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[Galarraga] played 3b some last year in sanfran!!! Not according to Yahoo or Baseball Reference.

Galarraga can play OF and 3rd base as well. and i think he played SS for a couple of games in sanfran. Galarraga has never played OF or SS in the majors. I'd bet he hasn't played SS since high school. His entire major league experience at 3B is one or two innings for the Rockies in 1996; he did not have any chances. He is strictly a 1B/DH/PH. Cordero was a SS and has played some 3B (badly - 2 games, 3 errors) and now OF. Though watching him botch plays in LF and 1B makes me wonder how he was ever a regular major league shortstop.

Cordero isn't going to be back for a long time. Yes, but he'll probably be back by the first of August. We could take the attitude that we'll worry about it then. I'd love to have Galarraga on the Marlins but I'm afraid McKeon would want to platoon him with Choi and I'd like to see Choi out there every day now, except against particularly tough lefties.

I'm pretty sure Cordero was at first that day, because he made a stupid error earlier in the game, and besides that if Miguel gets to Beltre's ball like he should of maybe that all never happens. But oh well the past is passed and Armando owns. :thumbup By the time Benitez got in the game, Choi was at first. McKeon did a double switch when he brought in Benitez - he brought in Choi at the same time and batted him 9th and put Benitez in the #5 slot in the batting order.

All-Star Game = Popularity Contest. Bonds, Griffey, and Sosa should be the starting OF if they're all healthy. Helton will be there, Renteria will be there, Smoltz will be there. You don't think that Kaz Matsui will be the starting NL SS? With internet voting as easy as it is, he may get several gazillion Japanese votes. Hideki Matsui started for the AL last year.

If you read the disclaimer in the title... It says "A Joke". Thanks for the insight though. :mischief Yes I read that. I also saw that the first line says "actual radio transmission" and it's been going around as a true story for years now. It's not really a joke as much as it's an urban legend now, kinda like the one about the library at University of Indiana sinking because the engineers didn't plan on the weight of the books.

Change your course now This is the transcript of an actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations on November 10, 1995. Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course. Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP. Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call. This didn't actually happen, of course. It's just an old joke, maybe 30 or 40 years old that's been updated to 1995. The version I heard didn't even involve the Canadians. Here's the link to where it's debunked ... The Obstinate Lighthouse

Ron Villone looks solid for them so far this year and he has some talent. Another lefty though, with a WHIP of 1.64 against righties this year. We already have two lefties in the bullpen in Perisho and Phelps (in about a week). I'd rather not have 3 lefties in the bullpen when we're still running Bump and Wayne out there. Villone would make 4 lefties if we count Oliver but I'd rather pretend Oliver isn't on the team anymore. Too bad, he would have been nice If we could work a 3-way trade with a team with extra right-handed relievers that needs a lefty, maybe something could happen. The Reds were a team like that but they just brought up Mike Matthews to help.

Despite all the talk of distractions at home, the guy basically skipped out on the Pirates because he didn't like his contract. It's funny how his his distractions subsided as soon as he was a free agent. With all the talk about our team chemistry, I don't want a guy like Raul Mondesi anywhere near our clubhouse, especially as a part-time player.

Ron Villone looks solid for them so far this year and he has some talent. Another lefty though, with a WHIP of 1.64 against righties this year. We already have two lefties in the bullpen in Perisho and Phelps (in about a week). I'd rather not have 3 lefties in the bullpen when we're still running Bump and Wayne out there. Villone would make 4 lefties if we count Oliver but I'd rather pretend Oliver isn't on the team anymore.

How is Hasegawa doing this season? ERA of 5.64, WHIP of 1.61. Walks are up almost 2 per game from his career numbers. He makes $2.75 million too; don't know if he has any years on his contract past 2004.

Seattle could use somebody in CF besides Randy Winn. His numbers have been terrible - a .568 OPS, which is nearly identical to Alex Gonzalez's. They ain't trading their closer for Nunez though (I'm guessing y'all were joking about that). None of the righties in their bullpen have good numbers except for J.J. Putz and while his ERA is 3.14, his WHIP is 1.40, with 9 walks in 14.1 innings. Plus he only has 18 major league innings in his career.

Part of it is the bullpen, but the two main lefties in the bullpen, Phelps and Perisho, don't have all that many innings against lefties (a total of 13.1). I think we do better against lefties than we do against righties because our two worst starters are left-handed so they rarely face left-handed batters. Oliver and Willis are terrible against left-handed batters but have only pitched 18.1 innings. Penny and Benitez are the guys really holding down lefties. Between the two of them - 40.1 IP (around 26% of our innings against lefties) and 7 ER for a 1.56 ERA. Teams stack righties against Willis and Oliver and since they've not pitched well, our ERA against righties suffers. ERA is also a little misleading when dealing with righties/lefties, especially in the bullpen when you could give up a hit that allows an inherited runner to score. For example Justin Wayne has an ERA of 1.23 vs. lefties but a WHIP of 1.91. Looking at his ERA, you'd think he's blowing away lefties but he's not. Against righties, his ERA is 6.19 but his WHIP is only 1.13, though that's because he's giving up HRs.

He'll need to get his BA up to around .250 to get enough support though. which is stupid, but shows how idiotic the media is. Yep, but it's hard to get them to vote for someone who is dragging the team down at the plate. I'm pretty sure the media doesn't vote for the Gold Glove award. The managers and coaches do. I wouldn't call them idiotic as much as I'd call them careless, as shown when Rafael Palmeiro won the Gold Glove at 1B in 1999 even though he only played 28 games at 1B all season.

Possibly since Trelle is going to only be 300,000-600,000 dollars for the next 5-6 years and Beckett and Penny, will be in the 1,600,000-2,300,000 dollars range as well as Burnett. Pavano is only one to worry about since he is a FA after this season. Penny is already well past the $2.3 million mark - he's at $3.7 million this year. Beckett is at $1.5 million now and I wouldn't be surprised to see that go past $3 million next year in arbitration. Salaries don't stay low for the first 5-6 years of a players career. It's more like the first 2-3 years. Once players become arbitration eligible, their salaries jump. Dontrelle will making a lot more than $600,000 in 2006.

now Penny-Willis-Pavano will be pitching on five days. Penny will still be on normal rest. He pitched Tuesday and now he's going to go Sunday, which is 4 days rest. Because the day off fell between Beckett and Penny's start, they'd have to push up Penny and Willis to go on 3-days rest to skip Oliver's turn altogether. With another off-day Monday, it's possible we'll do it again and push Oliver back another day next week, to May 22nd. I hope not - I'm going to that game and I've already seen Oliver pitch twice already. Besides, having Oliver and Willis go back to back sets up the potential for two-straight early calls to the bullpen.

I love hitters who do that! Thats another reason why I like Juan Pierre. Because he makes the pitcher work a lot and he dosent just go down but he keeps on battling and he dosent strike out. Another hitter on the Marlins who does that is Mike Redmond. And Mike gets a hit so many times and he just wastes the pitchers arm and gets him tired. And even if he does get out in the end it was still a great AB. When you are facing great pitchers you dont want them to pitch so long so you just foul the balls away and get him tired so they wont be able to pitch for so long. The person who does that the best is on the Dodgers...Paul La Duca. Actually Pierre sees fewer pitches per Plate Appearance than just about anybody on the Marlins ... Cabrera 4.3 (3rd in the league) Choi 4.0 Castillo 3.9 Lowell 3.9 Conine 3.6 Gonzalez 3.6 Pierre 3.5 Pierre ranks 65th among NL qualifiers (out of 99). Paul LoDuca is worse - he's 76th (3.48 pitches per Plate Appearance). Redmond isn't a qualifier, but he's worse than Pierre, seeing 3.3 pitches per Plate Appearance.

Yankee Stadium is a pitchers park, though not as much as before it was redone in the 1970s. It's traditionally been tougher on right-handed batters which is why you see lefty pitchers thrive there, like Whitey Ford, Guidry, Pettitte. Turner Field is pretty neutral. The BOB is a hitter's park, which makes Brandon Webb's season last year that much more impressive. Edison Field in Anaheim has been pretty neutral except the last two years where it played as a pitcher's park. The Sky Dome in Toronto is mostly a hitter's park. Minnesota's Metrodome is also a hitter's park. I much prefer a pitcher's park to a hitter's park. If your pitchers have to play 81 games in a hitter's park and deal with high-scoring games, that's that many more batters they're facing and that many more pitches they're throwing. I think it wears down a staff. The better teams over the years, like the Yankees and Dodgers, have played in pitchers parks. The loser teams, like the Cubs and Red Sox, are from hitters parks (though Wrigley is playing like a pitchers park the last few seasons). I got the Park Factors from Baseball Reference which got the formulas from Total Baseball.

The end of Oliver!? Who will be sent to AAA? Pehlps or Perisho? I'm thinking Perisho. We should just release Oliver.......we have no use for him in the BP. I don't know if we'll eat Oliver's salary. Maybe we can give him to the Yankees - the only lefty they have in the rotation is Donovan Osborne and he's been about as bad as Oliver.

just bc. they never thought of having luis hit right handed all the time dosent mean that it wouldnt be a great idea for him to hit right handed all the time. Understand? They've thought of it. In fact, they taught Luis how to hit left-handed. Luis is a natural right-handed hitter. The Marlins made him into a switch hitter when they signed him 10 years ago to take advantage of his speed. I seem to vaguely remember Castillo giving up hitting left-handed for a brief period when he first came up, but that was a long time ago and I could easily be mistaken. I kinda wish he had stayed as a right-handed hitter - you can tell by watching him that he hits the ball with much more authority right-handed. But at this point in his career, I can't imagine him switching other than temporarily because of an injury. Other than a knuckle-baller, Castillo hasn't batted right-handed against a righty in many years.

It was reported yesterday that the most optimistic date for Fox to return would be in two months, with 3-4 months more likely. Anyway you slice it, AJ will be coming back first. I'm sure there must be a logical reason for all this....and I'm just missing it. It's because AJ went on the DL first. AJ went on the DL back on 3/26. They can put him on the 60-day DL now, retroactive to 3/26, and activate him on 5/26 if they feel like it (they'd have to make another move). With Chad Fox, if they move him to the 60-day DL now, it would be retoactive to when he last pitched which is late April so they couldn't re-activate him until late June. Since AJ won't be ready by 5/26, this is the move to make in case Fox makes a strong recovery and is back by June 15th or so.

If I can chime in here for a minute. This argument about $$$ is irrelevant to the thread in that none of us know the difinitive answer to who is being paid and how much, nor does it take into account proration of certain contracts that include bonuses, etc. Actually I think we do know. I believe USA Today is publishing correct accurate numbers, and are adjusting for deferrals, and are including bonuses in the year they're being paid. There is some guesswork involved - our payroll could be even higher this year if we choose to pay Castillo his bonus now - but I have faith in these numbers. Unfortunately, I don't think the argument over $$$ is irrelevant to this thread because that was Jonny's supposition - that at $47 million we're $6 million under budget and that maybe we could've afforded Pudge. And if we can afford Kendall, we certainly could've afforded Pudge. I'm just trying to show jonny that the $47 million part of the assumption is incorrect. I agree with part of Jonny's logic - if we can afford Kendall now we could've afforded Pudge. But I disagree with his answer to the question in the title of the thread. The answer is not that we made a mistake with Pudge; the answer is that we can't afford Kendall either. Payroll is what it is. The question really is will (not "can") the Marlins spend more when the opportunity arises and as it regards Pudge, did they have the $$$ to pay him $10 million a year for the this and next three years? I believe the answer to the first part is yes and the second part, no. Committing $40 million (give or take) to him over four years would have been unduely burdensome for the franchise. I agree with you on this. Loria will spend the money when the opportunity arises. I don't think there's any way we will trade for Kendall now unless the Pirates pay his salary and that ain't gonna happen. In late July, when we're in the middle of the race, then you add payroll. But not in early May, when a rash of injuries to key players could knock us out of it.

They weren't on the 25 man roster last time I checked. They are still on the payroll. It all depends on what you want to include. With AJ and Spooney it is $52.6M The Marlins have to write checks to them twice a month. They're on the MLB payroll. They're on the ML roster - they're just on the DL, just like Chad Fox. You're not subtracting off Chad Fox. Here's a link to the the numbers on ESPN, which is the same as on USA Today. That's without the $11 million Pudge/Hampton numbers ... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1778397

This is the information I have for salary at the start of the season. If you have something different I'd like to see it. Where's AJ and Spooney? They're on the major league payroll.

Our payroll at the beginning of 2003 was slightly over $50M. Our payroll at the start of 2004 was slightly under $50M. So our payroll is essentially unchanged from last year. Both of these include the payouts to Hampton and Pudge (this year). According to USA Today, our payroll is $42.1 million, not counting Pudge and Hampton. That comes to $53.1 million with those deferrals. I tracked the numbers too as we signed players and I came up with real similar numbers. Add in Gracesqui ML salary now and it's closer to $53.4 million.