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Now Girardi is following the party line and being coy about Delgado's future. It's worrisome.

 

Delgado's future remains uncertain

By Joe Capozzi

 

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

 

Saturday, October 22, 2005

 

MIAMI GARDENS ? Manager Joe Girardi has a good idea of what next season's Marlins roster will look like. But Girardi, following the lead of Florida's front office, isn't elaborating on whether slugger Carlos Delgado will return.

 

"Obviously they have to do what they feel is best, but we've talked about it," Girardi said Thursday after he was introduced as Florida's new manager.

 

"Knowing you have guys like (pitchers Josh) Beckett, (Dontrelle) Willis, (third baseman Miguel) Cabrera who are going to be competitive, you're going to have a chance to win every night. The exact composition, we're not exactly sure what the team is going to be."

 

Delgado's agent, David Sloane, said he spoke with Assistant General Manager Mike Hill on Wednesday but got no direction on his client's future..

 

"I had other issues to discuss about other (minor-league) clients of mine," he said. "In the course of our conversation, I asked if there was anything new with Carlos, and I was told there was nothing new."

 

Delgado said he was told by Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria in September to ignore reports about speculation he could be traded because, he said, Loria told him he would not be traded.

 

But no one in the front office ? not Loria and not General Manager Admin Beinfest ? has publicly said Delgado will return.

 

"However, at this point we are going on the basis of what (Marlins owner) Jeffrey Loria told Carlos in Houston (in September), specifically that he wasn't going to be traded. If we can't take Jeffrey's word, nothing else matters because he's the one who calls the shots."

 

Delgado hit 33 home runs in 2005, tying Cabrera for the team lead, and batted.301 with 115 RBI. But he is due $13.5 million in 2006 ? $9.5 million more than he made in 2005, which was the first year of a 4-year deal worth $52 million that he signed in January.

 

Florida's silence on Delgado's future only leads to speculation that the slugger will be shopped this winter as the Marlins look for ways to cut costs in the face of financial problems.

 

The Marlins could be looking at dumping Delgado's contract so they can try to sign Willis and Beckett to long-term contracts. Both pitchers are eligible for arbitration this winter.

 

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Well, if dumping Delgado leads to some good players coming here and long term deals for Josh and Train, it might be worth it, but only if Dontrelle and Josh are locked up long term.

As it should be. Don't show our hand. Don't fall into the trap that has been set for you. Honestly either way, we win.

He'll be back, and that won't prevent us from going long term with Beckett (which I think happens this offseason) or Willis (which I think happens next offseason).

If Delgado is traded, ticket prices better have a nice steep drop as far as this ticket season holder is concerned.

He'll be back next season. The only way he gets traded is if this team completely bombs next season..

Saturday October 22, 2005

 

Capozzi Missing, Return Uncertain

 

 

Palm Beach Post sports reporter Joe Capozzi went to lunch today and has not returned as of 1:37pm, raising questions whether the baseball beat reporter has been fired or transferred to the company's Duluth Minnesota weekly newspaper.

 

Capozzi, who earlier told his editor he was going out for a club sandwich, with mayo, has not yet returned. Neither Carpozzi's editor nor Executive Sports Editor Nick Moschella will confirm or deny rumors running wild through the newsroom that Capozzi has been replaced with an FIU intern.

 

Certainly down-sizing is a fact of life at Cox Newspapers where hundreds of journalists have lost their jobs over the last decade. Absent confirmation from the paper's publisher, readers might well draw the conclusion that Joe Capozzi, being out to lunch, has or is being moved, and does not portend well for his future with the newspaper.

 

Only time will tell how long Joe remains with Cox. With insider's reporting subscription renewals are dwindling at the Palm Beach Post, this may turn out to be the final straw before Cox management moves the newspaper to Las Vegas as has often been rumored. Certainly Managing Editor Bill Rose's attendance along with Vegas mayor Oscar B. Goodman at last year's American Newspaper Publisher's Association convention led to questions whether Cox had decided to pull up stakes and move west.

 

Rose, who did not immediately return a call to this office, was contacted for this story but remains strangely silent. Rose's silence on Capozzi's future only leads to speculation that the reporter will be shopped this winter as the newspaper looks for ways to cut costs in the face of financial problems.

y r some of u so confident that we wont trade delgado, i think they r going too, i just wish they would not have been such jackasses and told them that he was staying. if we trade him yes i t would fee up money and yes it means we got delgado to play for us for one season for just 4 mill, but other big name free agents will look at this and they wont wanna come play for us thinking they might get traded unwillingly. i would want to get another big bat in return for him to fill in his spot. the way i see it next year is

 

hermida cf

cabs 3b

louie 2b

niner 1b

------ SS

------ LF

lo duca C

------- RF

 

and no, that is not the batting order

 

we will prob. trade pierre, delgado. we wont sign bak enc., which i dont even want to. we might have to start 2 rookies or 2nd year players, im sure a decent hitter will fillone outfield position, and maybe we can get nomar for SS.

 

 

Exactly, if we signed Delgado for up too 52 Mill, I doubt the organization did not think of future financial problems, Jeff already made many enemies in Montreal, I doubt he wants to make more in Florida by making our organization look less willing to be trustworthy to other FA's we might sign in the near future

y r some of u so confident that we wont trade delgado, i think they r going too, i just wish they would not have been such jackasses and told them that he was staying. if we trade him yes i t would fee up money and yes it means we got delgado to play for us for one season for just 4 mill, but other big name free agents will look at this and they wont wanna come play for us thinking they might get traded unwillingly. i would want to get another big bat in return for him to fill in his spot. the way i see it next year is

 

hermida cf

cabs 3b

louie 2b

niner 1b

------ SS

------ LF

lo duca C

------- RF

 

and no, that is not the batting order

 

we will prob. trade pierre, delgado. we wont sign bak enc., which i dont even want to. we might have to start 2 rookies or 2nd year players, im sure a decent hitter will fillone outfield position, and maybe we can get nomar for SS.

 

 

Exactly, if we signed Delgado for up too 52 Mill, I doubt the organization did not think of future financial problems, Jeff already made many enemies in Montreal, I doubt he wants to make more in Florida by making our organization look less willing to be trustworthy to other FA's we might sign in the near future

 

 

Wait, you don't think that Loria, Samson and Beinfest thought about any financial problems they might have before they went after Delgado last offseason? That's stretching it a bit, don't you think?

They signed Delgado with Hampton coming off the books in mind. You are all making a big deal out of nothing.

 

Delgado stays.

He'll be back next season.

I hope you're right. :pray

Delgado is staying... And I agree that if they trade him, all that does is make the front office seem like jackasses, and it would probably make a lot of future free agents think twice about signing here. A player signs a 4 year contract, not only for the money, but for the peace of mind knowing that he has a home for 4 years.. Sure, players know it's a business and anything can happen, but if a team signs someone for 4 years, turns around and trades him after one year, it's just not good business.

Saturday October 22, 2005

 

Carpozzi Missing, Return Uncertain

 

 

 

 

 

:lol

2006 is the first year that Pudge and Hampton will be off the books, therefore Delgado's salary jump from $4 million to $14 or so million should have no effect at all on us or our payroll.

The Marlins could be looking at dumping Delgado's contract so they can try to sign Willis and Beckett to long-term contracts.

 

That's such a load.

 

The team gave a similar explanation after letting Pudge go--that it frees up money to sign AJ to a long-term contract. After trading DLee for essentially a prospect, Beinfest uttered the same nonsense.

 

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that either of those two will be signing "long-term" contracts anytime soon.

If Carlos Delgado doesn't take the field in Houston on Opening Day for introductions, there's going to be quite a few angry season ticket holders.

Saturday October 22, 2005

 

Capozzi still at PBP, but for how long?

 

Joe Capozzi is still a member of the Palm Beach Post sports department but sources in the publishing industry question for how long?

 

An unidentified industry source with direct knowledge of the situation thinks Capozzi will have to be moved and quickly if Cox Newspapers, whose circulation and financial woes have been debated in the industry for months, aren't addressed. Rumors of the paper moving to Las Vegas cannot be confirmed.

 

Capozzi, who returned from lunch around 3pm found staff members rifling through his belongings, believing he had already been sold to the competing New York Post in an effort to address what one industry source called a "rumored hemorraging of the bottom line".

 

Swirling scenarios

 

With fewer and fewer under 50's finding anything of value in the paper, the source indicated, the paper could come to grips with it's problems by eliminating the sports and metro departments entirely, foregoing the annual Huizenga handout and going with straight wire copy, in the belief no one would notice.

 

Repeated phone calls to Capozzi and his editor's cell phone have gone unanswered, resulting in even more questions about whether their phones have been shut off in an austerity move.

^^^

LOL :thumbup

If we're in that bad of financial straights, offer the Yanks Pierre/Lowell for a minor leaguer. Clearing that payroll is worth it to keep Delgado.

Delgado will stay. If the Marlins want to compete again he will stay. All we need to do now is release some of our pen guys and add solid good ones and pick up a starter or two.

alright u guys may think i'm full of sh*t here but u guys also kno i don't post bogus stuff...

my buddies mom works for the airline USA3000 and he told me the other day that delgado and 'a coach' were on one of their flights to new york, i asked him which coach and he wasn't sure but this is 100% factual i wouldn't post something that wasn't true..

certainly doesn't make me a happy camper.

alright u guys may think i'm full of sh*t here but u guys also kno i don't post bogus stuff...

my buddies mom works for the airline USA3000 and he told me the other day that delgado and 'a coach' were on one of their flights to new york, i asked him which coach and he wasn't sure but this is 100% factual i wouldn't post something that wasn't true..

certainly doesn't make me a happy camper.

 

 

I know it's late...but the conclusion we're supposed to draw from this is??????

okay i just talked to my buddy who's mom is a station manager for the airline....

 

delgado was on his family along with the girardi's to newark international airport.

 

so looks like to me things are okay

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Saturday October 22, 2005

 

Carpozzi still at PBP, but for how long?

 

:lol

okay i just talked to my buddy who's mom is a station manager for the airline....

 

delgado was on his family along with the girardi's to newark international airport.

 

so looks like to me things are okay

 

overreact much? :mischief2

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