2015 Miami Marlins season

The Miami Marlins' 2015 season was the 23rd season for the Major League Baseball franchise, and the fourth as the "Miami" Marlins. They failed to make the playoffs for the 12th consecutive season.

Offseason
October 30: Rafael Furcal, Kevin Gregg, Reed Johnson, and Brad Penny become free agents.
 * Gregg signed with the Cincinnati Reds.
 * Penny signed with the Chicago White Sox.

Week of November 3: Signed 5 players to a minor league contract.

Week of November 12: Signed 4 players to a minor league contract and sent Kyle Jensen to the Los Angeles Dodgers for an unnamed players.

November 20: Promoted 5 players from the minors.

November 24: Signed Cole Gillespie to a minor league contract.

November 28: Received Aaron Crow from the Kansas City Royals for Brian Flynn and Reid Redman.

December 1: Signed James Leverton to a minor league contract.

December 2: Signed Chris Narveson to a minor league contract.

December 9: Invited 7 players to Spring training and signed Jhonatan Solano to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.

December 10: Signed Issac Galloway to a minor league contract.

December 11: Drafted Andrew McKirahan and conducted these trades:
 * Received Mat Latos from the Cincinnati Reds for Anthony DeSclafani and Chad Wallach.
 * Received Andre Rienzo from the Chicago White Sox for Dan Jennings.
 * Received Dee Gordon, Dan Haren, Miguel Rojas, and cash from the Los Angeles Dodgers for Andrew Heaney, Chris Hatcher, Enrique Hernandez, and Austin Barnes.

Week of December 15: Signed 5 players to a minor league contract and invited 1 of them to spring training. Also signed Michael Morse and conducted these trades:
 * Received David Phelps and Martín Prado from the New York Yankees for Nathan Eovaldi, Garrett Jones, and Domingo Germán.
 * Received Kendry Flores and Luis Castillo from the San Francisco Giants for Casey McGehee.

December 23: Claimed Preston Claiborne off waivers from the Yankees.

Week of January 2: Signed 5 players to a minor league contract and invited 3 of them to spring training.

Week of January 12: Signed 4 players to a minor league contract and invited 3 of them to spring training.

January 20: Signed 2 players to a minor league contract.

January 21: Invited 9 players to spring training.

January 22: Signed Tim Fedroff to a minor league contract.

January 27: Signed Ichiro Suzuki.

February 4: Sent Arquimedes Caminero to the Pittsburgh Pirates for cash.

Season summary
Playing against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on August 14, Ichiro Suzuki tied and passed a hits milestone. Suzuki collected his 4,191st hit in top-level professional baseball off Cardinals starting pitcher Jaime García, matching Ty Cobb. It was Suzuki's 2,913th hit in Major League Baseball, following 1,278 hits in nine seasons in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan. He passed Cobb the next night with two singles off John Lackey.

In popular culture
In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, a Major League Baseball team from Miami plays in the 2015 World Series, losing to the Chicago Cubs. Although the city of Miami has created a professional baseball team since 1989, the 2015 team was in the National League and thus, could not have played the Cubs in the World Series. The 2015 Chicago Cubs competed in the National League Championship Series.

Game log

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 * Legend:      = Win       = Loss       = Postponement Bold = Marlins team member

Statistics
Through October 4, 2015

Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts