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We got cooler weather in South Florida last week, which means we're getting closer to Hot Stove season!

Here are four questions facing the Marlins this offseason:

1. What's the vision moving forward?
When Derek Jeter departed, principal owner Bruce Sherman said general manager Kim Ng would run baseball operations. Now is her chance to leave her mark on the organization. That begins with finding replacements for a restructured front office. According to MLB Network insider Jon Paul Morosi, Miami has interviewed Houston executive Oz Ocampo for its assistant GM position. Since the Marlins won't be able to spend like the big-market clubs, their blueprint for success will model after sustainable winners Tampa Bay and Cleveland. Like those clubs, the Astros have been at the forefront of analytics.

2. How might Miami acquire more offense?
Two days after the season ended, Ng said it was "hard to say at this point" whether there would be major or minor additions to the lineup. Last offseason, Miami signed Jorge Soler and Avisaíl García, but they both underperformed and dealt with injuries. Ng did say the Marlins would explore all avenues -- from free agency to trades to waiver claims.

"We are going to do what we can to improve this club," Ng said. "I don't think that we can just sit here on our hands and think that everything's going to be better. We are going to explore a lot of different items during the course of the offseason to improve this club."

3. How can the club combat all of the injuries?
The Marlins had the eighth-most days lost to the injured list in 2022, and it certainly affected their depth and record. Does there need to be player and/or medical personnel change? What about adjustments to playing time?

"In hindsight, I think the lockout was not helpful in terms of us being able to monitor players and have an understanding of what their offseason regimen [was], how those were shaping up," Ng said. "I think this year in our player meetings, we focused quite a bit on that with each individual player and what our expectation was during the offseason. Now that we don't have a labor stoppage in effect, we'll be able to check in on these players, and so that is a big part of our offseason, what we feel we need to do. We've talked to a number of the players about getting stronger and building their foundation so that when they come into Spring Training, they're a little bit better ready to compete."

4. What happens with the 40-man roster?
The Marlins face quite the conundrum after the World Series, when players on the 60-day IL must be added back onto the 40-man roster. Of the eight for Miami, five underwent Tommy John surgery in 2022: Max Meyer, Anthony Bender, Cody Poteet, Paul Campbell and Sean Guenther. Since TJ rehab takes over a year, the front office has to decide which of those arms warrants saving a roster spot even though he won't be available to pitch in '23. The side effect of that is a loss of pitching depth.