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  1. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sport...ll/16575986.htm Maybe Bernie's not such a bad idea after all, eh?
  2. I love the guy! I think all we were saying in this particular post, is that he could improve on his numbers a bit more if he'd try to use more of the field more often this season. I remember this was discussed during the season last year, and he had been working on it a bit. I remember watching him, and I was intrigued by his approach at the plate. But, I could definitely tell when he was being a patient hitter and looking to hit whatever the pitcher threw him, and I could also tell when he was just trying to rip the ball to right and put it in the seats. I think he will, in fact, improve on his numbers this year. It seemed like he figured out that he was trying to pull everything, and then tried to fix it on the fly. Well, you can apply this to almost anything: that it's not real easy to break old habits. Therefore, I think he was a little messed up at the plate last season, because he was trying to fix a bad habit, but when he was concentrating on it, it really took him out of his comfort zone. So, it was too easy to revert back to those bad habits. Hopefully, with the offseason to work on it, he'll be much more comfortable this season. I'm expecting big things from him!!
  3. I know many people on here will probably disagree with this, but I think Mitre should get another shot at the rotation. In case some of you forgot, he was in our rotation last year, until he was shut down due to injury. In March and April, the first five games of the season, sure he had a losing record (1-3), but his ERA was still a decent 3.82. Then, after two starts in early May, he was shut down due to injury. After he returned from his injury in August, he was used strictly out of the pen, and had two terrible outings the rest of the season, which inflated his ERA a bit more. You can look at any one of the pitchers in our starting rotation, and you will find with each one of them two or three months that they pitched worse than the other months in the season. That's, why I don't think you can be so hasty to criticize Mitre's performance last season, due to the fact that he pitched well for the 1st month he started, and began to struggle in the other two starts leading up to his injury. I think that strictly on the basis that Mitre only got 7 starts last year, he will be one of the first guys in line to hold a spot in the rotation if someone has to be held out at the start of the season. It's not really a matter of giving the guy a chance. He's had chances in the past. It's more a case of he just doesn't have stuff comparable to the other guys. He doesn't throw as hard, his stuff doesn't break as well, he doesn't mix his pitches as effectively. Mitre just isn't as good. Mitre has a pretty good sinker if he is healthy, I would expect to see Serge get a shot... then again, he needs to be healthy What did the guy have, three good outings last year with the big league club? I'd leave him in the minors for opening day. I'll change my mind if he shows me something in spring training. 15 appearances, 7 starts(Im only counting 6 because in 1 he threw 3 pitches before leaving with injury) In those 6 starts: Taking his 4 better starts, his numbers were a 1-2 record with a 2.92era (24.2ip 21h 8er 9bb 20k) He had 2 rough starts in which he went 0-2 with a 9.58era(10.1ip 18h 11er 4bb 8k)... So he actually was fairly good as a starter. I mean everyone has a rough outing now and then. As a reliever, he had 8 appearances. In 2 of those appearance he got shelled, never recording an out while giving up 7er on 3h while walkig 3 and striking out 0 In the other 6 outings, he gave up 0 runs in 6 innings of work, giving up 2 hits with 4 walks and 3 strikeouts He isnt all that bad guys :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy
  4. Okay, that's what I thought you were saying. Now, onto disputing that argument. :lol Sure, his singles and doubles looked like they were spread out evenly. But then, look at his homeruns. They were all in right, except for one. That sure doesn't seem like he was using power to all fields. It appears that most of the time he put the ball in left, it was a fly-ball out. Plus, those are just his home stats. How about his hitting chart at Citizens Bank Ballpark: three singles to right, one double to left, one double to left center, one double to right center, three doubles tucked in the right field corner, and a homerun off the foul pole in right. Guess what, ground ball outs to the right side of the infield, and fly-ball outs to left field. Coors Field: three singles to center, one homerun to right, a fly-out to left, and seven ground outs to the right side of the infield. Great American Ballpark: double down the right field line, two weak fly-outs to left Miller Park: one single to right, one homerun to right, one ground out to right, and the infamous fly-out to left...anyone else sensing a trend? (and I'm not talking about the ballparks being in alphabetical order) Minute Maid Park: one single to right, one homerun to right, 4 out of 6 groundouts to right, three fly-outs to center, and one fly-out to right. Oriole Park: double down the right field line, three ground outs to right, one groundout to left, and two fly-outs to right Petco Park: here you go, tally one up for you, just to show this post isn't biased. Two singles to left, one single to center, one single to right, one double to left, one homerun to right, two ground-outs to left, and a fly-out to left. He must have been working on his hitting prior to that series. PNC Park: two singles to center, one double to center, and three fly-outs to center. Alright, I think I've made my point. You can keep looking through the rest, and yes, you will find a few singles and doubles to left and center, but for the majority of the time, he WAS trying to pull the ball. 19 out of 20 homeruns were to right field. At home, his singles and double were pretty much split evenly. On the road, he generally hit more of them to right, than to center or left. More of his ground-outs were to right, and more of his fly-outs were to left. My analysis of these stats, is that when he got around on a ball and hit it solid, he put it down the line, or over the right field wall. When he tried to get around on the lower pitch, he mis-hit grounders to the right side of the infield. When he mis-hit the high, outside pitch, he would hit weak flyballs off the end of his bat into left field.
  5. try taking a look at jakes hit chart and then tell us what you think a lot of balls to left get a clue :blink: What are you saying here? I am confused. Are you saying that he did, indeed hit more balls to left than what we are crediting him for?
  6. Or..... Let us develop it by throwing him in the starting rotation for awhile, and let him build up enough value to attract trade interest. :thumbup
  7. I know many people on here will probably disagree with this, but I think Mitre should get another shot at the rotation. In case some of you forgot, he was in our rotation last year, until he was shut down due to injury. In March and April, the first five games of the season, sure he had a losing record (1-3), but his ERA was still a decent 3.82. Then, after two starts in early May, he was shut down due to injury. After he returned from his injury in August, he was used strictly out of the pen, and had two terrible outings the rest of the season, which inflated his ERA a bit more. You can look at any one of the pitchers in our starting rotation, and you will find with each one of them two or three months that they pitched worse than the other months in the season. That's, why I don't think you can be so hasty to criticize Mitre's performance last season, due to the fact that he pitched well for the 1st month he started, and began to struggle in the other two starts leading up to his injury. I think that strictly on the basis that Mitre only got 7 starts last year, he will be one of the first guys in line to hold a spot in the rotation if someone has to be held out at the start of the season. It's not really a matter of giving the guy a chance. He's had chances in the past. It's more a case of he just doesn't have stuff comparable to the other guys. He doesn't throw as hard, his stuff doesn't break as well, he doesn't mix his pitches as effectively. Mitre just isn't as good. I'm not by any means trying to say that Mitre is some awesome talent, and I would agree with you to an extent that his "stuff" doesn't appear to be quite as good as some of the other options we have. But the guy has NEVER had the chance to start more than 9 games in one major league season. Over the course of four years, he's only had the opportunity to start a TOTAL of 25 games. I still don't think we should be so hasty to pass judgement on a guy who's only averaged 6 starts per season. Give him some solid time in the rotation. Enough time for him to get on a schedule and get into a rhythm. Basically, all we've gotten to see from him in each of his major league seasons is a solid 1 month's worth of starts. As I said in my original post, you can pick out any one of the pitchers in our rotation and show a terrible month or two that they had. But, with ALL of them, they also had other months where they sparkled. I have no reason to believe that Mitre would perform any differently if he was given the chance to stay in the rotation for an extended amount of time.
  8. You think we could pay Carlos Delgado a little money to come back and work with Jake on his "power to all fields?" I loved watching Delgado hit to the opposite field!! They pitch him outside, so he hits it to left with enough english on the ball to send it into the left field corner for a double! I couldn't get enough of that!!
  9. I know many people on here will probably disagree with this, but I think Mitre should get another shot at the rotation. In case some of you forgot, he was in our rotation last year, until he was shut down due to injury. In March and April, the first five games of the season, sure he had a losing record (1-3), but his ERA was still a decent 3.82. Then, after two starts in early May, he was shut down due to injury. After he returned from his injury in August, he was used strictly out of the pen, and had two terrible outings the rest of the season, which inflated his ERA a bit more. You can look at any one of the pitchers in our starting rotation, and you will find with each one of them two or three months that they pitched worse than the other months in the season. That's, why I don't think you can be so hasty to criticize Mitre's performance last season, due to the fact that he pitched well for the 1st month he started, and began to struggle in the other two starts leading up to his injury. I think that strictly on the basis that Mitre only got 7 starts last year, he will be one of the first guys in line to hold a spot in the rotation if someone has to be held out at the start of the season.
  10. Okay, this is obviously, in no way good. But, don't you think a bit of this could be expected? I mean, we're not necessarily talking about TJ surgery here. We're talking about a little bit of inflamation, irritation, soreness, and tightness. Obviously, these signs shouldn't be ignored, as they could lead to bigger problems, but these guys just got done pitching the longest seasons of their lives. They then shut their arms down, and now are starting them back up again. In my opinion, they're bound to be a little sore. This doesn't directly relate, but I remember when I'd play high school baseball, my arm would be sore for the first week or two of playing catch, after not playing for some time. I don't think we should ring all of the alarms, bells, and flashing red lights.....at least not yet..... :confused
  11. Found this today: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/marlins/conte...acobs_0127.html
  12. Worst case scenario with the Erstad deal, is he would have been a bust and we were out $1.5 mil. Worst case scenario with trading a prospect for the unproven CF, unproven CF is a bust AND the prospect we traded turns out to be great. So I guess it comes down to what you value more, $1.5 mil, or a pitching prospect, which is what we'd be losing in each of the worst case scenarios.
  13. I also saw in the same post, the concept of trading Upton for Nolasco. They laughed. Maybe that will shed a little light onto that proposal. I thought I saw that being discussed on this thread a time or two....now where was that....if I could only pinpoint it..... :mischief2 :lol
  14. As for the Upton option, I don't think he'll be going anywhere too soon. I was reading a few posts on draysbay.com yesterday, and they are under the same impression. They think that right now, Upton's trade value is at its absolute lowest, so they would be stupid to deal him right now. It pretty much sounds like they want to sit on him a few more years and let his bat develop to the extent that someone will value it enough to overlook his defensive holes.
  15. He's worth that in my opinion. I'd rather pay him that for a season, than trade our pitching away for a lower-tier young CF that hasn't proven himself, such as a Murphy, Upton, Anderson, etc. It was only a one year contract. If he didn't pan out, you're only out $1.5 mil instead of being out a pitching prospect if your young CF never pans out.
  16. Ok one or two days. The trial started jan 8 and they said up to six weeks which is about feb 19. Missing the first day or two (if he even does) is not a big deal. If anyone is seriously upset about this, then you have a problem. :lol Do you think there are other managers that won't be at the first day of Spring Training? I don't know if this is enough to be "upset" about, but it's certainly something you don't like to see, especially when it's his first year managing the team.
  17. Where did you find one day? It doesn't say he would miss the opening day, it said that they may open Spring Training without him. If it was a manager that had been around our players, I'd say no big deal. But we're talking about a new manager! He needs to be around the Fish as much as he can, so they can become familiar with coaching styles and playing styles.
  18. For Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez, civic duty comes before baseball duty. Instead of preparing for spring training, Gonzalez has spent the past three weeks of his off-season in a Cobb County, Ga., courtroom as a juror in a civil trial over a $126 million Medicare fraud case involving the financial company PricewaterhouseCoopers. When the trial started Jan. 8, Judge Tom Pope told potential jurors that it could last up to six weeks. Gonzalez, a former Atlanta Braves third-base coach hired by the Marlins in October, told the judge he needed to be in Florida for spring training by mid-February. But baseball, even in the major leagues, apparently is no excuse for getting out of jury duty. "The plaintiffs are almost done with their witnesses,'' Gonzalez said Wednesday. "Now the defendants get to call their witnesses,'' If the pace slows or if the jury takes long to deliberate, there's a chance the Marlins will open spring training Feb. 17 without Gonzalez. "I hope that doesn't happen,'' Gonzalez said. "You never know.'' Less certain are Gonzalez's chances of participating in the Marlins' promotional caravan that starts Feb. 5 and ends with Fanfest on Feb. 10 at Dolphin Stadium. Owner Jeffrey Loria and General Manager Admin Beinfest are aware of Gonzalez's predicament and are prepared for the possibility of opening camp without him. "Admin knows, Jeffrey knows, the judge knows,'' Gonzalez said. "You've got to perform your civic duty.'' When he reported to the Cobb County Courthouse on Jan. 8, Gonzalez was amused to find a familiar face sitting among the pool of potential jurors - Braves General Manager John Schuerholz. "I guess they liked me better than John,'' Gonzalez joked. Sanchez sore: Right-hander Anibal Sanchez had a precautionary MRI on his right shoulder Monday after feeling discomfort while throwing in his native Venezuela. The MRI showed no structural damage, but Sanchez was diagnosed with inflammation and tendinitis. He will not throw for two weeks and will undergo another MRI on Feb. 5. Sanchez is expected to be eased into his spring training routine after pitchers and catchers report Feb. 17. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/marlins/content/sports/epaper/2007/01/26/a1b_gonzalez_0126.html
  19. Let us all pray that he fails his physical!! :cool
  20. Better than Cory Sullivan and a minor leaguer with no experience. How is that? Sullivan has been the better hitter than Erstad over the last two seasons, is a better defender, is less of an injury risk and will probably be cheaper. Edit: And is of course younger. Sullivan's been in the majors 2 years. What's so intriguing about these stat lines? To me, they look pretty average, and pretty similar to three or four guys on our roster. 2005: 139 games, 4 HR, 30 RBI, 28 BB, 83 SO, 12 SB, 3 CS, .343 OBP, .386 SLG%, .294 Avg., .729 OPS 2006: 126 games, 2 HR, 30 RBI, 32 BB, 100 SO, 10 SB, 6 CS, .321 OBP, .402 SLG%, .267 Avg., .722 OPS As I stated at the beginning of the this post, Erstad was playing with one leg last season until he was shut down, so those stats should be nullified. No one could put up good stats with that injury. So, when we look at the last two seasons Erstad played over 100 games, we look at his stats from 2004 and 2005: 2004: 125 games, 7 HR, 69 RBI, 37 BB, 74 SO, 16 SB, 1 CS, .346 OBP, .400 SLG%, .295 Avg., .746 OPS 2005: 153 games, 7 HR, 66 RBI, 47 BB, 109 SO, 10 SB, 3 CS, .325 OBP, .371 SLG%, .273 Avg., .696 OPS Now, can you please tell me how you can look at those and make the generalization that Sullivan has been a better hitter? And I forgot defense! Over his ENTIRE 11-year career, Erstad has posted a .995 Fielding %. Sullivan on the other hand, has a career .991 Fielding %.
  21. You've got to remember, that the other organizations aren't just going to give talented players away via trade. They know the cards they hold, and they know what they need in return to get a fair deal. What it comes down to is that when you trade for these "lower cost" options, more than likely, you're going to be receiving just what you traded for: a lower quality player. You may not be giving up as much to get these players, but they really won't do us any better than the six players we already have competing for the job.
  22. Better than Cory Sullivan and a minor leaguer with no experience.
  23. Great news that we've actually been talking to him, AND that he's interested!!! Snag him as our CF, and if one of our other in-house CF candidates has a breakout season, he'd be a great backup plan for Jacobs at 1st!! I like the way that would fill out our roster. A lot of talented young kids, with a few veterans sprinkled in (Boone, Erstad, Sanchez.)
  24. Honestly, if we don't go out and acquire a CF before the season starts, I don't think the CF job will be settled until a month or two into the season. At the start of last season, people were hoping Abercrombie's red-hot spring would translate into regular season success. But as we all know, that didn't quite happen. I think you can say the same for Winter League performances such as Alex Sanchez's. The only thing that gives him a slight advantage is his past major league experience. In all truthfulness, we will probably see a two or three man rotation over the first 40-50 games, and after that, whichever one is performing the best will begin to see a majority of the playing time.
  25. I would also like to see Reggie get another shot simply because of his athleticism. I think he has the most potential to be the best all-arund CF. He has shown spurts of both power and speed. Just his body type and style remind me alot of a Derrek Lee/Preston Wilson type ballplayer.
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