Ok once and for all I am going to try and take a pin and stick it into the balloon that is the Abraham Nunez fan club. Let me compare the situation to a real life one, maybe that would help you guys to see why the rest of us are so up in arms about him. Say you are working at a company, heck say you are working at McDonalds, and you are the head burger maker. You have worked long and hard to be the head burger maker, and because of your burger making skill and speed, your McDonalds won the "Best McDonalds of The Year" award. Well you are a happy guy right? Well now your McDonalds has hired a new employee named Abraham. Abraham had worked at Burger King before, and people always expected good things from him, but he has never really fufilled expectations. Well Abraham takes his training session, and he does great! He's putting burgers together fast, they are really tasty, all in all a great job! You feel good, because he is another great member to the team, if you ever want to take a day off or something, he will be there to make sure things still run smoothly. But soon, just before Abraham's training sessions finish off, you hear him mouthing off to other employees that he should be head burger maker, because he is doing so good. This makes you mad! If it wasn't for your performance, and long time service for this company, who knows where they would be? I mean people actually travel just to have one of your burgers. Sure, there may be times when the line moves alittle slower than others, but you have always come through when they needed you. Who does this guy think he is? I mean all he did was go through training, it is not like they put him through a lunchtime rush to see how he would perform under fire. You are the veteran performer, you should have seniority right?

 

Back to baseball...

 

Let me explain something about Nunez in spring training... IT WAS SPRING TRAINING!!! IT DOESN'T COUNT!! The biggest difference is that there isn't as much advanced scouting, so they wouldn't know as much about a new hitter like Nunez. Where now during the regular season they can pop in a vhs of his last 40 at bats and see all the holes in his swing and know that if they throw a fastball up he is going to be making a very quick walk to the dugout. And the final nail in the coffin is this. Some of you Nunez guys are going to still say well, spring training stats should still mean something to the development of this team... well if that was the case, Josh Beckett should be in the freaking minors. He had a miserable spring, got shelled most of the times he was out, but gee, you didn't hear the masses saying that Josh should be playing his first month in Albecurque. Because in that case, we all realized it was spring training, and it wouldn't mean crap once the season started. Opening Day came, and Josh pimped it, even saying that he just went through the motions in spring. That is another thing that invalidates Nunez's stats. How many other sure thing starters on other teams do you think were going through the "motions"? Here Nunez comes, trying a crapload harder to make the team (which I give him props for), which is probably why he was smoking the ball. Well, in closing

 

 

 

I'M RICK JAMES b***h!

. You have worked long and hard to be the head burger maker, and because of your burger making skill and speed, your McDonalds won the "Best McDonalds of The Year" award.

 

Was Conine ever the head burger maker? No! He was a late addition to an already fabulous restaurent. Conine worked hard but not exactly long. From late August until the World Series isn't a marathon.

IT WAS SPRING TRAINING!!! IT DOESN'T COUNT!! The biggest difference is that there isn't as much advanced scouting, so they wouldn't know as much about a new hitter like Nunez. Where now during the regular season they can pop in a vhs of his last 40 at bats and see all the holes in his swing and know that if they throw a fastball up he is going to be making a very quick walk to the dugout

 

Good point on the scouting report thing. It's true they were trying to get him to chase the high heat many times and it worked a couple of times too last night.

Same old crap.

 

You ignore Nunez's Albuquerque performance in 2003, his all-star performance in the Winter League, and his overall performance in spring training, ignoring his OBP, SLG, average AND HRs.

 

Clearly the guy is finally maturing.

 

With the Marlins facing $10 million in payroll increases for the starting rortation in 2005, players like Nunez (and perhaps Valdez) will be essential components of future Marlins rosters in order to keep AJ, Beckett, Penny, Pavano and (to a lesser degree $$$-wise) Willis.

 

I have no idea if he'll turn out to be the real deal or not but playing him now will help the FO make some decisions they'll be confronted with at the end of the season.

 

All the hatred and misinformation makes me sick. And for the record, your analogy doesn't work. To compare burger-flipping to playing MLB is assinine. When it comes to MLB, seniority always takes a back seat to winning.

LOL...this is all funny. You guys are taking something so simple and making it such a DRAMA!! Look, Nunez will get his oppurtunities in the Majors Jack knows what he is doing, if Nunez doesn't take advantage of them then it's simple he won't see as much playing time and before long if he still hasn't produced in the Bigs then he will be gone. ALL those ststs you mention MArlins2003 are nice but again how someone does in the MINORS and ST means squat once your in the bigs.

lmao i love the head burger maker comparison

Mods please close tis thread.Now we're comparing MLB to a fast food joint.

OMGCHOI!

LOL...this is all funny. You guys are taking something so simple and making it such a DRAMA!! Look, Nunez will get his oppurtunities in the Majors Jack knows what he is doing, if Nunez doesn't take advantage of them then it's simple he won't see as much playing time and before long if he still hasn't produced in the Bigs then he will be gone. ALL those ststs you mention MArlins2003 are nice but again how someone does in the MINORS and ST means squat once your in the bigs.

How can evaluate a guy on a part-time basis? I'd have to agree with marlins03 in that this guy has a serious hate issue with Nunez. Weird stuff.