2020-2021 Offseason Thread

[fish16]

Nola/Heineman Watch. Former Marlin system catchers are in San Diego and St. Louis. Since being cut loose by Miami, Nola has a .289 and .359 start in the bigs. Off to a 2-5 start this spring as the projected starter for the Padres. Heineman starred for the Cardinals yesterday, killing two potential Marlin rallies by throwing out Berti and Marte on attempted steals. He also drew a walk to start the seventh for the Cards.

Was the auto balls and strikes system in use for Marlin games the last couple days?

I think you have the worlds only fetish of extremely mediocre baseball players.

[fish16]

i am a human jinx

[Nick]

So did the TV deal ever get worked out or what?

[fauowls44]

So did the TV deal ever get worked out or what?

The last report was about a week ago when Barry Jackson reported they have a binding term sheet with Sinclair, but that the deal was still being finalized.

[Maddawg]

Any thoughts on MLB ranking the Marlins power ranking at #21 pre-season ? They also have the Rays at #9 I think

[Nick]

Good debut for Rogers 2 Scoreless Innings 0 Hits, 1 BB, 3 Ks, 29 pitches. Fastball sat around 94 MPH.

[Nick]

BA goes deep. 1-0 Fish.

And can I say, loving Kelly Saco and Glenn Geffner as the radio team? I don't think their the regular team, I believe DVH is still around, but like what I'm hearing so far.

[Nick]

Nick Neidert works around a leadoff triple in his 2nd inning, and pitches 2 scoreless innings. 2 IP 0 runs 1 Hit, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 3 Ks.

[fish16]

that 5th spot between neidert and rogers is such a hard choice for me. long term I like rogers better and think he has a real good possibility of being a mid rotation consistent arm but I'm just worried about wtf you do with neidert if he's not in the rotation for yet another year. i'd go with neidert to start, let him get at least a month of starts in there, see what we have and evaluate whether he's a piece moving forward. By doing that you evaluate a good prospect, allow rogers to get more minor league seasoning and maybe get an extra year of control out of him after we brought him up prematurely last year. could be a win win if they play it right but I don't think either would be a bad choice as the 5th guy.

[fish16]

the more i see and hear about our rotation the more I think we are a real possibility as a wild card team this year. And one that gets better as the year goes on with players coming up.

[Nick]

the more i see and hear about our rotation the more I think we are a real possibility as a wild card team this year. And one that gets better as the year goes on with players coming up.

I think we'll have a playoff worthy rotation. The only question is how we'll handle innings. To me there are 11 guys who could see time in the rotation this year. The problem is, I think you can only realistically expect more than 120 innings from 2 of those guys. (Lopez and Sandy) It's going to be a real tricky balance to see how Mattingly and Co. preserve arms so that we have something for later in the season. 11 guys, there's enough guys to be able to pull it off, but the question is when do you give a guy a rest, how do you space out these rests, how much do you have them pitch in the minors? It's going to be tricky.

My 11 guys are:
Sandy
Lopez
Sixto
Hernandez
Rogers
Neidert
Gio
Castano
Garrett
Cabrera
Meyers

[fish16]

I dont see why sixto especially, but also elieser, cant be expected to go more than 120 innings. 150+ is one thing but 120 isn't a super high bar to overcome. I think if we stay healthy in the rotation we are in the wild card hunt till the end of the season. While our lineup isn't spectacular i think there are a lot of really solid pieces, no real hole at all other than C if alfaro still stinks, and we have quality backup options at every position except C and 3b (prospect wise).

[Nick]

I dont see why sixto especially, but also elieser, cant be expected to go more than 120 innings. 150+ is one thing but 120 isn't a super high bar to overcome. I think if we stay healthy in the rotation we are in the wild card hunt till the end of the season. While our lineup isn't spectacular i think there are a lot of really solid pieces, no real hole at all other than C if alfaro still stinks, and we have quality backup options at every position except C and 3b (prospect wise).

Sixto most innings in a season so far: 114, 39 IP last year
Elieser had 130 IP in 2019, so maybe go a little further this season.

I just think coming off the pandemic season, Innings pitched are going to be a constant concern. 120, 150, either way, you're going to have to find some rest spots for these guys.

[fish16]

the more i see of the 2nd base competition the more I think they will give it to Isan to at least start the year. Figure they will give him a month or 2 to prove himself, let jazz continue to finish off his minor league development and get back some service time, I think Jazz would really benefit from time at AAA considering he never played above AA before being thrown into the fire last year.

[fish16]

gonna need to see so much more obviously but alfaro has come out better at the plate thus far and Mattingly raved about his offseason, which is something to potentially be optimistic about because Mattingly doesn't seem to be one of those guys that just blindly praises every guy in spring. Alfaro behind the plate though is kind of awful framing pitches apparently, which shouldn't be a fucking thing if baseball joined the 21st century and just went with a automated strike zone instead of angel Hernandez trending on twitter every time he's behind the plate.