Brock Beauchamp

I paused on the word "expendable" because that wasn't quite right... my point is more that the Marlins can afford to deal away pitching compared to their need for additional offense.

All quiet on the pitcher front. Mark Feinsand of MLB.com wrote this excellent write-up about both the reliever and starting pitcher winter markets. While the reliever free agent market seems to have stalled on Josh Hader (who finally signed with the Astros on Friday afternoon), Feinsand goes on to point out that the starting pitching market hasn't fared much better with several high-profile free agents still on the market, headlined by Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery. In a cascading effect, this has caused the starting pitcher trade market to be equally slow, so much so that one NL executive is quoted saying "I don’t think the trade market will be very hot in the next month". The Marlins have a need for offense and some expendable starting pitching. Does a frozen market on the likes of Dylan Cease, Shane Bieber, and Corbin Burnes hurt or help the Marlins' chances to improve their 2024 lineup by maximizing value in one of their starting pitchers this offseason? View full rumor

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Welcome to the new Fish On First! Let’s talk about the new features and walk you through the site. Hi, my name is Brock Beauchamp and I’m part of the DiamondCentric team; we’ll be maintaining the platform here at Fish On First so Ely and his excellent team of Marlins writers can focus on content. This site is comprehensive and offers a ton of baseball-specific features you won’t find elsewhere. Some we’ll have at launch (today) and others will roll onto the site over the coming year. First things first, get yourself registered! It’s a 90 second process that opens the door to all sorts of cool features and abilities across the site. After you’re registered, check out our new forums where you can create your own topics and respond to community-generated conversations started by other Marlins fans. If you’re interested in trying your hand at writing your own long-form Marlins content, every user here at Fish On First can create their own user blog, which will be available for all visitors to read and comment! The site also offers a wide range of achievements for participation, user ranks, and loads of little nooks and crannies to explore. Take a look at our tutorials & help pages to learn more about the site. In the next two weeks, expect to see Marlins prospects lists (that you can vote on!), videos, and much more roll out to the site. Later in the year we’ll roll out specific draft pages with at-a-glance information you won’t find anywhere else in the Marlinsphere. I’m really excited to be partnered with Ely and his team and here’s to a great 2024 for the Marlins! View full article

Hi! My name is Brock Beauchamp and I'm part of the group that has partnered with Ely and his excellent FoF staff to bring technical expertise and a new platform to the community. Please register and say hi! If you have any questions about anything, feel free to PM me on the site or email me at brock.beauchamp@fishonfirst.com if you're having technical issues of any kind.

Because we export most of the site from another template, we may have missed references to other teams. I tried to catch all of them but inevitably, I'll miss a few here and there. If you come across any of these copy issues, please let me know here!

Fish On First Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables! With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content). First, pop on over to Corbin Burnes's B-Ref page: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burneco01.shtml I'm going to grab his 2020-2021 season stats. Just above his stat table, you'll see Share & Export. Click and then select Modify, Share, & Export Table. Boom, you can then select what stats you want to display and which you want to remove. I've removed all seasons except the last two. I also removed team and league because "duh". Then click the big X in the top right of the yellow square and you have your filtered table. Grab that table by moving your cursor to the top left of the table (just to the left of Year in this case) and while holding down the button of your mouse/trackpad, drag toward the bottom right of the table. The table will begin to highlight in yellow as you select the cells. Grab them all and let go of the mouse/trackpad. Then copy what has been selected (control+c on Windows, command+c on macOS). Pop over to Fish On First, start typing a comment, and paste your content (control+v on Windows, command+v on macOS). Standard Pitching Year Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ FIP WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/W Awards 2020 25 4 1 .800 2.11 12 9 2 0 0 0 59.2 37 15 14 2 24 0 88 3 0 5 240 216 2.03 1.022 5.6 0.3 3.6 13.3 3.67 CYA-6 2021 26 11 5 .688 2.43 28 28 0 0 0 0 167.0 123 47 45 7 34 0 234 6 0 5 657 176 1.63 0.940 6.6 0.4 1.8 12.6 6.88 AS,CYA-1,MVP-15 4 Yr 4 Yr 23 11 .676 3.39 102 41 16 0 0 2 313.2 257 125 118 30 89 2 427 12 1 14 1284 128 2.67 1.103 7.4 0.9 2.6 12.3 4.80 162 162 11 5 .676 3.39 49 19 8 0 0 1 149 122 59 56 14 42 1 203 6 0 7 611 128 2.67 1.103 7.4 0.9 2.6 12.3 4.80 Note: you can use this method for most websites and spreadsheet data so whatever table data you have available you need to copy and paste, this method will likely suit your needs.