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marlinsmaniac

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  1. Orioles just DFA’d Lewin 🤦🏻‍♂️. If I’m not mistaken Marlins couldn’t claim him again due to the Nottingham rule no? Or is it that they could claim him but not DFA him again?
  2. Yeah I hope he never gets involved because he is BY FARRR my favorite player of all time and I don’t want to tarnish my view of him lol
  3. It’s Spelled Ken Griffey*** you call yourself a baseball fan? SMH
  4. Oh and just to add the icing on the damn cake, Bally sports is apparently on the brink of Bankruptcy. So that shiny little TV deal could potentially be pulled lol
  5. So my comment was that in general the state of the team is one in which they’re better off spreading the wealth and fielding a team with 5 average but dependable players in their lineup than 1 REALLY good player because they’re not “one bat” away. With that said, I think someone like Soler has a place in the lineup since he’s a high slugging outfielder who might strike out quite a bit, but can break games open with a 3 run HR assuming he has guys around him that can get on base. So I would say’s he’s one of the 5 I’d have been fine building this years lineup around. With Soler manning one of the corner spots, I’d have signed J.D. Martinez to DH because he is an on base machine who will still hit in the .300 range which the team desperately needs. Then I would have signed Benintendi to play center since he is also a high contact “slap” hitter who would benefit greatly from the big gaps at Marlins park, then I’d work out a trade for Josh Donaldson and Oswaldo Cabrera of the Yankees. That gives you your shortstop to throw in there with Jazz up the middle in Cabrera. Yankees want Donaldson’s money off the books for Luxury Tax purposes so your acratching their back a bit there plus he would be a free agent in 2024 at which point you sign a long term 3B or move Cabrera to 3B and find a shortstop on the FA market. Those are 5 that I’d be good with. Not the only options, but good options nonetheless
  6. 100%, but this team is better off acquiring 5 “good” players than one “really good” player so that the lineup isn’t a black hole with one bright spot. Remember they used to have Marte out there who is of a very similar ilk and it didn’t get the team anywhere.
  7. Brings back memories of @TimeWrecker. I used to use his desktop wallpapers religiously. I especially remember the Jeremy Hermida one and one of Alex Gonzalez’s home run in game four of the 2003 World Series. As for those two guys, conforto is decent and I wouldn’t mind it, but Reynolds would cost so much on the pitching/prospect side that I’m not convinced it moves the needle. It’s not like he’s the kind of guy who carries a team on his back.
  8. The fucked up thing is the pitching is so good that even a league average offense would put this team in a MUCH better position. And yet…they’ve done literally nothing…instead of opening the wallet a bit they’re going to deplete that pitching in trades and create basically a lateral move kind of situation.
  9. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/the-marlins-are-in-a-tight-spot.html Jesus Christ, this team has fucked this off-season up so bad that it warranted it’s own story.
  10. As a fan of both teams, I’m more happy the marlins DIDNT sign him, than happy the Red Sox did. In Boston he’ll be just another average guy to try to help tread water in this mess of a team that Chaim Bloom has created. (He’s putting a shit load of trust in Tristan Casas and eventually Marcelo Mayer so we’ll see) But in Miami he doesn’t even budge the needle one way or another so that would have been a waste of a signing.
  11. Guys choosing other teams over the Marlins even when all things are equal is not just an issue of team competence or reputation. This stadium SUCKSSSS to hit in and the whole league knows and talks about it. In addition to the dimensions being on the larger side, when you go to the stadium you see balls that look like they’re going 10 rows deep and they’re 15 feet shy of the warning track for a fly out. It’s like they hit an invisible net.
  12. What do I gotta do to get banned like Vince so I can go cold turkey on my habit of coming here?
  13. Typical Marlins Stupidity. YOU NEED CONTACT ABILITY! Go after Benintendi and give DLC the time in center field. He looked incredible when he came back last season. Spend the money where we need it: Shortstop and 3B.
  14. That’s 100% the way every small market team should be operating right now. If, for example, a team knows they have a can’t miss catching prospect that’ll be ready in 2-3 years, overpay for the top catcher in the game for those years. Then when that catcher comes up and the free agent catchers contract is up, you use that “overpay” money for an elite stop gap at the next position or two that they are developing. That way you have 40-60 mil in payroll allocated to elite level players at any given moment, and another 60 in payroll to the rest of your home grown controllable/affordable talent. That puts you at a $100M-$120M payroll with an actual plan of both competitiveness and development for the future.
  15. Because it’s easier to maneuver $30-$40M for a year or two than it is for a decade. I can see the marlins cashing out on a 2 year 90M before I see them doing a 10 year 300M deal despite the higher AAV. Deals like Degrom’s and Verlander and Bauer with a bloated AAV but only 2-3 years are a much better investment for a small market team because it’s easier to project your financial/roster situation over then next couple of years than over a decade plus. Worst case it doesn’t work you re-tool once that contract is over and bring in whoever the best free agent is that particular off-season. That’s 100% more sustainable
  16. Oh for sure and I’m all for it, it’s a business at the end of the day. But this current setup doesn’t work the way it’s setup. Considering MLB is the only major sport where the contracts are guaranteed, there has to be some protection against a dude completely going to shit in year 4 of a 13 year deal and never putting it back together. While I don’t agree with a salary cap, I think they should cap the max years you can get on a deal kind of the way the NBA does. A 5 year deal at most for example and offer as much yearly as you want. That way salaried can go up and small market teams can compete but not risk mortgaging their future paying a guy $30M per season when he’s become a shell of his former self. To put into perspective how long these 13 year dalas are, 13 years ago was the ‘09 team with Jorge Cantu/Uggla/Hanley/Gabby and JJ won the ERA crown. Imagine we had signed Hanley to a 13 year $30m AAV contract back then and how quickly he fell off the earth. We’d have been almost completely handcuffed for the past 10 years paying that money to a washed up player
  17. Yeah I’ll pass on almost $30M per year on Rodon….wtf is going in with these contracts….
  18. He literally doesn’t give a shit. He was just the investor for Jeter and now he’s gone. Right now we’re no different than a McDonald’s franchise…we operate with an owner whose only reason for investing is profit, not because they are passionate about the product.
  19. I don’t miss Loria cause we ALL hated that whole time (let’s not forget)… but if the question is if this particular ownership group has turned out to be worse so far, then absolutely, yes. Loria lucked into a franchise at a time way before salaries hit the stratosphere. So at the time, no one could understand the degree to which he was financially unable to handle a franchise. Plus in those days it was thought that a new stadium and it’s corresponding revenue streams would bring fans out and help fund a winning product so he fought hard for that and got it for us. When Sherman bought, we already knew that the fans WILL NOT COME unless there is a winning team on the field yet Jeter and Sherman still had unrealistic expectations regarding attendance. Salaries had already been inflated to incredible heights partly due to the high-mark Loria himself set with the Stanton deal. So bringing another broke fuck in to buy this team who wasn’t in the position to immediately push payroll to at least $150M and get the local population excited about this team again was ridiculous. They had ONE CHANCE to go all in the for the first year or two of owning the team to finally shed the reputation this team had and they 100000% botched it by basically having a fire sale. I understand the concept of having to build a farm to be sustainable, but this team couldn’t afford that given who they were. It would have been a better business decision to go two seasons with that old core and bring in studs to pitch and if it doesn’t work you re-tool it in year three. But instead they enforced the Marlin stereotype of trading all their good players and fucked all of us true fans in the process. So no, I won’t miss Loria, but mother-fuck Sherman and Jeter for this new age of the never ending circus.
  20. 100%. I can see a lot more deals coming that are in that Bauer/Verlander/Scherzer Ilk where they bet on themselves and get 2-3 year deals at stratospheric amounts and try their luck again after. From a team perspective I think that’s a much better business deal as you’re not locking 25-35 million on the books in ten years when that player is 42 and unproductive. Even if they don’t pan out for the life of the shorter deal, you’re out of it in a couple of years and you aren’t handcuffing the team for a decade. So Far, I can’t blame the marlins (or the Red Sox in the case of Boegaerts) for not wanting to go to commit for 10 freaking years.
  21. My heart hurts lol I fully expected it though, Bloom lost that entire clubhouse last season in a big way so there wasn’t going to be anymore hometown discounts.
  22. Love it! Looking forward to seeing him play consistently. Fenway’s always been a haven for lefty hitters so he should hopefully do pretty well juat drom peppering the ball off the wall. He’ll obviously regress from the crazy numbers he put up in Japan but should still be a really good addition. My only hope is that they don’t tweak his swing to bring more loft into it like the Red Sox do with every guy they bring in.
  23. Ridiculous, even in the lottery this team is fucked lol
  24. Payton Henry, Alex Jackson, Stallings, now Murphy? What the fuck are they even doing? If they want a catcher go get Contreras and save your trade assets for other pieces that aren’t available on the market.
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