as Carter Capps is set to undergo Tommy John surgery.

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Put Scott Boras, Jeffrey Loria and David Samson in a room, and a reality television producer would salivate at the possibilities. It's a group with so much potential for dysfunction that Bravo might consider ditching The Real Housewives series just to acquire the rights.

The outspoken, bullish agent (Boras), the wacky owner (Loria) and president (Samson) have the kind of volatile personalities that could cause a kerfuffle in 2016.

The Miami Marlins have a "tentative game plan" to put ace starting pitcher Jose Fernandez on an innings limit for the upcoming season, which the team "will review with Jose in spring training,” according to president of baseball operations Michael Hill (via Jon Morosi of FoxSports.com).  

Jose Fernandez and the Miami Marlins appear to be destined for a divorce by the time the hard-hurling right-hander hits free agency in 2018.

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The Miami Marlins and second baseman Dee Gordon agreed to a five-year, $50 million deal Wednesday, according to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal. 

Gordon garnered his second All-Star Game appearance in his first year with the Marlins in 2015, leading MLB with 205 hits.

Say what you want about the Miami Marlins—and we're about to say a lot of unkind things—but they have made a fine art out of not having a plan.

Imagine, if you will, the most feared slugger in recent baseball history taking pointers from the most accomplished slugger in all of baseball history.

Well, you can turn off your imagination now. That's something that's about to happen in Miami in real life, and it could mean great things for one Giancarlo Stanton.

After much speculation, Barry Bonds is officially back in Major League Baseball as a hitting coach of the Miami Marlins. 

The Marlins announced their 2016 coaching staff Friday under manager Don Mattingly on Twitter, which includes Bonds as one of the team's hitting coaches. 

The story about Mark McGwire possibly becoming the San Diego Padres bench coach mentions the word "steroids" exactly once, four paragraphs into a 10-paragraph report.

Maybe it's just not that big a deal anymore. Maybe that's as it should be.