General FA: Beinfest Says Rotation Set

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SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman
#marlins contacted closers, too. but after seeing early prices, may wait to see what happens w/ leo nunez (aka oviedo)

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[MiamiHomer]

Thinking smart! This is awesome.

[Party]

Maybe a new name will turn things around for Juanky Oviedo.

[Metes]

This must be the worst day ever for mibs

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

This must be the worst day ever for mibs

Why would you say that?

[Metes]

Everyone getting hot and bothered about everything

Also, your three hated colors

[Bobbob1313]

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THEY ARE DOING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT I LIKE

[MiamiHomer]

Just arrived at the new Marlins ballpark, where the buzz at the moment is not about the team’s renaming ceremony (set for later tonight) but about Albert Pujols, Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle.

The Marlins have made “substantial offers” to all three players, accoring to a major league source.

Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports first reported the Pujols and Reyes offers, while Jon Heyman first tweeted the Buehrle offer.

The source would not offer any details on the length or dollar amount of the offers but said the Marlins were not ruling out the possibility of signing all three.

The team also hopes to sign center fielder Yoenis Cespedes once he qualifies for free agency.

There has long been speculation that the Marlins would sign maybe one or two those four players, but the source said that thinking is part of a past culture with the Marlins that no longer exists — a culture that changes when the new ballpark opens.

The news adds even more energy to an event that will culminate later with the unveiling of new uniforms and the team’s new name, Miami Marlins.

Interested to see what the “substantial offer” was to Pujols, who in January received from the Cardinals a reported nine-year offer worth an average of $22 million to $22.75 million.

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http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/marli...ls-jose-reyes/
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holy crap holy crap holy crap

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There has long been speculation that the Marlins would sign maybe one or two those four players, but the source said that thinking is part of a past culture with the Marlins that no longer exists — a culture that changes when the new ballpark opens.

boom

I can proudly say I believed in this all along.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Everyone getting hot and bothered about everything

Also, your three hated colors

You guys can get as excited as you like. As I said, I'll withhold my enthusiasm until they are on the roster. We are a long way from that.

And I don't hate the blue. Just the orange. The yellow is very insignificant in this look.

[Big Z]

Wow, LeBatard better do a rant for us if this happens!

Anyone think that if we get those 3 guys, we would be averaging 30-35k a game?

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

From the Sporting News...

So the Florida Marlins are meeting with Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and the new Cuban sensation. And they supposedly are interested in Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder. And they already have spent $10 million on Ozzie Guillen.

What in the world of fiscal responsibility is going on? Did someone finally order Jeffrey Loria to spend some of those millions from revenue sharing on his payroll?

Hardly. This is, of course, about the team’s long-awaited move into a new ballpark. After all these years of saying a new stadium would be the answer to the Marlins’ lousy attendance, a season of half-full crowds wouldn’t go over well with taxpayers. The Marlins need to sell tickets and after their last-place finish in the NL East, little about this past season is marketable.

This eagerness to spend has put the Marlins in the Hot Stove spotlight at an opportune time. While striking fast in the offseason isn’t unusual for them, they have other motives this week to be cast as an aggressive spender.

On Friday night at an invitation-only shindig, the team officially will change its name to the Miami Marlins and introduce a new logo and new uniforms. At 11 p.m. on the 11-11-11 event, they will open a team store at the new ballpark to peddle new apparel. Turning a uniform unveiling into a Friday night celebrity bash is so Miami. And just to make sure the occasion is worthy of paparazzi, they are talking up the chances of signing Reyes or Pujols in the preceding days.

Don't think such a marketing ploy would be beneath the Marlins. This is a team with a history of deceiving the public and its fans. The Marlins cried poor for years when they actually were turning healthy profits because of revenue sharing, according to Forbes. They begged for stadium financing during a time when they were clearing $49 million, according to club documents obtained by Deadspin. They will pay only $155 million of the costs for the $515 million project that the Miami New Times called "probably the worst deal for taxpayers of any stadium in America."

From a baseball standpoint, most of the big-name free agents the Marlins are connecting themselves to don't make a lot of sense. For example, the Marlins already have an injury-prone shortstop in Hanley Ramirez. They don't need to gamble $100 million-plus on another in Reyes.

Giving Pujols $200 million would be unnecessary. As cool and comfortable as their new park appears, no one in baseball is convinced it will be the answers to the Marlins' annual attendance woes. If attendance flat lines after a couple of years in the new home, the Marlins again will be looking at a reduced payroll.

Allotting $20-plus million to Pujols is manageable if the payroll is $85 million, as is being projected for 2012. But if the payroll is in the $55 million range, as in 2011, such a salary would be out of proportion. Even if the Marlins were willing to take that kind of chance, Pujols wouldn’t. He knows how difficult winning would be on a team stocked with minimum-salaried youngsters.

Pursuing Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes would give the Marlins a player easily marketable in their new home, located in the Little Havana section of Miami. But to land Cespedes, the Marlins might have to outbid the New York Yankees. Even with a beefed-up payroll, they aren’t in position to overpay for players.

Signing Buehrle for two years would be a solid but hardly impactful move. The crafty lefthander would eat innings and make attending his starts a pleasurable outing because he works so swiftly. But he wouldn’t turn the dial in the NL East.

What the Marlins need to contend next year is to get back Ramirez and ace Josh Johnson at full strength. Those two mean to the Marlins what Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander mean to the Detroit Tigers. Along with Mike Stanton, Gaby Sanchez, Logan Morrison and Emilio Bonifacio, the Marlins have a lineup that stacks up with any in the NL East.

Upgrading the rotation and finding a closer are the club's real offseason priorities. For years, the Marlins have counted on promising youngsters such as Ricky Nolasco and Chris Volstad to develop into winning workhorses. It hasn't happened, and the Marlins no longer can afford to wait.

They have money to spend and they want to spend it. So they say, anyway.

Sporting news

A little more credible than the blogger.

But forgive me for raining on the parade.

[Fritz]

Jesus Mibs. You're a fucking killjoy and if your shitty-ass object of affection didn't suck ass and wasn't guaranteed to be replaced you wouldn't be such a piss-soaked blanket covered in smallpox.

[AdamRavs]

Jesus Mibs. You're a fucking killjoy and if your shitty-ass object of affection didn't suck ass and wasn't guaranteed to be replaced you wouldn't be such a piss-soaked blanket covered in smallpox.

Could be the best sentence I have read in a longggggggggg time

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ehe, she posted some guy's opinion

at least Capozzi's wasn't an opinion piece