Yes, it will also make them the only expansion team with a record above .500 all time (The Angels used to own it, but that's what mediocrity will do). What's also funny: the team with the lowest regular season win% has the highest postseason win%, the Marlins.
Marlins have only made the playoffs three times, all as a Wild Card team. 1997: Won WS 2003: Won WS 2020: Won WC round, lost NLDS They are still undefeated in playoff series played in front of fans, and are also looking for their first ever division title.
If I remember correctly, we had actually briefly gotten above .500 in 06, came really close to getting back above in 08, then the rebuild came.
So you want to use W-L now? Forget ERA/ERA+/WHIP? We have a wealth of good to great MLB proven pitching, as much as we'd like, we can't keep them all. Urquidy and Garcia have high trade value if we want a top prospect and can't compete with prospect packages. It's not an insult. But they are a level below JV, Framber, LMJ and Javier. We also have an excellent prospect Starting today. This is particularly true if we can keep Verlander and we DO want to keep him. But I don't want just any prospect. It needs to be the elite type you don't think can be pried away from an organization.
First off I didn't make the post about how many wins Urquidy has. That said, yes please do add in his era, and go look at the teams he's had FANTASTIC outings against which further strengthens my comment that people were on here wanting to trade him for an unknown prospect. On top of that we have THREE more years of control of Urquidy.
Many on this board are short-sighted, uneducated on baseball, and b**** about EVERYTHING because they delusionally think they understand baseball better than the people in charge of the Astros.
