About a month later, David Dombrowski resigned as President and General Manager of the Florida Marlins and accepted the position as President of the Detroit Tigers.

One week later, on May 22, Piazza was traded from the Marlins to the New York Mets for Preston Wilson, Ed Yarnall, and Geoff Goetz.

Coincidentally, he later was traded to the Marlins for Lee.

Populous, which designed both Camden Yards and Marlins Park, was willing to listen ; the lead designer for Marlins Park would later say the company was " waiting for a client willing to break the mold.

In the play in which Biggio was injured, the Florida Marlins ' Preston Wilson ( who would later become Biggio's teammate ) slid into second base, trying to stop a double play, and hit Biggio's planted left leg, tearing the ACL and MCL in Biggio's knee.

Polidor played in a career-high 79 games in 1989 and was later a member of the Marlins in their 1993 inaugural season.

Millar played for the Marlins between 1998 and 2002, and was later sold to the Japanese Central League Chunichi Dragons.

In an unprecedented deal brokered by MLB, the Marlins later repaid the money that the Dragons had paid for Millar, and the Sox also paid a similar sum to the Marlins in return for Millar.

He played just four games for the Marlins and was designated for assignment on July 13, 2007, and was outrighted to Triple-A five days later on July 18.

Then in Game Five, González hit a two-out game-tying double and scored later in Game 5, another Marlins victory.

On May 5, 2010, he signed a minor league contract with the Florida Marlins, but was released just nine days later after playing four games for the Marlins ' Triple A affiliate, the New Orleans Zephyrs.

Alou later served as a scout for the Expos, then moved to the Florida Marlins as the club's director of Dominican operations.

As a member of an All-Star family, he is the son of Bob, a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, California Angels and Kansas City Royals (–) and later a manager with the Royals and Cincinnati Reds ; his brother Aaron is a third baseman who has played with the Reds, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins, and Houston Astros.

Two teams would later surpass that, as the Florida Marlins won the 1997 World Series in their fifth year ( also becoming the first wild card team to win a World Series ) and the Arizona Diamondbacks won the 2001 World Series in their fourth year of play.

* The World Series loss snapped the Red Sox's record of winning their first five postseason series, a feat that would not be matched until the Florida Marlins did it 57 years later in the 2003 World Series.

He was traded from Los Angeles along with Juan Encarnacion and Guillermo Mota to the Marlins for Hee Seop Choi, Brad Penny, and minor league pitching prospect Bill Murphy at the 2004 trading deadline and was later traded to the Mets for two minor league prospects, pitcher Gaby Hernandez and outfielder Dante Brinkley.

Six months later the Dodgers traded Lo Duca to the Florida Marlins.

In June 1999, the Marlins traded Counsell to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a player to be named later ( minor leaguer Ryan Moskau ).

He was traded from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Florida Marlins along with Mike Piazza in 1998 for five players, then was traded to the Rangers later that season.

Five days later, Moyer started for the Rockies against the Marlins at Marlins Park.

He then retired the next ten batters before leaving the game with the Marlins trailing 4 – 2.

Following his Hall of Fame induction, Sandberg had his number 23 retired in a ceremony at Wrigley Field on August 28,, before a Cubs game against the Florida Marlins.

On August 25, 2007, Concepción's number 13 was retired by the Reds before their game against the Florida Marlins.

The Padres retired Hoffman's number 51 at Petco Park in a pre-game ceremony on August 21, 2011, against the Florida Marlins.

On April 5, 1993, the day that the Marlins played their first-ever regular-season game, the Marlins retired the number 5 in Barger's memory, as his favorite player was Joe DiMaggio ( who wore number 5 in his career ); no Marlin has ever worn jersey number 5.

The only other person to have his number retired by the Marlins was Jackie Robinson, whose number 42 jersey was retired throughout Major League Baseball to honor his achievement of breaking baseball's color barrier.

Koronka, 31, last pitched for the Marlins in 2009, which mean he is retired.

He signed with the Florida Marlins for the 1996 season, but missed the entire year due to injury, and retired soon after.

In addition, McKeon retired after the last game of the 2005 season, and the Marlins named 41-year-old Joe Girardi as his replacement.

He played for five teams in an 11-year career, and retired from the Florida Marlins in.

However, on February 11, 2012, the Marlins unretired # 5, as that that number will be worn by Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison beginning with the 2012 season in favor of a plaque with # 5 depicted on it honoring Barger.

The Marlins won their first game on April 5,, against the Dodgers.

The Marlins also drafted P Johan Santana from Houston in the Rule 5 Draft but traded him to Minnesota in a prearranged deal for P Jared Camp.

A Beckett complete-game shutout in Game 5 kept the Marlins alive.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

He lead the Marlins to victory in the 1997 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, making a spectacular catch against the right field fence in game 5.

He only appeared in 5 games with the Marlins, where he hit. 278.

The first Marlins game played at then-Joe Robbie Stadium was on April 5, 1993, a 6 – 3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The most runs scored by either team in a single inning is ten, set on October 5, 2001 between the Braves and the Florida Marlins.

On January 16, 2008, Hendrickson signed a one-year, $ 1. 5 million dollar contract with the Florida Marlins.

He had four RBI on September 9 in a 12 – 5 victory over the Marlins.

On May 19, he hit his first career walk-off home run against Yusmeiro Petit in a 10-inning, 5 – 4 win over the Marlins.

In his debut with the Astros on July 13, the first game after the All-Star Break, Huff had two hits, including a three-run home run against Randy Messenger in a 5 – 1 victory over the Marlins.

On December 5, 2007, the Marlins traded Cabrera and starting pitcher Dontrelle Willis to the Detroit Tigers for pitchers Andrew Miller, Dallas Trahern, Eulogio De La Cruz and Burke Badenhop, outfielder Cameron Maybin, and catcher Mike Rabelo.

Originally signed by the Florida Marlins as an amateur free agent in 1996, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates from Florida in the 2001 Rule 5 draft, and was traded to the Mariners for cash the same day.

He picked up his 100th RBI of the season on August 31 against Jason Vargas ( joining Williams, DiMaggio, and Al Simmons as the only players with 100 RBIs in their first five seasons ) and had three hits as the Cardinals beat the Florida Marlins 5 – 3.

On August 15, his RBI single in the ninth inning gave the Marlins a 6 – 5 victory over Pittsburgh.

His RBI single in the eleventh inning on May 1 gave the Marlins a 6 – 5 victory over the San Diego Padres.

During the streak, on June 9, he had his first career pinch hit when he singled home Dave Berg in the ninth inning to give the Marlins a 5 – 4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Two nights after that, he hit two home runs in a 5 – 0 victory over the Marlins.

* He played in his 1, 500th game ( 5, 480 ABs ) on August 22, 2007 against the Florida Marlins.

In the 2003 regular season, Pierre posted a. 305 batting average, led the NL in games played ( 162 ), at bats ( 668 ), stolen bases ( 65 ), and sacrifice hits ( 15 ), and led the majors with the lowest strikeout percentage ( 5. 2 %), During the post-season, he was a major contributor to the Marlins ' 2003 World Series championship.