Marlins Acquire Will Ohman

By Tim Dierkes [July 31 at 3:04pm CST] The Marlins acquired lefty reliever Will Ohman from the Orioles, tweets Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun.

The Marlins have been in the mix for Will Ohman for the last 2 years. He's consistent, experienced, and will fit perfectly into that 7th-8th inning role.

 

I don't expect us to have given up something that big, so very nice trade.

Well, hopefully the Marlins did not give up Hector Luna.

Will WHO?????????

Rick Vandenhurk.

Not a huge fan of this trade.

Yikes. Fail.

Not sure how I feel about this.

The Marlins have been in the mix for Will Ohman for the last 2 years. He's consistent, experienced, and will fit perfectly into that 7th-8th inning role.

 

I don't expect us to have given up something that big, so very nice trade.

 

Are you kidding me?

 

Ohman is mediocre at best. He has a 1.60 WHIP this season. It's a miracle his ERA is this low. He doesn't improve the team.

 

I'd rather have Vanden Hurk, despite his struggles.

 

Ohman is definitely a Beinfest player, though.

Good pun, bad trade.

hate this trade. just put RVH in the pen

The Marlins have been in the mix for Will Ohman for the last 2 years. He's consistent, experienced, and will fit perfectly into that 7th-8th inning role.

 

I don't expect us to have given up something that big, so very nice trade.

 

Are you kidding me?

 

Ohman is mediocre at best. He has a 1.60 WHIP this season. It's a miracle his ERA is this low. He doesn't improve the team.

 

I'd rather have Vanden Hurk, despite his struggles.

 

Ohman is definitely a Beinfest player, though.

Easily the worst phrase you use in your posts. I STILL don't know what makes someone a Beinfest player or not. I just know that Hanley Ramirez - Not a Beinfest Player.

POO

It's not that Vanden Hurk is going to turn into something spectacular. The concern is that Ohman is a rental and a pretty mediocre one at best. I'd rather have Robertson in the pen. Why bother trading away arms to get someone pretty bad who will be here for two months?

I've always been a Rick VandenHurk fan, but people around here seriously overrate him at times. I've always thought he could be a good reliever, but as a starter he's proven nothing. He's 25, and so far each opportunity given to him at the major league level he's messed up. He's got good stuff, but he still hasn't been able to turn that stuff into good control and good pitching.

 

Will Ohman is a veteran, a lefty, and has had a nice season. VandenHurk's ceiling was probably a set up man in the future, but more likely he would've turned into a journeyman long term.

 

We didn't lose anything of major value in VandenHurk. More importantly, this shows the FO hasn't given up on this season, and although I have doubts we can comeback and claim a wild card spot, we really didn't screw ourselves long term or short term by giving up the Holland Hammer.

at least he seems better than Tank's

I've wanted Ohman for some time, but not for VandenHurk.

 

We basically traded RVH for the older version of Taylor Tankersley. I'm not a big fan of the trade.

 

Ohman is a lefty specialist, though.

I don't like to lose Vanden Hurk, but the organization obviously like guys who have proven no good like Nate Robertson over him so it's not like we're really losing him when he was irrelevant. Ohman will do fine.

 

I love how we fail to put together a bullpen at the beginning of a season, then always try and patch it up when its usually too little too late. The games we lost when we didn't have a pen at the beginning of the season will be the ones that hold us out.

his stats are kind of mired a 3ER outing in .1 inning 2 games ago.. Before that his era was mid 2s and he was pretty great the first 2 months of the season.... but still not worth RVH

honestly with the marlins payroll due to go up and maybe locking ricky and anibal up i dont see vandenhurk starting for us in the future.

 

i think its a good trade. whip is high but he was playing for baltimore so...

at least he seems better than Tank's

 

 

 

Not really. I don't know why people hate Tankersley around here.

LOL @ a spectacular season. K/BB under 2. Not impressed. And he's an FA after the season. I'm not a fan of this.

Screw it. Optimism is a lot better than everybody else taking a giant dump on this trade. It's really not a bad trade. We aren't going to be looking back in 3-5 years saying "damn, if only we kept VandenHurk". I don't think we're going to be looking back saying "Ohman was the piece we needed to get to the playoffs", but it's a confidence boost to the rest of the team that we haven't thrown in the towel on the season.

I've wanted Ohman for some time, but not for VandenHurk.

 

We basically traded RVH for the older version of Taylor Tankersley. I'm not a big fan of the trade.

 

Ohman is a lefty specialist, though.

 

This is exactly how I felt. I was happy to get Ohman but that happiness left when I saw it was for RVH, who I still think can be just as good if not better than Ohman in the pen.

I've always been a Rick VandenHurk fan, but people around here seriously overrate him at times. I've always thought he could be a good reliever, but as a starter he's proven nothing. He's 25, and so far each opportunity given to him at the major league level he's messed up. He's got good stuff, but he still hasn't been able to turn that stuff into good control and good pitching.

 

Will Ohman is a veteran, a lefty, and has had a spectacular season. VandenHurk's ceiling was probably a set up man in the future, but more likely he would've turned into a journeyman long term.

 

We didn't lose anything of major value in VandenHurk. More importantly, this shows the FO hasn't given up on this season, and although I have doubts we can comeback and claim a wild card spot, we really didn't screw ourselves long term or short term by giving up the Holland Hammer.

 

 

ohman had a spectacular first 2 months of the season...he's been below avg to pretty bad since