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  1. THOMAS JOSEPH
    While he is healthy and playing well. He'd look good in the sea foam green,
  2. THOMAS JOSEPH
    It's good for him to go to work on a longer contract wherever it is - not happening with Miami, we know.
  3. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I would love to see the Orioles in the WS, especially since it means the Yankees won't be. Winning over the Phillies, Braves, or (best of all) the Dodgers would be sweet.
  4. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Love the old-school mentality, a quality possessed by all the greats (and my all-time favorite Expos player, Steve Rogers). There's simply no substitute for this drive.
  5. THOMAS JOSEPH
    This was a fun game to watch - quite welcome. Dare we get greedy and hope for a sweep? Why not! Beef of the game: I mentioned this on X. I don't understand Schumaker's removal of Cabrera (and Tyler, for that matter). How will these guys ever work through roadblock innings? Isn't this the season, with the team 30 games under breakeven, to work on such things? Cabrera's fifth-inning problem, a la Jesus Sanchez's lefty batting struggles, will not improve without playing. Bringing in another righthander, Brazoban, isn't the issue even if it is puzzling. Cabrera was at 90 pitches, not 109. Also, this is not outcome-based, despite the temptation to be fine with the move if no inherited runners scored. The Marlins need to see Cabrera's mettle in overcoming his mid-game blowups and pitch count issues. Period.
  6. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I didn't make a pick this time, but winning the first game is always nice. I also agree with Ely that the middle game with Cabrera feels possible.
  7. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Enjoyed the show. Conner must be elated with the O's prospects in the postseason. Although I am not a fan of the Orioles, I'd love to see them in the WS again and win the title if the Phillies, Braves, or Dodgers are the opposition. The question was asked about the turnaround point for Baltimore. I believe it goes back to parting ways with Davis and his horrendous contract. Turning the page on a monster sunk cost, as the Marlins have done comparatively with Garcia, is coming to terms with reality.
  8. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Gritty performance by Tyler, other than the infuriating Cowser "infield hit" to Bell. Not a fan of Skip's relief choice - why not let Tyler try for his win with two outs in the 5th? Hoeing did the job, which vindicates the decision, but only one out, and another pitcher is burned. The game ended up as another five-pitcher outing. It's more than evaluation versus record, it's bullpen management and the perfect opportunity for a learning experience with reward ramifications for Tyler, not a no-decision. Glad to see the Marlins put the ball in play with runners on and no outs for runs - the sacrifice fly and the RBI grounder are good signs of situational hitting. Lastly, I hope the Mariners are watching. Chisholm will look good in the sea foam green.
  9. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Peterson is tough. The Marlins need to execute a game plan that runs up his pitch count combined with a competitive effort from Chirinos. Winning this wrap-around series would be sweet and kick the Mets back into more uncertainty regarding their trade deadline status. It's encouraging that Lopez is at shortstop, as you suggested on many occasions. This is an evaluative season. I saw Bell was among the league leaders in outs produced. I am more and more convinced that you are also correct that there is little or no interest in Bell, especially with the salary onus. I want to be positive towards Rogers, but his pitch counts are as frustrating as can be. A hundred pitches in less than five innings regularly means Rogers doesn't have or trust his stuff or physically cannot throw a strike on demand, no? It's easy to be simplistic, granted, however, with baseball's anemic offense this year, isn't it more appropriate than ever to pitch to contact and reduce the average number of pitches per batter? Jeff Nelson mentioned this exact issue as a killer for Rogers. BABIP league average is still seven outs to three hits - and it's the Mets, not the Dodgers or Phillies. I'd much rather see a ringing hit or two than suffer through a Cabrera-like five-walk blowup inning or the stereotypical Rogers game.
  10. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Yes. The playoffs slot races and series are now compacted into the last three months (maximum). Even with durability issues, he's had his IL stretch for the season.
  11. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Oh, for sure, it is a perpetual. I suppose there is a computer program out there that determines MLB-ascension percentages from the draft, probably broken down by each draft slot, HS/college, etc. Team success rates - draftees reaching MLB - are still skewed by length of service, trade implications, and other factors. The overall draft percentage isn't helpful as most of the picks are fillers, despite the anecdotal Piazza stories. As Tommy Hutton said on the air yesterday, baseball is quite different than the other sports in this regard. I venture that draft successes on the whole are akin to the ,300 batting average bar.
  12. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Love the "hidden no-hitter" insight. He has been machine-like - just amazing.
  13. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Does anyone else find it ridiculous that HS players receive a higher bonus than fifty to sixty percent of the Marlins' current active roster contracts. This is another systemic absurdity as many of these young guys historically will never see major leagues or have any tenure of note. But, then again, it is MLB. Truly, "fugazi" a la Matthew McConaughey's spiel in "Wolf of Wall Street."
  14. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Tough loss, especially for a team so desperate for quality starts. The top of the order's LOB numbers stink.
  15. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Modern players want more involvement in transaction discussions and team development, as David Samson says, but it is grudgingly given. There's not much leverage. Players on poor-record teams might hope for a chance at a playoff team, but it's the big fish/little pond (sorry for the multi-level pun) syndrome. Rojas to the Dodgers, for example, means opportunities for the playoffs, along with much quicker DFAs because LA doesn't sweat the sunk payroll costs like Miami must. I always think about the scene from "Moneyball," in which Billy Beane tells Peter Brandt that professional players understand about trades. Be short and to the point when the time comes. It's not optional other than to retire. As with every business, someone unable to manage standard industry processes might consider alternatives before new careers are involuntarily thrust upon them anyway.
  16. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I had him on my list of five players on the Miami active roster who will be traded because there is value/low risk at $1.3m and an arb year,
  17. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Looking forward to seeing the young trade replacements for the last two months of the season.
  18. THOMAS JOSEPH
    He has rebounded nicely.
  19. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Despite all sources, talking heads, and the like, I believe Marlins fans must give Bendix and his team a chance to implement his strategy. It makes no sense to put this fellow in charge, someone who obviously has a strategy for the long-term competitiveness of the team, and then allow him no slack when he implements the plan - the details of which we are not privy, to note the obvious. We are also unable to assess the financial implications year over year with any certainty. Unlike the government, with competing worldviews, there is one in the Miami organization now that will prove itself fruitful or erroneous over the next few years.
  20. THOMAS JOSEPH
    I attended the three-game series in Cincinnati and talked to many Reds fans. Most have high hopes that the team has put together a young core group that can compete in their division. It's interesting to me that I hear the same issues that Marlins fans ascribe to the Sherman ownership group - unwillingness to spend, etc. Of course, the last Reds WS title was before the Marlins were created. Most fans, like their Marlins compatriots, do not connect to the previous championships. I grew up watching the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati (as an Expos fan) but most people I spoke with had no direct interaction with those great days in Reds history. My point: fans are the same all over. High-income team fans are never satisfied either, which is why I love to pester Dodger fans. They boil when I mention it has been over 35 years and billions of dollars since there was a genuine Dodger championship. So much fun!
  21. THOMAS JOSEPH
    The unfolding of the Bendix program is fascinating. We will see how smart he and his associates are. I suspect that the baseball powers hope Bendix fails thus creating another Rays-esque competition machine outside their traditional (high-priced) mechanism. It is vital for long-term baseball sustainability that some alternative strategies succeed in countering systemic inequities.
  22. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Excellent career.
  23. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Ugh. This game was certainly winnable. Games like this and the first game of the White Sox series, to mention recent ones, alternately give me hope and add to the despair. The Marlins can be competitive faster with a few positional upgrades and the healthy starting staff already under team control. On the other hand, the team's chronic issues are not easily solved. David Samson addresses these - which we all know. These issues are intertwined with baseball's systemic problems. So, I conclude that the Bendix strategy truly is the only realistic way to long-term competitiveness. If management is competent, it can work as it has elsewhere for those teams that a) recognize their structural limitations, and b) properly manipulate assets. The methodical/disciplined and (to some fans) a bit ruthless approach to player management, combined with competent personnel up and down the organization, must be pursued.
  24. THOMAS JOSEPH
    We all know that player development is a crapshoot, to use the vernacular. Besides a few outliers, baseball requires considerable refinement before competing at the top levels. This doesn't demean or diminish coaching or other improvement expertise - it simply recognizes the complexity of the process. Accordingly, a case like Berry's seems outside the organic growth one expects. Still. there are plenty of anecdotes of later development at the MLB level; not all are pitchers. Some hitters defy the natural curve, and everyone screams about it. A case in point is the current J.J. Bleday situation. It happens. On the other side is the tendency to demote someone as a guru, for example, Mel Stottlemyre, Jr., for many Marlins fans. He certainly has successes, yet we see little year-over-year improvement with players like Eddy Cabrera, who is generally recognized as loaded with natural talent. It's a crapshoot!
  25. THOMAS JOSEPH
    Marlins win the series, 2 games to 1. Jazz Chisholm, Jr. Is series MVP.
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