January 3, 201313 yr Bleacher Report put together a team based on Marlins who were only here for a season... I know Bleacer report is usually full of it so I didn't read much of the text, but I did compile the list in case anyone wanted to discuss it on here. I found it interesting because there's plenty of interesting names that were Marlins for just one season and not just because of firesales, take a look... C - Pudge 1B- Carlos Delgado 2B- Homer Bush SS - Reyes 3B - Todd Zeile LF - Moises Alou CF - Mike Cameron RF - Austin Kearns Bench- C- Mike Piazza IF - Walt Weiss OF - Tim Raines OF - Luis Gonzalez IF - Darren Daulton IF - Nick Johnson SP - Mark Buerhle SP - Tony Saunders SP - Jack Armstrong SP - Bobby Witt SP - Javier Vazquez Bullpen - Ugueth Urbina Todd Jones Heath Bell Billy Koch Joe Borowski Trevor Hoffman Manager - Joe Girardi (Ozzie for Bench Coach?) ...come to think of it, if all those guys were hypothetically playing together in their best years, damn what a team!
January 3, 201313 yr I wish it'd been based on their time with us. Guys like Cameron and Gonzalez, sucked by the time they got here.
January 3, 201313 yr I'm currently trying to create the "best Marlins team of all time with players who have the letter "e" as the second letter of their last name." Anybody want to help? C - Mike Redmond 1B - Carlos Delgado 2B - Quilvio Veras 3B - Todd Zeile SS - Edgar Renteria LF - Carlos Lee CF - Alejandro De Aza RF - Jeremy Hermida Bn - Jose Reyes Bn - Walt Weiss Bn - Derek Lee Bn - Terry Pendleton Bn - Rich Renteria SP - Josh Beckket SP - Livan Hernandez SP - Ryan Dempster SP - Alex Fernandez SP - Al Leiter RP - Ryan Webb RP - Feliz Heredia RP - Brad Penny RP - Clay Hensley RP - David Weathers RP - Armando Benitez CP - Robb Nen Internet fan - Rab Bethan.
January 3, 201313 yr I wish it'd been based on their time with us. Guys like Cameron and Gonzalez, sucked by the time they got here. I think it was based on that. He just couldn't find guys better. That's why this is such a stupid exercise. Why do you think Homer Bush is starting? :lol We've never had a 1 and done starting 2B. Barberie for 2, Veras for 2, Counsell for 2, Castillo for 7, Uggla for 5, Infante for 2. And I don't think it's stupid (except for "IMAGINE IF WE KEPT THESE GUYS!). It's fun, at least for me. Something to do in the offseason.
January 3, 201313 yr Heath Bell? What about Robb Nen? Or Armando Benitez? Your contribution sucks. We all know Heath would eat out even the fattest of competition.
January 3, 201313 yr Team of best Marlins draft picks who provided an actual contribution to the team (for example, not Adrian Gonzalez). Because Rab is bored, and I want him to have fun. I am also bored, for what it's worth.
January 3, 201313 yr C - Charles Johnson 1B - Gaby Sanchez 2B - Dan Uggla (On a technicality as the Rule V Draft is a draft.) (If not him, Coghlan.) 3B - Josh Booty (I swear to God.) SS - Dave Berg LF - Josh Willingham CF - Mark Kotsay RF - Giancarlo Stanton SP - Josh Beckket SP - Josh Johnson SP - Scott Olsen SP - Jason Vargas SP - Chris Volstad RP - Randy Messenger RP - Any number of random guys. CP - Steve Chishek I'm not even doing bench. You'll notice some "home grown" Marlins missing: Cabrera, Gonzalez, Castillo and the like. This is due to them being FA international signings. Other guys you think of like that (Lowell, Lee, Jacobs) were actually traded for when they were in the minors. Other early guys came from the expansion draft. 2B is funny because while we've never drafted a good 2B in the amateur draft, we've also arguably never had a problem at that position in our 20-year history (and if Solano keeps with what he did last season, we won't until at least after him either).
January 3, 201313 yr If you treat Rule V as separate, you should go with Dave Berg for 2B. Coghlan didn't play there hardly at all in MLB. Oh, wait. I just saw Berg as your SS. Didn't he play more innings at 2B/3B than SS? Yes but I had nobody to put at SS. Same reason Carlos Lee is in LF on your all _e* team despite never playing LF for us. (And because I hate Bryan Petersen.)
January 3, 201313 yr Yeah, I didn't want to include FA international signings because that would've made it really easy. C-Charles Johnson 1B-Gaby Sanchez 2B-Dave Berg 3B-Josh Booty (lol) SS-Robert Andino LF-Josh Willingham CF-Mark Kotsay RF-Giancarlo Stanton Bench - Logan Morrison, Chris Coghlan, Jeremy Hermida, Bryan Petersen, Brett Hayes SP - Josh Beckett SP - Josh Johnson SP - Scott Olsen SP - Chris Volstad SP - Alex Sanabia CL - Steve Cishek SU - Randy Messenger LOOGY - Taylor Tankersley ...and other guys to choose from...
January 3, 201313 yr AH, I forgot about Andino and Tank. I actually had Tankersley on there but forgot to right it down. But seriously, Josh Booty is on both our lists. What the hell.
January 3, 201313 yr Hopefully Coghlan plays 3B every time Polanco misses a game this year to fix this dilemma.
January 3, 201313 yr I stopped reading when Mike Piazza was behind Pudge. Piazza would have dropped that ball (Snow)
January 3, 201313 yr It's a hilarious joke about how Mike Piazza is arguably the best hitting catcher of all time. Significantly enough to deter any thoughts of requiring defense out of him.
January 3, 201313 yr You can maybe go with Dominguez there, I guess. Yeah, we probably should have; Dominguez actually had 18 more PA's than Booty as a Marlin. Either way, both did very little here.
January 3, 201313 yr Oh and you can put Arthur Rhodes on the pitchers up top instead of Joe Borowski.
January 3, 201313 yr Oh and you can put Arthur Rhodes on the pitchers up top instead of Joe Borowski. Seems like this was intended for the other thread.
January 3, 201313 yr Piazza was here for, what, 5 games? I'd much rather put Pudge over him in that regard.
January 3, 201313 yr I would put Bruce Aven-OF, Kiko Calero-RP, Hee Seop Choi-1B (bench), Dennis Cook-RP, Ross Gload-PH, Joe Nelson-RP, Mark Redman-SP, Tony Saunders-SP (based on his 3 wins against Braves) and Ugueth Urbina-CL on an all one year team.
January 4, 201313 yr Oh and you can put Arthur Rhodes on the pitchers up top instead of Joe Borowski. Seems like this was intended for the other thread. Well it fits in both. If Nick Johnson is considered here for '1 year' then so is Arthur Rhodes. Which, for Mike, also holds my point. It doesn't look like seasons as a Marlin was seriously considered in this list.
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