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  1. One Regend
    I once had hope for Yiddi Cappe. He flashed so much potential in 2022 as a five-tool player. There was a chance he could add bulk to his frame, generate more power from his swing, and develop into a slugging 3rd baseman of the future. He just was never able to develop. Considering how awful our development staff was pre-Bendix (the jury's still out on Bendix obviously, but I mean the staff before him), it makes me wonder how Cappe would've turned out in a system that had a good track record of developing young players. Oh well. What a waste of talent.
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    Interesting take. I like the idea of Tyler Sodorstrom. He's a young player who just had a breakout season and may have potential for even bigger seasons ahead, and we'd have control over him through 2029. The question is, when our contending window is open, how much of his services do we have left? Is he an extension candidate for that purpose? Henry Bolte has potential, but I looked at all of his seasons (not just his 2025) and his alarming strikeout rate persists throughout all of them since he made his professional debut. That's not something an organization can fix; at least not without sacrificing something. Like, for instance, Bolte striking out less and making more ugly contact isn't any better than what he's currently doing right now. Your best bet is to hope he turns into a Joey Gallo type of player. Another question is... is what we are giving up enough? I feel like we are lowballing the Athletics here. Sure, Edward Cabrera was good this year, but he's never been consistent at throwing strikes in his career and you can't just rely on him having yet another career-high strike-throwing rate. And he doesn't have the track record of durability other more coveted starters might have. And Calvin Faucher is neither missing bats enough nor limiting solid contact. If we're trading Cabrera we're doing so to sell high. I don't think Faucher would be enough. We'd need to add a throw-in prospect.
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    Josh White should be protected. If the Marlins are concerned about their current roster crunch, they can still non-tender Andrew Nardi. Especially considering there still isn't an update on Andrew Nardi's injury progress.
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    Why is it that, these days, insanely-talented players who were more or less guaranteed to be in Cooperstown, always make a generationally-stupid life choice that prematurely ends their career? First was Wander Franco, and now it's Emmanuel Clase. Has this era of players de-evolved, or something? I miss the Late '90s Early 2000s era of baseball. Sure, 90% of those players were Roided Up, but that's leagues better than what we've seen post-pandemic.
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    George Soriano, I expected to be gone. But they really do not have any confidence in Troy Johnston. I don't understand why. First base is a huge weakness and they just... let him go? Wow. Now they have zero contingency plans for if they whiff on a 1B Free Agent or a whiff on a trade for a 1B. Great job, Bendix.
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    Here to post that Jorge Polanco just opted out of his deal and is now a free agent. Polanco might be a guy the Marlins could actually be able to obtain. He just had a good offensive season and was the primary reason the Mariners made it very far into the playoffs. He's mostly played 2B, but he has played a good chunk of 3B in recent years. The problem is, he's 32, so if we sign him long-term, there's a chance the aging curve will kick in and his offensive production could crater. Not a flashy option but honestly way better than our other 3B options, both in-house, and on the market. (Suarez would be the better option, but let's be realistic, the Marlins aren't outbidding Steve Cohen or the Phillies.)
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    These aren't good hires. One of them coasted off the backs of high-end talent and couldn't get much out of his team when the high-end talent was no longer there. As for the other, he was in the system of the Minnesota Twins, the same franchise that's been mired in mediocrity for the past 5 years. I expect that Pedro Guerrero is going to do the heavy lifting here.
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    Suarez almost hit 50 HRs this year. I sincerely doubt we are going to outbid other teams for his services. The Phillies especially are losing Kyle Schwarber to FA and they are going to be desperate to replace his bat. We're going to be in a bidding war with them most likely, and that's not a bidding war we're going to win. Man, what it would take to have a real owner...
  9. One Regend
    When we headed into this season, I was expecting Otto Lopez to be the only Marlin that actually had Gold Glove potential. Not only was I surprised with our three finalists being guys I never expected to be finalists at all, and the fact Javier Sanoja won at all, but how Otto Lopez wasn't even in the conversation at all. (when he honestly should have been -- moving from a less strenuous position to short full time requires a daunting adjustment period, and he made it look like he's played shotstop for years) Grats Sanoja.
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    I said this on Twitter/X, but the Blue Jays left a metric ton of runners on base the entire night. They had many opportunities to put the game out of reach. They failed to do so. With the amount of scoring opportunities squandered, it was only going to be a matter of time before the Dodgers woke up. And wake up, they did.
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    Nah. For every Thomas White the Marlins drafted, there's about a dozen or so Jacob Berrys. DJ Svihlik's tenure is a failure in every conceivable way and there's no sugarcoating it. He single-handedly costed us our contention window from 2020-2024. We were supposed to be a rising playoff contender. Instead, Bendix, the new GM, had no choice but to press the reset button. We couldn't develop any bats. We had to constantly trade from our prospect pool to get bats, and by the time 2024 came around, we had no talent left.
  12. One Regend
    Unless he works on his secondaries, or he fixes his fastball shape, he's not going to be a closer. He is literally Slider: The Pitcher. His slider is a +2 on Run Value. His non-slider secondaries is -1 on Run Value, and his fastball is by far and away his worst offering at a staggering -6. Having the league's flattest fastball does that. Sure he throws 98+, but that 98+ is nothing but empty velocity. No movement, no extension. Until that changes, he's essentially useless against lefties, and highly predictable against righties.
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    I was saying this all year long about Max Meyer. Mentally, he's not fit for a starting role. You, I, and everyone else saw this when the Marlins piled 6 runs in the first inning and he did nothing with the lead, choked the lead away to a Marlins L. That was the game that permanently cemented him as a relief pitcher in my mind. Never let Meyer start a game again. He's lost that privilege. The SP experiment is over. Let him pitch the rest of his days in Miami in the bullpen, where he belongs.
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    Lmao. The Twins are an unserious franchise. I get that it's going to be a long 2 or 3 years for the Twins and no manager is ever going to make the Twins perform well during that span, but did they even TRY to look for promising candidates? Derek Shelton accomplished nothing with the Pirates (and even contributed to their clubhouse mess) and that's not going to change with the Twins. I would've just picked a rookie first-year manager with a strong work ethic. That would've been a far better answer than Shelton. Also, I literally do not care what Starlyn Caba is doing in the AFL. He can have a 1.000 OBP during AFL and that still wouldn't convince me to believe he can do anything more than play glove at short. If he actually makes a real impact at AA for the full MiLB season, then we can talk about him as a real prospect. Until then, leave him off of Top 15, or hell, Top 20, on the Top 30 Prospect Lists. Is it too early to call PJ Morlando a draft bust? Because I think I've seen enough out of him to not care about what he does from this point forward. He's shown us that his body is made of glass, and when he ISN'T spending time on MiLB IL, his production isn't exactly inspiring much confidence that he'll contribute at the major league level.
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    Braxton has the better track record and is a better overall pitcher than Meyer, who has serious reliever risk. But Garrett missed the entire year to elbow surgery and it's unknown if he'll be the same pitcher as he was pre-surgery. Right now, both of them would bring negligible returns. It won't make sense to trade them in the offseason. Maybe if they prove themselves during the season, you could dangle them at the trade deadline. But that's a major if.
  16. One Regend
    The only way I can see Johnston get a fair shot to prove himself at the major league level is if he gets traded to a rebuilding team that is starved of hitting talent, like the Pirates, or especially the Twins.
  17. One Regend
    We need 3B more than we need Luis Arraez. Ideally, we'd move Agustin to 1B and sign/trade for a 3B. But there isn't a whole lot of 3B choices outside of a washed up Nolan Arenado... and maybe Royce Lewis if the Twins are open to trading him. It does seem like the more likely scenario is signing/trading for 1B and just play out the wheel with Pauley/Norby at 3B again. That said, for 1B, Luis Arraez wouldn't even be my first choice. Nor would he be my 2nd choice. Nor third. He's on a downward trajectory and it may only get worse from here as he ages. This lineup needs power and we already have Xavier Edwards as our go-to light-hitting contact sprayer. Bringing Arraez would be counter-intuitive.
  18. One Regend
    Look, the season is over and we're forced to watch the playoffs from home. What else can we talk about? We could rail the Marlins about all the poor decisions they've made, but at this point we'd be beating a dead horse. Some new discussions are way more healthy for us. It's now the season for trade/FA speculation and this is what we're starting with. Right now, there's no point in ripping into the Marlins. But if they trade Edward Cabrera for, say, another slap-hitting infielder prospect with a good glove/speed and not much else, then everything is fair game. Go nuts.
  19. One Regend
    I don't see the Cardinals pulling the trigger on this trade. What they're getting is, as Hans suggested, 2 prospects that might do something, and 2 AAAA players who have something that keeps them from contributing at the MLB level (hitting velo for Mesa Jr, reliable putaway pitch for Mazur). Not even taking Arenado's contract off their shoulders is going to be enough to get one of the better hitters in Burleson. As for what we're getting back. It's mostly Burleson. Jojo Romero is a 1-year rental, and as for Arenado himself, I think he has maybe one more 110+ wRC+ year left in his aging body. But it's clear he doesn't have much left in the tank and the Cardinals are trying to offload his albatross contract. I don't know if it's worth sending away Andrew Salas. It's true he doesn't have a defensive home, If his arm strength is good enough for SS/CF, they should consider keeping him and groom him as a 3B, as the Marlins don't really have any inspiring in-house options at the hot corner in the farm system, and there's a major dearth of 3B options both on FA and in the trade market. No, DLS doesn't count.
  20. One Regend
    My guess is that James Wood or Kyle Tucker will finish 3rd for the hardware. Kyle Stowers injury will be his undoing.
  21. One Regend
    Absolutely my thoughts. It makes no sense to wait to assess him in Spring Training. Assess him now. And my assessment is he isn't worth protecting. Even if someone takes him via Rule 5, they're not going to hide him on a roster like the Nationals did with Nasim Nunez. And, as I said before, even if a team takes him and did hide him on the roster (I don't know why they would. He doesn't have the defensive versatility, nor the baserunning, that Nunez had.), what are we really losing out on? He's a 5'7 player who doesn't project particularly well, and his power numbers he posted pre-trade aren't sustainable to expect out of him. Again, he's not Jose Altuve. Nobody will be Jose Altuve. That's a unicorn we're talking about and expecting that kind of production is a fool's errand.
  22. One Regend
    I bet Otto Lopez would have made the cut had the Marlins moved him to short sooner instead of sitting through months making us fans suffer the ugly Edwards-at-shortstop experiment. It's rare to see a player be moved to short and thrive. Shortstop is a notoriously difficult position and to see a player move there fulltime and look good while doing so is something the league is missing out on. I don't care that they have a "finalist" that's also done that (Mookie), this deserves to be recognized.
  23. One Regend
    They need to re-evaluate him now. Rule 5 is just around the corner.
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    It's a crapshoot yes, but you're not helping yourself if you ship out a franchise rotation arm and get nothing more than crickets. The Phillies at least tried. I question if Bendix even tried to look elsewhere to seek a better package. Also, it's not the first time the Phillies pulled a fast one on the Marlins. (The JT Realmuto trade is the other time) I'm convinced someone on the Phillies staff has some blackmail on the Marlins.
  25. One Regend
    This is simple. Cut Wagaman, Bellozo, Nardi, Navarreto, Winkler, Serna, Zuber, Soriano, and Tinoco. Protect Mack, White, and Pushard. -Wagaman is the worst 1B in the league and it isn't even close. Platooning him helped, but if you're platooning at a position where production is expected, then you've messed up somewhere. -Bellozo has been dancing through the raindrops his entire 2-year tenure and I'm honestly surprised he hasn't gotten blown up yet. He's a low velo low whiff guy with no spot in the rotation, and his production isn't sustainable. This isn't someone you build a team around. -The Marlins have been strangely quiet about Nardi's rehab progress and it's honestly starting to scare me. There's a chance he may have thrown his last pitch in MLB. -Tinoco is going to miss the entirety of next season and it's questionable if he's going to return to form when he does return from injury, especially not with his inconsistent track record. -Zuber is an unfortunate cut. He's incredibly good at getting hitters to chase pitches out of the zone. That is something to build off of. It's honestly between him and Freddy Tarnok, and I view Tarnok to be more valuable than he is. -I had this to say about Jared Serna earlier in the month: -Navarreto is a Minor League Journeyman. -Who the heck is Jack Winkler? Furthermore, someone mentioned protecting Jacob Berry, and I literally rolled my eyes. Like, come on. I know I wouldn't make the best General Manager. I'm basically a couch GM at best. But be real with yourself. Do you really see a guy, who, by far and away, posted his best season since signing with us, as the face of the franchise after posting a slugging percentage under .400 AS A FIRST BASEMAN? Keeping him on the 40-man roster is a franchise-killing move. Give up on him already. He's a lost cause.
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