Dante LeRoi

fwiw MLB At-Bat says 34.439 and "4th largest crowd in stadium's history"...

And so it begins... http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/30/marlins-listening-to-offers-for-outfielder-giancarlo-stanton/

i dont know why he didnt sign it but i think its probably for a good reason. i think we can see a clear difference in hanley's character this year so I dont think he would do that if it wasnt for a reason. Maybe, but then it would have been better to write "...(not including Hanley Ramirez #2, because [put in reason]...") in the auction desciption. Why would bidders care? And his contractual clauses may be private. Right, bidders may not care (though I think it would get higher bids with Hanley on it) but as you see here, they are not the only one who notice this. As someone already mentioned, 1 out of 25 players - and this being the teams' star - not signing could be blown out of proportion. And with reason I didn't mean details, just something like "because of contractual reasons". Would have been enough to make this a non-issue.

i dont know why he didnt sign it but i think its probably for a good reason. i think we can see a clear difference in hanley's character this year so I dont think he would do that if it wasnt for a reason. Maybe, but then it would have been better to write "...(not including Hanley Ramirez #2, because [put in reason]...") in the auction desciption.

He just struck out in his next at-bat...DFA him :D

Stanton: Six homers in sixty at bats. Batting avg. over .300. 16 walks and 17 strikeouts. Time for AAA. Make that 9 HRs in 64 at-bats, because today he's just killing the Mudcats: 3/3, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 1 BB :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

Could Carroll and Coghlan out produce Coghlan and Carroll? Possibly. Hmmm.....I don't think they can do that

Only a matter of time before Julio is closing again. rotowire reports that in fact he will be the closer as long as Owens is out :banghead

opening day......it's about time :notworthy work: 2 hours left cold beer: ready mlb.tv account: ready it's been a looong offseason and i can't wait till the 1st pitch :cool

I was looking for a list of the actual contract staus of our young players but couldn't find any.....can someone help me out?

Had to laugh at first, but he's right on point.....

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