Comments on: 2013 preview: Miami Marlins

By: johnb1990

johnb1990 — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:58:19 +0000

You missed Mike Redmond. He knows how to work a team from the clubhouse through the mound situations. Big overlook in your analysis.

By: mikefoxtrot

mikefoxtrot — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:57:04 +0000

It’s gonna take Miami a few years to become a winning team and by that time Stanton will be making real money and getting ready to leave as a free agent.

nobody is going to do anything but pitch around him and hope he swings at junk unless either they CAN’T walk him or the marlins are so out of the game that it simply doesn’t matter if he hits.

they probably should trade him now

By: mungman69

mungman69 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:38:44 +0000

Can Miami be worse than my son’s high school team?

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:41:18 +0000

We don’t need to be apologists for Loria. But if we’re going to lambast him all the time, might as well give credit where it is due to douchenozzles like Glass.

By: moogro

moogro — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:20:22 +0000

120 walks

By: southbeachtalent

southbeachtalent — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:53:24 +0000

Pirates….. sad…

By: sumerduckman

sumerduckman — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:32:26 +0000

They need to hire Vlad Guerrero to teach Stanton how to hit trash. Probably all he is going to see this year.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:40:57 +0000

I’d bet the under, too. But a 2.5% return for something I’m not going to see for 7 months? No bet.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:36:56 +0000

In the immortal words of Cookie Monster, not bad but not delicious. This is going to have to be a learning year for him – patience at the plate, hanging back and waiting for mistakes. And given what this pitching staff looks like, he’s going to get lots of practice running down line drives and pegging to second base this season, too.

By: madhatternalice

madhatternalice — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:26:03 +0000

Technically, Solano took over 2nd base in August of last year.

I do wonder how good Stanton will be with no one hitting around him.

By: bankboy2012

bankboy2012 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:22:21 +0000

Ugh. Seriously, the Marlins roster as a whole is depressing and ugly with very few long-term prospects.
This would have sufficed for the entire preview. “Meh” also would have been acceptable. I guess the overlords told you they all had to be at least a couple of paragraphs?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:07:34 +0000

Someone put acid in the water supply in Vegas, then. I’d say the odds were closer to the earth being struck by an asteroid the size of the K-T nemesis rock….tomorrow.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:05:22 +0000

What a kind assessment.

Just wondering where the folks who predict a banner year for the Iron Giant think he’s going to get pitches to hit – at the local bead boutique? Yeah, right – hey, Tweeter is up next, so we better take a chance with this crusher? Oh dear Buddha, if we walk the Iron Giant we’ll have to pitch to Justin Ruggiano? Better grove one to that simulacrum of Goliath now advancing to the plate. Uh-huh.

This team loses over 100 games this year.

And yes, Scrooge McLoria is bad for baseball. When you destroy a fan base in its cradle, you’re bad for baseball. When no one comes to see you play, they don’t come to see the other team play either, and the other team’s revenue is impacted negatively. Bad for baseball. When you are perceived as having betrayed and cheated your community as disastrously as Scrooge has, you are bad for baseball. When you bring disgrace upon the game through lying to your fan base and to the so-called public servants who operate in the trust that fan base has placed in it, you are bad for baseball even when those public servants were corrupt and gullible in their transactions with you. When you live as a parasite on the earnings of larger market teams and refuse to re-invest the money other teams have earned through their own competence and good faith, you are bad for baseball. The ownership of the Royals and Pirates may suck, and their ineptitude and impecuniousness may be bad for baseball as well, but Scrooge McLoria and his little crime family, given the damage they have done via their knowing and willing collaboration with the whores on the city and county commissions to the financial structure of the community in which they play, are worse.You can only see them as “just as bad” by deliberately ignoring lots of other aspects of the way they’ve run their “business.”

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:51:22 +0000

The Vegas line is 40-1, B-Pro has them at 60-1.

By: dumbasdirt

dumbasdirt — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:28:25 +0000

So what your saying is that the odds are a million to one that the Marlins will make the playoffs in 2013. Which means they still have a chance.

By: steelers88

steelers88 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:24:37 +0000

Marlins LOL

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:21:20 +0000

Not being “bad for baseball” doesn’t make someone “good for baseball”. There is something called just there, which I believe Loria is. Just there. He isn’t harming baseball one bit. At least not any more than owners of some of the other teams. Everyone is whining about the trades…well guess what…unlike many other teams, at least Loria spent $100 million bucks in 2012 and gave it a shot. It failed miserably because Miami is simply not a baseball town. Just because he got a new stadium doesn’t automatically make him money unless it fills up. And with that crop of contracts, it wasn’t filling up because they sucked. Had they filled the stadium and made the playoffs, the team would not have been broken up.

The Marlins can suck in a half-full stadium with a $100 million dollar payroll or they can suck in a quarter-full stadium with a $40 million dollar payroll.

Just like Craig wrote a while back…”It’s a business”

By: chacochicken

chacochicken — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:57:02 +0000

I think you are confusing “ineffective” or “cheap” with “bastard”.

By: dondada10

dondada10 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:40:08 +0000

I also have a prediction for the Marlins’ season:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPNQ82Sq4E&w=420&h=315%5D

By: ryanrockzzz

ryanrockzzz — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:39:27 +0000

Agreed, but your post suggests that because there are worse owners, that is also an excuse for Loria to be doing what he’s doing. All of those owners are poor, both in the ownership sense and what they claim financially. I would agree that all are bad for baseball, and it’s a shame that baseball has let teams like the Pirates and Royals remain irrelevant for so long, but Loria to me Loria is the worst of the bunch.
The owners of the Royals and Pirates have slogging attendance that yes in part to them, but does not allow them the financial flexibility someone who just opened a huge new stadium last year has. The fact that this came only one year after that was built, and that it’s happened multiple times before after the team was good makes him the worst in my opinion.

By: dan1111

dan1111 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:38:20 +0000

Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Marlins ended up with a better record than last year.

However, that won’t convince anyone that Loria is good for baseball. There may be a lot of whining, but that whining is backed up by evidence.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:36:24 +0000

Hello Bill. I guess you were rewarded with this assignment because you are the new guy. Somebody had to do it.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:16:28 +0000

You heard it here first…I bet you that the Marlins end up with a better record this year than they they had last year. They will win 70+ games. Then maybe the people who whine about Loria will just stop whining about how bad for baseball he is, when he is no worse than the owners of the Pirates or the Royals. Even Bill jumps on the bandwagon above. I hope there’s a throwaway line about how “bad for baseball” David Glass is if he does the Kansas City Royals preview. Ya know…since it’s been almost 3 DECADES since they even made the frigging playoffs.