June 5, 201412 yr The problem is that you seem to be basing much on this on the current W-L record of the team and not factoring in the actual talent of the roster, and factoring injuries. The W-L record two months into the season tells you nothing about how "for real" this roster is. The 2011 Marlins for example were 31-24 as of June 3rd, 2011 before the team started to skid. The Alvarez stuff you are mentioning is purely semantics. It makes no difference who is being the number 1 or 2. All that matters is whether or not the Marlins have replaced Fernandez's value. Of course, they have not. I wouldn't simply call it semantics though. Yeah, order number doesn't matter. But what I'm saying is Alvarez is playing ace ball. I don't think he and Fernandez were both necessarily playing ace ball at the same time. Well, they were for a brief overlapping window. The question is whether or not you think Alvarez's play is sustainable. Because as of right now we are getting good pitching. Overall, on a week to week average, our pitching has been relatively the same all season long. As for the team thing, I'm not just basing it off of a W-L. I'm looking at the team and seeing so far the only gaping hole is the bullpen. The offense is average and heavily reliant on Stanton, and the pitching is good. The defense I wouldn't really know what to say... and the bullpen just sucks. So I think moves for the bullpen are justified... just not the ones we've been making.
June 5, 201412 yr They're probably not done with the bullpen. The pick needed to be traded now because of the draft's date.
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