Rob V

Remember Javier Sonoja is just 24 yrs old and has been up in the majors for 2 seasons now. He's already won a gold glove and in 2026 he batted .295 with 11 Hrs, 69 Rbis and a 115 wRC+ along with 3.3 War in only his 3rd major league season and first as a starter. I think comparisons to Altuve are on point and as he continues to mature and add muscle to his already strong small frame. His power numbers should continue to increase as he becomes better, especially in those hitter friendly ballparks on the road. We have a keeper here, extend that man before the Dodgers sign him and make him their next Kike!

Trade X-Man for something good that helps us now (3B, SP, 1B) and let Javy Sanoja (our Jose Altuve) man 2B everyday for us going forward. He's shown he has more pop than X, is the better fielder with more range and just has that winning attitude we have seen in Altuve during his long run at the top. We've had too many infielders playing out of position at 3B and 1B and need to trim the fat there going forward. Norby, Jimenez and Morel are now gone due to not hitting a lick while Ex-Yankee Jared Serna (Jazz Trade) looks promising with the bat and glove as a backup for SS and 2B. De la Santos, unless he starts hitting bombs vs MLB Pitching like Bert and Conine, is probably not the answer at 1B for us to compete for the Playoffs in 2027. I would play Conine in RF everyday and drop Caissee to a platoon/back-up role due to his constant poor swing selection and too many K's. He stranded way too many guys at 3rd base with less than 2 outs to be an everyday player and must improve his hitting much like Bert did. Joe Mack is a keeper and a future extension candidate imo as we now know how hard it is to replace a JT Realmuto type of catcher. It took us all the way until now to find a comparable replacement for him after the Phils took us to the cleaners on that one, making injured Sixto Sanchez the centerpiece of what came back to us. Keep Bert, Marsee and Conine in the OF all starting everyday and slide Stowers back to 1B for his bat and backup OF along with Caissee as we all know injuries do happen and things can change quickly. Keep Gus at back-up C/DH and Navarro as back-up catcher/mentor as he's a great guy to have in the clubhouse. Starting Pitching needs some depth and we should have the young prospects returning from injuries and free agent and trade options as well. Our 2025 MVP Relief Pitcher Ronnie Heriquez will be returning from TJ surgery fully rested in 2027. He's better than all of the other relievers we used in 2026 so that's a huge addition for us without a trade. On a side note, Tampa Bay is looking like they're about to do some damage in the Playoffs after finishing in 1st place and hopefully that's where we're headed in the future.

Trade X-Man for something good that helps us now (3B, SP, 1B) and let Javy Sanoja (our Jose Altuve) man 2B everyday for us going forward. He's shown he has more pop than X, is the better fielder with more range and just has that winning attitude we have seen in Altuve during his long run at the top. We've had too many infielders playing out of position at 3B and 1B and need to trim the fat there going forward. Norby, Jimenez and Morel are now gone due to not hitting a lick while Ex-Yankee Jared Serna (Jazz Trade) looks promising with the bat and glove as a backup for SS and 2B. De la Santos, unless he starts hitting bombs vs MLB Pitching like Bert and Conine, is probably not the answer at 1B for us to compete for the Playoffs in 2027. I would play Conine in RF everyday and drop Caissee to a platoon/back-up role due to his constant poor swing selection and too many K's. He stranded way too many guys at 3rd base with less than 2 outs to be an everyday player and must improve his hitting much like Bert did. Joe Mack is a keeper and a future extension candidate imo as we now know how hard it is to replace a JT Realmuto type of catcher. It took us all the way until now to find a comparable replacement for him after the Phils took us to the cleaners on that one, making injured Sixto Sanchez the centerpiece of what came back to us. Keep Bert, Marsee and Conine in the OF all starting everyday and slide Stowers back to 1B for his bat and backup OF along with Caissee as we all know injuries do happen and things can change quickly. Keep Gus at back-up C/DH and Navarro as back-up catcher/mentor as he's a great guy to have in the clubhouse. Starting Pitching needs some depth and we should have the young prospects returning from injuries and free agent and trade options as well. Our 2025 MVP Relief Pitcher Ronnie Heriquez will be returning from TJ surgery fully rested in 2027. He's better than all of the other relievers we used in 2026 so that's a huge addition for us without a trade. On a side note, Tampa Bay is looking like they're about to do some damage in the Playoffs after finishing in 1st place and hopefully that's where we're headed in the future.

The Great Jose Fernandez was 29-2 with a 1.49 Era lifetime at Loan Depot Park!

"Do think he would have been the first Marlin to spend his whole career with the Marlins?" They had tried to sign Jose to the same team friendly contract they gave to Sandy later, somewhere in the 50M+ range and 5 years. He was advised by Scott Boras (who was looking for 100M+) to turn it down a couple of years before free agency and he did. This advice by Boras hurt his family tremendously as he only had about 5M in assets when he died which included a 1M insurance policy taken out by Boras in case of tragedy, something he does for his clients when telling them to wait for their free agency year to sign. I do believe the Fish would have extended themselves financially and signed Jose eventually mainly because he wanted to stay in Miami. They loved him and he loved it in SoFL and would have taken less money to stay. Loria sold the team shortly after his death mainly because the Fish knew they had a chance if they reached the playoffs with an Ace like Jose to carry them (remember Beckett) but would suffer a catastrophic drop down to mediocrity and not sniff the playoffs for many years if they lost him forever. Loria couldn't stomach another rebuild or going on without his favorite player Jose and sold the team to Sherman shortly thereafter for a huge profit and hasn't been seen since. RIP Jose, we all made mistakes in our youth but weren't a millionaire like you. Money and so-called friends who steer you to the dark side always make growing up harder, especially with your young human brain. To me you are a Marlins Legend and would have taken us back to the WS one day and probably won the MVP too! Great memories of seeing you pitch in person and also of you laughing with all the other stars in the game. RIP Brother, you are a Miami Marlin 4 Ever! 🙏😢 ⚾️

Why is it we didn't make the Playoffs in 2026? We traded Ryan Weathers and Edward Cabrera and got Owen Caisee striking out 37% of the time. He's not even as good as homegrown Griffin Conine who was no higher than a mid tier prospect for us and he was advertised as being the Cubs top #1 prospect? His numbers do not impress me this year after all the hype that was bestowed on him. Any of our top prospects could have done the same or better with all those reps he got up at the big leagues. Eury Perez a huge disappointment and not a #2 pitcher with his lack of command of his pitches, just a terrible year and no help to the team for the most part, just multiple failures. I saw way too much on $99 Marlins TV of Jansen Junk, Ryan Gusto and Tyler Phillips the 2nd half and their starts doomed us as the skipper had no confidence in any of them to go past the 4th inning! X-Man did a freefall the 2nd half and all of his game suffered. Wasting our time on Morell at 1B was a blunder and Connor Norby and Graham Pauley failing at 3B and at the plate was another with Norby finally being shipped away in the middle of the night to the Rockies where he could flourish with his fly ball swing. Going with Gus Ramirez at catcher over Joe Mack out of Spring Training was a big mistake as was not realizing Heriberto Hernandez was an everyday player for us from the get go and not in July! Losing Griffin Conine for the 1st half to that freak hamstring surgery cost us many games as well, the way he's swung the axe this year. Max Meyer going down with a season ending injury again in July has me thinking we should trade him and let some other team wait for his potential and him to stay healthy. Kyle Stowers hamstring injuries carrying on from opening day to the end of the season likely cost us another 5 wins or so with all his time missed and not having his legs nowhere near 100% for the most part and his stats dropping big-time. Javier Sanoja a huge bright spot for us and he's our Jose Altuve for sure! Let's make him our everyday 2nd baseman and deal X-man for a 3B or SP. Keep Jakob Marsee in CF, the kid has finally found his groove again going forward. The Front Office whiffed on their off-season acquisitions and have to shoulder the blame for choosing Fairbanks as our closer then losing most of our starting rotation to injury this year after trading away our surplus in pitching and signing SP Chris Paddock who had nothing and was DFA'd early due to being shelled nightly. Trading Liam Hicks for a bag of peanuts when he was a solid hitter was a mistake too. Lots of rallies fell short after Hicks was gone. I also felt that they let most of our prospects waste away in the minors while the big league club was in chaos due to injuries but still hanging in the fight. Just disappointed Miami doesn't get any home playoff games again with a WBC type of atmosphere. Hopefully a minimum and maximum salary cap is agreed to and we get a better mix of talent here in the future of young and veteran stars to take us to the next level.

Jose Fernandez "Marlins Goat" RIP Hermano Siempre 🙏

Noble Meyer, Robby Snelling, Thomas White (awaiting surgery?) Andrew Nardi, Max Meyer, Ronnie Henriquez, Anthony Bender, Eury Perez, Sandy Alcantara, Braxton Garrett, Sixto Sanchez, Jose Fernandez. *Honorable Mention Edward Cabrera-No surgery but months on the IL in numerous years battling most likely partial tears. Here's some I remember falling under the knife and losing 1+ years due to surgery. Do you remember any others? Is this just a coincidence or is the Marlins Organization doing something extremely wrong in the beginning stages of training their young pitchers? Are they responsible for all this young talent falling by the wayside, many even before reaching the big leagues. Weighted balls are very controversial, might this be the simple reason along with spinning the ball on almost all the pitches? What's your take on this?

21 year old 2023 1st Rd Pick Noble Meyer has undergone TJ Surgery in late August and will be lost for all of 2027. He was on the IL for a shoulder strain since the end of Spring Training, where he wasn't even given an invite after a lost 2025 being injured and not producing in Single A. The last of the Jeter Picks at 10th overall, his velocity dropped big-time to the low 90's in 2025 indicating something might be internally wrong. My guess is possibly a future reliever here but not gonna live up to his previous hype as a Frontline Starting Pitcher. What's your opinion on what seems to be another Jeter misfire?

All of those above names plus others didn't need 3+ years to develop in the minors. I remember the Fish losing 2 starting pitchers just before opening day one year and bringing up a young kid named Jose Fernandez from Double-A to fill one of those spots and he never looked back! Marcella Ozuna was another who skipped AAA and was promoted from AA where he was tearing it up. He continued to tear it up in the big leagues and was never demoted. Harper and Soto both at age 19 were showing they belonged in the show, we might have one here in Santiago Solarte! Keep your eyes 👀 on this kid.

Fish bounce back once again and sweep Nats 3-0 riding on MVP Conine's shoulders!

I think we should rush this young phenom to the majors by let's say 19 years old just like Soto, Harper, Acuna, Elly De La Cruz and O'Neil Cruz were fast tracked. This is a kid playing amongst men but he is different than the rest of his peers at his level, just like the above mentioned stars were! 🌟 I liked this signing from the get go after reading about this kids skillset and huge upside and his domination in the Dom Rep Summer League only gets me more excited for his future promotion to the show!

Fish can't win or hit in Philadelphia, Phillies Sweep 3-0. Christopher Sanchez MVP 🫤

Hicks bat is being replaced by Joe Mack, Gus Ramirez and Griffin Conine along with Mack's great defense. We look fine going forward as these 3 are all in the line-up now raking balls everywhere while contributing to some important wins for us. Hicks had the same troubles as Gus had in not being able to throw out runners at the league average or above it plus he was slow of foot on the bases. Loved seeing his improvement at the plate but Mack beat him out at catcher and he got caught in the numbers game shortly after.

So happy to see Gus finally called up and driving the bus again! Agree playing catcher was very hard for him and just happy to have his dangerous bat in the line-up again at DH or 1B where he did play at for the Yankees Farm System about 20 times they say. He's definitely put that early slump behind him and ready to rock and roll like Heriberto has since his recall much earlier. Look at Bert now, carrying us along with Conine. Love seeing the improvement these guys are showing!