sgleason02

I still can't believe how ignorant the majority of you are, begging for the FO to platoon this guy all over the diamond. His defense is SOOOOOO TERRIBLE that it has outweighed any offensive production he's brought to the table in four of the last five seasons. The exception is last year, where he magically produced power equivalent to his previous three years combined. He's had a negative WAR 4 out of his 5 last seasons. How did the John Buck signing after his career year work out? Lay off the Kool-Aid.

wait a sec... did they just do a thing we wanted them to do?? I mean that is a pretty smart move and gives them a bunch of flexibility. career vs LHP .298 .353 .522 .875 he would basically take the other 5th OF/platoon spot, so bench is Mathis, Bogo, Baker, Lucas, Dobbs I guess? I have already voiced my disapproval of the signing, but I do like the FO's platoonish thinking, which seems to fall under "outside the box" for our team. That said, I still see Baker and Lucas as the exact same offensive player. If both end up being on the roster, I see one in a full time platoon at 1B, and the other as a late innings PH. I will poop my pants if the FO plays the better fielding Lucas in the platoon role. 2013 WAR: Lucas 1.5, Baker .7 Baker's career net WAR....note, I said NET, not average, is 1.1 across 9 seasons. I smell the second coming of Wes Helms at the price of $4 million. Carry on. I'll be in the corner, sulking.

I don't want to be a Negative Nancy, but his power spiked last year at age 32. Just finding his stroke? Probably not. Power as a result of playing in a hitters park? Probably. He hit 10 HR against lefties last year. 2011 and 2012 combined for twice as many lefty AB's for 6 total HR. 11 total HR in 2013, 9 in hitter's parks, 1 in neutral parks, 1 in pitcher's parks (Seattle, where the fences were moved in). Is $4 million worth it if we end up with 2 years of his 2012 lefty splits: .240/.277/.388/.665? I'll take Ed Lucas and his .330/.374/.509/.883 lefty split for a fraction of the price.

Most of the questions are pretty dumb, though. I'm surprised he even bothers to answer. Being from Kansas, my opinion of them is based purely off of what I read on Twitter. I think JCR comes across as the biggest douche of all douches, mostly for answering said "dumb" questions with sarcastic, smug answers. It seems that his responses are aimed at belittling or embarrassing his followers. How about you spend less time building up your ego at the expense of teenage followers and tell me something useful.

Pretty sure this move saves 1 mil. And some change... $$$$$$

Here are some other Lomo trade ideas. More speculation than anything. It does give a bit of insight as to what his potential trade value may be. http://marlinmaniac.com/2013/12/09/3-potential-trades-involving-logan-morrison/

Living in Kansas, I haven't had the opportunity to watch any Marlins games this season. But I do listen to a few on game day radio. For what it's worth, I did hear mention during one game a week or two ago, of a discussion with perry hill, who thought that polanco was the player who suffered the most from Stanton's abscence. I believe stat lines were given for him while Stanton was in the lineup and then while Stanton was on the dl. Basically, in hills opinion, polanco was the bat in the lineup that opposing teams were pitching around while Stanton was gone.

If Cox can hit around .300 at the mlb level without power, fine... better than the guys with no power barely hitting their weight ...then we shall call him "Donovan Jr." and shower him with our b&m's... P.S. that's b&m's as opposed to bm's...I would much rather be showered with the former than the latter

I'm surprised no one has brought up the concept that Ozuna may have been called up because he is the most likely to assume RF duties in case of a Stanton trade. With all the speculation, I'm surprised so many of you are against seeing if the one player in the system with the best shot of taking over RF, can handle it. Maybe you prefer we trade Stanton with no plan in place ala Hanley and 3B? In that case, please DO call up Matt Diaz. Isn't Petey still in the system, too?

Seriously, though, Coghlan did probably the worst thing he could have done in that situation other than strike out or pop out. I'm glad the Marlins salvaged a win out of Fernandez's great start, but let's be real. You are the clubhouse cancer of this message board, Debbie.

If I had a thread titled after every time I did this, the server would be down...

Dear everyone, Suck it! Sincerely, Cogs

We sure have failed on a lot of bunt attempts this season. It seems like that's something that should have been worked on a lot with the understanding that we were going to be a small ball offense.

HUT14 Just saw Skipworth walking along Ave. of the America's. I guess that means he's joining the ball club tonight! A new horse for you? wonder if the FO will reward the marlins only run maker with a benching for one of the top 5 worst MLB players in the last three years. Right on cue!

Must be setting them up for another double play...

Suck it, Harper!

Gio not helping his PED defense with that homer

Siiiigggggghhhhhhhh.....chicks dig the longball...

Is Mahoney still in the system? I missed him getting dismissed from camp.

FUDGE!!!...only I didn't say fudge...

You silly Billy's! This is simply a matter of Coghlan being "game-ready." Rugz is a week and a half behind the rest of the hitters in camp, and it shows by his .400 ops against the same st pitchers that Cogs was opsing .800+ against. Do you really expect Rugz to suddenly find his swing tomorrow against Strasburg?

I also saw somewhere (twitter maybe?) that silverio had been shut down because of his arm. Apparently even hitting has been bothering it.

Did anyone else notice that in all of baseball history, Dobbs's closest comparable is Wes Helms? Also, I'm typing this from my phone, and my autocorrect called him "Eww Helms." I grinned...

Why is it that Eovaldi gets pushed to the pen? We don't even have a 5th starter right now. LeBlanc until Heaney is up. Unless Eovaldi develops a good third pitch and stamina, he's a bullpen guy.I think you're a bit premature with your Heaney talk. The guy has 6 professional starts, averaging less than 5 IP per start, and a 4.95 ERA against A-ball competition. No way he's up this year.

I remember ncaa 07 using him and steve slaton to run the option. UNSTOPPABLE!