Marlins hire Rays GM Peter Bendix as new club president after parting ways with Kim Ng, per report

A couple of weeks after parting ways with Kim Ng, the Marlins have employed a new chief of baseball operations. Rays basic supervisor Peter Bendix will leave Tampa Bay for Miami and take over as the Marlins’ new president of baseball operations, reports Jeff Passan. 

Bendix, 38, began with the Rays as an intern in 2009 and has labored his manner up the ladder since. He used to be promoted to basic supervisor in 2021, serving below president of baseball operations Erik Neander. 

Hiring from the Rays’ entrance administrative center has grow to be a well-liked factor to do for evident causes. The Rays have proven the power to squeeze each ounce of efficiency out of a low-payroll roster for a tight period of time now. There have been 4 playoff seasons in six years from 2008-13, after which there may be the hot run of 5 instantly playoff seasons, which incorporated the 2020 pennant and two AL East titles.

The prevailing knowledge could be that this entrance administrative center has a knack for pegging the proper avid gamers and — in lots of instances — giving them larger payroll skill must make for a very good method. That rang true with Andrew Friedman taking up the Dodgers. On the turn facet, Chaim Bloom used to be simply pushed aside from his Red Sox activity. It’s tricky to pass judgement on James Click’s time in Houston, and it is most certainly too early in Matt Arnold’s tenure in Milwaukee to attract sweeping conclusions. Still, there may be sufficient good fortune with the crowd that tapping into that very same entrance administrative center is a defensible maneuver in filling a high-ranking entrance administrative center place. 

The Marlins made the playoffs final season for the primary time in a complete time table since 2003, however have been swept in two video games via the Phillies. The Marlins have been 84-78 within the common season. Ng, who used to be the primary girl basic supervisor in MLB historical past, declined her a part of a mutual possibility for the 2024 season on Oct. 16 after finding out the club deliberate to hire a president of baseball operations above her.