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  1. if we try to leave, expect to see this guy in the outfield: ,
  2. nolasco's ridiculous K:BB ratio gets my vote
  3. Those aren't superficial reasons, they are very real reasons. Hermida is only 24 and has WAY more upside than Willingham, who not only has a bad back, but is in the bottom half of production for all LFers. Hermida does have better trade value, but that's because he's more valuable. Hammer is very replacable. that is a subjective argument in favor of hermida. but, what has he actually done to make you think he'll be anything greater than (hopefully) an average right fielder? he hasn't shown anything to suggest he's going to be anywhere near the kind of impact player some people for some reason think he will be. the only thing suggesting he has "WAY more upside" is he was a first-round pick. o, and also his 1 half of a season performance when the team had no chance at the playoffs. it's been 3 yrs... when will he start playing to his potential? i see hermida as very replacable too... and if we can get good value for him now, please trade him.
  4. that response was uber cute... but, it didn't address my question. Cuz, in the post I mentioned those reasons are superficial to me because when you get down to who will be the more productive player on a team that has willingham and hermida, i think it will always be willingham.... making those superficial reasons appealing to another team, meaning hermida most likely would have a greater trade value than willy... but do not make him as good a player as willingham will be in 09. I just don't think hermida is a lock in 09 is all.... and yea, i know it's easier to play left at DS.
  5. question: why is it that it's so obvious were keeping hermida over willingham in 09? it can't be that he's better defensively - Willingham 22 assists and 11 errors, Hermida 11 assists and 22 errors. it can't be cuz he's better offensively - career line avg's Hermida 1238 ABs 344/440/267, Willingham 1347 ABs 362/470/267 reasons i can think of why hermida is the "obvious" keeper: younger (by 5 yrs), more potential, and he's less of an injury risk (although it has been Willingham getting 500+ ABs the past two seasons... however it looks like Hermida will crack the 500 AB mark this season) I'd like to think the FO will shop both of them in the offseason, and keep the one that nets us less in a trade. and for the reasons we would keep hermida, could be superficial enough to net us greater value in a trade versus trading willingham. because as I think is pretty clear, Willingham has played better than Hermida since they've been here, and I don't think that would change in 09. although i do think hermida has the potential to develop into a good everyday player, i honestly don't think he'll ever do it batting at DS for half the seasons games... his career home/away splits are noticably skewed: home 605 ABs 322/408/250 vs away 633 ABs 364/471/284. so, maybe we do us and hermida a favor by trading him away from DS and allow him to flourish into a great hitter. Now unless Raynor or Maybin can't play right field.... f*ck everything I just said and keep Hermida. Cuz Willingham can't cover the ground in right field... but does a great job in our abbreviated left field. Can someone please tell me why Hermida is a lock in RF next yr?
  6. yep, Cody is a guy i would like to keep, mainly because we are a HORRIBLE defensive team and he has been one of the few bright spots there. Hermida needs to actually show me he can do something ALL season not just the 2nd half. If he can't get rid of him after the 09 season. Uggz will be gone soon, he will be asking for a lot, and management has groomed Couglen, he is ready, Jacobs is replaceable also, Gaby Sanchez is close to ready, but until then we can move Cantu to first and see what McPhearson can do. Coughlan has twice as many errors as Uggla so far this season, and you think he's ready to pick up the slack of playing in our IF? I'm not saying that he is ready defensively, I just think that he brings something to this team that Uggla doesn't, he is a contact hitter. He will have a high batting average and could turn out to be another Luis Castillo but worse defensively. Couglan may need another year to correct some problems. i take uggla over a "contact hitter" any day of the flippin week. certainly over a contact hitter who's worse defensively.
  7. yep, Cody is a guy i would like to keep, mainly because we are a HORRIBLE defensive team and he has been one of the few bright spots there. Hermida needs to actually show me he can do something ALL season not just the 2nd half. If he can't get rid of him after the 09 season. Uggz will be gone soon, he will be asking for a lot, and management has groomed Couglen, he is ready, Jacobs is replaceable also, Gaby Sanchez is close to ready, but until then we can move Cantu to first and see what McPhearson can do. Coughlan has twice as many errors as Uggla so far this season, and you think he's ready to pick up the slack of playing in our IF? I'm not saying that he is ready defensively, I just think that he brings something to this team that Uggla doesn't, he is a contact hitter. He will have a high batting average and could turn out to be another Luis Castillo but worse defensively. Couglan may need another year to correct some problems. i take uggla over a "contact hitter" any day of the flippin week. certainly over a contact hitter who's worse defensively.
  8. as much as i keep hearing on these threads about how uggla sucks i refuse to believe he's a bad player. somethings bothering him whether it be ASG, overworked/tired, or changed mentality at the plate. this is not the same uggla us marlins fans are used to seeing! He doesn't suck. He just came back to Earth. It is called a "slump". "Slump?" He passed that long ago. He's hitting .193 with a .649 .OPS in the 2nd half. He has sucked for 2 months now. .190/.292/.381 in July .200/.325/.300 in August A 2 month "slump?" huh? Keep trying. You'll come out of a "theory" and just recognize that he came back to life. Amazing how some people give some players on the team (like Kevin Gregg and Renyel Pinto, for example) get so much blame, yet some like Dan Uggla get so little, at times. Why don't you take a look at his seasonal stats the past 3 yrs? They are that of a "good" hitter... especially for a second baseman. So, then for a good hitter to not hit well for a period of time, it is called a slump, yes.
  9. as much as i keep hearing on these threads about how uggla sucks i refuse to believe he's a bad player. somethings bothering him whether it be ASG, overworked/tired, or changed mentality at the plate. this is not the same uggla us marlins fans are used to seeing! He doesn't suck. He just came back to Earth. It is called a "slump". "Slump?" He passed that long ago. He's hitting .193 with a .649 .OPS in the 2nd half. He has sucked for 2 months now. .190/.292/.381 in July .200/.325/.300 in August A 2 month "slump?" huh? Keep trying. You'll come out of a "theory" and just recognize that he came back to life. Amazing how some people give some players on the team (like Kevin Gregg and Renyel Pinto, for example) get so much blame, yet some like Dan Uggla get so little, at times. Why don't you take a look at his seasonal stats the past 3 yrs? They are that of a "good" hitter... especially for a second baseman. So, then for a good hitter to not hit well for a period of time, it is called a slump, yes.
  10. i wish we'd stop entertaining the idea of gonzo playing everyday at an outfield spot.... though his bat may be slightly better than hermida's right now... his defense is amazingly horrifying and aggravating to watch. at least for me.
  11. Gaby Sanchez received best defensive first baseman Gaby just became my favorite... I really don't see why he won't be our first baseman in '09.
  12. Hermida this year, Coghlan in 2009. Is'nt Coghlan more of a power hitter? Right now he only has 7 in AA through 112 games, but his obp would warrant the 2 spot. If uggla can finish the season off with a BA higher than what it is now, I'd still prefer him over Coghlan at 2nd.
  13. put me in the camp that thinks Fredi has taken out his starters early TWO nights in a row. When you're starting pitcher is ROLLING through a lineup, you kinda gotta give that pitch count thing the boot until he starts to struggle. It's not as if it would be much of a strain on soft-tossing Olsen, who has pitched 30 games the last three seasons to have a 130 pitch outing (ricky nolasco-esque). Also, if you were skeptical about him facing Holliday and Atkins.... he already had twice in the game and handled them. Also, isn't gonzo a bad pinch hitter? i'm in a rush so i can't look up the stats.... but I remember him not being good enough to take out a hot pitcher. and yes, i feel a 2-0 lead would have been sufficient for olsen. Nolasco was takin out because the meat of the order was coming up, and it was his fourth time through the line-up. Plus, Holliday was owning him. And olsen had to be takin out. we needed to score, and with the bases loaded and him up it was the perfect time to do it. And Gonzo has a .179 average as a pinch hitter. No, we didn't.
  14. put me in the camp that thinks Fredi has taken out his starters early TWO nights in a row. When you're starting pitcher is ROLLING through a lineup, you kinda gotta give that pitch count thing the boot until he starts to struggle. It's not as if it would be much of a strain on soft-tossing Olsen, who has pitched 30 games the last three seasons to have a 130 pitch outing (ricky nolasco-esque). Also, if you were skeptical about him facing Holliday and Atkins.... he already had twice in the game and handled them. Also, isn't gonzo a bad pinch hitter? i'm in a rush so i can't look up the stats.... but I remember him not being good enough to take out a hot pitcher. and yes, i feel a 2-0 lead would have been sufficient for olsen.
  15. Ken Rosenthal picked us to win the east on the FSN baseball report FWIW
  16. McPherson's injury-marred ML stats: G --- AB R- H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG 117 360 50 89 19 2 -18 -- 45 - 5 - 3 -- 23 121 .247 .294 .461 Please stop thinking he'll be 10x better than Jake offensively OR defensively... he's a 28 yr old (considering many on this board think Uggla is old and peaking at 28), DL-prone, K machine (note the god-awful BB/K ratio that is still present in his PCL #'s), who will bring nothing to the table that this team actually needs right now - i.e. defense, or patience at the plate. So I say again, please stop drooling over the stats this guy is putting up in a league that made brett carroll look like a monster at the plate as well. With that being said, I'd like to see him get called up in Sept. to see how he does at the ML level, and based on his performance, either keep him for next yr at first or trade him. I'd love to know where someone has posted he would be 10X better than Jake, and to bring up his pre-surgery major league stats (although I give you credit for at least acknowledging he was injured much of the time) has no real value when considering a "healthy" Dallas McPherson today. I'm a big believer in the belief players don't all mature at the same rate. Dallas McPherson today has much more respect for where he is and how he got there than the kid branded with the "can't miss" prospect sticker and rushed to the bigs after one hyper minor league season. I've heard two interviews with him, one on 790 another on MLBTV and he remarkably humble and grateful for a second chance. You might want to take a look at his BB/K month by month as he gets better at recognizing the strikezone and walks go up and strikeouts down. The same for a number of his stats (although I don't mean this to be a hunting expedition to find his weaknesses). The first part of his Isotopes season was really his spring training and his numbers show as much, he was way behind everyone else having been hurt and missing most of spring training with the Marlins. As for the PCL, you might want to take a look at the makeup of the league, it is no longer a cluster of teams near or along the western United States but more than half the teams are either in the eastern half of the country (Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, etc.) or in low-lying parts of the west coast like Fresno and Sacremento. It's a mistake to see the PCL as every team being akin to the Colorado SkySox but I understand the perception exists and probably won't begin to change until the League changes its name to something that better conveys the message that they have franchises from one coast to the other. As for his age, in some ways like Lindstrom, his age doesn't equate to his number of years playing ball at the major or minor league level. Certainly the circumstances of why they missed time are different but McPherson says this is the first time in five years he's played without pain and with complete mobility. I have no reason to disbelieve him. Some people admittedly may be too far off the charts in what their expectations are, but I would argue there's just as many who haven't followed his progress (both on the field and his improving health) closely enough to understand what he's accomplished so far this season is an extraordinary achievement. That said, if he does come up in August or Sept without a doubt there will be a period of adjustment but as long as he gets a chance to play everyday and isn't measured by eight late innings pinch-hits a week, I think he'll do fine. Does that mean he'll do fine and hit .320 and ten homers in his first month? I have no idea. I want to see what he can do. Beyond that it's in his hands. But I'm comfortable saying he's capable of playing successfully at the major league level. The bolded statement is exactly why I made my post to begin with. Let's not be hasty in trading Jake just so we can "get a look" at McPherson and hope his PCL numbers translate to the bigs. Call him up in September, give him some starting opportunities at 3rd and see how he does. Make subsequent moves from there.
  17. McPherson's injury-marred ML stats: G --- AB R- H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG 117 360 50 89 19 2 -18 -- 45 - 5 - 3 -- 23 121 .247 .294 .461 Please stop thinking he'll be 10x better than Jake offensively OR defensively... he's a 28 yr old (considering many on this board think Uggla is old and peaking at 28), DL-prone, K machine (note the god-awful BB/K ratio that is still present in his PCL #'s), who will bring nothing to the table that this team actually needs right now - i.e. defense, or patience at the plate. So I say again, please stop drooling over the stats this guy is putting up in a league that made brett carroll look like a monster at the plate as well. With that being said, I'd like to see him get called up in Sept. to see how he does at the ML level, and based on his performance, either keep him for next yr at first or trade him.
  18. It might worth noting that Coghlan is an awfully raw 2nd baseman with 17 errors, three times as many as Dan, and projects to almost 30 over an average MLB season. And he's no Robert Andino whose high error count in AAA was because he refused to accept that there were any limits on his range and went far afield to make any play he could regardless of how it affected his stats. So if people think Dan is a mediocre 2nd baseman be warned, the kid is much worse. And then there's Coghlan's hollow bat, which depending on what MLE you use projects out to a .250-ish hitter with no power and no production and his strikeouts go way up. But he is young so that fits in with the mentality here, you know if you're thirty you're over the hill. I laugh about it (and I do laugh about it, but not at you) because honestly I remember being the same way, thinking the same way - in my youth "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30" was the Yippie national anthem and the mantra for a whole generation. Coghlan may very well have a long and productive future in the major leagues but he needs a lot more seasoning and to get some production from his bat and most importantly learn how to play his position professionally before he replaces anyone, whether it's Dan Uggla or anyone else. Hopefully he goes to the AFL for some fine-tuning, or is used for trade bait if the FO is making a run this year because he has a lot of value. This. Keep Uggla! He is a man, whose named Dan, and he can, carry our offense, for quite a span. Unlike error-filled, weak batted, Christopher Coghlan. There are other players that can go before we throw out the second most productive second baseman in baseball.
  19. The reason I'm saying Jake would be doing the same thing as McPherson is because: McPherson, at the Major League level, posted sub 300 OBP's in the 3 yrs he played there.... warranting a "career" OBP (294) .23 points LOWER than Jacobs' career OBP (317). So, you can say you think McPherson has managed to turn it around, in an extremely hitters biased league, and that is fine. But, their stats say otherwise. To bring it all around, if Jake has a better OBP facing major league pitching than Dallas Mac... you could assume he'd be putting up similar, or better OBP #'s than Mac in the PCL, hence why I said it. Now, I want Jake off the team but only because of his defense. I like his bat. But his defense absolutely blows.
  20. Mcpherson is doing exactly what jacobs would do in AAA.... fact is, mcpherson wouldn't make our team any better if he got called up. he'd k a lot more than he is currently doing against AAA pitching and he'd be a defensive liability. don't we have enough of that already? in an effort to actually help our team defensively, as we have plenty of firepower throughout the lineup already... I'd try starting amezaga at 3rd and cantu at first for a few games.... but, since i know we need that big bat in the lineup (im talking about jacobs) we will continue running his sub 300 OBP and bad defense out there. PCL numbers are extremely unreliable.... see john baker, brett carroll
  21. Anibal's final line from tonight: 4.1 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 3 K gracias
  22. I came to the forums anticipating another thread about how bad this team was, and I lol'd when I saw the title of the newest topic: 2009 Florida Marlins. Thanks for the laugh
  23. how about this as a rule of thumb: every time a reliever walks the first guy he faces, mark wiley comes out with a paddle, and gives him 10 spanks with it out on the mound... negative reinforcement, classical conditioning... i swear if it can work with dogs, it can work with middle relievers.
  24. mike rabelo went 2-5 with a hr.... HA.... HA...... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  25. Hoover is horrible at framing pitches - it seemed like we got 0 borderline calls tonight. He's also not good at blocking them either. Gregg.... has just lost his Closer's role IMO. And Pinto should not be our F-ing setup guy anymore.... his walks are not a new problem, he's always walked a lot of people. The last thing we need is our second highest ranked, in the bullpen hierarchy: 1. closer 2. 8th inning setup guy, to be a walk machine. Please do something Marlins FO.
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