Healthy Stanton-Fernandez duo can help Marlins make a big splash

ByJERRY CRASNICK
March 27, 2016, 11:53 AM

— -- JUPITER, Fla. -- Two elite players on a single MLB roster can do only so much to push a team over the top. If Zack Greinke and Paul Goldschmidt could pitch and slug the Arizona Diamondbacks to success the same way John Stockton and Karl Malone pick-and-rolled their way to the Hall of Fame with the NBA's Utah Jazz, season-ticket holders in Phoenix could already feel free to book hot tub reservations at Chase Field in October.

That said, any team with a bona fide basher in the middle of the order and a true No. 1 starter has a legitimate head start toward a postseason share.