19 hours ago, FishFan95 said:

With the trade this is how I imagine things are looking for the team:

C- Gus
1B- Conine
2B- X
3B- Norby
SS- Otto
LF- Stowers
CF- Marsee
RF- Caissie
DH- Heriberto

Bench:
C- Hicks
UT- Sanoja
IN- Pauley
UT- Morel

As much as I would love to start with Joe Mack and move Gus to DH, I can't see them doing that until May at the earliest.

Esteury Ruiz has a shot, but Hicks and Sanoja are locks. Plus they may want to see if Morel can pan out on the investment. Plus they might try and platoon him with Conine at 1B. Pauley's spot might be the most viable path for Ruiz, but I feel like Pauley has the best shot. Only other guy on the 40 man is Victor Mesa Jr, who is a bit of a long shot.

Correction: This is based on the depth chart, not the 40 man. DDLS, Maximo Acosta, and Jared Serna are also on the 40 man, but would all be long shots to break camp.

16 hours ago, farmer_fran said:

Both Heriberto and Conine as starters stinks. One, I could live with, especially because we know eventually it will be Mack at C and Gus with the lion's share of DH starts.

Get a fucking power bat. Christopher Morel is fucking embarrassing that he is the best they could do.

Heriberto is only at DH until Mack gets here. Besides, both Heriberto and Conine have been solid in their short MLB careers. Not sure where the hate comes from unless you literally didn't watch the games.

As for a power bat, they just got one in Caissie. Stowers is a power bat. Gus is a power bat. Conine literally had the hardest hit ball by any Marlin last year. Hell, Morel has a ton of power in his bat. He literally profiles the same as Stowers a year ago. Maybe Stowers' development was a fluke. But if it was because the staff figured out how to unlock him and they can do the same with Morel, that is a huge get. 100% worth the risk if at worst he holds down a bench spot until we dfa him for a guy down in the system.

1 hour ago, FishFan95 said:

Heriberto is only at DH until Mack gets here. Besides, both Heriberto and Conine have been solid in their short MLB careers. Not sure where the hate comes from unless you literally didn't watch the games.

As for a power bat, they just got one in Caissie. Stowers is a power bat. Gus is a power bat. Conine literally had the hardest hit ball by any Marlin last year. Hell, Morel has a ton of power in his bat. He literally profiles the same as Stowers a year ago. Maybe Stowers' development was a fluke. But if it was because the staff figured out how to unlock him and they can do the same with Morel, that is a huge get. 100% worth the risk if at worst he holds down a bench spot until we dfa him for a guy down in the system.

I want Conine to work out more than anybody, but we're talking very small sample sizes in the last 2 years. He's been good, not great in 160 Career ABs in the Majors. He's cut down the K's at the big leagues which is a great sign, but still he hasn't fully convinced me that it won't increase over time. Heriberto put up a better OPS at the majors than he did at AAA. We'll see, still an unproven guy in my eyes,

For every Kyle Stowers, there are 30 Matt Mervis'.

Sign a proven 1st baseman. There's no reason for us not to except Bruce Sherman continuing to spend nothing. We have the lowest payroll in the big leagues. It's crazy to me that anyone would buy a team, and be content to have the a payroll continually in the bottom 5 of the league.

Edited January 8Jan 8 by farmer_fran

21 minutes ago, farmer_fran said:

I want Conine to work out more than anybody, but we're talking very small sample sizes in the last 2 years. He's been good, not great in 160 Career ABs in the Majors. He's cut down the K's at the big leagues which is a great sign, but still he hasn't fully convinced me that it won't increase over time. Heriberto put up a better OPS at the majors than he did at AAA. We'll see, still an unproven guy in my eyes,

For every Kyle Stowers, there are 30 Matt Mervis'.

Sign a proven 1st baseman. There's no reason for us not to except Bruce Sherman continuing to spend nothing. We have the lowest payroll in the big leagues. It's crazy to me that anyone would buy a team, and be content to have the a payroll continually in the bottom 5 of the league.

For every Kyle Stowers they’d are 30 Matt mervis is a great quote and something folks forget when asssesing daddy dix

14 hours ago, rmc523 said:

True, though we say this every year and then half of them get injured.

I'd like to see us sign a vet starter to safeguard against the inevitable injuries. But just like every year, we won't do it, and have to scramble.....

They have Quantrill last off-season.....

15 hours ago, farmer_fran said:

I want Conine to work out more than anybody

Not more than me. My PC is named Griffin

Nice trade for Marlins. Sell high.

Good prospects back.

1 hour ago, Das Texan said:

Nice trade for Marlins. Sell high.

Good prospects back.

Wow who hacked Das account???

10 hours ago, Das Texan said:

Nice trade for Marlins. Sell high.

Good prospects back.

Shut the FU -- actually no keep talking

On 1/8/2026 at 2:34 AM, TaiwanMarlins said:

Caissie better than Spencer Jones？

Spencer Jones is 24 years old, turns 25 in May and still hasn't sniffed the big leagues yet. There's a reason for that. He has also slipped down the Yankees' top prospects list.

MASSIVE power potential, but his strikeout rate is astronomical. And the Yankees didn't want to trade him anyway, so there's no point in even really discussing it.

23 hours ago, pollythewog said:

Wow who hacked Das account???

I have no problem with them selling the highest they can on Ed Cabrera. I dont trust him long term and the bonus is he is now a Cub.

Plus Cassie is a damn good prospect. Double bonus!

1 hour ago, Das Texan said:

Cassie

It's really interesting people always misspell Caissie.

Not sure that the Marlins "sold high" on Arraez when they traded him in early May rather than just doing the sensible thing and waiting until the trade deadline (and the return kind of sucked), but I agree with Bendix on Cabrera.

4 minutes ago, Valid said:

and the return kind of sucked

I like Marsee.

Eddys salary is like $4.5/5M so there’s that part too

22 hours ago, Admin said:

I like Marsee.

Love Marsee, but the Marlins may have been able to squeeze even more out of San Diego had they merely waited (then again, we probably got just about everything they had in the Scott trade, anyway).

With the year Arraez had in 2023, the Marlins should have gotten more.

Edited January 11Jan 11 by Valid

Eh, perception of Arraez had already started to sour pretty quickly and he was having a poor start to the year.

It is pretty doubtful his value goes up as he is basically a DH who only hits weak singles.

2 hours ago, Valid said:

Love Marsee, but the Marlins may have been able to squeeze even more out of San Diego had they merely waited (then again, we probably got just about everything they had in the Scott trade, anyway).

With the year Arraez had in 2023, the Marlins should have gotten more.

Spike's got it right in the post between ours. He's probably not even going to be in the league in a couple years' time unless some more defensive changes occur.

On 1/11/2026 at 2:04 PM, Valid said:

Love Marsee, but the Marlins may have been able to squeeze even more out of San Diego had they merely waited (then again, we probably got just about everything they had in the Scott trade, anyway).

With the year Arraez had in 2023, the Marlins should have gotten more.

Why? Advanced Metrics arent kind to Arraez.

Nobody pays/cares about a high average and nothing else hitter these days. Bendix did a great job in moving Arraez when he did.

7 hours ago, Das Texan said:

Why? Advanced Metrics arent kind to Arraez.

Nobody pays/cares about a high average and nothing else hitter these days. Bendix did a great job in moving Arraez when he did.

This new das loves daddy dix more than bender

31 minutes ago, pollythewog said:

This new das loves daddy dix more than bender

Shut the FUCK up, Polly!

1 hour ago, pollythewog said:

This new das loves daddy dix more than bender

I still want to punch Bendix in the face, tbh.

5 hours ago, Das Texan said:

I still want to punch Bendix in the face, tbh.

guy has donthing but brilliance. you want to punch Sherman, take a number.. daddy Dix is master class.

Cabrera WAR so far in 2026: 0.4

Big Red: -0.7

2 hours ago, DTrain said:

Cabrera WAR so far in 2026: 0.4

Big Red: -0.7

Cabrera has been no better or worse than he typically did during his time with the Marlins. Caissie on the other hand has been a bit of a disaster.