The Miami Marlins' parade of 2011 free agents has, ahead of the 2011 Winter Meetings, already produced two big catches: Joining Heath Bell in the Marlins' goofy new uniforms is Jose Reyes, who signed with the ostensibly destituteMarlins for six years and $106 million. Winners: The Marlins, who have successfully proved that the people in charge of doling out public funding for sports stadiums are among the dumbest human beings on planet earth. Losers: Hanley Ramirez, who will be moving off shortstop, and Albert Pujols, whose only other public offer came from the Marlins.
↵The Worldwide Leader, at least, is unable to believe this is the end of the Pujols-to-Florida sweepstakes: Jayson Stark tweeted soon after the deal was reportedly done that his sources think the Marlins will continue to make a push for the Cardinals first baseman. But if I'm Dan Lozano, his agent, I worry both about the Marlins' resources and Pujols's memory of the last two times the Marlins went on a big spending binge and then cut spending immediately afterward.