Comments on: Pierre, Polanco, Stanton expected to top Marlins order

By: turbowtc

turbowtc — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:05:17 +0000

Knuckleheads?? Shut up Charles Barkley.

By: jimmymarlinsfan

jimmymarlinsfan — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:35:31 +0000

We finished last with “all stars”. The knuckleheads that think this years team will be worse are delusional

By: Tim OShenko

Tim OShenko — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:42:00 +0000

I feel a little bad for Mike Redmond, really. I can imagine him gritting his teeth while filling out the lineup card every day, telling himself he simply has to pay his dues before they’ll let him manage a major league team.

What’s doubly sad is that he’ll probably be booted out of Miami around the same time the Twins are looking for a new manager…

By: genericcommenter

genericcommenter — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:43:34 +0000

When the top 2 batters in your order aren’t even major league caliber players let alone starters ( OK Palanco might be a decent utility guy and Pierre a 4th OFer/PRer somewhere), that’s not a good sign.

I was going to say something about Pierre being a terrible baserunner (because he has been most of his career) and that the scenario of Stantion coming up with Pierre on 2nd with one out after a steal attempt might happen less than 2/3 of the time Juan manages to get on first and attempt a steal. However, I see the guy who has made a career of getting caught stealing over half as many times as he is successful many seasons managed to put together some type of career year in 2012, around 4 years after managers realized he was not an every day player. It was at least his best season since around 2004 and probably his best stolen base year ever. Interesting.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:58:25 +0000

Here’s what else could be interesting – in an inverse way, I mean. There will be little enough to draw fans into a nearly empty stadium anyway. The Iron Giant’s moonshots will be pretty much the whole show. No one is paying good money to watch Palcido Polanco puffing around the bases, to see Steve Chisek preserve a three run deficit in the top of the ninth, or to see Tweeter pop out to second with the tying run on third. If they know their chances of seeing the Giant launch one are so minimal, that just means even fewer warm bodies activating the thermal registers up at the drone bays at Langley.

Oh, it is gonna be ugly in that building this season.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:51:56 +0000

The Iron Giant batted .265 with RISP last season, and .316 with the bases empty. It’s a mediocre RISP but with only 86 ribbies, I think it probably also indicates that Reyes wasn’t in front of him – on the bases, anyway – all that much, and neither was anyone else. He bats ten points higher and that only ramifies to about 92 or 93 ribbies at around 41 home runs.

We know the Giant is young and learning, but the Feesh weren’t on base all that much for him either. And this season, he’s going to be trying to push a couple of duffers along ahead of him. Aside from all the times when they’ll be wheezing into the next base when anyone else could have taken the extra one, maybe we can amuse ourselves with the over/under on how many times they get nailed at the plate by about five steps and feed his latent ribbies to the compactor.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:41:57 +0000

There’s one flaw in your…er…ah…logic. Namely, this would also greatly reduce the Iron Giant’s trade value when it comes time to dump him for another brace of soft pink prospects.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:15:34 +0000

And Pierre is a great little scrapper who’ll turn his guts inside out to win. But that’s attitude. Let’s talk about physical skills. It’s going to kill me to watch him trying even to cast a shadow this season.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:13:33 +0000

We don’t want your pity. We’re masochists anyway.

By: bizzmoneyb

bizzmoneyb — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:46:34 +0000

sweet! the top 2 in the order have a combined age of nearly 80 years old! f-ck this team, f-ck this owner and everyone else in this giant fraud of an organization. if you still root for this team or give it any $$ at all you are a SUCKER.

By: tuberippin

tuberippin — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:23:05 +0000

Polanco was once an outstanding hitter from the two or seven spot in the lineup…but these days he’s a train wreck at the plate.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:34:08 +0000

Only the Yankees have won more World Series than the Marlins since 1997 so I don’t feel too sorry for fish fans.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:26:23 +0000

You’re absolutely right. Scrooge McLoria is bad for baseball in general, and he’s horrific for baseball in Macondo. I think there’s a lot of truth in your observation that his butchering of this team and market will have a repressive impact on the number of kids who might otherwise have grown up as baseball fans.

The same weird calculus that led the Feesh to think that all they had to do was open their gates and Cubans would pour through them applies to soccer, which is very much a part of the Latin American sports tradition too – moreso than baseball. Those would-be young baseball fans will just default to it.

If the Dolfeens become competitive and respectable again – which I expect them to do, despite a comparatively inept ownership of their own – they’ll draw off another sizable chunk of young potential baseball fans.

Scrooge McLoria’s ownership of the Feesh can’t even be compared to that idiot McCourt’s stewardship of the Bums. If you had seen the no-interest zone out front of Macondo Banana Massacre Field today, you’d think McLoria’s ownership has been more like Chernobyl or Bophal.

By: Walk

Walk — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:10:50 +0000

If stanton stays third all year long there is a positive here. Stanton hitting third is going to have a positive influence in years to come, biggest effect will likely be on a future california team and not the marlins, but it should help him develop patience and take even more walks. I hope he looks at this year and takes it in stride and sees it as a developmental year. He is going to have the opportunity to lead the league in either strikeouts or walks. I am hoping he puts up some bonds numbers though in the walk column. He has the chance to be a hof player imo and learning now when to expand the zone and when to take a walk will be critical in the future especially in playoff games.

By: icanspeel

icanspeel — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:54:22 +0000

Considering he hit 37 last year with 86 RBI’s with Jose Reyes in front of him.. I think this year he will have a great shot at 40 HR with less than 80 RBI’s

By: 13arod

13arod — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:27:03 +0000

If they had another hitter like Stanton maybe he would bat 4th makes sense to bat him third

By: datdangdrewdundunituhgin

datdangdrewdundunituhgin — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:07:26 +0000

its really, really sad what is happening to baseball fans down there. sure, OG can make snark and have a laugh because he’s already a baseball fan. but what about now-apathetic parents? or kids at the age of 9 who start playing soccer instead? jeff loria is so bad for the game of baseball, and even though i couldn’t care less about the marlins, our fellow baseball fans are getting hosed down there. just really sad to watch.

that said i had to laugh at the earlier picture of 4 fans waiting for tickets. jeff loria is the worst person in sports right now.

By: kindasporty

kindasporty — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:06:47 +0000

I think you bring up a great point and I wonder what that does to his development as a player. Because the roster was gutted, the Marlins might have also stunted the growth of their superstar since it will be very tempting for him to not work on things like his plate discipline since it might not change the results. If anything, if he doesn’t swing at bad pitches once in a while, his power numbers could go the opposite direction. It will be interesting.

By: tmohr

tmohr — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:57:23 +0000

I guess we’ll see if it’s possible to hit 40 HR and drive in less than 80 runs.

By: whmiv21

whmiv21 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:54:54 +0000

Loria is trying to keep his value down. Batting 3rd means fewer RBI opportunities. Fewer RBI opportunities likely mean fewer RBIs. Fewer RBIs means he gets paid less in arbitration. And that means more money for Loria. I’d bet he has a team of guys just to think of ways that he can collect more profit from this team.

By: voteforno6

voteforno6 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:20:36 +0000

Maybe the Nats will finally be able to beat them this year.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:55:37 +0000

Well, yes and no. I start out with no hope whatsoever that they’re going to be anything but the coccyx of their division – I performed Kolinhar just after the Toronto trade.

On the brighter side, I expect that they’ll provide unlimited opportunities for parody and snark.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:50:36 +0000

Oh, and there’s simply no chance of them avoiding the basement this year. I’ve already seen it – it’s been furnished and decorated just for them. Only a string of injuries to the Mutts pitching staff can save them.

By: vprkilr

vprkilr — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:48:49 +0000

I guess another option would be to just have Stanton bat lead off and hope for the best.

It must really suck to be a Fish fan..

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:48:42 +0000

I think the upside here is that the Iron Giant will only become stronger, having to hit every ball far enough to give Pierre and Polanco enough time to get to the next base.

This team is going to be horrifying to watch, and it’s going to be painful to see the look on the Iron Giant’s face when he finds himself leading the league in walks – and knowing that any growth in his batting discipline has next to nothing to do with it. He’s going to have to get used to being merely inconvenient – unless he can find some way to talk himself off this awful team and out from under this execrable ownership.