Marlins 2013 Off-season Thread

[Mainge]

It's potentially a nice gamble. You don't give away core assets for him, and you don't rely on him, but you don't toss him out of the equation entirely, either.

[HUGG]

I don't disagree with that.

I wouldn't give them Turner for him, though.

[Mainge]

I wouldn't either. And I think Turner sucks.

[Jay]

His BABIP was .207 with the Cubs but it was .288 while in Round Rock so it isn't all due to being unlucky. Yes it decreased from every other year when it was over 300 but .288 is probably where you would expect it to be with a large sample size.

He also struck out a third of his at bats in Round Rock. It was back at 24% with the Cubs which is still high but back to the numbers he had the prior two years.

His power numbers dropped with both teams. While I'd take the .209 ISO he put up in Round Rock any day of the week. It's still a significant drop from the .291 and .238 he had the two years before. And then after joining the Cubs he had an ISO of .107. WTF happened there?

His BB rate dropped slightly but it was still good and it was the only part of his game at the plate with the Cubs.

I'm glad to see people agree with me about not giving away Turner. I may over value him but he is far more of a proven asset than Olt right now and 3 years younger. That said I'd love to give up Nicolini, Flynn, Koehler, Hand and another arm or even two of them to get Olt as I think they are all can be considered organizational filler at the end of the day.

[Ralph]

I think he had some weird eye problem this year.

[Jay]

I think he had some weird eye problem this year.

I looked into this because I remembered hearing about it previously. So apparently he was having "floaters" in his eyes. Not sure what this means but I'm done searching. Ok, I lied, last link clicked said his right eye wasn't producing tears and this all could have to do with getting hit in the temple in winter league play.

He apparently could fix the problem by blinking or taking special eye drops. According to one article I came across he started using these drops before every game once he came back from the DL. The eye drops couldn't be used long term due to serious side effects. I don't see blinking being a serious option when in the middle of an at bat.

I have not seen any clear statement that this problem has been fixed. So unless you find evidence indicating otherwise he might not be worth pursuing. With the number of eye specialists the guy has supposedly seen, I doubt this team can point him in the direction of a better one.

This all makes me wonder: how was he still able to maintain such a high walk rate last year? These reports were available via easy web searches using the term "Mike Olt eye" so you would think pitchers would just be told to throw strikes against him. Olt impresses me that he still maintained such patience through this but that walk rate is so confounding given the situations. I know outliers do exist and this just be one of those cases but it still confuses the hell out of me.

Best article I saw about this whole thing: http://articles.courant.com/2013-10-...ers-brad-olt/2

[Beef]

Floaters include those funny little dust-string looking things that move from side to side (or float) as your eye moves. It can mean there more going in behind the eye (more than metes the eye)

[Namaste]

Transformers, more than Metes the eye.

[Big Z]

Barry Jackson reporting we have reached a one year agreement with McGehee via twitter.

[BigGameFish]

Kyle Skipworth DFA

[tjfla]

Kyle Skipworth DFA

Skip cleared waivers and now can be a backup C in NOLA for the next 2 years
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Jordany Valdespin has been signed to a minor league deal

[HUGG]

That Valdespin signing could maybe end up being a great move. There's some talent there.



Unless he acts like a mega dbag again.

[NoNames7225]

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/met...some-mets-fans

[fauowls44]

He's got talent. Decent gamble on a minor league deal.

[lou]

It'll be fun when they cut Bugosevic and keep Valdespin