July 31, 2025Jul 31 Just now, Spike said:Only trading Sanchez and keeping Alcantra, Cabrera, Quantril, and Bender is beyond stupid.Apparently other teams weren't meeting the Marlins asking price on those guys. Why trade players just for the sake of trading them?
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Just now, Spike said:Only trading Sanchez and keeping Alcantra, Cabrera, Quantril, and Bender is beyond stupid.Uh, why? Sanchez was incredibly expendable. Marsee is ready. How anyone can say "well we traded Sanchez so we should have traded Alcantara and Cabrera" is beyond me lol.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 2 minutes ago, Spike said:Only trading Sanchez and keeping Alcantra, Cabrera, Quantril, and Bender is beyond stupid.Bendix stood firm on his requirements.Believe in the Dix.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Hell yeah unbelievable they keep ALL good pitchers to give this team a shot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these players deserve it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Author 7 minutes ago, Michael said:Lets be honest, the Yankees games would’ve been close to sold out regardless of the Marlins’ recent performance.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 10 minutes ago, TaiwanMarlins said:Hell yeah unbelievable they keep ALL good pitchers to give this team a shot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these players deserve it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I actually think it's more they are looking toward next year. If the Marlins would have gotten a strong enough trade offer, one of Alcantara or Cabrera would be gone. I don't think the FO genuinely believes this team is going to the playoffs this year.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 13 minutes ago, Spike said:Only trading Sanchez and keeping Alcantra, Cabrera, Quantril, and Bender is beyond stupid.Marsee should suffice for Sanchys production
July 31, 2025Jul 31 1 minute ago, Valid said:I actually think it's more they are looking toward next year. If the Marlins would have gotten a strong enough trade offer, one of Alcantara or Cabrera would be gone. I don't think the FO genuinely believes this team is going to the playoffs this year.First half correct.Second half maybe.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 That is my issue. There were two options. Keep and add for next year. Or trade and add for next year. They took the only, non viable option.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 4 minutes ago, pollythewog said:Marsee should suffice for Sanchys productionWith more speed and better defense to boot.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Kind of surprised that they did not trade Quantrill, but I am not as upset about the reliever non trades as some of the others. Not like they are on expiring contracts.As for Quantrill, the only reason I can see keeping him is that you feel like he is more likely to contribute in a playoff push this year then the potential return is likely to made the Big Leagues down the line.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 5 minutes ago, Spike said:That is my issue. There were two options. Keep and add for next year. Or trade and add for next year. They took the only, non viable option.Except it's not non-viable.They have pitchers coming back next season and with have a full year of Eury and a (hopefully) corrected Sandy. They essentially replaced Sanchez with Marsee, which could very well represent an upgrade. They landed Gusto, which is actually a decent get (I trust the Marlins with pitchers).It's also not exactly easy to add cost-controlled players at the trade deadline without giving up a ton in return.The Marlins did fine here. Edited July 31, 2025Jul 31 by Valid
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Author 14 minutes ago, Valid said:I actually think it's more they are looking toward next year. If the Marlins would have gotten a strong enough trade offer, one of Alcantara or Cabrera would be gone. I don't think the FO genuinely believes this team is going to the playoffs this year.I agree.6 minutes ago, FishFan95 said:Kind of surprised that they did not trade Quantrill, but I am not as upset about the reliever non trades as some of the others. Not like they are on expiring contracts.As for Quantrill, the only reason I can see keeping him is that you feel like he is more likely to contribute in a playoff push this year then the potential return is likely to made the Big Leagues down the line.Same, Quantrill surprised me. The other stuff I could’ve seen going either way, though I expected us to trade more.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 As for Quantrill: I don't think we can rule out the possibility of the Marlins re-signing him on a one-year deal so long as the price is right, but based on the way he has pitched lately, I could also absolutely see a contending team coming in an offering him a fairly decent two-year contract similar to what Matthew Boyd got last offseason (although probably not quite as expensive). Edited July 31, 2025Jul 31 by Valid
July 31, 2025Jul 31 One thing. With Jeezy traded for Ryan Gusto, we need the DFA someone to make room for Marsee who is not on the 40 man roster, right? Who are we thinking?
July 31, 2025Jul 31 certainly an odd duck of a deadline. I’m really surprised they didn’t trade Cal for some 40+ FV guy though. If they really want to compete next year, will need some some FAs tho.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 4 minutes ago, pollythewog said:certainly an odd duck of a deadline. I’m really surprised they didn’t trade Cal for some 40+ FV guy though.If they really want to compete next year, will need some some FAs tho.They'll probably go the typical route and sign some cheap guys. To be fair, it worked this past offseason.Getting someone like Naylor would obviously be nice, but I think we can all agree that isn't happening.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 1 hour ago, Spike said:Only trading Sanchez and keeping Alcantra, Cabrera, Quantril, and Bender is beyond stupid.Glad you made it over here too, Todd. Seems the other place is now just a memory. Hopefully lou and Nick make their way over. Now that the pleasantries are over I don’t understand the logic of your post. Sanchez was the epitome of an unremarkable player. He’s had POTENTIAL for FIVE years. He tries to hit EVERY pitch 468 feet. For a guy that does that to have 10 HR’s the day before August is unacceptable. Not to mention he’s Most Likely Guy On The Team To Do Dumb Things. Bendix got rid of an underachiever whose terrible approach undermines his potential and kept everyone else.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 1 minute ago, DTrain said:Glad you made it over here too, Todd.Seems the other place is now just a memory. Hopefully lou and Nick make their way over.Not sure this place has enough bandwidth to contain lou's novels.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Just now, Valid said:Not sure this place has enough bandwidth to contain lou's novels.We used to have to suffer through them. He can stay at the other place.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 I didn't word it well. I was meaning Sanchez being the only move was dumb. I am pretty indifferent to moving him.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Just now, Spike said:I didn't word it well. I was meaning Sanchez being the only move was dumb.I am pretty indifferent to moving him.I mean this kind of makes your original point even less salient."Marlins moved pedestrian player so why didn't they move anyone else?"The Marlins moved Sanchez because they got a return they felt was feasible for him. They didn't receive the same types of acceptable offers for guys like Alcantara and Cabrera (who they can easily trade in the offseason, by the way) so they passed. It's not that hard.Again, they have an easy replacement for Sanchez in Marsee. That was an obvious move. Edited July 31, 2025Jul 31 by Valid
July 31, 2025Jul 31 I am still not working myself good. Ignore trading Sanchez. That move is irrelevant.I think not making the other moves was a mistake, especially with the premium other teams were trading this deadline.
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