March 21, 20188 yr Does anybody know whatever happened with Rafael Ortega? As far as I know he never showed up. Someone stated he was having visa issues getting in.
March 21, 20188 yr Someone stated he was having visa issues getting in. Yea. That was me. Nothing online since. I was hoping he could take an OF spot and Brinson could hang in NO for six weeks. Seems like a no go now
March 21, 20188 yr Someone stated he was having visa issues getting in. Try Discover, it has been working well for me.
March 25, 20188 yr Author We are due for some roster cuts. Was thinking the same but with all these injuries they might wait until the last minute to make final cuts. The thing is the injuries aren't definitive or long term enough. Most of them are so inconclusive that it really is hard to make decisions on yet.
March 25, 20188 yr shocking to see this. The Wei-Yin is the hardest part Every day you see one more pitch You take it on faith, you take it to the heart The Wei-Yin is the hardest part
March 25, 20188 yr After the BP, Chen was exhausted. Thinking that this was too much work, he went on to continuously hit his elbow with a hammer. He will be out for another year.
June 3, 20188 yr Also, our team is obviously not anything close to being good, but with the amount of veterans we have assuming we keep the guys until the deadline, aside from CF and RF that team isn’t nearly the disaster people are making it out to be. And the bullpen will actually be good. The team is a disaster (-112 Run Differential on June 3rd) and the bullpen is actually not good. The bullpen is fucking horrible.
June 4, 20188 yr The bullpen has actually been a disappointment. I thought they would be better. Agreed, but i think a lot of it is due to more where we are as an organization as we have spent a lot of the first 2 months of the year trying to salvage trade value out of just lost cause veteran relievers and also because we are developing all SP's prospect as SP's because our complete lack of need to move SP's that could already be good relievers into relievers just to slightly help a bad team. I think we could have a solid bullpen given the arms we have in the upper levels of the minors, its just we have different priorities thus far this year as opposed to going balls to the wall trying to squeeze every win out of this year. Richards, Alcantara, Gallen, Lopez maybe even Peters would all be improvements on a lot of what we have had on the roster like Cloyd, O'Grady, Turner, Tazawa, even Ziegler. But i think Tazawa and now Ziegler hung around more for non-performance reasons than performance reasons with the marlins hoping they could maybe get something for them at the deadline. The love for Guerrero never made much sense to me as he has always thrown fast as hell but he has literally never shown any ability to control it or signs that he will eventually be able to control it. I hope he can learn how to control his stuff because he throws so damn hard, but i doubt it. Barraclough has a real chance IMO to get us a really solid return at the deadline. I hope we sell high on him and can get a position prospect because even if he's not a top closer, he is a proven good set up man under team control for a while and even though its stupid, if he keeps this up in the closers role accruing saves for the next 2 months or so until the deadline his value can become even higher. I think Conley has a shot to be very effective out of the bullpen. He was a closer in college and if he can pitch much more effectively in short doses with increased velocity he can become a threat. His fastball out of the pen this year is averaging 95.1 after being 89.5 last year and 91 the year before. Plus he has added value in that he's a lefty and can pitch multiple innings out of the bullpen if needed. He seems like he could find a niche as a really sneaky valuable lefty out of the pen ideally. But he needs to keep it up obviously as its a very small sample size. Steckenrider is still the best of the bunch to me. His numbers dont truly reflect it because 11 of the 13 ER's his allowed came in a 10 day stretch, but he is our best and most dominant reliever and should be our closer of the future. K's a ton of guys, has great stuff, and he's always had low BB totals throughout the minors as a reliever. Wittgren has been good, and im not sure why he was not up sooner than he got called up. He's always been treated kind of weird by this organization to me as he's always had great numbers and they have always seemingly had a lesser opinion than me on him for years. He's not the dominant shut down reliever with electric stuff, but he is still a very useful cheap and good bullpen piece in a 7th inning type of role. So i think we have the pieces to have a solid closer with at least 3 good other set up/middle relief arms.
June 4, 20188 yr Author Wittgren has been good, and im not sure why he was not up sooner than he got called up. He had a late off-season surgery and basically started his spring training regime late so he was delayed into the season.
June 4, 20188 yr I was just looking at a few of the Marlins first round picks that we've traded. Moran's looking serviceable in Pittsburgh and Naylor's crushing AA. What a joke of an organization. Makes me not want to give Mike Hill a chance to prove that he's an idiot all by himself and without Loria.
June 4, 20188 yr I was just looking at a few of the Marlins first round picks that we've traded. Moran's looking serviceable in Pittsburgh and Naylor's crushing AA. What a joke of an organization. Makes me not want to give Mike Hill a chance to prove that he's an idiot all by himself and without Loria. So much talent given away for so little in return. Heaney, Barnes, Francis Martes, Desclafani, Paddack, Marisnick, Kike, Trevor Williams, on top of many others.
June 4, 20188 yr So much talent given away for so little in return. Heaney, Barnes, Francis Martes, Desclafani, Paddack, Marisnick, Kike, Trevor Williams, on top of many others. Maybe this team should stop trading any player away from now on.
June 4, 20188 yr Author I was just looking at a few of the Marlins first round picks that we've traded. Moran's looking serviceable in Pittsburgh and Naylor's crushing AA. What a joke of an organization. Makes me not want to give Mike Hill a chance to prove that he's an idiot all by himself and without Loria. While I get what you're saying, you're also saying that they've drafted well but it's trading the players away so soon and for nothing that's been the problem... So maybe they continue to draft well but Jeter and Denbo change the narrative of trading away and in that sense it keeps Hill in check? If Loria requested the trades of Moran and Naylor and Jeter and Denbo don't think the way Loria did then it already makes Mike Hill "better."
June 4, 20188 yr Great point [uSER=2328]@SilverBullet1929[/uSER] This website is funny. They constantly say Hill is terrible at drafting and then bitch and moan about every prospect that is traded away.
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