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  1. Why wait to announce it if it is De Aza? It's just wishful thinking on my part, but maybe they plan to play De Aza in CF, move Coghlan to 3B, and bench Bonifacio. They're waiting to announce it because they haven't had a chance to talk to Bonifacio yet. Not that it would matter too much - I think De Aza has the same weaknesses Bonifacio has.
  2. Our two options there are Andy Gonzalez (Won a job out of ST with Alfredo's injury, but has been horrible in AAA) and Manual Mayerson (Who I'd love to see. Great contact hitter, has strucken out just 5% of the time the last two years in the minor leagues). Strucken? Anyways, we took Andy Gonzalez off the 40-man roster on 5/21 to make room for Cristhian Martinez. I guess we can make space for him or Mayerson though.
  3. That's interesting stuff but I was kinda interpreting it a different way. Cots says this: A player may be eligible for a fourth option year if he has been optioned in three seasons but does not yet have five full seasons of professional experience. I think you're reading that as if a player has used 3 options in his first 5 years he gets a 4th option to use anytime, even after he's been in pro ball 5 years. I read that as if a player has used 3 options in his first 5 years he gets a 4th option to use until he has 5 years of pro ball. After he hits 5 years, that 4th option year is no longer available. I never much thought about McPherson's options, but looking at his transactions, I don't know if the Angels used an option on him in 2005. He was optioned on 3/30/05 but recalled on 4/18/05, right around the 20 day limit to make it not count as an option. He then stayed in the majors the rest of the year, except for minors rehab assignments. So it's possible that McPherson used options in 2004 and 2006. 2005 he was in the majors for all except 19 days so no option was used and in 2007 he was on the Major League DL all season so no option was used. That left him a 3rd option year in 2008. I could be totally off-base on all this. I don't follow this stuff near as closely as y'all do. BTW, here's the site I use for transactions and little scouting reports - TSN Canada. I never see it referenced but it's one of my favorites. http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/teams/players/bio/?i...ame=mlb-marlins
  4. Helms is 100% gone. The Marlins won't pick up his enormous option to be a bench player, and that means they cannot resign him until May 1st. He will easily find work on someone's bench during the offseason. I thought the May 1st rules and corresponding December/January deadlines were eliminated when they re-did the last labor agreement after 2006. Besides, I think under the old May 1st rules you had until Dec 7th to re-sign your own free agent if you didn't offer him arbitration, and until January 6th if you did (and they declined). Even under the old rules, if I understood them correctly, we'd have had until Dec 7th to re-sign Helms after we exercised the buyout and didn't offer him arbitration.
  5. Actually whoever loses between Phillies and Marlins are out of the playoff with Brewers winning the Wild Card. Dumb rule, but it said whichever team lose for the tie breaker for the division will technically be .5 GB from the wild card and is immediately eliminated from reaching the playoff all together. :confused They changed that rule about 5 years ago when they realized how unfair it would be and that it almost happened once. Now the loser of the Phillies/Marlins NL East playoff would have played the Brewers for the Wild Card. Here's a link to the rule change. See scenario # 5 ... http://www.mlb.com/news/press_releases/pre...sp&c_id=mlb
  6. I don't get how they come up with the numbers for BA and OBP for Hits By Direction? Please explain. :confused Aren't those already hits? I dont get it either. I am guessing that not only the hits factor in but all the balls that were hitted in a certain direction regardless of being hits or outs. But then how do you get an OBP? None of those hit balls are walks. In the cases above, the OBP is always lower than the BA for Hits By Direction. That tells me they're ignoring walks on the OBP and figuring in SFs that are hit in that direction.
  7. I'm saying we currently have 12 pitchers, right now. Pinto's job is to save the bullpen when the game is out of hand, at the moment. If it was up to me right now...Treanor would get sent down for Andino (which would keep the 13 players, in tact). ...and Pinto would get shut down for the year (as I believe he's been overused). Call up a reliever (and you have your 12 pitchers). I don't really believe in 13 pitchers, 3 catchers, etc. 13 position players + 12 pitchers. I was just arguing with you saying that Pinto's current role is irrelevant. It looked like a couple of posts ago you were saying we should have an extra reliever and no Lo Duca since Pinto was struggling so badly. If my math is right, that would make 13 pitchers. Now you're saying you didn't want 13 pitchers. See why you lost me? Anyways, I'm for shutting down Pinto and calling up a reliever. Like I said, if he has options left, I'd have sent him down a few weeks ago and kept Justin Miller. I'm for shutting down Treanor as well and bringing up Andino, but it may have to be via the DL. I don't know if Treanor has any options left to be sent to the minors. My point is that 5 bench players is better than 13 pitchers even if that 5th bench player is a 3rd catcher, especially since Lo Duca was probably the best available hitter we had in the organization that filled a role we desperately needed filled. Andino can't fill that role offensively.
  8. Obviously, you can't send down Lo Duca now. But...what about Treanor? Are you telling me Lo Duca couldn't have started today? I don't see the purpose of a 3rd catcher on a depth chart. Also...Pinto isn't necessarily hiding. He's being used in mop-up work, as Hendrickson has moved his way up, pitching well, lately. You lost me. I thought you were just saying we should have 13 pitchers because Pinto is struggling so badly and now you're saying he has a role. If he has a role, and you're using the "best practices" argument to not having 3 catchers, why doesn't that apply to having 13 pitchers? Best practices indicates that the vast majority of teams don't carry 13 pitchers. Forget that Lo Duca is a catcher. Are you saying you'd rather have 13 pitchers than a guy who is strictly available to pinch-hit, especially if it's a guy that is finally different than all our other hitters?
  9. Ok, exactly. Put one of the 3 catchers in the minors...call up someone like...perhaps, Andino. Shut down Pinto for the season before things get worse, and call up a reliever. That's my point. This will be irrelevant next Monday, however, since rosters expand. I hate Paul Lo Duca with a purple passion but if he's the best available hitter we had in the organization that doesn't strike out once every three times I could care less what position he plays. I'd rather have somebody available just to pinch-hit than have a 13th pitcher, especially if the 13th pitcher's primary purpose is to hide Pinto on the roster. This all assumes that Pinto has an option left, which by my count he does. But at this point, they won't burn an option on him for one week of another pitcher.
  10. The point is, having 3 catchers before September = useless. There is a team need for another bullpen pitcher (especially since Pinto is struggling). Why carry 3 catchers? I think the only other team that does are the Mets (Schneider, Castro, Cancel). Seriously though...it's not common, for a reason. How common is it for a team to carry 13 pitchers? Last I looked (when Lo Duca was recalled) there were only 2 teams in the NL besides us carrying 13 pitchers. Since Pinto is struggling so badly and not contributing anything, if he has options left, why didn't we send him to AAA and DFA Hoover instead of DFA'ing Justin Miller? Then we could have 5 guys on the bench and have 7 relievers not named Pinto in the bullpen.
  11. it not been only this game we have few other game that we cannot take care business when we base load We're 4th in the league in batting average with the bases loaded, 3rd in OPS. I think you're misremembering based on some bad luck tonight.
  12. Did he actually insist on trading chris volstad or dan uggla for a closer that will stay with us for one year? Nope, that's not what he said. He asked that if the Rockies insist on Volstad, would we still make the deal. Then he went further and said what about Uggla, asking how far would we go to make a trade. The Sun-Sentinel blogs are sad, not just from the sports guys. They end every blog practically begging people to comment. Rodriguez, who I normally like, is basically trolling in his own column, hoping for comments to be posted. I think the editors are pushing the writers to get comments to show the advertisers that the pages are generating some buzz; the writers have to say whatever they can to get people to respond.
  13. When Jake starts at 1B, we're 35-33. When Helms starts at 1B, we're 9-9 When Cantu starts at 1B, we're 8-5 Jake started 6 games at DH and we went 3-3. Cantu started all 6 of those games at 1B. If you want to see all the lineups, go to http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/FLA/2008_lu.shtml
  14. Somebody asked a similar question to Tom Jicha (the Sun-Sentinel's excellent TV writer) in his weekly column and he gave the following response ... Only 75 Marlins games this season will be in high definition, according to a FSN/Sunshine representative, because HD takes up more bandwidth than a normal presentation on the satellite transmitting it and Fox Sports doles out its satellite space among all the major league teams it has rights to televise. There isn't enough bandwidth to go around every night. Also, cable stations carrying HD telecasts have to clear another channel for the HD telecast and there is not always one available. Eventually, these issues will be resolved but it will involve significantly higher costs, which can't be justified right now because of the relatively low number of HD homes, supposedly only 13.7 percent. Link: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifes...,7512971.column
  15. Another thing on Volstad - he's not on the 40-man roster. This brings up two issues: 1. We'd have to make space on the 40-man roster for him, either by DFA'ing somebody or moving a Brett Carroll to the 60-day DL. 2. I'm pretty sure we don't need to add him to the 40-man roster this off-season - I think it's 4 years after signing for somebody his age. If we don't bring him up this year, that leaves a 40-man roster spot open this winter for somebody else and it means we don't have use an option on him next spring if he for some reason doesn't make the team.
  16. I don't know if Beinfest will make the move to bench Jacobs, move Cantu to first, and recall McPherson anytime soon, though I'd like to see it. It seems like the organization is very reluctant to move players out of the role they've decided the player will fill (Hollandsworth in 2003, Oliver in 2004, Leiter in 2005, Moehler in 2006, and Julio in 2007). None of those guys were on pace to hit 35 HRs either and we stuck with them too long. If we do bench Jacobs, we destroy whatever little bit of trade value he has left. He's kinda turned into a Rob Deer without the defense or walks, or a Dave Kingman with half the power and without the personality disorder, but somebody in the AL should be interested in a guy on pace to hit 35 HRs to DH, at least against righties.
  17. I remember a time when our teams were built to play in Dolphin Stadium; we had prototypical leadoff hitters like Carr, Quivilo and Pierre (not Hanley, who is better suited for 3-5) that had high OBP Carr never had a high OBP. Pierre's OBP was totally dependant on his batting average - if he slumped he went from a disruptive force to totally useless. Veras had a nice OBP - I thought he'd last longer in baseball than he did. I think we got rid of him because we had a better version of him coming up - Luis Castillo. We did manage to turn Veras into Cliff Floyd eventually. For those of you Sabremetrics nerds out there, you know that getting on base and advancing to scoring position provides a higher probability and contribution towards a win than hitting a home run because of the limited commodity of outs. Small ball is true baseball in my books, and the type of play the Marlins had until 06 it seems. Manufacturing runs as they did Monday night is the reason we have two Championship trophies residing at 2267 Dan Marino Blvd. Let's see if Freddi and Presley can steer them that way more often. If I remember right, small ball failed in 2002 and 2003. It wasn't until we got rid of Torborg and small ball in 2003 that we started to play well. We went from small ball to regular, balanced baseball - get guys on base and drive them in with extra base hits. I do agree that we've gone too far the other way in chasing home runs but we're scoring runs which is all that counts on offense so I can't complain much.
  18. De Aza is still on the DL. The Sun-Sentinel had a small blurb on Saturday that said he's due to start light jogging today.
  19. [gonzalez] could learn something from joe torre about how to use your closer.....NOT IN A TIE GAME!!! Torre uses his closer in the 9th inning of a tie game at home, at least he did against Colorado earlier this week. Lots of managers do that - once you hit the 9th inning of a tie game at home, you'll never have a save situation so you might as well use your closer, assuming he's competent and rested and doesn't have some phsychological block about pitching in a tie game. Edit: I posted this at the same time as Erick else I wouldn't have bothered.
  20. just go to the marlins site and check the 40 man roster yourself Just 'cause Barone is the only SP on the 40-man roster doesn't mean he'll get the call. We can put Sanchez, Mitre, or even De Aza on the 60-day DL and add Badenhop or Volstad to the 40-man roster so we can bring them up.
  21. Davey Johnson did this with the Mets back in the '80s in an extra-inning game against the Reds. He ran out of position players and had Jesse Orosco and Roger McDowell in the game at the same time and swapped them between left-field and pitching depending on whether the batter was lefty or righty.
  22. I think Conine broke his collarbone a month or two ago in a bicycle accident so I don't know if he could play in a game even if he wanted to.
  23. Dont see us taking out a fielder for a pitcher. Taking out a fielder for a pitcher isn't as much of a deal on the 40-man roster as it is on the 25-man roster. I counted 39 on the 40-man roster before this move. Now, between this and the Mildren move, that gets us down to 37 players (the Sun-Sentinel says 38). I wonder why we're clearing space when it looks like we already had room? One spot is going to Nolasco but we could've activated him without a roster move, if my count was correct, and we could always move Boone to the 60-day DL retroactive to June 25 if he's not that close. Maybe we just want some flexibility if somebody interesting is waived. If Olivo ends up on the 15-day DL, we'd need a 40-man roster spot for a catcher.
  24. A couple of months ago, Hutton mentioned that he thought the stadium construction might be affecting the way the ball carries at JRS. He speculated that enclosing the outside of the stadium changed the air currents and wind through the stadium and the ball is carrying better.
  25. I am coming down for a couple of games against the Reds. The last time I was down there for one of the games, I picked up tickets for about $40 at the ticket window. I liked them because they gave me access to the air conditioned club area. This is crucial for this trip since my wife is coming, and she is not a big fan of 95+ temperature. Does anyone know for sure which sections give you access to the indoor area? I want to make sure I get tickets in that area. Your help is greatly appreciated. There's major construction along the entire first base line in the club section. All the food and rest room areas are closed on that side and most of the luxury suites have been shut down. This causes a few problems: Longer walks for food and the rest rooms It seems like the area of the construction isn't being air conditioned so the seats on the first base side are hotter than normal. There's no luxury suites to open the windows and let out their cool air. We sit in the last row in our section, right under a luxury suite window, and their A/C is very comfortable. It's not near as nice this year without it. I also miss being able to watch replays on their TVs. If you're going to get seats, get them on the third base side. With Dolphin exhibition season coming soon, and the sideline club seats being choice seats for Dolphin games, I expect they'll try to get the construction done as soon as possible but I don't think that'll be by the time the Reds come down next weekend.
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