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  1. Slacker Mills
    One post wasn't enough to quell my frustration. Bendix old team gets a superior SS for $1.2M while he gifts his new team with a $5M train wreck.
  2. Slacker Mills
    I'd say Bendix created a void, not filled it. Anderson was awful last season. Yep, he's been an All Star ... just like Avisail. Wendle, and Segura had been. What reason is there to believe that Anderson can make up 4.4 WAR differential between Berti and himself last season? Can't think of one.
  3. Slacker Mills
    Berti logged a 2.4 WAR last season, primarily at SS. Anderson put up a -2. Marlins get a whole bunch worse if Anderson is signed and thereby gifted the SS position.
  4. Slacker Mills
    Listening to you fellas chat, I get the impression that you actually want Tim Anderson on the Marlins. How can that be? Last season was the most important of Anderson's career, his free agency contract year. With all the incentive a player could have, he produced a negative 2 WAR. Even Miguel Rojas was worth a positive 1.3! Anderson was Wendle without the glove. Defensively, Anderson is as bad as it gets. Offensively, he was the least productive regular in all of baseball. That's quite the daily double.
  5. Slacker Mills
    Chris Paddack went out the door for the awful Fernando Rodney. And Michael King went to Yankees for Caleb Smith and Cooper.
  6. Slacker Mills
    Press conferences are a total waste of time. The owner and GM said nothing. The exception was yesterday's rare discussion by the pitching coach.
  7. Slacker Mills
    Ely! Flaherty or Perez? For a 5 ERA and 1.48 WHIP, Flaherty got $14M! Perez got $8M for not much better. George Soriano is better than those guys.
  8. Slacker Mills
    Is Tim Anderson a better defensive SS than Jazz??
  9. Slacker Mills
    I feel badly that 1) Bell opted in and will cost so much 2) Avisail Garcia was ever signed 3) Arraez and Cooper haven't been traded to the Red Sox yet. I really can't look at the list of free agents that have been signed around the league and say, "Wow there's a guy the Marlins should have signed."
  10. Slacker Mills
    Low expectations? How about no expectations. Anderson hit just like Segura, Wendle and company last season and his fielding was much worse than any of them. If you are a pitching-focused team, at least put some great gloves on the field to help them out. Things are already bad enough in the infield with Burger, Bell and Arraez.
  11. Slacker Mills
    I misspoke. Rule 5 calls for selected players to be on the major league roster, not just the 40-man. Nonetheless every team passed on him.
  12. Slacker Mills
    I can list 30 teams who do not want Troy on their 40-man roster, let alone their starting lineup. Any one of those teams could have purchased him for pocket change during the Rule 5 Draft. I hope he makes it to The Show and proves everybody wrong.
  13. Slacker Mills
    The tale of the proposed Cabrera trade (Let's face it, the terms were at least close to what the Marlins were willing to accept if the reporter bothered to draft the story!) and the Tim Anderson offer present a very ugly view of what the new front office may do. Anderson doesn't hit for average, has zero power, has slowed down on the bases, and plays a ****** SS. Every tool is missing. You don't pay for what once was.
  14. Slacker Mills
    The Marlins made an offer to Tim Anderson, the least productive offensive player in all of baseball last season? He also supplies sub-standard defense.
  15. Slacker Mills
    We also have to remember that the last two starters we traded proved to be stars the year after. Gallen. Lopez. We don't want to add Cabrera to that list unless we score a big time guy like Noelvi Marte from CINN.
  16. Slacker Mills
    We should remember that Cabrera is just one season removed from having a 1.07 WHIP (and 3.01 ERA) despite a 4.1 walk per nine rate. He's good.
  17. Slacker Mills
    Enough with the Rosario/Anderson talk! Jazz is capable of playing far better SS than either of them and hits a whole lot better. Scouting reports on Jazz touted his defense. All the sudden he was moved to 2B by the Marlins. I've never read anything that actually supports that decision other than that Rojas was seen as a gold glover. Once he left, why didn't Jazz take over?
  18. Slacker Mills
    Of all Marlin pitchers, Cabrera is the one I most look forward to watching. Problems: hitters lay off the fastball because he loses it up and in to right-handed hitters. It has more movement than his change, which is the pitch that opposing hitters are waiting for. It is said that a change should be 8-10 mph slower than the heater. His is certainly not. It is a hit-me avg fastball in effect, a pitch that he has to slow down in order to generate more movement and deception. You don't even consider trading a guy like Cabrera at this point. Out of the question (unless you are getting a Noelvi Marte in return).
  19. Slacker Mills
    An interesting and extremely optimistic discussion. Catching is somehow addressed with Betancourt, a catcher that the Marlins purchased for Rule 5 money ($100K)? The Marlins still need a catcher. Josh Bell still a Marlin? The ups and downs of his career (consistent) tell me the Marlins will regret his opting in. Jazz still in CF? I thought he was great at 2B. I believe he could be a much greater asset still at SS. Was there ever a detailed explanation as to why he can't play the position for which he was acquired for super pitcher Gallen? Burger looks like a solid bat but is a liability defensively at 3B. Gordon and Brujan? Can either one match the production of even Garret Hampson? Does either one have nearly the promise of Xavier Edwards? I'd give that a strong no. My only agreement with the panel is that the pitching is potentially a strength. If any of the top five are traded, that strength takes a hit.
  20. Slacker Mills
    Ely, when do Arraez and Scott get moved, this week or next? I couldn't make a case for keeping either of those two and each could attract a helpful player - which would be two more than the Marlins have obtained thus far.
  21. Slacker Mills
    He would have surely taken a QO, esp. given the fact that a team would have paid him even less if they had to surrender a draft pick. Don't think the Marlins wanted to risk having to pay him over twenty million.
  22. Slacker Mills
    I had no idea that Okert had no trade value whatsoever.
  23. Slacker Mills
    Two for two. Arraez and Scott to Red Sox for Rafaela and Teel. Or Arraez and Scott to Reds for Noelvi Marte and a top twenty prospect from their system.
  24. Slacker Mills
    I'm rooting for your reporter/writer ambition and will chip in with advice when I can. You started this article with two 56- word sentences! You have to be concise and reader friendly.
  25. Slacker Mills
    Honestly, I just can't see any of the proposed deals doing service to the Marlins.
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