I mean....doing the beyond-tired Miami sports attendance dance is one thing...but a Rays fan? Hell If the Lightning had the same history on the ice as the panthers they'd be talked about just as much (by fans) as a candidate to move north If not more so.
@JoeFrisaro: MRI reveals bulging disk in Christian Yelich lower back. #Marlins LF confident he can return in 15 days
so glad they didn't fire Redmond. the rough start wasn't his fault and it looks like things are turning around
I know I am nit picking, but too many of these homers are coming with nobody on base. It seems like he is striking out way too often when multiple guys are on base. but yes, he looks exponentially better at the plate right now. just saying with some better timeliness, he'd be the NL leader in RBI right now
is the green monster a disgrace? what about the ivy at wrigley? It's different. I like that the dimensions don't look like a cookie cutter stadium. yea it doesn't play well for power hitters like stanton but the foundation of this franchise has always been pitching. so they made a pitchers ball park.
Lol at comparing a bullshit corner surrounding an eye sore of a gay water fountain to the green monster There is a difference from making a pitchers park and a ridiculous triangle at 418 feet in left center with 20 foot walls
the eye sore isn't relevant to the discussion. I agree with you on the wall height, but just because I like seeing guys try to rob home runs and that can't happen in this ball park. I just don't see why the dimensions are such a big deal to you. The Marlins like to be different and the triangle was an ode to the dimensions at JRS.
I partly blame the water fountain for the 20 foot walls, it just makes zero sense to have walls that high
i don't think so. they could have had the wall gradually increase in height leading up to the sculpture.
@GlennGeffner: During 5-game win streak, #Marlins have outscored the opposition 32-6. They've hit .324 & averaged 6.4 runs w/ a 1.20 team ERA & 0 errors.
You're talking to dbl and wtx...idk what you were expecting On a different note, big series vs the mets
@GlennGeffner: #Ichiro has started the last 6 games for the #Marlins, recording at least one hit in all 6 and batting .391 (9-for-23) with a .440 OBP.
@JonHeymanCBS: a week later, Loria endorses Redmond: "He's the manager. Period." http://t.co/D4EdUKPzt5
It makes me no longer witness that piece of shit leave runners in scoring positin when he strikes out every game
@jcrasnick: I stand corrected. MT @thepacman321 @nickcafardo Marlins GM Dan Jennings has talked to 5 teams on Saltalamacchia. Expects to trade him.
I get it. But this is the Marlins. The money he is eating up is more important than his shitty production. Fish already replaced his bat with realmuto. Trust me. I'm thrilled he is gone. But him not working out is a blow to the team because that money is gone and it's not coming back or getting used elsewhere. Even if the fish trade him, they are going to have to eat most of that salary
Yes, he sucks, it's a shit contract, nobody wants him It's a sunk cost, and there is no point in worrying about that. If Loria uses it as an excuse to not sign somebody next offseason, oh well
The Marlins moved on from catcher Jarrod Saltamacchia, designating him for assignment today, and the only question is where he ranks among their free agent busts of recent years. I would slot him second, behind Heath Bell but ahead of John Buck. (Don't include Jose Reyes or Mark Buehrle, who were decent before being traded.) Saltalmacchia's final Marlins numbers: .209, 12 homers, 45 RBI and 17 errors in 123 games in a little more than a season. Manager Mike Redmond and president/baseball operations Michael Hill both said they feel rookie catcher J.T. Realmuto is ready to be a full-time starter. The Marlins have 10 days to trade Saltalamacchia, but they've tried unsuccessfully to do that for a while. He's still owed $15 million through next season. "Fifteen million is not easy to part with, but we've never been afraid to make decisions," Hill said. "It was right to do this." Said Redmond: "Last year was a tough year [for Saltalamacchia]. We were looking for him to be better and it just didn't happen." ### Throughout the first 21 days of this rollercoaster Marlins season, this has been a constant: exemplary defense. After another error-less game Sunday, the Marlins own the best fielding percentage in baseball and have the fewest errors (five). No other National League team entered Sunday with fewer than nine errors. Of the Marlins’ five errors, two were committed by catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, one by right fielder Giancarlo Stanton and one each by shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria (on a questionable call) and second baseman Dee Gordon. Closer Steve Cishek said the Marlins’ infield defense is as good as he can remember in his time with the team. “Hech and Dee up the middle are incredible,” Cishek said. “Martin Prado has always been great.” First baseman Michael Morse, who has split time between first base and the outfield in recent years, has “done very well” defensively at first base, Marlins infield coach Perry Hill said. “Mike saved the [butt] of a couple guys by picking up several balls.” Hill, who always has praised Hechavarria’s defense, said Gordon “has made every play he should have. And Prado is a pro.” ### Hechavarria has 16 RBI in 19 games this season. Last season, he didn’t drive in his 16thrun until his 72nd game. ### On Sunday, Gordon was thrown out for the sixth time (most in baseball) in 14 stolen base attempts. He was 64 for 83 on steals last season. ### Justin Nicolino, the Marlins’ top left-handed pitching prospect, is 2-0 with a 0.79 ERA at Triple A New Orleans and hasn’t given up an earned run in his last three starts, covering 18 innings.
@Marlins: A terrific outing tonight by Cosart: 8 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 2 #whiffs. http://t.co/Ix7lmLzCYj