March 11, 20251 yr This post was recognized by Admin! FishFan95 was awarded the badge 'Great Content' Marlins are 2nd in walks per game in the Majors this Spring (only behind the Phillies). In the regular season, the Marlins have struggled to draw walks almost every year since 2013. An added emphasis on drawing walks might be coming down from the Front Office as a part of the "Rays Way" approach to winning ballgames.I will still stress that Spring Training stats can be deceptive, but the Marlins have typically been near the bottom of the league in walks in the Spring as well. Maybe this is a trend to keep an eye on.
March 11, 20251 yr This post was recognized by Admin! SirFishFan was awarded the badge 'Asshole of the Day' There’s a “Great Content” badge?Dang I should have earned that badge like 18x by now with all the quality content and jokes I write on this blog.
March 12, 20251 yr 15 hours ago, FishFan95 said:Marlins are 2nd in walks per game in the Majors this Spring (only behind the Phillies). In the regular season, the Marlins have struggled to draw walks almost every year since 2013. An added emphasis on drawing walks might be coming down from the Front Office as a part of the "Rays Way" approach to winning ballgames.I will still stress that Spring Training stats can be deceptive, but the Marlins have typically been near the bottom of the league in walks in the Spring as well. Maybe this is a trend to keep an eye on.That's great.....except wasn't there a graphic that they're basically last in everything else? lol
March 12, 20251 yr 14 hours ago, SirFishFan said:There’s a “Great Content” badge?Dang I should have earned that badge like 18x by now with all the quality content and jokes I write on this blog.
March 12, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, rmc523 said:That's great.....except wasn't there a graphic that they're basically last in everything else? lolA graphic on one of the telecasts or on social media? I think I might know what you are talking about, but that was a few days ago and they have actually played really well on offense the past few games.At the moment, they are tied for 5th in the NL in homers and 6th in stolen bases. They are 10th in average, slugging, and OPS. 8th in OBP. This overall puts them more or less tied for 10th in runs per game with the Rockies. Though I will note that 6 of the 9 teams above us are Cactus League NL teams, so that League is probably better for offense. Also worth noting that they are closer to 2nd than 14th.This should of course be taken as a grain of salt since if is just Spring Training, but I would take 10th in the NL in runs per game this year in a heartbeat. It would be the first full season where we would rank above 14th in 8 years.
March 12, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, FishFan95 said:A graphic on one of the telecasts or on social media? I think I might know what you are talking about, but that was a few days ago and they have actually played really well on offense the past few games.At the moment, they are tied for 5th in the NL in homers and 6th in stolen bases. They are 10th in average, slugging, and OPS. 8th in OBP. This overall puts them more or less tied for 10th in runs per game with the Rockies. Though I will note that 6 of the 9 teams above us are Cactus League NL teams, so that League is probably better for offense. Also worth noting that they are closer to 2nd than 14th.This should of course be taken as a grain of salt since if is just Spring Training, but I would take 10th in the NL in runs per game this year in a heartbeat. It would be the first full season where we would rank above 14th in 8 years.138 losses
March 12, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, FishFan95 said:A graphic on one of the telecasts or on social media? I think I might know what you are talking about, but that was a few days ago and they have actually played really well on offense the past few games.At the moment, they are tied for 5th in the NL in homers and 6th in stolen bases. They are 10th in average, slugging, and OPS. 8th in OBP. This overall puts them more or less tied for 10th in runs per game with the Rockies. Though I will note that 6 of the 9 teams above us are Cactus League NL teams, so that League is probably better for offense. Also worth noting that they are closer to 2nd than 14th.This should of course be taken as a grain of salt since if is just Spring Training, but I would take 10th in the NL in runs per game this year in a heartbeat. It would be the first full season where we would rank above 14th in 8 years.We've been the top team in ST before and been one of the worst in the regular season.Sure it's nice on paper, but until that translates to regular season over the full season, meh.
March 12, 20251 yr 24 minutes ago, rmc523 said:We've been the top team in ST before and been one of the worst in the regular season.Sure it's nice on paper, but until that translates to regular season over the full season, meh.Like I said take everything with a grain of salt because it's ST. I just noticed that unlike previous years, walks are decent in ST and I would suspect that with a more analytics guided approach, that walks would be of added emphasis.
March 12, 20251 yr 27 minutes ago, rmc523 said:We've been the top team in ST before and been one of the worst in the regular season.Sure it's nice on paper, but until that translates to regular season over the full season, meh.But yeah, in 2023 we had the worst record in the Majors in ST and made the playoffs. 100% agree that Regular Season is what matters. But until we get there, there's not a lot to talk about except ST. Edited March 12, 20251 yr by FishFan95
March 12, 20251 yr As I’ve wrote in the past, spring training means very little to nothing to me as far as how I would predict the season to go. Mainly because half the time in spring training you have players playing everyday that will not spend even 1 game on the MLB roster in the regular season. So any results good or bad in spring training can’t really be used to measure how the regular season will go imo.I usually view the first month of the regular season as more of a measuring stick of how I think the rest of the regular season will go in general. Case in point the 2024 Marlins were 7-24 after one month and of course lost over 100 games that year and the 2023 Marlins were 16-13 after one month and ended up with a good year.Of course that is not a hard and fast rule I have just based on W/L record after just one month as sometimes teams can get off to a hot start and fizzle out halfway through the year. The 2022 Marlins were 12-8 after the first month and ended up 69-93 for example. And also there are many other variables that can affect things such as key players and pitchers getting hurt and missing a few weeks/months and good players getting traded which can definitely affect results by itself.But definitely in a more general sense I like to look at the results from the first month of the regular starting lineup and rotation/bullpen playing everyday and after 3-4 weeks then you can kind of get a better feel of how things might go for the entire year. For example in 2023 I think after like a month of seeing them play everyday a lot of us had a feeling that it was going to be a special year because of Arraez and also that Jean Segura was going to be a bust. At least I remember realizing that and being disappointed about Segura and of course he didn’t even end up staying the whole year.Although to be fair.. in some cases you don’t even have to wait to have an idea of how the season will go.. just based on lineups and past results it’s almost a guarantee the Dodgers are making the postseason this year and almost a guarantee that the Marlins are going to have a losing record. That’s not even being negative it’s just based on prior results with similar lineup(2024 season).But I’m still always hoping for a surprise good season!
March 13, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, MarlinsToSpend said:Trade Cabrera to Yankees now.Looks like it was his fingernail again, but the marlins don’t really have mlb sp depth so not sure who could even take his place. What’s the rotation now? Sandy, max, weathers, Quantrill, ?!!
March 13, 20251 yr 23 minutes ago, pollythewog said:Looks like it was his fingernail again, but the marlins don’t really have mlb sp depth so not sure who could even take his place. What’s the rotation now? Sandy, max, weathers, Quantrill, ?!!Adam Mazur or Xzavion Curry.
March 13, 20251 yr 53 minutes ago, pollythewog said:Looks like it was his fingernail again, but the marlins don’t really have mlb sp depth so not sure who could even take his place. What’s the rotation now? Sandy, max, weathers, Quantrill, ?!!The yearly if only someone, anyone, could've predicted they'd need pitching.... loloh wait, everyone says every year to sign vet innings, but noooooo, let's not do that lol.
March 13, 20251 yr 49 minutes ago, Admin said:Adam Mazur or Xzavion Curry.What about with cal Quantrill is a total flop and they trade Sandy for 18 year olds?
March 13, 20251 yr Fun fact: None of the guys we traded for were 18 at the time we traded for them. Caba was the closest he had turned 19 two weeks before.
March 18, 20251 yr 4 minutes ago, Admin said:Close to an Opening Day lineup there todayThat's the most depressing thing I've ever read.138 losses
March 18, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, Admin said:Close to an Opening Day lineup there todaySkenes over under 10.5 ks on this AAAA lineup?
March 18, 20251 yr Just now, pollythewog said:Skenes over under 10.5 ks on this AAAA lineup?Possibly won't stay in long enough for that. Otherwise the over
March 18, 20251 yr 56 minutes ago, mrchainsaw said:That's the most depressing thing I've ever read.138 lossesLineup has potential to set both records for most strikeouts and least amount of HR hit in a single season somehow
March 18, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, pollythewog said:Lineup has potential to set both records for most strikeouts and least amount of HR hit in a single season somehowConine may lead team in homers with 14 at this rate
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