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Dave Hyde: If Bruce Sherman wants to define new era, Marlins must make trades to make playoffs

If there’s any lesson to take from the Miami Marlins’ recent run of wins — besides it being more fun to play bad teams — it’s how desperately this roster needs help if they’re thinking playoffs.

And if there’s any lesson you can take from the past quarter-century of the Marlins’ ownership — four owners who failed financially while owning the team, including Derek Jeter’s Wolverine plan — it’s an accounting degree comes in handier at their games than peanuts and crackerjack.

So don’t expect me to pound the table for the latest Marlins owner, Bruce Sherman, to act his part and write a check when none of his predecessors did in this situation. But that’s the larger point, isn’t it?

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