January 22, 201016 yr Admin Beinfest, President of Baseball Operations, and Mike Hill, Vice President & General Manager, will be hosting the Marlins' first ever live Town Hall Meeting Conference Call on Thursday, January, 21st from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. They will be discussing the team and the upcoming season and you will have the opportunity to ask questions during this live call. The conference call is free and open to all fans! The phones lines will open at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon. Don't miss it and make plans to dial in! In order to participate: Dial 1.877.269.7289 Enter PIN# 15393 Lines open at 5:30 p.m. ET Can't make the call? A full audio archive will be available on marlins.com. Check back periodically for the archived call. I didn't know this was open to the public. Thought it was just a season ticket holder thing. We got a call last Thursday saying this was happening and all we had to do was answer our phone at a given time. Evidently it was just that season ticket holders didn't have to call in.
January 22, 201016 yr "Bonifacio in the super utility role" THE BONIFACIO ERA IS OVER! Just getting started. The way it was supposed to be last year had Gaby not failed so terribly.
January 22, 201016 yr Bonifacio is showing improvement in "the short game" and the new first base coach is is going to work with him on baserunning. Jorge's ankle is 100% healthy. Cody's wrist is also healthy. And they are hopeful that Tankersley, who's been at Roger Dean all winter, is through his injury issues. Ryan Tucker is progressing well in his rehab and he will be reporting to Jupiter healthy and could be on the club depending on ST. Jeff Allison is healthy and so is his well-being. He'll start the season in AA. Replacing Ross Gload with a FA wasn't a priority. Jimenez might replace him as a LHB. They also mentioned Darin Erstad and Frank Catalanotto as FA's out there that could fit that role. They haven't tried to "change" Uggla's approach because, while his BA was down and he still stuck out, but his OBP was up. Nothing real surprising here. Although they did fail to mention the new 1B coach (Dave Collins) is also going to be working with players on their bunting skills. Everything else was pretty much covered at the Holiday Party, if not during their speeches, then with the one on ones we had during the party. One exception is "this is the team we go into the season with". Sounds like they have resigned themselves to the thinking Uggla is here for the time being. What is being ignored is that they will be looking for a veteran arm or two in the pen yet. And not to be surprised with late ST aquisitions, like a Gload last season. What I took from the two "meetings" is that although the competition at 1B is mainly between Logan and Gaby, it's not set in stone one will be the 1B. I've actually heard that said. Word for word. To me that means if neither is showing they are ready both offensively and defensively, and JJ2 isn't panning out there either, something will be done. Or at least attempted. I'm hoping one of the 3 does impress in ST and they use that $$$ for the pen.
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