Just now, taiwanmarlin said:

Had great interest in signing with Marlins means big discounts in the asking price !?

Nah

15 minutes ago, MarlinsLou said:

Attach Bednar to B. Reynolds, and go in hard with two of Watson, Meyer, and Eury, as well as one of Bleday or Burdick. What are they going to do - hold that deal up for a reliever? 

Then maybe trade Floro for a young club controlled lefty..... because that then makes sense.....

Agreed. Bednar with Reynolds, or Sulser with Mullins. 

I know Reynolds is the hot name as of late, but I still think it’s going to be Mullins. Give them Meyer, Cappe/Nunez, Dax Fulton, Victor Mesa Jr. 

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Just now, marlins_09 said:

Agreed. Bednar with Reynolds, or Sulser with Mullins. 

I know Reynolds is the hot name as of late, but I still think it’s going to be Mullins. Give them Meyer, Capper/Nunez, Dax Fulton, Victor Mesa Jr. 

I'd take either happily, but I want Mullins more for some reason.

1 minute ago, taiwanmarlin said:

Had great interest in signing with Marlins means big discounts in the asking price !?

Unlikely, and even then it would have to be a massive discount.

Just now, SonOfJack said:

I'd take either happily, but I want Mullins more for some reason.

Lefty power bats will do better at LDP, I think.

Ok but if Jeter left only because of the Castellanos thing then he's an idiot. I doubt that's the full story though. He probably knew he was on the way out and just didn't wanna be a "lame duck" CEO.

This is a dumb take.

Unless the Marlins said they were going to sign Nick (they never said so), nothing changed.

25 minutes ago, MarlinsLou said:

Attach Bednar to B. Reynolds, and go in hard with two of Watson, Meyer, and Eury, as well as one of Bleday or Burdick. What are they going to do - hold that deal up for a reliever? 

Then maybe trade Floro for a young club controlled lefty..... because that then makes sense.....

Not really sure I am sold on Bednar as a true high leverage guy.  I'd prefer someone who has done it for more than one season and in true high pressure situations.  While Bednar might be a good reliever long term, not sure he at this time actually meets that critera (to me).

Slusser even more so.

42 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

 

This is oddly worded... they don't wanna put all that money on him because they would think it's an overpay and he isn't worth all that money, right? The tweet makes it sound like he's really great and they don't wanna spend money on a great player. That's two different things actually.

9 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

This is a dumb take.

Unless the Marlins said they were going to sign Nick (they never said so), nothing changed.

Plus they could get better players than Castellanos and not spend as much money. It's such a false take that spending money = better team. Just get better, if that involves spending then sure but the end goal is being better, not spending money.

The Correa move would be the best of all. Move Jazz to CF, Miggy to 2B and plug Correa in. You can't understate his age.

Keep your prospects, and I bet one or two will surprise you mid-year.... or fill gaps at the deadline.

Just now, Entendu said:

The Correa move would be the best of all. Move Jazz to CF, Miggy to 2B and plug Correa in. You can't understate his age.

Keep your prospects, and I bet one or two will surprise you mid-year.... or fill gaps at the deadline.

Let's do it.

31 minutes ago, marlins_09 said:

I’m definitely not in the camp of saying “they screwed this up, where are the moves, where’s the splash signing, etc etc”. However, I do think they’ve done a pretty poor communications/PR job this far. 

Stop telling fans how much money you have, how committed you are, how you’re going to do something. Just do it. Go through the process of making that big move, finish it, close it, and then have your press conference 

It's the start of spring training, the media has multiple interviews with the manager, owner, the GM, and others. They've gotta say what they gotta say. If they did what you said and just stayed quiet people would be pissed too.

Hate this belief of fish holding tightly prospect with the hopes they may pan out I.e, burdock, bleday. 
 

such a dumb way to operate a franchise. 

23 minutes ago, Entendu said:

The Correa move would be the best of all. Move Jazz to CF, Miggy to 2B and plug Correa in. You can't understate his age.

Keep your prospects, and I bet one or two will surprise you mid-year.... or fill gaps at the deadline.

Yes please

54 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

I'd take either happily, but I want Mullins more for some reason.

Same 

26 minutes ago, Jokersgoon said:

Hate this belief of fish holding tightly prospect with the hopes they may pan out I.e, burdock, bleday. 
 

such a dumb way to operate a franchise. 

To be fair, lots of franchises operate this way. Even the Yankees have been harshly criticized by their fans for doing this in recent years.

I'm not saying it's the right way to operate, but I can understand why teams (especially teams like the Marlins that rely heavily on their farm systems because they don't have deep pockets) do so.

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There needs to be a balance. You also can't dump all your prospects away for nothing like Loria did.

Just now, SilverBullet said:

There needs to be a balance. You also can't dump all your prospects away for nothing like Loria did.

Especially when you are a franchise that is not typically known for making big splashes in free agency.

1 minute ago, SilverBullet said:

There needs to be a balance. You also can't dump all your prospects away for nothing like Loria did.

And it's not as if we've been 100% prospect hugging either, thankfully. Team has shown willingness to trade some prospects.

Just need to be a little more loose on their grip with some of the higher ranked ones.

If Meyer and Watson ball out in Pittsburgh, I'm ok with that.

I'd be skeptical on losing both Meyer and Watson though, especially Watson. I can understand hesitation there. We have plenty of pitching.

2 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:

I'd be skeptical on losing both Meyer and Watson though, especially Watson. I can understand hesitation there. We have plenty of pitching.

We've got Salas and Lewis and Cappe, too. All of them are 2 or 3 years away at a minimum.

4 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:

I'd be skeptical on losing both Meyer and Watson though, especially Watson. I can understand hesitation there. We have plenty of pitching.

Meyer and Watson balling out in Pittsburgh would definitely hurt. 

This is the problem with trading away prospects. It's a huge risk, so you need to be smart about it.

5 minutes ago, Entendu said:

Meyer and Watson balling out in Pittsburgh would definitely hurt. 

This is the problem with trading away prospects. It's a huge risk, so you need to be smart about it.

Would it hurt if Reynolds was a key piece in multiple playoff runs, though?

4 minutes ago, Michael said:

Would it hurt if Reynolds was a key piece in multiple playoff runs, though?

Nope, but it would if Reynolds regresses, or we don't end up making the playoffs and either or both of the prospects become superstars.