Miami Marlins 2016 (Jose Fernandez RIP 9/25/16)

Only 60 hits left for Ichiro to get to 3000, will HBO make a documentary? Nah.

Also, we will see a lot of this over the season I'm sure: http://www.sbnation.com/2016/4/19/11460600/christian-yelich-barry-bonds

I hope one day Barry gets a ring as a coach/manager, won't happen with these .333 Marlins.

During the weekend MIA series, the ATL booth seemed dubious that Ichiro would get enough ABs to get to 3000 this year. Sounded like a gallon of haterade to me -- esp since he came in in the 6th and had 2 hits that game.

he's batting second and starting in center tonight! and threw a dude out at third!

Steve Cishet

k8's least favourite reliever

9-1 in their last 10!

Welcome to the Marlins organization, Joe Beimel.

stanton watch
0 for last 18abs / 16ks

May: .162/.278/.338

David Schoenfield
Giancarlo Stanton, mired in a terrible slump in May, has swung and missed on 40.4 percent of swings on the season. In our database going back to 2009, that's the highest rate for a regular player. Even Mark Reynolds hasn't hit that percentage.

Ichiro has ten hits in his last three games and is hitting .417. This 3000 hits thing is actually going to happen (40 hits to go).

ichiro is 2-3 tonight with two BB, 3 runs scored. 24 hits to 3,000.

"It sounds like in Japan, they're trying to make me the Hit Queen," Rose told USA Today Sports. "I'm not trying to take anything away from Ichiro -- he's had a Hall of Fame career -- but the next thing you know, they'll be counting his high school hits.

http://thesportsfanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pete-rose-opening-day.png

i am a monster now for considering the Japan league a step below mlb?

no. it is.

Ichiro goin too fast -- much as i dislike countingt-stat landmarks, was hoping to catch #3000 in Miami on July 29.

Pete Rose go to MFin' hell

that pete photo is so good

The part about high school hits is hysterical. Poor guy.

what would young Ichiro have been like in MLB?

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=29540

the fish pen throws some gas

I turned their game on just in time to see Stanton's last AB -- "hey, he's not wearing the helmet with the face guard anymhooooly fuck he knocked the shit out of that one"

and here he comes w/ 2 on

and good night

there's still the Fish bullpen tho

damn crushed

Crushed another, with the face guard this time. I wonder why he's jumping back and forth between using it and not using it.

I think vs lefties he doesn't wear it

I had a feeling hed hit the mets hard this series

i was annoyed that ichiro was not playing when i went to the mets game last night wtf ichiro

there's still the Fish bullpen tho

― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 5, 2016 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

the bullpen is really good this year monday not withstanding

ichiro 3-4 today with a double and a SB, six hits shy of 3k now

Is he getting a lot of playing time right now? I wonder if they'll hold him out the next 4 games so he gets to 3000 at home.

Is he getting a lot of playing time right now? I wonder if they'll hold him out the next 4 games so he gets to 3000 at home.

― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, July 17, 2016 6:46 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

he gets like 1-2 starts per week and with justin bour on the DL is the top lefty bat off the bench rn

jose fernandez, 14 ks in 6.1 innings today.

had 10 thru 4 but he tapered off, and he wasn't even pitching that well early on by his standards

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/17105389/miami-marlins-ichiro-suzuki-approaches-3000th-major-league-hit

thought this revive was gonna be about the possible christian yelich's loving rimjob

haven't scored in 19 innings.

Ichiro still on 2996, might see the big one Friday after all.

1-for-5

2997

don kelly has hit his eighth and ninth career triples today

so wait maybe Mattingly is a good manager

Ichiro DNP

don kelly watch

don kelly has been designated for assignment

lmao

Ichiro 2998

starting tonight, so excited to witness possible Counting Stats event

oh hush you will watch and be excited

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoipRVkUkAIH0JN.jpg:small

everyone loves Ichiro tho.

starting tonight, so excited to witness possible Counting Stats event

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 29, 2016 10:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the marlins broadcast showed a clip of jeff conine at the SABR convention

or as the irritating Dave Van Horne called him, 'Niner'

Ozzie Guillen revealed that Jack McKeon calls him "mira mira"

at least morbs is being spared the counting-stats horror

Kind of a messy game, but Ichiro threw out a runner at home which made for a pretty good night.

The Marlins Park PA pumped out maybe the most godawful musical sewage i've heard at a major-league game. I can only imagine what the clubs are like down here.

Besides Mattingly and Barry!, we got pregame talks from Andre Dawson and Tony Perez. And saw the Red Grooms thing go off.

aww

wait, how are you posting this?

I bring my laptop when i travel, u clown ;)

Eduardo Perez asked his dad (for our benefit) how you drive in runs, and i said under my breath "Hit behind Rose, Morgan and Bench"

hmmm well i'm glad you've had a pretty good night

ugly

Congrats Ichiro -- would have been funny if it had gone out.

I'm bored out of my skull right now, so I tried to name all 30. Got 27; put down two incorrect names; of the three I missed, one is really embarrassing, one moderately, and the other would probably be a common miss.

my watch has ended

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI1OG_lhjDJ/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cpr8oqlXYAAcPAW.jpg

robert andino back! first mlb ab in 3 yrs

tough to be facing chris sale

2003 nostalgists may enjoy this panel. I can't give you the timestamp, but McKeon tells a tall story about using a clothesline to rein in a baserunner when he was managing the Missoula Timberjacks in the '50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BER9g4Lm6eI&feature=youtu.be

oh hell... try this

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-46-2003-marlins-championship-panel

i am skeptical

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/marlins-exec-says-giancarlo-stanton-is-going-to-be-back-late-this-season/

@clarkspencer
Sadly, I can confirm that Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident.

Terrible. "I'm glad I saw him pitch" doesn't cover it.

today's game vs Atlanta is cancelled.

@pgammo
A third of the way through writing why Jose Fernandez is the best pitcher in the game in 2016, I got the news...God bless his grandmother...

@pgammo
and everyone in his intrepid, great family

Awful. This is tough to process.

Fernandez was killed Sunday morning after a boat crash in Miami Beach, the team announced.

The 24-year-old Fernandez was one of at least three people killed in the early morning collision. He announced on Instagram recently that he and his girlfriend were expecting a child, Local 10 reported.

Chief Petty Officer Nyxolyno Cangemi told The Associated Press that a Coast Guard patrol boat spotted an overturned boat at 3:30 a.m. on a jetty near Government Cut. The bodies were discovered a short time later.

Because the boat was on a jetty, the Coast Guard notified Miami-Dade police, which turned the investigation over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Fernandez was on a 32-foot vessel that had a "severe impact" with a jetty, said Lorenzo Veloz of the Fish Commission. A news conference was planned for later Sunday morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/09/25/marlins-pitcher-jose-fernandez-2-others-killed-in-miami-boat-crash.html

Ugh. RIP. :(

Can't think of anybody in any professional sport who was this dominant and died this young. Len Bias, the college basketball player, is the only name that comes to mind.

no no no no no no no

FUCK

This is terrible.

So awful

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtNd0wvWEAAITlf.jpg

I am unable to process this. RIP.

press conference with the whole team on ESPNnews now

girlfriend announced pregnancy last week :/

i'm so happy that i watched his last start. and he was dominant -- according to fangraphs' version of game score, it was the best start of his career. 8 IP, 12 Ks, 3H, 0 BB

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=11530&position=P&type=0&gds=&gde=&season=all

http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tulojose.gif

After Kershaw, I'm not sure there was a better pitcher in baseball. Who knows what kind of career he could have gone on to have.

Very sad news. Rest in peace.

horrible, horrible. rip.

Really devastating. Reminds me of nick adenhart of the angels not so long ago

RIP -- terrible news.

this is just awful. what a talent, what a character. should have been one of the greats.

http://m.mlb.com/assets/images/8/6/4/184414864/cuts/DiazLittleLeague1280_0hzgnvt4_hsuzv7b2.jpg

Jose Fernandez, front row, third from the right in the yellow hat. (His good friend Aledmys Diaz also in the front row, wearing a red hat)

That infamous GIF above is so good because you can just tell how well liked and respected Fernandez was, even when he was trouncing people. He will be missed.

this is so fucking unfair

i can't remember ever being this upset about a celebrity death

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/jose-fernandezs-final-pitch-is-as-perfect-as-it-is-painful-092516

i've been unable to process this all day, i just can't comprehend it

Casey McGehee and Fernandez were teammates in Miami in 2014 and half of 2015. The news hit him every bit as hard as it hit Iglesias. Fernandez formed a special bond with McGehee’s son Mack, who has cerebral palsy.

“The toughest part for me is having to tell my son what happened,” McGehee said. “A lot of people, they don’t really know how to treat Mack. For some reason, Jose had a heart for him. You get to the field, and it wasn’t like ‘Hey, Jose, do you want to keep an eye on him?’ Jose would come and grab him, and they were together from the time they got on the field to the time my wife came to pick him up.

“I think that really says a lot about what was truly in his heart, and what kind of guy he was.”

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/09/25/iglesias-tigers-grief-stricken-over-death-jose-fernandez/91080104/

joe posnanski's obit of sorts
http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/jose-fernandez-remembrance/

jay jaffe
http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/25/jose-fernandez-miami-marlins-death

this is so very sad, RIP.

guess I'm going to be sobbing all day today too
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/i-cant-wait-to-tell-my-son-about-jose-fernandez/

good one from j0rd
http://deadspin.com/jose-fernandez-was-why-we-watch-sports-1787072922

this is the worst, really. he was imo on the cusp of becoming better than kershaw and reeling off some kind of ridiculous pedro level of dominance over the next 7-8 years.

yup. you ask what pitcher you would want on your team and after Kershaw it is (was) Fernandez without any hesitation, in my mind.

great piece from jordan

@clarkspencer
In honor of Jose Fernandez, all Marlins players will wear his No. 16 tonight against the Mets.

good one, J

that fireworks photo in the fangraphs piece is just perfect. it's beautiful.

thanks guys

gonna be a tough one to watch tonight

that fireworks photo on fangraphs is really wrenching

i can't stop thinking about dee gordon out by the mound by himself yesterday https://twitter.com/AFFerrer_/status/780077228285505536

http://m.mlb.com/images/3/5/6/188728356/070816_cinmia_jose_fernandez_LO_xh1eq1ih.gif

i didn't get around to this my piece but i always felt like... a certain urgency in watching jose. given his past TJ surgery and the sheer explosion of all his pitches i couldn't help but think about his elbow snapping again, even when he was in the midst of mowing some team down. watching him was like 98% exhilaration and 2% fear that it would all just be taken away again, maybe this time for good, but obviously his fucking death just does not feel real in any way shape or form.

i got to see him earlier this season vs the tigers from two rows behind home plate. he had one of those weird games where he was practically unhittable but when he did get touched the ball went a long way. he struck out 13 in 5.2 innings but also gave up 5 ER--i think it was the only time a loss went onto his record in a home start. needless to say, seeing him from that close, i literally have no idea how anyone ever got a hit off him, his breaking pitches seemed inconceivable

As soon as Waltz's voice started trembling, man...

Juan Pierre in the crowd with his son.

This game is going to make us tear up every other pitch, huh?

p much, the effect of seeing his jerz on every player is like a weird bittersweet being john malkovich reality

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/203512406/marlins-dee-gordon-honors-fernandez-homers/

i'm crying uncontrollably

unbelievable

yeah that was just unreal

Wow.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article104329251.html

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/jose-fernandez-miami-marlins-baseballs-checkbook-bag-crash

not sure why i'm doing this to myself, but i'm watching the pre-game and 1st inning on mlb.tv now. it was blacked out for me last night.

:'(

Jeff Passan:

This sounded bad. Bernal had ridden on a boat at night once, and it was terrifying. Not just the darkness, but the choppy waves from the rain earlier in the day and the threat of other boats and the objects obscured by the night.

“I told him it was a horrible idea,” Bernal said. “Do everything you can to get him off the boat. Do whatever you can to get him on land.”

... After Saturday’s game, Fernandez had asked a number of teammates to join him on the boat. One by one, they declined. And there they were Monday, back in uniform, the uniform he was supposed to be wearing, too, thinking that if not for the instinct that told them to say no, it could’ve been them.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-tragic-final-night-of-jose-fernandezs-life-023645408.html

bonds supposedly out as marlins hitting coach

the marlins have exercised their 2017 option on ichiro suzuki

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/10/13/must-click-link-chris-johnson-on-jose-fernandez-he-changed-me

aw thats great

supposedly loria has a 'handshake agreement' to sell the marlins

rumors going around that the buyer is charles kushner loooool

I can't believe it's only been like 4 months since Fernandez died. Feels like it's been ages...

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4vg7kaWYAA6r9z.jpg

https://twitter.com/darenw/status/841698434637811716

http://deadspin.com/report-jeb-and-jeets-team-up-to-make-bid-for-marlins-1794465949

yeah jeets

please clap

http://deadspin.com/reports-jeb-and-jeets-got-the-marlins-1794640432

yeah jeets

i have already seen the "well, neither could go to their left" joke

Jeb out! love to hear tapes of the 'dispute'

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/05/30/jeb-bush-out-miami-marlins-sale/

Public funding for Marlins Park has been a disaster. Who could have seen that coming? (Everyone.) https://t.co/pHoTT594Bb

— keithlaw (@keithlaw) July 5, 2017

I'm sure many of you caught this already

It's almost unheard of for professional sports teams to sue their own fans. Leave it to Loria to change that. https://t.co/lhlMTjga0T

— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) July 10, 2017

fernandez would have been 25 today

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-marlins/fl-sp-jose-fernandez-birthday-25-story.html

The photo with his daughter touching a picture of her dad (scroll down) is really something.

Schoenfield, espn:

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has reportedly agreed to sell the team to a group led by New York businessman Bruce Sherman and some guy named Derek Jeter.

He also reports that Jeter will be running the day to day operations of the team??

paychecks delivered via gift basket

will the home run sculpture survive the ownership change

Stanton's got 21 in 33 games by my count--gotta be one of the best stretches ever. Found a 24-in-32 stretch for Bonds in 2001, and I'm sure he had a couple more like that at some point that season. McGwire in '98, too, maybe Sosa.

another one tonight, #43

10 in the last 11, 22 in 34 games

Chasing Maris, if you think that's worth anything. (I recall a similar watch for Ryan Howard in 2006.)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/giancarlo-stanton-will-need-to-slug-like-barry-bonds-to-beat-roger-maris/

ha, i do! hey, i'm not an enemy of all counting stats :)

I meant more the idea that there's two HR records, the official one and an unofficial one. (Which is inherently ironic in that Maris went through exactly the same thing for different reasons.)

he's chasing the steroid record (because the ball is on steroids)

will the home run sculpture survive the ownership change

Before the #liberals find a reason to deface, destroy or degrade this one, I thought some of you might like to see it one more time... pic.twitter.com/Va0OUsWliS

— Grant Brisbee (@mccoveychron) August 15, 2017

another one tonight!

anotherone.gif

THE THING IS SAFE (I guess)

http://deadspin.com/miami-dade-county-to-derek-jeter-you-cannot-move-home-1797958928

#45 for Stanton.

Marlins pull one out in Philly, Stanton hits 47th

Whoa! #48 and #49 first two times up tonight.

the Marlins still have 35 games to go

in his last 35 games he's had 21 HR

i think he's on pace for 13 or 14 more HRs, if he played each of those 35 games

Marcell Ozuna getting slept on a bit, but he just hit his 30th tonight and cleared 100 RBI.

remember when the marlins were going to trade ozuna because loria didn't like him

Stanton is 3-3 with a double and #50. He's obviously overtaken Goldschmidt (and hurt Harper) for MVP favourite.

"obviously"

for the sabe-inclined, Harper is the 4th MVP candidate on his team

Jesus, you need everything explained. When I post stuff like that, I'm commenting on what would happen, not expressing a personal opinion. If today were the last day of the season, Stanton would win and Goldschmidt would finish second; if you think Rendon or Gonzalez actually would finish ahead of Harper, that's silly.

Why don't you go make some more flood jokes.

i think the BBWAA membership might be getting smarter a little faster than you think

as the Marlins would not make the tournament and Stanton wd have 50 hr, no, he would not win.

i do think Stanton will win that doorstop if he hits 60, if that helps you sleep tonight on your Mrs Robinson pillow.

i think stanton would win if voting were held today too. btw he's more or less tied for the NL lead in WAR by fangraphs and B-R and is lapping the field by baseball prospectus

i became convinced over the lsat week that he's gonna win

the marlins have more good hitters than most people realize but the team is hysterical right now... the rotation is like sub-AAA and they're playing guys like mike aviles and tyler moore pretty much every day. he's leading the majors in the WAR over the second half for a team that should prob be nowhere near the playoff discussion in its current state. i think he has a great case.

also been thinking about this article from the offseason. this sorta stuff is everywhere preseason of course, nonetheless... http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18898859/to-grieve-jose-fernandez-death-miami-marlins-giancarlo-stanton-took-life-changing-journey

There has been something different about him this spring, though, that has struck those around him. His team's president of baseball operations, Michael Hill, went so far as to punctuate his review of the 2017 edition of Giancarlo Stanton with three attention-getting letters: M-V-P.

"You'd be smart [to pick him]," Hill says. "There's a focus there that makes you really excited."

Today is Monday, August 28. Let’s go back to May 28 — that’s a nice, clean, even three months. Who’s been the best team in baseball over the past three months? That’s easy. The Dodgers. Everyone knows that. Who’s been the second-best team in baseball over the past three months? That’s less easy.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/here-come-the-marlins-somehow/

51

do they often bat Stanton 2nd?

also he just missed a second tonight, a long sac fly again off Edwin Jackson, which I guess isn't as big an Asterisk Argument as the juiced ball.

As of right now, I would vote for Rendon.

Phil: If Stanton reaches 60+ homers and 7+ WAR, he the likely MVP even if the Marlins don’t reach the playoffs?

Dave Cameron: I don’t know. He’d get votes, but I could still see there being enough “has to be on a winning team” voters combining with “homers aren’t everything” voters to give it to someone else.

apparently the new ownership group's first priority is . . . to dramatically slash payroll

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article171093362.html

54

56 now, with ten games to go. including three at Coors and three at Chase.

pitchers on the verge of history

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-marlins-have-something-to-avoid/

Derek Jeter doesn’t even own the Marlins yet, but he already has informed the team that he plans to fire two special assistants who are in Baseball’s Hall of Fame (Andre Dawson and Tony Perez), the manager who led them to the 2003 World Series championship (Jack McKeon) and the player known as Mr. Marlin (Jeff Conine), according to two MLB sources.

And here’s the twist: Jeter asked Marlins president David Samson to fire those four Marlins luminaries for him, because Jeter didn’t want to do it.

gift box joke goes here

past a conniving Jeter

this is going to be an extremely unpopular opinion that i am probably 100% alone in but i don't want giancarlo to hit 61

i know it's extremely normie of me or w/e to even put stock into that number as opposed to bonds' record but i do tend to think of all the steroid records as at least a little fake, i don't really care about all the justifications statheads have come up with

and i DO want giancarlo to break the 'real' record but i'm never gonna quiet the part of my brain that's going NOT LIKE THIS

i extremely hate the great juicing of the ball and i think it was a horrible thing to happen

i'm aware that the ball has been tampered with before, but the extent to which it's changed The Home Run is ridiculous

usually when these sorts of changes happen it's to fix an extreme, not to create one. this may have an equal effect of the mound being lowered but those changes were made in completely different directions

not against making adjustments like these (at least if the commissioner is being transparent about it, which is another thing) but this is an adjustment that's setting new league-wide records etc. meanwhile they could've actually instituted changes to fix a real problem (the expanding strike zone), but they chose to go a route that drove the sport even more towards TTOs.

as long as rougned odor is suddenly hitting 30+ homers as a second basemen and still sucking, beating maris isn't going to mean what it should to me

i'm guessing there are arguments about what the run environment was like in 1961 and how records aren't real and everything is BS and i'm willing to hear those, i'm just corny

and i really hope the ball gets a little less juiced at some point

adam duvall has 31 homers! i forgot he existed

i used the word extremely 3 posts in a row without realizing it

There are like 115 players with twenty HR right now

that number in 2014 was 57!

Ichiro one behind John Vander Wal's single-season pinch-hit record!

his power numbers are way up this year. 3 HR!

UN. JUICE. THE BALL.

Also the first season his home runs have exceeded his stolen bases.

out of curiosity is there like legit proof that the ball is juiced vs. just a change in batting coaching (aka: it's ok to sstrike out 200 times just try to hit 30 homers; launch angle training; etc)? was talking abt it with a pal tonight and realized neither of us knew if there was any solid evidence, it seems like it'd be pretty easy to prove

there is interesting evidence but not necessarily incontrovertible proof, search the ringer or fangraphs for some good articles

the entire league did not suddenly switch swinging strategy at a specific point in the middle of 2015

the lindbergh/lichtman study is absolutely enough for me. the statcast era has given us everything we need to know to see the difference and weed out other variables.

has there been a league-wide shift in hitting philosophy since then? yeah, but i don't think that would've happened if it wasn't clear there was a new ball to work with. it presented a new opportunity to get offensive value out of struggling, aging hitters, and teams have taken advantage.

i don't think it's actually possible in our human reality for this degree of HR% increase to happen in this short a span without a change to the ball, and i have a doctorate in baseball science

i'm not saying i don't believe it, i just haven't really done the research (and when i try to google it i find more "fake news" on the subject than good shit). will check out the ringer and fangraphs tho, thx!

throw a baseball and then throw a tennis ball and see the movement difference. It's the extreme example but it's a pretty simple demonstration about what happens to objects in space

Jeter on Stanton: "I don't know him well. I haven't spoken to him. Anything we're going to do moving forward with the organization we'll discuss with Mike (Giancarlo)."

— clarkspencer (@clarkspencer) October 3, 2017

"Derek Jeter became CEO of the Marlins that moment." -- Van Jones

https://sports.yahoo.com/derek-jeter-led-marlins-parted-ways-scout-hospital-undergoing-cancer-surgery-162134586.html

Ben and Jeff talked to a Marlins fan (it's not j0rd)

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/effectively-wild-episode-1148-im-a-marlins-fan-ama/

Excepting Jose Fernandez, the Marlins' all-time top 25 players, by WAR:
- One left as free agent
- One waived
- Three still on the club
- Twenty traded

— Sam Miller (@SamMillerBB) December 11, 2017

The backstory of the Giancarlo Stanton trade is bonkers. Miami threatened that if he didn’t accept a trade to St. Louis or San Francisco, he would be a Marlin for life. He called their bluff. And because of it, he’s a New York Yankee.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) December 11, 2017

so dumb, it's... dumb

- Three still on the club

Yelich, Hechavarria, Ozuna?

yelich, ozuna, realmuto

Ah yes. I would be surprised if by the end of 2018 those three are still on the squad.

#Marlins pushing Ozuna, but complication is interested teams prefer Yelich: more control/higher upside and don't want to give up pieces for Ozuna when clubs believe -- regardless what Mia says -- that both will be traded this offseason.

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) December 12, 2017

turns out that announcing your team is broken and needs to cut its payroll in half is not a savvy negotiating ploy

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/untitled-81.gif?w=1000

spot the Onion

https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/12/19/miami-marlins-derek-jeter-town-hall-meeting-marlins-man

https://sports.theonion.com/cash-strapped-florida-retiree-desperately-selling-off-a-1821511445

it's the one with "theonion.com" in the url

you got it, Aristotelian ideal of a dick

https://deadspin.com/rob-manfred-whines-to-espn-brass-after-getting-shredded-1821550864

le batard is a hero

yes

"Project Wolverine" shd def be the title of the next Marlins thread

Not playing captain save a captain, but I suppose one could say that I doubt ESPN would not have lit into Roger Goodell or Adam Silver in the same way and that would be true. ESPN doesn't seem to give a shite about baseball on a good day, so it's not surprising.

Marlins are into their third extinction cycle. Their team existence is some type of weird Chinatown real estate scam, just looping suckers into buying high. Loria was able to flip $158 millon of borrowed money into selling a club for over a billion dollars and he got a world series ring. Who is laughing now?

I doubt ESPN would not have lit into Roger Goodell or Adam Silver in the same way

i think it's more that le batard dgaf -- i'm sure the espn execs (who aren't high) aren't happy

but lol at manfred expecting every single media hit to service him, even from a guy who got banned from voting for the hof

Manfred said "I'm not gonna be deposed" in response to hostile questions because America's executives and top politicians have no experience with aggressive press interviews and only expect to be challenged when sued https://t.co/uA2YXdcXE2

— slackbot (@pareene) December 23, 2017

never trust something called Project Wolverine imo

Billy the Marlin filleted

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article198595674.html

He was probably going to cost too much after arbitration.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-bad-will-the-marlins-outfield-actually-be/

we need a new Marlins thread bcz this year is gonna be 'fascinating'

Mattingly said three rotation spots are up for grabs. Dan Straily and Jose Urena are the locks, barring something unforeseen. @Marlins Wei-Yin Chen not expected to be ready by Opening Day #SpringTraining2018

— Joe Frisaro (@JoeFrisaro) February 14, 2018

the rotation won't be any better

While Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich were happy to be traded by the Miami Marlins, right-hander Dan Straily says he wants to be a cornerstone of the team's rebuilding plan.

And that's not all.

"I'm glad they're gone," Straily said Friday. "If they don't want to be here, good for them."

lolol

dan straily, heart and soul of the 2018 marlins

open the books!

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/miami-dade-is-suing-jeffrey-loria/

BREAKING: Lewis Brinson homers for the Marlins and the Home Run Sculpture was NOT activated.

— clarkspencer (@clarkspencer) March 27, 2018

uh oh

yikes

Hi there, we’re still here. 👋

But let’s get real, our tweets aren’t going to help.

— Miami Marlins (@Marlins) April 8, 2018

what's yikes? i guess i should check the news?

Project Wolverine in full effect: 2018 Miami Marlins

2 years ago today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vXTdfxgyl0

or, you know, next tuesday