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FIRE SALE!!!! :o :o :o 862031[/snapback] firehose? flagpole? flouride? footnote? flexible? fanglike? fishbone? foursome? fuselage? :o

Nice post...one of your best ever. :thumbup

The Ghost of Al Leiter may soon also be the Ghost of Mike Lowell. If Leiter had a game in him (like last night) why wasn't it brought out by the Marlins staff? If Mikey is traded, wouldn't be surprised to see him break-out and explode. FO is working on new guys. No reason to believe they will be properly nurtured and aggressively coached with our existing coaching staff. Sure, blame goes on the Players. But when so many quality players diminish... you have to look to Management and coaching. What I'd give for Ozzie Guillen... 861980[/snapback] The Ghost of AJ may soon be the Ghost of Carl Pavano. So quick to point out the negatives. What about the stellar performances of Cabrera, Castillo and Willis? All blossomed under the current regime. Don't discount the growth of players such as Gonzalez and Encarnacion. You have to take the good with the bad. The coaching staff has had a considerable amount of success. What I'd give for some sanity on this board...

It's gonna take a lot to get Zito. Penn plus 2 more studs probably. Probably Stokes. 861607[/snapback] Stokes isn't a Billy Beane player. First off, he's never getting to the big leagues. Second, he strikes out way to much. Lastly, he lacks in the OBP department. 861620[/snapback] It would at least take Penn and another very good prospect. 861624[/snapback] Too bad the "Irish God of Walks" is on the DL. :whistle

Our young Paul O'Neill is a Carolina Mudcat... :thumbup

Jack really pulled the plug way to early, you gotta make him work out of it. I think taking him out is more detromental then letting him work through it.? :banghead 858699[/snapback] Why did he yank him? Because Jack knows that he messed up big time last year in how he handled Logan Kensing and doesn't want Scott Olsen to turn into another Logan Kensing. I do think Jack should have at least let him get himself out of the inning though. 858739[/snapback] I do agree that Jack learned from Logan but I disagree in that he messed up...due to the circumstances he had no other option but to let the kid take some hits for the team...

Excellent point...the offense looked terrible last night. Enc only had two hits. Conine was sorely missed. Aguila too. Jack is senile. :whistle

Anderson: (87 games, 329 AB) .289 BA/.358 OBP/.465 SLG, 11 HR, 41 RBI, 21 2B, 91 K/35 BB 856813[/snapback] Good info...thanks. 91 K's - ouch!

do they really think the white sox need a 3rd baseman? he's hitting just a tad better than lowell and hes younger. 856806[/snapback] Don't forget the Ozzie Guillen connection...Lowell and Ozzie can habla Espanol together...

Who is Anderson?

I probably will get killed for mentioning this. Maybe it's been mentioned before. Personally I think Loria should fire Beinfest. I don't think he's done a very good job as GM this year. Sending people up and down. Bringing up a lot of young guys. He hasn't, as of yet, made any trades to help the team. I've said this before about Beinfest and it's true...in the past, he's been more lucky than good! 856704[/snapback] Congratulations...this board has officially hit an all-time low. :confused

Wells, Chacin, Bautista for AJ, Lowell & Pierre??? 2B - Castillo C - LoDuca 3B - Cabs 1B - Delgado CF - Wells RF - Enc LF - Hermida SS - Sea Bass Beckett Willis Moehler Chacin Vargas/Olsen this would give us an extremely balanced lineup and rotation. :mischief2

I really hope it's not Clemens...how many farewells is this guy going to have? And after his last performance starting in the All-Star game I would prefer Willis or Carpenter. We don't need Clemens blowing our homefield advantage in the WS! :whistle

No surprises... Juan Pierre CF Luis Castillo 2B Carlos Delgado 1B Miguel Cabrera LF Juan Encarnacion RF Paul Lo Duca C Mike Lowell 3B Alex Gonzalez SS Dontrelle Willis P :thumbup

Third baseman Jon Fulton may have broken his left thumb on a fielding play when he landed awkwardly taking a throw from catcher Brad Davis. He'll have a specialist look at it today "It's a bittersweet night. We hope Johnny is OK." -- Hoppers manager Brandon Hyde, reflecting on the win but also the possible loss of Fulton :confused

Wow...VDLS, Resop, Mota, Mecir & Jones...the pen is really starting to shape up. Adding AA and another arm bodes well for the second half. :thumbup

He misses out on a save by .3 of an inning... :confused

Carlos, Luis, and the Duke get the day off. Niner, Easley and Treanor are in. :thumbup

Background on another savy pickup by our "inept" FO... BERARDINO: De Los Santos makes quick return Published July 7, 2005 MIAMI GARDENS--One night this March, Brewers bullpen coach Bill Castro stopped by the Arizona home of his friend Valerio De Los Santos. Over a dinner of shrimp pasta prepared by the pitcher's wife, they discussed the long road back from shoulder surgery and how De Los Santos should just be happy to make it back to the majors sometime after the All-Star break. They agreed the lean lefty shouldn't take things too fast and shouldn't even throw for scouts until he was fully recovered from the procedure he underwent last July 30. So you can imagine Castro's surprise Wednesday night as he sat in the visiting bullpen at Dolphins Stadium and watched De Los Santos pump 93-mph fastballs and 87-mph sliders by his former team. De Los Santos pitched a perfect 12th inning and picked up his first big-league victory since Sept. 4, 2003. "That's a credit to him and how hard he's worked," Castro said before the 5-4 Marlins win. "He did the right thing waiting to sign. If he would have gone to spring training being weak, they probably would have said this guy is washed up." Instead, De Los Santos, who spent his first 11 pro seasons in the Brewers organization, appears far from done. At 32, he has filled a need in the Marlins' bullpen and been far more effective than anyone could have dreamed for a guy who didn't sign until May 13. De Los Santos has a 1.50 ERA in 15 outings with the Marlins. In 12 innings he has allowed just eight hits and a .190 batting average and has stranded 10 of 17 inherited runners. Not bad for someone making just $350,000, a steep cut from the $850,000 he made a year ago with Toronto. Also not bad considering he only had eight rehab outings at Jupiter and was back on a big-league mound by June 9, at least a month ahead of schedule. That was also a year and four days after he threw his last pitch for the Blue Jays in a pain-filled 2004 season. He saw Dr. James Andrews, the renowned orthopedist in Alabama, and rest was prescribed. When the pain persisted, De Los Santos wound up in the California office of Dr. Lewis Yocum. This time surgery was recommended, and Yocum went right to work repairing a frayed labrum and cleaning out calcifications and a lesion in the pitcher's throwing shoulder. The Marlins signed him only after club officials Michael Hill and Dan Jennings conducted extensive research into the pitcher's medical history and were satisfied with his on-field audition. The Yankees, Cubs and Angels, who employ Yocum, also showed interest, but De Los Santos, a cousin of Marlins outfielder Juan Encarnacion, had his heart set on South Florida. It also helped that Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria had always liked De Los Santos, going back to his days in Milwaukee and Loria's days owning the Expos. "I used to pitch really well against them," De Los Santos said. "[Loria] said he was hoping one day I'd be on his club." Now you might think surgery is surgery, but there's a vast difference between opening up a pitcher's elbow and messing with his shoulder. With an elbow reconstruction, unless you're poor Tim Spooneybarger, the prognosis is delivered with eerie precision. See John Smoltz, Matt Morris, A.J. Burnett and seemingly hundreds of other Tommy John surgery survivors who returned in 12 months or so. The success rate is around 93 percent. When it comes to the shoulder the success rate is just 70 percent and the rehab can take much longer. Up to 24 months, said Keith Kocher, who heads up Physiotherapy Associates, an athletic rehab center at Tempe, Ariz. That's why Kocher, who works with dozens of pro baseball players every winter, proudly displays an 8-by-10 glossy of De Los Santos on his clinic's wall of fame. The two have worked together since 1996 and have overcome season-wrecking injuries to the pitcher's back (1999) and elbow (2001). But getting De Los Santos back to the majors in just over 10 months might have been their finest magic act yet. De Los Santos spent maniacal sessions at the rehab center, starting several weeks before he underwent surgery. A light day, Kocher said, would last three hours. A typical day ran up to five. "He's probably in there longer than 99 percent of the guys that come through here," Kocher said. And he owes Kocher a new photo for his wall. This time in a Marlins uniform.

How about a retraction Nirvana???

Wow...this board is really going to hell. What a shame.

. RF Jeremy Hermida, 21, Florida Marlins .303-13-39-52-17 in Double-A Baseball America once called him the best high school hitter drafted since Eric Chavez, and finally his breakout 2005 has helped prove it. The power on Hermida's 6-foot-4, 200-pound frame is developing, but you have to love his 64 walks and .452 on-base percentage. He projects to be a lean lefty slugger in the mold of a Shawn Green. The Marlins figure to trade free-agent-to-be Juan Encarnacion, so unless they get a right fielder back, Hermida could become part of the 2005 playoff push up from Double-A ala Miguel Cabrera. That is a little bit of a leap right now for him, but warrants a flier as a reserve in deeper NL-only leagues right now. ETA: September 2005 Ownership: 1 percent Long-term: .300-30-100-100-20 :thumbup

Hoppers play well in setback 6-29-05 Staff report News & Record AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The three members of the Greensboro Grasshoppers who played in Tuesday's South Atlantic League All-Star game acquitted themselves quite nicely. Grasshoppers centerfielder Brett Carroll collected a single, stole a base and scored two runs; and pitchers Craig Molldrem and Chris Mobley didn't give up a run in a combined inning of work in the North's 7-5 loss to the South. The game was played in a steady drizzle but attracted a crowd of 4,343 to GreenJackets Stadium. Carroll started in centerfield for the North and went 1-for-2. Molldrem and Mobley pitched in relief. Charleston's Tim Battle, who survived a cancer scare to continue his baseball career, was named the contest's MVP. Grant Psomas (Hagerstown) was the home run champ.

I got the same exact reply today as well! :thumbdown

Wow...where the hell did they dig him up from??? :blink: