March 28, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, DTrain said: The Marlins will make the playoffs in 2025. The Cardinals will not. Who cares about 2025 when we havent even played out the 2024 season yet.
March 28, 20242 yr 19 hours ago, SoFlaKingReal said: Bendix is making the right moves. Whether the specs pan out, who knows. The Marlins are nowhere near the best teams in the league. The reality of the situation sucks, but Bendix has a really tough job ahead of him to make this team truly competitive. Any player over 30 years old....don't see much point keeping them around for the overhaul that has to occur to fix the org. depth across all levels. 17 hours ago, SoFlaKingReal said: Sherman may be cheap af (lowest net worth of any managing partner in MLB), but I believe he had the right idea to go out and get someone from the Rays to run the team. Just step back from the emotions of rooting for this shit franchise and look at the best teams in the league....we cannot compete with them on the field or at the box office. Not even close. Gotta do it the hard way with draft and development. There were no amount of signings the Marlins couldve done that would have put them even close to the Braves. That doesn't mean you don't try to improve the team, especially after making the playoffs and finally showing fans some hope - you follow it up by doing just about nothing in the offseason, and signaling the white flag? Long term, yes, I agree with getting someone from the Rays (I've advocated for that for years), and building through drafting. That doesn't mean there weren't ways to improve the team NOW, while implementing better drafting. As Das pointed out, regardless of the Braves winning the NL East, there are 3 wild card spots that we could still make. 15 hours ago, Michael said: Way I see it. Berti is 34 now. He had one tool, which he hardly used last year despite getting on base more than ever. Granted, this may have been on Skip. He was OK defensively - versatility was nice but we have multiple guys who can do that now. I like the guy but I'm fine moving on from him. Don't care how it looks as far as "cost-saving" goes. In general, I agree with this. The part I don't like is how they did it so late to the point where we can't really pivot and make another move to offset losing Berti. So instead, we'll just play a bunch of question mark younger guys? And keep Avi around. Great plan.
March 28, 20242 yr 4 hours ago, Das Texan said: Who cares about 2025 when we havent even played out the 2024 season yet. (Rinse and repeat for 2026/2025, etc).
March 28, 20242 yr 23 minutes ago, rmc523 said: (Rinse and repeat for 2026/2025, etc). Well they aint winning in 2025 if they go with this same philosophy of refusing to spend any dollars at all, givne the upper minors is well... Not good.
March 28, 20242 yr 4 hours ago, rmc523 said: That doesn't mean you don't try to improve the team, especially after making the playoffs and finally showing fans some hope - you follow it up by doing just about nothing in the offseason, and signaling the white flag? Long term, yes, I agree with getting someone from the Rays (I've advocated for that for years), and building through drafting. That doesn't mean there weren't ways to improve the team NOW, while implementing better drafting. As Das pointed out, regardless of the Braves winning the NL East, there are 3 wild card spots that we could still make. In general, I agree with this. The part I don't like is how they did it so late to the point where we can't really pivot and make another move to offset losing Berti. So instead, we'll just play a bunch of question mark younger guys? And keep Avi around. Great plan. You still havnt figured this is the start of a new rebuild?
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