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  1. One Regend
    I'm not buying it. Derek Hill is the type of player the Marlins are starting because they don't have a whole lot of other better options. He's the Justin Ruggiano of 2024. He's a guy that's having success in a small sample size now, but is going to be cut in Spring Training next year when it comes to roster crunch time. I'm not going to lose sleep over him if he gets cut. We shouldn't have a 29 year old minor league journeyman be the "face" of our franchise. If Victor Mesa Jr wasn't injured and done for the rest of the season, I guarantee you he'd be on the roster right now playing in LF instead of Derek Hill. If we wanted a stopgap that would help our prospects endure their growing pains next year, then we should be going after former All-Stars who are in their twilight and will likely retire the following year with Miami as their final destination before retirement. A perfect example of a free agent next year that's exactly like this is Jason Heyward. He would be a wonderful mentor to our young outfield.
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    I disagree with this view on many fronts. While, yes, we would have a more watchable product on the field, we won't have the prospect capital to make it through next year with injuries in the mix; Nevermind the sustained success beyond next year. Going all in next year would be nice for PR, but a horrible baseball move because we just don't have the prospects nor the talent to hang with the big boys. We're going to need a few more years of being cellar-dwellars that suck tanks in order to build up the prospect capital to start being a relevant franchise again. Jeter did way too much damage during his regime and this is the opportunity to fix that damage. It's going to be a long 3 years of being trash, but it needs to be done.
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    I'm mixed on firing Scott Aldred, because he was the one person that actually held our team together, no matter how truly awful our team was. But everyone else needed to go, especially Dan Greenlee. Nobody makes excuses for continuing to trot Lewis Brinson, Isan Diaz, and Jorge Alfaro to the batter's box well after they've worn out their welcome and deserve to keep their job. But yes, Bendix needed to clean house. The Marlins had a HOF-level pitching core that they promptly wasted because none of their guys could lay off a breaking ball outside of the zone. This was the same pitching core that they had to slowly dismantle out of desperation to fix their hitting problem (Remember Pablo Lopez and Zac Gallen?) because none of the guys in the scouting and developing departments did their job correctly. This resulted in 6 years of a failed rebuild that culminated in a first round playoff exit in 2023 built on the foundation of a fluke and a unicorn. That was their peak year, by the way.
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    If there's one thing the Marlins are good at, no matter how good or bad their team is, it's to find pitchers out of complete nowhere who perform like superstars. There always seems to be one arm who was a complete nobody at the beginning of the season that performs like superman when given the playing time. This happens nearly every year. It's basically a Marlins tradition at this point. This year, it's Valente Bellozo. He's impressing me at every stop of the way. For a 24 year old kid who wasn't really blowing hitters away in AAA, he's seemed to have figured it out at the Major League level. I don't know what the major league coaching staff did to him, but they seemed to unlocked Bellozo's ability to take his game to a whole new level. 7 scoreless against one of the best offenses in baseball is nothing you can shift your eyes at. That's the statement start that'll get my attention in a season that hasn't gotten much of it. I have to wonder if he can maintain this level of play over a full season next year. My guess is with his low velo, his pitch usage, and his arsenal, I very much doubt his chances to do so. I'm very welcome to him proving me wrong, though.
  5. One Regend
    It's to find pitchers out of complete nowhere who looks like potential studs. Edit: There was more content to this thread, but I started this thread hours ago and wasn't aware Ely posted a thread about this, and posted it after the fact. Feel free to delete this post. I've mostly moved the contents of this post into Ely's thread.
  6. One Regend
    The Jacob Berry experiment has me thinking. The Marlins have such a glut of 1B/DH types in the higher levels. Agustin and Deyvision are both 1B/DH types, and their play at C and 3B respectively hasn't really done anything to give me confidence that they aren't otherwise. And, they still have Troy Johnston in their system, who is starting to become too old to be a prospect. It really makes me wonder who's going to be the odd man out. Obviously, Agustin and Deyvision are much higher on the depth chart, but do we get the Major League Service clock running on Troy Johnston before he leaves in MiFA? Do we trade some of these prospects that might be blocked by Agustin and Deyvision being higher up on the depth chart? Do said prospects even have trade value left?
  7. One Regend
    After their efforts from 2018 to 2023 (or lack thereof), they needed to go take a hike. We need a new set of eyes for talent. I'm honestly surprised they weren't cut loose when DJ Svihlik was fired.
  8. One Regend
    The Braves have high-end talent. We do not. That's why gutting our entire team for the sake of prospects this deadline was paramount. In order to keep up with the Braves, we need to draft well, trade well, and develop well. We didn't do any of that from 2018 to 2023. Let's hope the changes made this year puts us on a completely different trajectory.
  9. One Regend
    Yeah, and that's the entire point of trading for prospects: Hope that some of them turns into a Stanton/Yelich/Ozuna. Because the guys they had before trading them away this year (and certainly the ones they still have) certainly didn't. Connor Norby is an absolute stud prospect that's blocked at the major league level. He has dominated AAA, but he's not getting playing time with Ryan Mountcastle, Jordan Westburg, Gunnar Henderson, and eventually Jackson Holliday manning the entire infield. Stowers also has promise and I see a much better future out of him than I do Jesus Sanchez, since he can kinda hit same-handed pitching. (looked at his minors numbers to reflect that) And, to think, we got both for a Trevor Rogers who wasn't going to be tendered a contract for much longer.
  10. One Regend
    I'm surprised they were able to come out of this with cash. I was expecting them to either eat all of his money and trade him for basically nothing, or to hang onto him and release him by late August. At least now, the Marlins can actually make use of their glut of 1B/DH prospects they have sitting in AAA, finally.
  11. One Regend
    Are you kidding me? Connor Norby has been an absolute stud prospect for the Orioles, and Kyle Stowers has been red hot when called on, and not a nobody prospect himself. And we got them both for a pitcher whose stock was rapidly declining, That's an L take right here.
  12. One Regend
    I guess I can be surprised sometimes. Nice job on Bendix's part.
  13. One Regend
    See? I told you. The whole "clubhouse concern" thing with the Yankees was a total wash. I knew right away. I think the prospects we got back were okay, but I think we probably could have gotten a better return. Maybe not a Jasson Dominguez, no shot they're ever making him available, but I was thinking maybe Spencer Jones. We'll have to see, though. We're thin on power profile prospects and we got 2 of them in the span of 2 days. Let's just hope one, or both, sticks.
  14. One Regend
    To be fair, the way the market views relief help today is vastly different than the way relief help was viewed back then. I'm sure there are a lot of teams today much less willing to give up what the Marlins gave up for Urbina back then, for an elite 2 month rental closer now.
  15. One Regend
    Tanner Scott is a 2 month rental, so I have to believe he's either going to yield a lower quality return, unless he's packaged with somebody else. Also, the Marlins losing 90 is very generous. I can easily see them break the '98 record of 108 losses. Regardless, the return they got for AJ Puk is great. I just hope De Los Santos doesn't end up going the direction of Lewis Brinson.
  16. One Regend
    Agreed. If we were actually competing for a wild card spot, it'd be one thing to pull him early, but right now, the only thing we're competing for is a chance at the #1 overall draft pick of next year. Let him ride a little bit.
  17. One Regend
    I call BS on that. That clubhouse was the same clubhouse that had no problems employing the services of Aroldis Chapman and Domingo German. Clubhouse dynamics should be the last thing they should be worried about with their 10-21 skid. There's a clear double standard here.
  18. One Regend
    This was an obvious reach of a draft pick. This was a stacked class, and this was a franchise that sorely needed talent. Derek Jeter and Gary Denbo set this franchise back 10+ years, and draft picks like this one doesn't help. I'm sorry, but second-rounder Carter Johnson isn't worth reaching on this first round pick.
  19. One Regend
    Good that they're finally cutting bait. First Avi, and now TA7. If Josh Bell doesn't get it together, he may very well be next. He has a .644 OPS in his last 28 games, which is the entirety of June, clearly indicating this isnt an early season slump. This is a hard decline for a guy who isn't getting any younger at Age 31. No one on the trade market wants a 1B/DH type guy who can't get on base nor hit home runs.
  20. One Regend
    Well, Victor Mesa Jr can actually stay healthy, for one.
  21. One Regend
    They should've traded Luzardo during the offseason. There, I said it. They boned themselves by trying to feign "competitiveness." By not trading Luzardo in the offseason, they put themselves in the literal worst case scenario: Worst team in Baseball (I don't count the White Sox and Rockies as real baseball franchises), and has next to nothing to trade away to get prospects for the future. Now Luzardo sucks and is hurt, and now they can't get anything for him in return. I thought they were on the right track by shipping Arraez at the start of May, but they had a winning record in May, and that somehow convinced them to not ship off any more pieces. It's painful being a fan of a team that's bad and has no clue how to steer the team in the direction it needs to go.
  22. One Regend
    The Twins would laugh at us and mock us for such a proposal. A pitcher who has a history of volatility and injury history, and a pitcher who is damaged goods, for a guy who is a literal superstar. If they didn't hand over Royce Lewis when we were shopping Pablo Lopez, there's zero shot they're handing him to us now for pitchers of far lower quality than Pablo Lopez.
  23. One Regend
    ...Absolutely nothing has gone right for the Marlins this year. The team sucks, and there's no hope for the future. Only pain. It's a good thing everyone is too busy laughing at the White Sox to notice we are just as bad.
  24. One Regend
    It appears you've posted this thread in the wrong place. Whoops.
  25. One Regend
    I'm also not one to put Bendix in the fire just yet. It's too soon to judge his transactions. But he was certainly right about one thing: The Marlins weren't going to do jack squat with the core players they have now. Their unicorn 2023 season was their best chance to do anything, and they couldn't do anything more than an early Wild Card exit. It's frustrating for Marlins fans to see an organization blow the team up after already experiencing a team blowup, but it needed to be done. It's either admit your team core stinks, or continue spinning the wheels of mediocrity. Bendix chose the former option. And I agree with this direction that they are taking. The only knock I have on Bendix is that he should be wheeling and dealing more. Commit to the rebuild and trade off more valuable pieces. I want to see Luzardo, Jazz, and Tanner Scott gone. They don't need to wait until the trade deadline to find a worthwhile haul. In fact, keeping them around would be a net negative because that would give them the illusion that the team is better than what they really are. (See also: The entire month of May) No point in keeping them around at all. But above all, I just hope Bendix's team does a better job developing and drafting their prospects than Denbo & Svihlik did.
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