August 24, 201213 yr There really aren't any big free agents worth throwing money at. I don't want Josh Hamilton. David Wright would be cool, but the Mets will pick up that option. How long has Wright been on their 40 man roster ? Is he a 5/10 guy ? Does your entire tenure on the 40 man roster count towards the 10 years even if you are in playing the majority of a year in AA or AAA ? If they pick up an option year does that count the same as a regular year under a regular contract ? Can he refuse any trade next year ? I too would love to have Wright on this team. It solves the 3rd base question until 2015. After that he should be in rapid decline. He's 30 later this year. Wright (and his agent) will want 7 yr / >$105M, not just thru 2015.
August 24, 201213 yr The Bell quotes don't really anger me, but that's a dumb thing for him to say. He seems to be suggesting that the Marlins are the only team that made offseason moves that required players to get acclimated to new clubhouses. It's pretty much a constant in baseball and it doesn't prevent talented teams from performing well during the first couple of months of the season. I don't think he is. I think it's dumb jock speak, but I think he was saying that this specific team did not come together as they should or could have. It's an excuse, but it's an excuse that every player on a bad team has used. People are overreacting to every thing Bell says, because he had a bad year. That seems dumb to me. So then how am I misinterpreting it? Those types of remarks (saying that he and Buck "only" got to fully know each other recently) are definitely suggesting--although not explicitly laying it out--that this Marlins team was in an unique situation. He makes this claim that player's had to get to know the "new faces" in spring training. Using that as an excuse is incredibly dumb, because it willfully ignores the fact that teams go through that all of the time. It also sounds like he's speaking mostly toward himself and his own struggles since he was one of the new faces after spending 5 seasons with another organization. It's not like Buehrle and Zambrano (at the time) had much trouble getting to know Buck at the beginning of the season. I do not think that is reading too far into it. And I fail to see how that's "overreacting" by any means.
August 24, 201213 yr Bell is even worse at cliche comments than was Dan "see ball-hit ball" Uggla, and that takes some doing. For instance: We only had a couple of months together before we were trading some guys. Let's see -- the last week of February, all of March, April, May, June and 3 weeks of July. Sounds like about 5 months to me. Then we traded "some guys." Then there's: Like me and [catcher John] Buck really know each other now. ... We didn't know each other, even two months ago. We were still learning everybody two months ago." Everybody? WTF? Is he Rip Van Winkle or does he just have bad social skills? He didn't even really "know" Buck (or anyone else) until June, after 4 months with the club? As if it would matter if he did or didn't. He needs to shut up and stop embarrassing himself.
August 24, 201213 yr Heath Bell: "Hi, I use words" Marlinsbaseball.com: "Shut up you fat sack of crap"
August 25, 201213 yr Logan Morrison has been such a disappointment since being touted as a "5 star prospect". I don't even know if at this point you could plug him in as a solid supporting player.
August 25, 201213 yr Logan Morrison has been such a disappointment since being touted as a "5 star prospect". I don't even know if at this point you could plug him in as a solid supporting player. Was he ever touted as a 5 tool prospect? His power was always in question, his defense isn't stellar, and he's not the fastest guy in the world. He was mainly seen as a high avg./high obp type of guy with doubles power.
August 25, 201213 yr Logan Morrison has been such a disappointment since being touted as a "5 star prospect". I don't even know if at this point you could plug him in as a solid supporting player. Was he ever touted as a 5 tool prospect? His power was always in question, his defense isn't stellar, and he's not the fastest guy in the world. He was mainly seen as a high avg./high obp type of guy with doubles power. 5 star player not tool -- he was rated the 18th and 20th best prospect in all of baseball before being called up. Whenever people talked about Stanton, Morrison's name followed shortly after. One has lived up to the hype, the other hasn't even come close.
August 25, 201213 yr I think Eduardo Perez urging Morrison to turn into a "swing for the fences" player is the root of his problem.
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