Chris Coghlan, OF

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

I do see how some scouts could see Maybin as a fourth outfielder. He gives me Hermida syndrome whenever balls are hit out to centerfield. However, I'd much rather have CC play third and let Cousins man center.

[Ramp]

Why would you love that?

[Jay]

Cause Cousins projects better than a 4th outfielder now?

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

The fact that he doesn't look lost in centerfield and bats left-handed (something that we don't have much of) helps, too.

[Ramp]

Coghlan looks lost in LF, I can only imagine CF

Also, his arm is brutal

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Oh, you were talking about CC in centerfield. I was talking about Cousins.

Agreed. No on CC in center.

[Ramp]

yea Cousins can play a mean CF

he'll also knock himself out running into a wall at some point too, so that will be entertaining

[Party]

Chris Coghlan 2011: Impersonating Hanley

KISSIMMEE -- Chris Coghlan isn't with the Marlins for the second straight day, and that's by design. Manager Edwin Rodriguez said that Coghlan is healthy. But they don't want to take any chances with his left knee, which he injured last season, and aren't allowing him to take two-hour bus trips, at least for the time being.

"We're planning on him to keeping him away from the road trips, at least for the next two weeks," Rodriguez said. "We're taking care of his knee. It's the driving part. If we had a helicopter, he'd be able to play. He's fine. But we're going to try to do that for at least the first two weeks."

Coghlan wasn't with the Marlins in Viera on Wednesday and isn't with them again today for their game against the Astros in Kissimmee. After today, he will have appeared in only one of the Marlins' first four spring training games.

"He looks great," Rodriguez said. "He's been swinging the bat very well. We saw him make one or two plays in center field. His knee is 100 percent. We just want to be careful with him."

Outfield coach Joe Espada also confirmed that Coghlan's health is fine.

"He's getting his work in, but the most important thing is he's getting healthier," Espada said of Coghlan, who is moving to center field this season. "He looks good. He still hasn't gotten a ball where he's been pushed out or challenged. But the most important thing is, at the end of the day, when he goes back in the clubhouse, he feels great."

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[Bobbob1313]

Has there been any word whatsoever on how he's looked in CF?

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

He's only played in two games so far this spring. In the game against the U, no balls were hit to him. In the game on Tuesday, only one ball was hit to him that he had to run in to catch but it wasn't a particularly difficult play and nothing really different than what he handled in left. He hasn't been in any games where someone has hit a ball into either gap or into deep center where we can see how he handles center yet.

[Ramp]

the balls fear him

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

An outfield that is already missing Logan Morrison because of injury is now faced with another major concern: Chris Coghlan.

Coghlan left Wednesday’s game after going to manager Edwin Rodriguez and telling him that his (right) throwing shoulder was too sore to continue.

“He was playing with pain and, after his last at-bat, it was too much,” Rodriguez said.

Nobody knows whether Coghlan will be able to play Friday for the Marlins’ next game.

“We’ll have to wait and see,” Rodriguez said.

But for any player to admit to his manager that the pain is too great to continue is a troubling sign for the Marlins.

The shoulder is the same one that caused Coghlan to miss the bulk of spring training. He said the soreness has continued off and on ever since. On Wednesday, the pain became “sharp,” he said.

“It was something I couldn’t keep going on,” Coghlan said.

Coghlan and Morrison, who is on the disabled list with a strained left arch, are tied for the team lead in home runs with four.

Coghlan drove in three runs with a double in the second inning Wednesday. But before going to bat in the seventh, he told Rodriguez about his shoulder, and the manager replaced him in center with Scott Cousins in the eighth.

“You have to make a decision on how much you can play through,” Coghlan said, adding that he is hopeful he can play Friday but doesn’t know for sure.

Chris Coghlan’s shoulder raising concers for Marlins

[MiamiHomer]

CC out of the line up today.

[Omar]

Not good news

[MiamiHomer]

Manny_Navarro Manny Navarro
Chris Coghlan had an MRI done Thursday (shoulder). No structual damage. Hopes to be back in lineup Saturday.