A college baseball team outdrew the Marlins in 2018

It wasn’t a great year for the Miami Marlins. The team traded away some of its best assets in the offseason, went 63-98 in the regular season and will watch likely National League MVP Christian Yelich mash for the Milwaukee Brewers in the postseason.

While all of that is bad, one thing stands out as much more embarrassing. A college baseball team actually drew more fans per game than the Marlins in 2018.

That team would be LSU. The university’s baseball team averaged 10,786 fans per game in 2018. The Marlins averaged just 10,013 fans per game.

The team’s attendance woes come after Derek Jeter predicted the team’s attendance would rise this year. Jeter’s projections came before the Marlins traded away Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna and Yelich, however.

Once that happened, fans weren’t super jazzed about seeing the Marlins in person. The team played in front of its smallest home crowd ever at the time during an early game in April. As the season went on, the Marlins played a handful of games with only 5,000 fans in the stands. By August, things didn’t look any better.

If there’s a reason for optimism, it’s that things can’t get much worse. After last offseason’s trades, the Marlins were supposed to be bad in 2018. If fans can put those trades behind them and if the prospects acquired in those deals can produce, fans will have more interest in attending games.

If that doesn’t happen, LSU might not be the only college baseball team that can claim superiority over the Marlins.

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Chris Cwik is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at christophercwik@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Chris_Cwik

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