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Im in a 25 man roster Keeper's League and the league owner said we will be dropping 15 players from our team to be thrown into the FA poole where they can't be touched until next season's draft. I have a pretty dominant team ( actually have the best record and most poin forwarded :cool ) I need your opionions on who I should drop. It's a points leauge like how Fantasy Football is set up, not the batting average category and stuff like that. Here's the Roster: Offense: C: R. Martin 1B: A. Pujols 2B: B. Roberts 3B: A-Rod SS: M. Young OF: J. Hamilton OF: C. Quentin OF: X. Nady Util: E. Longoria Bnch:------------ C. Maybin I. Suzuki J. Cantu Rotation: (Has no limit) J. Lackey J. Verlander J. Maine E. Santana J. Saunders C. Volstad C. Carpenter R. Oswalt J. Lester ( Wang is on DL but I plan to keep him there ) Relief: M Rivera J Nathan F. Cordero if your asking to drop 15 players, than i would drop volstad- not very helpful for fantasy but gets the job done in the real life carpenter maybin if you want drop cordero maine. i dont know how your supposed to drop 15 though. you wouldnt have many players left

that is such a scary turn of evens. diagnosed on sunday, thats so sad. iwas shocked when i heard it in the car on thursday.

Can you guys give me little comparisons for some of the Marlins farm hands. i know a lot about the marlins farm but i want to try to master everyone and learn more and more about the fish. thanks.

damnt, i completely forgot about dunn. i like the lo duca move here. good sample sizevs randy. helms to.

I love submarine pitchers, but don't be surprised if he misses a portion of next season wit arm trouble, he has been a work horse out of their bullpen Submarine pitchers are supposed to be more immune from arm problems. Supposed to be a more natural form, but I see nothing natural about throwing an object 80+ mph with movement exactly right, the submariners put less stress on there shoulders.

they should make that tri rail thing they have with the heat.

any lineup needs to have cody 1st, hanley 3rd, and cantu 4th. fill in the pieces from there

what would you guys trade him for?

McPherson isn't playing either. this is probably nothing but isnt it wierd?

keep everybody but uggla jacobs, gregg olsen, and hammer. then call up sanchez coghlan raynor and miller to take thier spots

that will hurt us if she not put back in her chair that is exactly why we should all go out on august 26 and vote for judge jeri cohen & mayor carlos alvarez... i did my wife too we do it by mail that could be interpreted in many ways. lol

Who else is staying up for the entire game? guys, dont give up now, this is what seperates the die hards from the marginal fans.

A-Rod should be 3rd. Guys like Kemp, Wieters, and Billingsley have no business being on that list. wieters is a freking monster. blillingsley and kemp are just part of the over rated dodgers farm system

What hanley said per miami herald Just got done talking to Hanley Ramirez, who said his injured right hand was feeling "a little better" but couldn't say when he could get back in the lineup. He took some practice cuts in the cages inside but said the hand remained sore. He is also scheduled to take infield practice during B.P. to see how the hand feels while making throws.

Is Treanor now the 3rd catcher? traenor is now playing the end of the bench. but hes first string end of the bench so thats a positive.

i was not aware of raynor until very recently. of course, since i follow the team, i knew of him but i had no idea he was this good or this fast. does anybody have his eta and can you get me some background knowledge on him. thanks

Both of them aren't playing today and i have a hard time believing the Mudcats manager resting both of them on the same day. IS one of them injured? Any thoughts or explanations would help. Thanks.

could maybin or coghlan be getting called up or are 1 of them injured because i have a hrad time believing whoever the mudcats manager is would rest both of them.

i was going to say the same thing, we should call andino back up for a spark or something and send somebody back down, hopefully pinto. how perfect would this be while hanleys out cody dukes cantu uggla helms hammer hermida mezaga That would be terrible, as it had no Baker. baker/ lo duca i meant and sometimes lo duca can play first or lf. but i meant baker playing 2/3 or 3/4 of the playing time.

bunting practice and bunting in a game is very different, but i agree it is something he should work on this offseason because you arent going to see some sort of change in the middle of the season That is completely and totally untrue, LMAO! As a guy who has played baseball from about 8 years old until about the age of 45 when I finally stopped playing in various leagues, I have to laugh out loud at that. Learning how to bunt DOES NOT require an entire off season. In fact, learning how to put down a simple sacrifice bunt can be done in a good two hour session with a hitting coach, providing the hitting coach himself knows how to bunt. The Yankees years ago used to have Phil Rizzutto show guys how to bunt, because very often whoever was their hitting coach was a guy who had been a good hitter, but not neccessarily a good bunter. But regardless, it is not a hard thing to learn once you know how to hold the bat and square up to the pitcher. Bottom line is if you are going to give a guy a bunt sign, you should have confidence that he knows HOW to bunt. wrong again mr. insult. i never said it took an entire offseason. i said you it is much diffferent to do it in a game than it is in practice. i never said if he does it all offseason that he will be good at it. i said hell work on that in the offseason. and since you played baseball, actually softball, that makes you knowledgeable for major league where they throw just a LITTLE bit harder? please :mischief

bunting practice and bunting in a game is very different, but i agree it is something he should work on this offseason because you arent going to see some sort of change in the middle of the season

"I don't understand why this team isn't improving in the slightest, if anything they are simply doing worse." From what I have seen, it does not appear as if the Marlins coaches WORK ON PROBLEMS with their players while the season is in progress. Again, keep in mind that I'm in my 50s, so I remember things being done differently by teams in the past. Hitting coaches on teams worked intensively with guys who wanted or needed help. Guys caught in slumps, or guys falling into bad habits would get with the batting coach (or pitching coach, infield coach, etc.) before games and on off days and work like hell to correct these things. On this team this is either not being done, or the coaches are lousy teachers or the players are lousy learners. In my opinion, they are just not working with the players. Why do I say that? Well, Hanley Ramirez has not been able to hit the outside strike for months; I see no improvement there at all. It's a strange situation; right after signing his new contract Hanley fell into a funk, the chief symptom of which was his sudden, inexplicable inability to hit pitches on the outside corner. Not only is he having trouble hitting that pitch but he thinks it's a ball and gets caught looking at strike three. After all these months there seems to have been no improvement in Hanley's vulnerability to the outside strike and he is still getting rung up looking at that pitch; either he and Pressley are not working on this, or they are, but completely without success. Another example is Jeremy Hermida and his pathetic bunting technique. Back in April I saw him feebly strike out on foul bunt attempts and noted to myself his complete ineptitude as a bunter; he has absolutely NO CLUE on how to even hold the bat, how to stand, etc. I was pretty surprised that this guy got all the way to the majors without any instruction on how to lay down a bunt; then I remembered that that's how things are these days, a lot of players get to the The Show without knowledge of basic baseball fundamentals. Anyway, last week here comes Hermida again in a bunting situation and Fredi gives him the sign, and what does he do? He BUTCHERS another bunt attempt, popping up meekly to the catcher! And watching the replay I see that his bunting technique is exactly the same as it was before: pitiful stance, grip, the whole nine yards. Therefore in the nearly four months after his first bunting disaster he was either not taught anything, or he's a very poor student. The fact that his bat grip and stance had not changed indicates that he almost definitely was not taught how to bunt since April. And if THAT'S the case, then why is Fredi even giving him the bunt sign?! After that abortion of a bunt attempt last April, I certainly would not have given him the bunt sign if I was the manager. In conclusion, the reason the team does not seem to improve during the season is that he thinks it's a ball and gets caught looking at strike three. After all these months there seems to have been no improvement in Hanley's vulnerability to the outside strike and he is still getting rung up looking at that pitch; either he and Pressley are not working on this, or they are, but completely without success. Another example is Jeremy Hermida and his pathetic bunting technique. Back in April I saw him feebly strike out on foul bunt attempts and noted to myself his complete ineptitude as a bunter; he has absolutely NO CLUE on how to even hold the bat, how to stand, etc. I was pretty surprised that this guy got all the way to the majors without any instruction on how to lay down a bunt; then I remembered that that's how things are these days, a lot of players get to the The Show without knowledge of basic baseball fundamentals. Anyway, last week here comes Hermida again in a bunting situation and Fredi gives him the sign, and what does he do? He BUTCHERS another bunt attempt, popping up meekly to the catcher! And watching the replay I see that his bunting technique is exactly the same as it was before: pitiful stance, grip, the whole nine yards. Therefore in the nearly four months after his first bunting disaster he was either not taught anything, or he's a very poor student. The fact that his bat grip and stance had not changed indicates that he almost definitely was not taught how to bunt since April. And if THAT'S the case, then why is Fredi even giving him the bunt sign?! After that abortion of a bunt attempt last April, I certainly would not have given him the bunt sign if I was the manager. In conclusion, the reason the team does not seem to improve during the season is that he thinks it's a ball and gets caught looking at strike three. After all these months there seems to have been no improvement in Hanley's vulnerability to the outside strike and he is still getting rung up looking at that pitch; either he and Pressley are not working on this, or they are, but completely without success. Another example is Jeremy Hermida and his pathetic bunting technique. Back in April I saw him feebly strike out on foul bunt attempts and noted to myself his complete ineptitude as a bunter; he has absolutely NO CLUE on how to even hold the bat, how to stand, etc. I was pretty surprised that this guy got all the way to the majors without any instruction on how to lay down a bunt; then I remembered that that's how things are these days, a lot of players get to the The Show without knowledge of basic baseball fundamentals. Anyway, last week here comes Hermida again in a bunting situation and Fredi gives him the sign, and what does he do? He BUTCHERS another bunt attempt, popping up meekly to the catcher! And watching the replay I see that his bunting technique is exactly the same as it was before: pitiful stance, grip, the whole nine yards. Therefore in the nearly four months after his first bunting disaster he was either not taught anything, or he's a very poor student. The fact that his bat grip and stance had not changed indicates that he almost definitely was not taught how to bunt since April. And if THAT'S the case, then why is Fredi even giving him the bunt sign?! After that abortion of a bunt attempt last April, I certainly would not have given him the bunt sign if I was the manager. In conclusion, the reason the team does not seem to improve during the season is that it DOES NOT APPEAR like they put in a lot time on drills and practice to fix the things this team has trouble with. any need for that large space at the bottom?

god damnttttttttttt. how many times can teams give mets games. vladamir nunez in the bottom of the 9th in a tied game? seriously? wtf, look how extremely easy the mets august schedule has been, this sh*t is so ridiculous You're kidding, right? The Marlins just lost 2 of 3 to SF, including a game, where they barely hit a 29 YEAR OLD ROOKIE, making his 2nd big league start. The Mets are just taking care of business...doing what playoff teams do. The Marlins, right now, are not. Simple as that. The Mets seem to be getting contributions from everyone in their line up. That is what the Marlins are sorely lacking right now. and bobby cox. i know the marlins are struggling, but seriously, vladamir nunez?

i was going to say the same thing, we should call andino back up for a spark or something and send somebody back down, hopefully pinto. how perfect would this be while hanleys out cody dukes cantu uggla helms hammer hermida mezaga

Hanley will be sitting out again tonight per the miami herald. They say he took swings but didnt feel comfortable. They also said he could be available for pinch running oppurtunities. Here is the lineup with him out: AMEZAGA SS LO DUCA C CANTU 1B WILLINGHAM LF UGGLA 2B HELMS 3B ROSS CF HERMIDA RF SANCHEZ P