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  1. Oh, no, that's not what I meant.

     

    I don't think any of them have specifically ever said "I want to play in Miami", but it's always been seen as a natural fit.

     

    Didn't Gary Sheffield actually say he wanted to play here later on his career? Of course, he wasn't close to the same player at that point, but I think he liked it in Miami a lot.

     

    EDIT: Went back and realized you were probably specifically talking about international FAs. Carry on.

     

     

  2. It's because when Jeter and Cashman had their secret meeting last year in their "Yankees Only" treehouse to conspire on how the Marlins can gift Stanton to the Yankees for as bad of a return as possible Jeter promised to Cashman that Stanton would equal his 2017 numbers in 2018. 

     

    Damnit Silver. I told you not to build that freaking treehouse. Don't tell me: you built the secret Brewers treehouse too and that's why Lewis Brinson stunk for us this year.

     

     

  3. It's a twisted vision to say everything was amazing then. Yeah we had a 77 win season then and a 63 win season now but besides the win totals it can be argued we're better off now than then as an organization.

     

    I think if we had kept the 2017 team then we would have just traded Stanton Gordon Yelich and Ozuna this offseason and then 2019 would have been rock bottom. 

     

    All Derek Jeter did "wrong", to me, was start the rebuild one year earlier. And in the long run that might prove to have been the right move. 

     

    I think what people fail to understand is that the Marlins simply do not have the capital to build a winner just like that. We have had PLENTY of teams with a lot of talent, but because we have just never had the revenue, we haven't been able to get over the hump.

     

    Think about this for a second: up until last year, a legitimate argument can be made that we had a top five talent in all of baseball dating all the way back to the Miguel Cabrera years. First, Cabrera. Then, Hanley. Then, Stanton. We also had guys like Josh Johnson, Jose, Yelich, Ozuna, etc. sprinkled in. That's great, and if we had the kind of money the Yankees or Red Sox have, you better believe we probably would have built a winner. But we don't.

     

    The Marlins basically HAVE to get lucky in absolutely nailing drafts/international prospects/trades in order to win, i.e. the 2015 Royals or the Astros that we are currently watching. Heck, even the Yankees--as spendthrift as they are--have done a TREMENDOUS job of building their team through scouting, superb drafting and shrewd trading. Sans Big G, most of that team is homegrown.

     

    So, yeah. It's easy to say, "The Marlins had Stanton, Yelich and Ozuna and they let it all go!!!" but if you do, you're either not comprehending the specifics or you are actively choosing to ignore them to try and make a point.

     

    Hopefully, Jeter and Co. can start identifying talent and begin to stockpile it so we can build a winner for the long haul.

     

     

  4. I'm also rooting for him along with Yelich.

     

    Stanton's numbers are definitely lower than Yankee fans anticipated, but obviously they are still great numbers.

     

    The way Yankees fans have treated him this season is absolutely disgusting. Sanchez bats .180 and loafs around all season and doesn't hear a peep from the fans. Stanton leads the team in home runs and RBI and gets booed. Funny how that works.

     

     

  5. Lol. Stanton slashed .266/.343/.509 with 38 homers and 100 RBI and had a 7.5 UZR and 18.3 UZR/150, and you're saying he had a "subpar" year?

     

    What are we? Yankees fans?

     

    Hope he smashes a whole bunch of home runs this postseason just to shut everyone the hell up. Rooting hard for him.

     

     

  6. For those saying this is a "good move" and that it "had to be done," think about this: the Marlins just traded arguably the most dominant hitter in the game for a salary dump. I'm one of the most optimistic people on this forum, but even I know this deal sucks.

     

    At least when the Marlins traded Cabrera and Willis, they got two blue-chip prospects (at the time) in Maybin and Miller back. I know that situation was a bit different due to money and all, but still, this is an awful, awful deal.

     

    As for the Yankees? They just landed one of the best players in baseball for virtually nothing and are going to add him into a lineup that made it to Game 7 of the ALCS last year and they didn't even have to trade a single one of their top prospects to get the deal done. Hats off to Brian Cashman. The dude is phenomenal. As long as Stanton stays healthy, the Yanks could end up winning a few World Series.

     

     

  7. I had some hope that Hech could be a .730 OPS kind of guy with stellar defense after his 2015 season, which actually would have made him one of the best shortstops in baseball.

     

    But, he was really bad (like, almost historically bad) offensively last year and he's already 28, so he probably isn't going to improve.

     

    I'd say this is a fine return for a dude who OPSed .594 last season.

     

     

  8. Players that help this team to win,Realmuto,Bour,Dee,Riddle,Ozuna,Yelich,Stanton,Moore,Straily,Volquez,Urena,Ramos,Barraclough,Wittgren,Garcia,McGowan and Phelps.

     

    So you didn't give up on the team when they had firesales after the 1997 World Series, 2005, 2007 and 2012, but trading J.T. Riddle and his .605 OPS will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for you?

     

     

  9. Because he did well last year. Hopefully he gets back to that form, but it's not working out right now. 

     

    The K/BB rate is still strong for Phelps, but it seems like all contact against him is hit hard at this point. He needs some lower leverage outings.

     

    Yeah. It's April 16th. Plenty of time for him to bounce back.

     

     

  10. It's really a joke,with a suck rotation why need a good bullpen !? what's our chance leading the game after six innings with this rotation !?

     

    And you think Ivan Nova would have fixed it?

     

    The dude has a lifetime 4.26 FIP and 1.365 WHIP.

     

    A couple of good months with Pittsburgh doesn't change the fact that he is really no better than anyone else in our rotation.

     

    Nova is a guy you add when you have a good 1-2-3 punch at the top of your staff and need a decent back-end starter (i.e. Tom Koehler); not when you have what the Marlins do.

     

     

  11. LMAO at that Infoplease article that was cited in this.

     

     

     

    In 1993, the last time baseball expanded, the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins were the result. The Rockies toil in park that produces laughable offensive numbers and tear-inducing pitching stats. And while the Marlns won it all, they damaged the game by the way they went about it.

     

    Let's hope this class of expansion teams actually has some class.

     

    So trying to win = no class?

     

    I know it was written 20 years ago now, but still. Funny.

     

     

  12. But it proves your theory wrong. They do spend when they want to.

     

    Definitely, especially over the past several years. Heck, they've even starting re-signing their own guys, which is something they never really did before.

     

     

  13. Lol at Oakland.

     

    Billy Beane is the most overrated front office executive in the history of professional sports. He's teflon, though. He literally does the same thing the Marlins do (without the two World Series titles) and gets a pass for it because "Moneyball."

     

     

  14. even if he's a better starter option than the starters (he is)?

     

    He's really not, to be honest. He's pretty much on par with them as a starter. He's actually basically another Tom Koehler as a starting pitcher.

     

    Phelps the starter is a completely different pitcher than Phelps the reliever.

     

     

  15. I would like to know why they aren't looking at Encarnacion. It can't be a financial thing considering how much they offered to the closers. And yes we have Bour but we have a run scoring problem, there's room for both or you trade Bour for something. It almost makes too much sense to at least inquire about Encarnacion so I can't get why it isn't happening that we know of. Also doesn't help that anyone who brings it up on Twitter Frisaro shoots it down and laughs it off like if it makes no sense at all. Frisaro shoots it down like if someone is bringing up trading for Kershaw or something like that. He's just like "not happening no chance why even ask this." So weird even for frisaro.

     

    Honestly, the sheer lack of serious interest in Encarnacion around the MLB in general is puzzling.

     

     

  16. Why? Phelps is our best starter. If only he can go 6 innings every start.

     

    Phelps started for most of the first four years of his career and posted ERAs in the mid 4s, WHIPs around 1.4 and didn't strike guys out.

     

    He is 10 times better in the pen.

     

     

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