60% baseball, 40% tweets: Florida Marlins 2011, The Fall of Sun Life Stadium

let the omar infante era begin~~

Talk to baseball people, and they will tell you how much the Marlins’ bullpen has improved from the group that went 17-25 and blew 25 saves – second most behind Baltimore – in 2010. “We have one of the best bullpens in the league” now, manager Edwin Rodriguez said, eyeing Friday’s start of spring training.

But ask Marlins executive Larry Beinfest if this is the team’s best group of relievers in years, and he’s cautious. “You’re asking the wrong guy,” he said. “Bullpens are so unpredictable. We had a very good bullpen in 2009 and we brought back most of them in 2010 and it struggled. But we have more weapons.”

The overhaul began with the trade of Cameron Maybin to San Diego for right-handers Edward Mujica (2-1, 3.62 ERA) – who held batters to a .226 average, with 72 strikeouts and six walks in 692/3 innings – and Ryan Webb (3-1, 2.90).

Hard-throwing lefty Mike Dunn (2-0, 1.89), acquired with infielder Omar Infante from Atlanta in the Dan Uggla trade, allowed just a .211 average, was effective against right- and left-handed hitters, and struck out 27 in 19 innings. And lefty pickup Randy Choate (4-3, 4.23) allowed left-handers to hit .202 against him with Tampa in 2010.

With those four, Leo Nuñez, Clay Hensley (2.16 ERA) and Brian Sanches (2.26) – and Burke Badenhop still around – there’s no blatant weak link, though Nuñez (30 for 38 on saves) must prove he’s closer-worthy.

“Webb and Mujica have closer-type stuff,” Beinfest said. “So does Dunn. When we made the trade with San Diego, we had an eye on Webb being a closer candidate. But we think Leo can do the job.”

Rodriguez said Nuñez will begin the season as the closer. But he hasn’t done enough to earn the multiyear deal that his agent inquired about. “Leo doesn’t command the ball well enough to be consistent,” one Marlins official (not Beinfest or Rodriguez) said. “When he airs out his fastball, he tries to overthrow and gets out of control.”

Rodriguez said Monday that Nuñez “needs to study hitters better, watch video, and have a plan before the game.” Nuñez “got the message” when Hensley replaced him as the closer in September, Rodriguez said, adding he used his change-up too much at times and knows “he needs to make some changes.’’

Scouts rave about Dunn: “His stuff is electric,” one scout said. Although he walked 17 in 19 innings, control wasn’t a big problem in the minors and he’s not another Andrew Miller, the scout said. “Dunn is a power arm and we haven’t had that power lefty in the pen for some time,” Beinfest said.

There are questions, beyond Nuñez’s consistency. Mujica allowed too many homers last year (one every five innings), and 14 each of the past two years. Rodriguez cannot use Choate much against right-handers, who hit .410 against him (16 for 39). And it will be interesting to see how Webb and Mujica fare away from San Diego’s spacious Petco Park, where they pitched much better. Webb, for example, allowed a .232 average at home, .319 outside Petco.

Chatter

• Any chance of a Marlins trade for Texas third baseman Michael Young hinges on the Rangers agreeing to pay well over half of the $48 million left on his contract (through 2013). The teams have talked, but the Marlins didn’t appear optimistic Tuesday. …

i think i will be watching this team a bit this year, they are ~intriguing~

yeah... i think they have a chance to be competitive if pretty much nobody on the team gets hurt, and even if they're like 5 games under .500 again it should still be fun watching jj/hanley/stanton/morrisson

at least that's what i'm telling myself

is omar infante out for six weeks or was that a weird dream that i had?

oh he WAS out for six weeks

anyway i hope they give dominguez the starting 3B job even if he hits like .220 -- klaw said he's already as good a defnder as zimmerman, and as much as i love the comedic stylings of emilio bonifcaio, the defense could really use it

haha...emilio funnyface.

http://i.imgur.com/O4d8i.jpg

park looks cool, i drive by it every so often

design kinda reminds me of safeco

the arch is reminiscent of minute maid

yeah, that too

yeah first think i thought of was minute maid, but if it's got minute maid's LF porch stanton's gonna hit 50 HR every year

HanleyRamirez Hanley Ramirez
Hi everybody, I'm excited to join Twitter! Let's have fun!

HanleyRamirez Hanley Ramirez
I'm coming hot this year

it only took 35 minutes

HanleyRamirez Hanley Ramirez
Sure all dayRT @l2inaldi: are you gonna hustle this year @HanleyRamirez ?

it's not even a contract year!

LoMoMarlins Logan Morrison
Now I have a legit reason to Tweet during the game. Shallow fly ball to Left, I can Tweet "Ball" or "Pelota" to @HanleyRamirez #NoCollisions

: D

not hating but upon first read i though Morrison's account was LOLMarlins. that would kind of rule.

hah

nice

Manny_Navarro Manny Navarro
#Marlins 3B Matt Dominguez now 6 for 15 (.400), 2 HRs, 10 RBI, 2 Ks, 2 BB in seven spring games

I'ma gonna start SBing anyone who posts ST stats before the last day of ST

i'd be okay w/ that if you were keith law

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Charles/ren-stimpy-red-button.jpeg

HA!

just trading for the utility All-Star makes me wanna see Fla crash and burn this year

fish threw at nyjer today

they sent dominguez down

also stanton's first game back from his injury and he has two three run homers of buchholz

7 rbi today

dope

i know its not likely so soon but i really want to see stanton just destroy the league this year

Yeah

Watched Stanton launch one last year and I don't think Rich Waltz made a proper call on it -- he just laughed.

this is my favorite one from last year http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=10233655

i mean how does that even happen

stanton first homer today was an utter bomb http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13270475

:D

LoMoMarlins Logan Morrison
Just hanging out at the house, tidying up. I hate it when i misplace my hand grenades & Civil War musket...

:D

this guy

brett wallace might counsel LoMo to keep a team name out of his twitter id

i think he's safe until he hits arb in 3 years

stanton's the first add to my mlb.tv player tracker

Old Man LOL in the booth

If I had to turn a double play with Stanton approaching second, I would seriously consider running as far away as possible.

RIP stanton -- he almost took David Wright's head off earlier

Marlins 3b stud matt dominguez got hbp in a game today and broke something :(

fractured elbow

chris coghlan, you guys

http://i53.tinypic.com/ff0f1v.jpg

LOL playoff team

catch us next time when we aren't forced to have emilio bonifacio & scott cousins in the line up in consecutive games

but, i'll say this -- javy looked just awful today, john buck stuck out in a huge spot w/ the bases loaded, and the new bullpen guys pitched pretty badly this weekend -- so not encouraging, no

i can't watch chris volstad

why what's his prob

he sucks at pitching & on top of it works slow as all fuck

hate slow dudes

coghlan has made two absolutely unreal catches in this series

he's a stud

heh

http://twitpic.com/4ii0ko

just a contusion. (hopefully)

i want to kill myself

can anyone explain to me why this is legal in baseball? how far off the base do you have to be before someone isn't allowed to try and break your legs?

http://i52.tinypic.com/2h3u6n9.jpg

1. No.

2. As long as the runner can somehow reach the base, it's "fair" game -- right?

lol j0rdy, that is really a clean play right there.

did you see Swisher break that kid's leg last night? he wasn't even in the same zip code as the bag.

hanley totes nishioke'd

check this out:
http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/media/photo/2011-04/342571380-07144133.jpg

apparently Swisher felt so guilty he visited the kid in the hospital (it was his 3rd? game in the USA).

it's still fucked up and a useless play -- i understand that baseball ppl view it as "clean" but i don't understand why mlb tolerates it -- there is like 6 star middle infielders, i don't think it's in baseball's interest to have 250 pound players throwing their bodies at these guys ankles/lower legs

if the player is standing ON the base fine, but bill hall sliding over the bag and then going a foot to the right is pure BS

btw no one from the twins took offense to swisher's slide, at least not publicly

it is "part of the game"...

i'd venture to say the gameplay is much cleaner today than it's been historically.

Tyler Cobb would be roffling at you.

ty cobb was also a huge fucking racist, so i feel okay

every six months or so i go to ty cobb's wikipedia page and read about the time he walked into the stands and beat up a crippled guy.

actually Swisher could reach the base on that play, so it's legal. (more boring 'I hate major markets even tho I won't rep for a team' trolling)

He visited Nishioka in the clubhouse before they knew it was broken, which cleared up for me why Swisher said "I'm just glad it wasn't worse."

the answer is yes http://espn.go.com/blog/SweetSpot/post/_/id/9312/josh-johnson-games-most-dominant

the guy has a 2.7/1 STRIKEOUT TO HIT RATIO

dag mike stanton

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=14129265&topic_id=8879838&c_id=mlb

i was there ^_^

nice redemption after edwin pitched to tulo w/ the tying run on second & first base open w/ giambi on deck

Johnson's homefield K factor?

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/4/25/2132022/josh-johnson-florida-marlins

Interesting... sorta. Well he'll be moving next year, so it's of no matter.

i am not a human being

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=14398163

I'm on a riverboat

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=14375445

(Thunderlips is holding Rocky in the air; calls to the audience)
Thunderlips: (yells) No one can believe the superhuman strength of Thunderlips! I am the Man!
Mickey: Stop him, will -
(a heart attack occurs)
Thunderlips: You want this punching bag?
Rocky Balboa: Adrian!
Adrian: Rocky!
Thunderlips: THEN YOU GOT HIM!
Rocky Balboa: (Screaming) CATCH ME!
(Tunderlips tosses Rocky out of the ring into the audience)

haha <3

stanton just bodied another one

431 ft

Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
Longest Average HR Distance,2011 Season, Min. 6 HR: Mike Stanton 425.4 FT; Justin Upton 424.9; Matt Kemp 412.4; Miguel Cabrera 411.4

yeah i was wondering if rich & tommy had been excessively freaking out over his homers this year but i'm glad there is confirmation that he's murdering every one

Johnson to DL

Morrison has more than 26,000 followers. That total's impressive considering he's less than halfway through his first full season in the major leagues and plays for the Florida Marlins, a team unaccustomed to attention.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6611550

Logan Morrison, fun w/ hitting coaches:

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/6/10/2216539/florida-marlins-logan-morrison-jeffrey-loria-hitting-coach-fired

They better hope E Perez is better at coaching than he is at TV analysis.

Bleakness:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/fla/schedule

Dang, the Mets passed them!

howwwwwwww

SP era in june is over 7 or something unfathomable

the mets rotation will be hilarious enough

― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 9, 2011

the mets rotation is still hilarious

best in the NL the last 3 weeks. I'm laughin'!

& what's not to like about a rotation consisting of a top 10 pick w/ an ERA over 5, a 36 year old knuckleballer, a guy that couldn't hack it with the 2010 brewers & a 21st round pick

Cinderella brilliance envied by Chris Volstad and Javier Vazquez

best in the NL the last 3 weeks. I'm laughin'!

― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:06 PM (14 minutes ago)

nice sample size, shortstuff.

"cinderella brilliance"

http://www.sportressofblogitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sad-mets-fan.jpg

had no idea this had gotten to 1-15

Bleakness:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/fla/schedule

― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:48 PM (2 days ago)

Dang, the Mets passed them!

― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:49 PM (2 days ago)

howwwwwwww

― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:06 PM (2 days ago)

why wd I click on one of yr links?

Leo Nunez said he's staying with #Rays reliever Joel Peralta so he doesn't have to stay at #Marlins haunted team hotel

our fearless closer!

Peace out, Fredi.

EDWIN!

Sleep deprivation.

Beats win deprivation, probably.

loria is al davis

I want this 80 year old man theyre talking about to become manager. He can start fights with Charlie Manuel.

lol McKeon. the old old old boys' network.

this is so absurd

altho it makes sense because idk who in their right mind would take a job as the marlins manager aside from someone who can go right back to being retired

this is like the blue jays brining back cito gaston but dumber

and its official.

maybe Lasorda and Red Schoendienst are next

JCRMarlinsbeat Juan C. Rodriguez
McKeon says he didn't start Hanley because he didn't like the way he was running Sunday. #marlins

point taken, but that leaves no explanation for greg dobbs batting fourth

lol

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/6/20/2233685/loria-mckeon-joke-and-footnote

ack, 3 weeks into June and they only done won one game this month.

this is like the blue jays brining back cito gaston but dumber

hahaha glad I wasn't the only one thinking this

lee elia is still ticking, the cubs should hire him back imo.

Mckeon comes out and takes Choate out of game with 2-1 count..choate did not look thrilled. Marlins leading 3-0?????

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2408164294_53ecef04c8.jpg

Yeah, the Marlins would definitely be one of two clubs that are eliminated if I was MLB king. They might be the first against the wall.

My second step would be getting rid of the Pirates ownership and giving it to Mark Cuban. I guarantee with that cool stadium, he would turn that club into something into something sweet and interesting.

would enjoy seeing that guy crash & burn as a baseball owner

don't think he would. cuban's a smart guy and if nothing else he'd know where to get help

that said - congrats Marlins on winning your 2nd game this month

"We're a summer team," McKeon said. "Today is the first day of the summer. We like to play much better baseball in the summer than we do in the spring. So watch out from now on because summer's here, and we're here."

reminds me a lot of Red Klotz's quote "we excel on ice"

BP: "Albus McKeon Dumbledore"

http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/editorial_image/90/9084f399b74e07e4d01acc2bfec21f98/you_got_jackd_mckeon_removes_marlins_pitcher_with_count.jpg

John Huston via George Burns

McKeon came off as totally senile in his PTI interview today.

Mark Cuban turned the Dallas Mavericks, who were easily pretty much the bottom of the barrel in the NBA right next to the Clippers at the time into a money maker in the middle of football country that has now won it all. He might be an ass, but I think the guy would make it work.

on Monday night (NYT):

With the Marlins winning by four runs and the veteran reliever Randy Choate trying to end it with one out in the bottom of the ninth, McKeon pulled him from the game after Choate had put runners on first and second and fallen behind, 2-0, to the rookie left-handed hitter Lucas Duda.

It is something McKeon has done more than once since he was rehired by Florida on June 19, including once before with Choate. But this time Choate did not take it well, storming through the dugout after he was replaced, and later proclaiming through pursed lips to reporters: “He’s the boss. I’m a player.” He was not hiding his anger.

McKeon, who would rather slip back into retirement than compromise himself by doing something not directly related to winning, shrugged when told of Choate’s reaction.

“I’m running the show,” McKeon said, adding that he did not care what Choate thought of it. “What’s the name of the game? W. It doesn’t matter how you get it.”

...Mets Manager Terry Collins, who like most managers is concerned about his players’ feelings, said he thought Capuano pitched well. McKeon was not so impressed, and turned his assessment into an indictment on today’s lower standards.

“What do you want me to say?” he replied to a question about Capuano. “He gave up four runs. Did he pitch well? You ask him that. This is the problem you have with guys today. They give up four runs and they think they did a hell of a job. You ask Bob Gibson and one of those guys, Bob Feller and Tom Seaver, if they gave up four runs and you find out what they tell you.”

choate was pissed! i don't think they showed him trashing the dugout on the marlins broadcast (altho maybe i missed it), but i saw an SNY clip on mlb network

Boy, McKeon should do an Iconoclasts episode with the Chipotle guy or something.

Oof.

nolasco has like a start once every month where he literally cannot get anyone out

Stanton just hit one directly at some dude in the middle of nowhere. Some dude pulled a Ryan Raburn, glove and all.

Is this thread title a reference to that song?

In any case, ILB consistently has the best thread titles, IMO.

Stanton just hit one directly at some dude in the middle of nowhere. Some dude pulled a Ryan Raburn, glove and all.

― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Sunday, July 24, 2011 1:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this was impressive

hurting, i'm not sure what song you're talking about -- any similarities are unintentional

bonifacio's got a 23 game hitting streak, somehow

.298/.374/.398 on the season now for boni

career numbers: .262/.324/.323

i lol'd on friday i think when gary cohen exclaimed "that's pure bonifacio"

haha

OUT OF THE BASEMENT!

also there was a two inning praying mantis saga during the game tonight, this was the climax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8azUs0Y-i5I&feature=youtu.be

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6144/5980077226_399dbcf74c_z.jpg

omg

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/fish_bytes/2011/07/hanley-calls-jeff-conine-a-chicken-predicts-hell-be-the-next-mr-marlin.html

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

it never stops w/ this guy

tbf conine shouldn't have said they should trade him

really Fish, one hit off Beachy?

tru conine shouldn't have said that but

they should fight -- conine would rip hanle y in half

le batard gives hanley the le batard treatment

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/31/2338573/hanley-ramirez-undone-by-perception.html

i.e. lots of words about being a minority in a white person's world

phrases that haunt me at night:

- "and we'll see if leo nunez can close the door"

^^so prophetic

here's hanley not so secretly tipping mike stanton off to pitch location on prior to his grand slam

http://i.imgur.com/viy1I.png

huh i mean izzys lookin right @ him so could step off

yeah it's actually pretty surprising that he just let that happen -- he must've not noticed

he was laboring out there so it prob wouldnt have mattered unless the mets lifted him for byrdak or some other asshole

this guy

Morrison went down to the MLB Man Cave Tuesday and filmed a video that makes fun of him being attacked by a Praying Mantis -- as he was last week in Atlanta.

"The cool part was that the mantis was [Giants general manager Brian] Sabean's son. Apparently, he's an intern there," Morrison said.

.500!

if the marlins had gone .500 in may instead of 5-23 we'd be 18 games over

someone explain to me how this happened? I have west coast bias so I dont pay attention to such things..

Emilio Bonifacio (OF) FLA 8/4/2011
Bonifacio was named the NL Player of the Month for July. His 26-game hitting streak got the headlines, but Boni also led the majors for the month with a .466 OBP and 16 stolen bases. Expect him to remain the Marlins’ leadoff hitter for at least the rest of this season.

ummm i have no idea

The Melky Cabrera of the NL.

i mean, he's always flashed the talent for being pretty good. he's incredibly, remarkably fast and he gets a lot of hits that way, but yeah mostly he just developed a better batting eye. obviously i can't tell you how that happened, but he just stopped swinging at a lot of crap. and they finally started letting him steal.

in no way is he a .300 hitter, but he might be able to do .270/.350 with 50 steals next year

the thing w/ melky is that he had a pretty decent full season before this year -- boni has never been close

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/14579/is-bonifacio-worst-player-of-the-month

ha, that's a good post

boni has a chance to be pretty valuable for a few years tho -- he's a good defender in the outfield & doesn't kill you when he's at ss or 3b, and fangraphs has him as the best baserunner in baseball. even he proves that he can't hit at the top of the order for a prolonged amount of time, he could still be a really good 8 hitter or a great utility player/super sub

i picked him up about a month ago for my fantasy team so no complaints here

yeah you got yourself a good month

buzzafacio

12 games played - 13 runs 1HR 4RBI 7SB .320 avg

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

i can't believe i sat through a whole fucking season of shitty omar infante only to have break his finger two weeks after getting hot

THE RETURN OF AMEZAGA

Partial list of players with worse second-half OPS than recently-demoted Logan Morrison:

Kevin Youkilis
Ian Kinsler
Chris Young

Ethier and McCutchen aren't doing much better.

truly have no idea what anyone in this front office is doing, ever

joecapMARLINS LoMo "Right now I just feel resentment and anger."

he's insinuating that there was an off the field incident, also cited wes helms being released... i'm assuming that it involves hanley in some way, shape or form

“Do I want to play in Florida? I want to play for a big-league team and yes, yes. That’s the big-league team I am with now, or the organization I am with since I am in Triple-A. Yeah. I do.”

a ringing endorsement!

Based on my conversations with people, there were some events leading up to the demotion that had to do with team-related promotional functions. To be clear, the Marlins said they optioned LoMo to New Orleans because he was batting .249.

Earlier in the day, he refused to participate in a photo session with season ticket holders at Sun Life Stadium. That might sound surprising, given Logan’s outgoing personality and popularity with fans, but apparently there were some hard feelings related to earlier promotional activities.

I know that this past Thursday — a Marlins off day — Logan canceled a charity bowling tournament in Miami because he said the Florida Marlins Community Foundation “dropped the ball” and didn’t sell enough lanes in advance.

Logan wasn’t happy about that. And there apparently were some other events in which players were supposed to participate. There was also an autograph signing earlier Saturday, which Logan participated in. But he put his foot down and did not participate in the photo session with season ticket holders.

wtf

oh boy please please put him on the market
something tells me he'd fit well in Milwaukee

I mean I know how stupid this is but I kinda felt like LoMo had this coming for a while now, though personally I wish there were more players like him out there

"We just thought it was in the best interests of Logan to go down and concentrate on baseball and all aspects of being a major leaguer, and work his way back," president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said Sunday.

Morrison, who is in his first full major-league season, has quickly developed into a fan favorite with his outgoing personality and Web wisecracks. He has 60,000 Twitter followers.

Beinfest and manager Jack McKeon declined to say what prompted the decision to send Morrison to the minors. But McKeon often talks of how young players should be seen and not heard while they earn the right to remain in the big leagues, and he's not a fan of Twitter.

"You've got to leave your distractions at the door," McKeon said. "Too many young guys come into the game today and think they've got it made. They're the darlings of the media and they want to run their mouth instead of tending to business. The record books are full of one- and two-year phenoms."

yep, good point Mr. McKeon, now please trade him immediately

this whole thing otfm http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AtrNCr5ftsfR93ZK88u05R0RvLYF?slug=jp-passan_10_degrees_outspoken_players_morrison_081411

god, fucking yahoo

http://yhoo.it/mP8Feu

OTM

the marlins have had so many terrible drafts in the past 5/6 years and have made some really terrible moves (everything involving cameron maybin comes to mind), and as far as anything positive that they've done in recent memory, the front office could always point to stanton & lomo and reasonably say "hey, we're doing alright up here". so if they run lomo out of town...

no lomo

shockingly, stanton takes kevin millwood 15 rows up in left center in the first

JCRMarlinsbeat Juan C. Rodriguez
Stanton HR estimated at 472 feet, third longest in the majors this season. #marlins

http://i.imgur.com/OrXyI.png
http://i.imgur.com/yWKhz.png
http://i.imgur.com/7sLqP.png

lol pitcher

JCRMarlinsbeat Juan C. Rodriguez
Mike Stanton scatched with sore left big toe. New lineup: Boni, Sanchez, Buck, Dobbs, Lopez, Cameron, Petersen, Amezaga, Volstad #Marlins

easily one of the worst line ups for any game in baseball this year, if not then it's close

and yes i will likely watch this whole game #fridaynight

yankees : twins :: padres : marlins

hey the twins are winning tonight

14-1!

2011

padres 44
marlins 11

and there's still 12 innings left

In other news, Wes Helms: Utter Moron or Savvy Political Operator?

horrible at baseball

Yeah, that too. I think I saw that the Braves immediately signed him to a minor league contract?! WTF

yeah he seemed like a perfect candidate to slowly fade away into the night

good lord

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/380815750.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1314218704&Signature=FbR704gwWi%2Fytglt2hzPoAVb7oM%3D

shoulda gone down this year to heckle

i'm surprised that even that many people are there

it's come to this for the marlins: mckeon was just tossed for arguing a check swing call during an at-bat by... homer bailey. oh, and he hit a double.

lomo is back, lomo homers

lomo don't care

i can imagine that many clubs would be uncomfortable with lomo's outspokenness, etc, but jeez have a fucking clue what you're doing

these ppl are the worst

the great stantino went upper deck at citi tonight... to right field

here are the players in mlb history that had a higher OPS at the age of 21 than mike stanton does now (min 100 games played in season):

al kaline, hank aaron, frank robinson, sam crawford (never heard of this guy, but he's in the hall)

here are the players in mlb history that had a higher slugging percentage at the age of 21 than mike stanton does now (min 100 games played in season):

bob horner, hank aaron

wait, never mind on everything i just typed

i didn't realize that you have to log in to see the top 10 of this BR list. but still, shit is insane

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/season_finder.cgi?type=b#gotresults&as=result_batter&offset=0&sum=0&min_year_season=1901&max_year_season=2011&min_season=1&max_season=-1&min_age=21&max_age=21&lg_ID=lgAny&lgAL_team=tmAny&lgNL_team=tmAny&lgFL_team=tmAny&lgAA_team=tmAny&lgPL_team=tmAny&lgUA_team=tmAny&lgNA_team=tmAny&isActive=either&isHOF=either&isAllstar=either&bats=any&throws=any&exactness=anypos&games_min_max=min&games_prop=50&games_tot=&pos_1=1&pos_2=1&pos_3=1&pos_4=1&pos_5=1&pos_6=1&pos_7=1&pos_8=1&pos_9=1&pos_10=1&minpasValS=502&qualifiersSeason=mingames&mingamesValS=100&qualifiersCareer=nomin&minpasValC=3000&mingamesValC=1000&orderby=onbase_plus_slugging&c1criteria=&c1gtlt=eq&c1val=0&c2criteria=&c2gtlt=eq&c2val=0&c3criteria=&c3gtlt=eq&c3val=0&c4criteria=&c4gtlt=eq&c4val=0&c5criteria=&c5gtlt=eq&c5val=1.0&c6criteria=&location=pob&locationMatch=is&pob=&pod=&pcanada=&pusa=&ajax=1&submitter=1

Jordan: Jeremy Hermida is never gonna be more than a AAA player, right?

The Padres claimed that guy today.

no, never

this is... his fourth team since he left the marlins?

He was crushing for the Reds' AAA team.

I have been pleasantly surprised by Chris Denorfia, another guy who was sort of a prospect but never stuck anywhere.

RT @LeftyMarlins: @Kevin_Goldstein how good is Stanton!?!

Kevin_Goldstein
More raw power than anyone in professional baseball.

@adamdadkins: @Kevin_Goldstein Stanton has more raw power than Roy Hobbs?

Kevin_Goldstein
You realize that he strikes out at the end in the book, right?

RT @jim_thill: @Kevin_Goldstein no spoiler alert?

Kevin_Goldstein
The book is 58 years old. Also, Rosebud was just a sled from his childhood.

i wish stanton would never run hard. he's already pulled his hamstring three times this year. i'm scared that he's going to turn into nelson cruz.

Mike Stanton just hit a ball three miles.

he is a beast

jeez, he just hit another monster

that first one might be the longest homer in the history of the stadium

i'm pretty sure he and THE BIG CAT are the only two guys ever to go upper deck

i'm glad he managed to get one up there before they moved

the second one O_O

he stands so far off the plate that oftentimes when he barrels a ball up it seems like he hits it off the end of the bat but then it just keeps going and you're like "oh, right"

le grande chat

Braves crew showed the Big Cat HR landing spot, split screen with Stanton's. Gallaraga's was longer by a few rows, plus it was about 20' farther to straightaway center. But still, dayummmm x 2.

yeah that big cat homer is just O_________________________O

made even better that it was off kevin brown

saw pujols hit scrape the first row up there but it was about 5 ft foul

Joe Simpson was clowning on the Marlins for not measuring home runs ("it must cost money or something") and they were talking about getting a golfer's laser range finder before tomorrow's game so they can report the distance.

just check homerun tracker tomorrow, it'll be there

fml

feel robbed of stanton/kimbrel

461

Joe Simpson, size queen

new logo:
http://www.bizofbaseball.com/images/2012MiamiMarlinslogo.jpg

if that's true, those colors are awful

That isn't gonna be on the caps, is it?? Looks like they're a new series on NBC in 1977.

yeah it's real, agree about the colors being awful.

http://www.bizofbaseball.com/

What you're looking at is one of the logos that will be for the new Miami Marlins when the club moves into its new stadium and begins play there in 2012.

one that will all but disappear after it's torn apart on blogs

this fall... leo nunez IS juan carlos oviedo

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/44631081/

http://p.twimg.com/AZ1BThCCMAAe9B3.jpg

:-(

that's from something called "Strip Club With Stanton" via SBNation btw

OzzieGuillen
Weird to be in miami in this time but very happy ready to go
16 minutes ago via txt

LET'S DO IT

'in this time'?

have you never read an ozzie guillen tweet or heard him speak before?

dude the wsox got the marlins #5 prospect for ozzie..

Martinez, a 23-year-old shortstop, hit .245/.296/.322 in 371 Triple-A plate appearances this year. Prior to the season, Baseball America ranked him fifth among Marlins prospects, saying he profiles as a “solid No. 2 hitter” with a strong arm, good instincts, and soft hands at shortstop. At that time, BA saw a future as a versatile but quality utilityman the worst-case scenario for Martinez.

http://p.twimg.com/AZ1BThCCMAAe9B3.jpg

have you never read an ozzie guillen tweet or heard him speak before?

not the tweets too often, esp not during the best fucking on-the-field action of the year last night.

dude the wsox got the marlins #5 prospect for ozzie..

this is like the 15 prospect in any real organization

ozzie's been up a few times over the past few years -- there's no way he could start for a good team in the majors, but he could prob hang around as a super utility player like omar infante or something and have good years when his batting average breaks right

.245/.296/.322

CANTU IN THE HOUSE

Marlins crew doesn't have much time to talk to ex-Marlins when the current Marlins are getting K'd by Strasburg.

CANTU

According to the Venezuelan-based El Nacional, Ozzie Guillen recently spoke by phone to Cubs right-hander Carlos Zambrano about becoming a Marlin.

if the cubs were paying his salary it would be worth the risk

insurance would go through the roof.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150370601964746

I EMBRACE IT ALL

Audio-less version:

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/739480/marlins.gif

SO MAGICAL

Red Grooms? I figured it was dragged out of mothaballs from the sets of Can't Stop the Music.

~*marlins will soar*~

http://i.imgur.com/TAcNc.jpg i'm so excited

oh no way

Is Loria the one who is tacky as fuck or did they pay people to come up with this?

am i the only one who digs the new logo

i kinda like it too tbh

the logo is cool but the colors are a bit much

see who is a corny indie fuck by whether they like the new marlins logo or not

the colors are why i dig it~! morbs otm about nbc in 1977, except its a good thing. also reminds me a lil of the whataburger logo

oh it is terrible

not least because it is merely a placeholder they hope will sell some shit before they go back to something reasonable in three years

How does he know?

SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman
turns out ozzie guillen marlins contract isnt $16M for 4 yrs. its about $10M. still a lot for someone barely paying attention

Any Scott Boras clients on the ChiSox?

LOL

The Marlins will have a local celebrity on hand to help them celebrate their rebranding. The team, which will change its name to the Miami Marlins, will have celebrated rap artist and South Florida native Pitbull on hand Nov. 11 at the new ballpark as it unveils its new logo and uniforms.

<3

he did the theme song before scott stapp >:[

theyre gonna unveil the logo we all hate?

well, also the uniforms that we will all hate

and take team photos out in front of the carnivale meets vegas meets gay pride parade moving statue out in center field

http://p.twimg.com/AdWb2gTCEAAkywt.jpg

need to put out an arrest warrant for loria and whoever else was responsible for this assault on my eyes

those are confirmed fakes

i don't feel like digging up the link but basically what happened was some poster on a sports uniform/logo message board did a mock up of the marlins unis and posted those images asking for feedback. i guess then a marlins blogger (this exists) ran across them but either didn't see or didn't comprehend that it was just some uniform nerd looking for some feedback on his designs.

in any event the real unis will prob be worse.

I hope the jersey is dominated by an image of Jack McKeon reeling in a marlin.

teal & orange.xls

contract the marlins

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n556/BigZ37/securedownload.jpg

oh ffs

hahah those are great

like, really, we're finally leaving a wretched stadium that looks like this

http://mlblogssnaggingbaseballs.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/empty_seats_ninth_inning1.jpg

so why exactly do you want to make our players look like this

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n556/BigZ37/securedownload.jpg

The orange is fine with me, but that type! Ugh.

I have no problem with the orange jerseys.

The massive M on the hat is another matter.

i think i've been scarred by watching every game... i just see sun life seats with body parts

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/335/980/marlins-logo-new_original_display_image_display_image.jpg?1316720719

fucking hideous.

makes me think i'm not charging enough.

is that M ... flipping me the bird?

flipping you the fish!

ken rosenthal tweeted today that the marlins have made "substantial offers" to reyes and pujols, whatever that means

the home run thing is very, very real

http://twitpic.com/7d9c7c

they must change the new logo.

must.

the logo is not even going to be in the top 5 worst things

ha! c'mon. manager's funny. team could sign some good free agents. they aren't the dolphins. what's not to love?

well, except that eyesore of a logo.

loria is such a horrible, horrible person

the white and grey ones are cool, orange and black... not so much

whole design (incl. color-scheme) is bad.

the color scheme is bad because there's just too many colors, and PASTEL MIAMI is so old. the problem is that they are sorta boxed in by the other teams in the city having normal, sensible color schemes, and it would be weird for a miami team not to have some brightness to their colors, and i guess that's how they ended up with yellow and orange and blue and whatever else. the uniforms weren't as bad as they could've been tho.

PASTEL MIAMI is so old.

yes.

can't say that i hate this, altho yes, the logo is absurdly large

http://twitpic.com/7da00a

i kind of really dig the white ones tho

http://twitpic.com/7da03x

davehydesports Dave Hyde -- Jeffrey Loria confirmed the Marlins have made offers to Pujols and Reyes. David Samson then stepped inn and said they hadn't....

hm.

Dying

"We've made offers to Bob Gibson, JR Richard, and Ozzie Smith."

GOOD JOB, JEFF

"lounge act masquerading as a baseball team"

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/1/21/2723211/miami-marlins-worst-thing-lebron-james-jeffrey-loria-ozzie-guillen

as opposed to the mets, who are a charity slow pitch softball team masquerading as a baseball team

the Mets are p much the opp of a charity, but I look fwd to seeing a Marlims game w/ you :)

o hai

http://i.imgur.com/LAX80.jpg

so fucking magical

Really rooting for this team, they've got all my favorite former Chicago people and they seem ridiculous.

can't wait for the flameout

https://p.twimg.com/AkahHfrCAAAZ3si.jpg:large

flamingos

yesssssssssss

state-of-the-art NL East trailer park

this looks ok-ish

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/508591246.jpg?Expires=1328201872&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=WrThdAXXRWTcEMt835El53Uw0YFYNmBjLqBNXgWovlODkjL9-XnbZ~MVPXJK6ylXCMHTLjC~vUrtonjTIYrlx~QM8LwHnxnJFy1Qlj7yxR0HQ381ienXQ2FOmK4rhgR2EuBIc7kW6ph0T6TYe0mUKSw6mxOStDQsSa8DXfcKB8g_

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the fish tanks

https://twitter.com/#!/JCRMarlinsbeat/status/165094554830258176

i'll be visiting the thunderdome early next month, will give you guys a full report