Btw everyone, We dont need some overpaid, past his prime burn out. ***Mike Stanton *** is The NEXT Pujols, so move over...

after dust settles #Marlins plan internal talks on possible multi-yr deal for Mike Stanton but no time-frame yet for those talks.

 

-Capozzi

I had just sent Capozzi a tweet asking about that since Matt Moore was locked up.

Lock him into a 10 year while he still thinks 100 million is a lot of money.

Yeah, give him the Longoria

He'll get more than Longoria since he didn't really accomplish anything or prove himself prior to signing the contract. The Rays took a risk and it payed off for them.

18 years 120 million. DO IT!

18 years 120 million. DO IT!

 

10 years 250 billion.....

There is actually an article on ESPN insider about the Marlins possibly locking up Stanton next... here is the link, can anybody post it?

 

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/features/rumors?date=20111209&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fmlb%2ffeatures%2frumors%3fdate%3d20111209

There is actually an article on ESPN insider about the Marlins possibly locking up Stanton next... here is the link, can anybody post it?

 

http://insider.espn....date%3d20111209

 

Capozzi notes that it's likely to take place after the "dust settles," and Stanton won't be arbitration eligible until after the 2013 season, so there's really no rush to get anything done.

Stanton is a budding star with perhaps the best raw power of any player in the game, so it's not necessarily going to be a deal similar to that of what the Rays gave Matt Moore Friday -- up to eight years and $37.5 million.

Stanton could be looking at a deal similar to that of what the Arizona Diamondbacks gave Justin Upton prior to the 2010 season, which was for six years and $51.25 million dollars. In Stanton's case, a six-year deal would buy out all of his arbitration years and one year of free agency.

Make it a 10+ year deal.

I hope we buy out more than one year of FA for Mr. Stanton...

10 years 100 million. Just get it done.

So ...

... why hasn't this thread reached 100 pages yet?

This thread is nearly as old as Stanton.

18 years 120 million. DO IT!

 

10 years 250 billion.....

Now, you're talking.

Let's just get it done.

I'd say an 8/80 would be fair for all.

18 years 120 million. DO IT!

 

10 years 250 billion.....

Now, you're talking.

Let's just get it done.

I'd say an 8/80 would be fair for all.

18 / 120!

Entire career/ infinity dollars!

Entire career/ infinity dollars!

 

 

Does that include a no-trade clause?

Mike Stanton will appear in the "Next Issue" of ESPN magazine. Here's the article:

 

AS A KID GROWING UP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S SAN FERNANDO VALLEY,Mike Stanton and his father, Mike Sr., would sneak onto the baseball field at a neighborhood church for batting practice. As Dad grooved fastballs, Stanton simply aimed for the stars; the field had no fence. "I just tried to hit it as far as I could," he says of the limitless setting.

 

 

Those crude BP sessions jibe perfectly with Stanton's career path, because these days there isn't a ballpark that can hold him. Last season, at age 21, the Marlins rightfielder hit 34 homers, most of which were the kind of majestic, cloud-scraping blasts that make you wonder whether some taters should be worth more than others. Just six other players in history have had as many jacks in a season at that age or younger. Five of them are Hall of Famers. You've heard a lot of hype about the kind of power numbers 19-year-old uberprospect Bryce Harper could produce for the Nationals at a preternaturally young age. Stanton is already putting them up.

 

 

"He has a chance to be one of the best power hitters the game has ever seen," former Marlins minor league and major league hitting instructor John Mallee says.

 

 

Scary thing is, Stanton is just starting to figure things out. Though he was athletically gifted when the Marlins took him in the second round of the 2007 draft out of Notre Dame High School -- Stanton had an offer to play wide receiver at USC -- he was incredibly raw. He first realized this when he was invited to appear at the Area Code Games, a national showcase for scouts, prior to his senior year. He watched in awe as fellow prospects like Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas strutted like big leaguers. "They were on another level," Stanton says. "They all knew what they were doing. I had all the tools. I just didn't know how to use them yet."

 

“

He's a man-child. There aren't many guys on other teams who you hang around to watch take batting practice, and he's one of those guys. It seems like someone is always talking about the ball Mike Stanton hit in BP.�-- David Price, NEXT class of 2009

 

He obviously still hadn't harnessed his ability a year later when the Marlins sent him to play rookie ball. Stanton hit just .161 in his abbreviated season and fanned in one out of every three plate appearances. "We needed to make his swing more compact," says Mallee. With Stanton's immense frame -- he's 6'5", 235 pounds -- a short swing was no easy feat, so Mallee instructed him to start it with his hands closer to his right hip so his bat wouldn't need to travel as far to get through the zone.

 

 

His Incredible Hulkish strength would take care of the rest. And it did. Stanton hit .293 with 39 homers for Class-A Greensboro in 2008. Whiffs are still part of his game (166 in 2011) and may always be a by-product of his power, but Stanton doesn't want to simply accept them. He continues to adjust at the plate, opening and closing his stance depending on how he feels.

 

 

"I don't have a stance that I like 100 percent," he says. The one constant, however, is keeping his hands low. So far, all the fidgeting hasn't hurt the results, while his calmness has helped immensely. He takes pride in his growing equanimity at the plate. When asked to recall his favorite big league at-bat, Stanton goes back to Sept. 6, 2010, in Philadelphia, with Roy Oswalt on the mound for the Phillies. On a 3-2 pitch in the top of the second inning, Stanton barely nicked an inside changeup and started walking back to the dugout thinking he had struck out. But home plate umpire Ted Barrett had noticed it was a foul tip and called Stanton back to the box. In the past, Stanton says the near-strikeout would have distracted him, but he was able to regain his poise. And when Oswalt tried to fool him again with the change, Stanton was ready. He launched the offering 435 feet into the second deck at Citizens Bank Park.

 

 

"You don't see him collapse," says Mets catcher Josh Thole. "He's not dragging his bat to home plate. He's the same at all times. He's obviously going to have holes to exploit in different places. But after that first or second at-bat, he recognizes them and makes the adjustments."

 

 

And unlike his days as an unrefined teenager, he no longer needs to swing for the stars -- even if he makes the ball travel that far anyway.

:o

Man Crush.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/extension-candidate-mike-stanton.html

 

 

With offense on the decline around the league, power is at a premium these days. Few players have more of it than Mike Stanton, the Marlins' 22-year-old wunderkind. Since making his Major League debut on June 8th of 2010, his 56 homers are the sixth most in baseball behind Jose Bautista (79), Albert Pujols (65), Mark Teixeira (64), Curtis Granderson (62), and Prince Fielder (61). That's elite company, especially for someone so young.

Today on Power Alley (Kevin Kennedy's show on MLB Radio on Sirius XM) Kennedy said Stanton has a better chance than ever to be in consideration for NL MVP.

 

Says with Fielder & Pujols gone, Braun & Howard out for the 1st couple of months, his biggest competition will be Kemp.

 

They also said that the Marlins need to get on the ball (and they said its probably already happening) and get Stanton signed now or during the season. They need to get it done before Stanton gets that MVP award or they might expect to pay perhaps $ 25 to $ 40 million more.

This thread will never die. Never.

 

In the year 2121, this thread will still be going, on its 5000th page and in the Marlinsbaseball.com Hall of Fame.

 

Long live Giancarlo.