Posted June 19, 200322 yr Listening to Mike Berardino's one-hour show with Hank on WQAM, he seems to think that the Marlins could call him up literally as soon as he gets comfortable out in left field. He played his 2nd game in the OF and supposedly made a leaping catch out there, while continuing to pound AA pitching. He said he wouldn't be surprised to even see him up by the All-Star break. Perhaps they'll make a deal and bring up Cabrera right around the same time.
June 19, 200322 yr I think we might have become a little to optimistic with Willis's performance, but regardless I'm one of those and would love to see Cabs up here. He's going to be a great MLer for a long time and our 2nd home grown superstar after A-Gon.
June 19, 200322 yr Author They didn't bother with Dontrelle either. He's definately on the fast track to the majors.
June 19, 200322 yr Author It says something about the kind of year you're having when the front office turns to two 20 year old kids to try & salvage the season... :mischief2
June 19, 200322 yr This Fish have a very good AA team, AAA is not as wonderful. Get him up only if he is truely comfortable with LF. LF is a big responsibility. I heard he didn't have much range in a scouting report, is this true? (I hope not)
June 19, 200322 yr This Fish have a very good AA team, AAA is not as wonderful. Get him up only if he is truely comfortable with LF. LF is a big responsibility. I heard he didn't have much range in a scouting report, is this true? (I hope not) a scouting report on him in LF?
June 19, 200322 yr No one from third base. They said he could make great plays like Lowell, and like lowell had range issues. LF need range, lots of ground to cover.
June 19, 200322 yr I agree, but what was stopping them from putting him in LF before? no need. they wanted to see him as 3b... but he was pretty error prone there
June 19, 200322 yr 3B is harder than LF. He will do well, he may be a call up in the heat of a wildcard race in July maybe.
June 19, 200322 yr Everything you heard from Berardino you could have read on the AA team website (www.gomudcats.com) or in the Zebulon daily newspaper online. He added exactly zero to what is already out there for mass consumption.  As for why not send the kid (Cabrera) to AAA for a few weeks before sending him here, The 'Topes have had enough disruption this year, there's nothing he's going to learn there in ten days or two weeks, and the thinking is to let him play left field for the Mudcats without having to make a transition to Albuquerque.
June 19, 200322 yr Berardino is not a baseball writer. AA club plays in harder league talentwise by many assessments than AAA club. Southern League is harder than Pacific Coast League, that's why Willis was able to skip AAA.
June 19, 200322 yr Author He's not a baseball writer? What is he then? Everything you heard from Berardino you could have read on the AA team website (www.gomudcats.com) or in the Zebulon daily newspaper online. Ok, I guess I don't read the Zebulon daily paper quite as much as I shoud...
June 20, 200322 yr Ok, I guess I don't read the Zebulon daily paper quite as much as I shoud... :compute Laughin' my a** off.
June 20, 200322 yr He is a sports pundit, like LeBatard, but nowhere near as negative. To me he is not credible since he started this vandetta with management. I love the way Berardino has had to eat his words about the Marlins bringing up Willis instead of the other pitcher who is at AAA, supposedly to save $$! (Search the forum for the anti-Marlins bringing up Willis article/editorial vandetta thread for more info) He looked just plain idiotic, when he doubled back and had to write an article on Willis being the talk of baseball.
June 20, 200322 yr Mudcats have streaming radio too I believe so you can listen to Cabs hit his HR's. :marlins
June 20, 200322 yr I heard he didn't have much range in a scouting report, is this true? (I hope not) What you may have heard is that he was orginally a shortstop, but he grew so much that he just didn't have the range at that position. He had no problems fielding the third base position nor will he have a problem in left field.
June 20, 200322 yr Author He is a sports pundit, like LeBatard, but nowhere near as negative. To me he is not credible since he started this vandetta with management. I love the way Berardino has had to eat his words about the Marlins bringing up Willis instead of the other pitcher who is at AAA, supposedly to save $$! (Search the forum for the anti-Marlins bringing up Willis article/editorial vandetta thread for more info) He looked just plain idiotic, when he doubled back and had to write an article on Willis being the talk of baseball. Are you sure about that? Because what I recall him saying was that the only reason the Marlins didn't call Willis up even sooner was that they were trying to save money. And what "other pitcher" at AAA are you talking about? Justin Wayne? There was no chance of him coming up again. Maybe I'm not remembering it right... It is true that he seems to be at odds with the front office lately, but he wouldn't be alone there. I think he's pretty objective, all things considered. Not award-winning journalism or anything, but he's better than most of the writers down here...
June 20, 200322 yr It wsn't Wayne, i can't recall his name...errr...If i see it I will remember it. Look up the thread for the exact words. He argued that the baseball people wanted the AAA guy and the bean counters wanted Willis.
June 20, 200322 yr Nate Bump? I wanted him to come up instead of Willis at the time. I would still like to see him get his chance.
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