Ken Rosenthal: Coghlan for ROY

[Jewbility]

Can I try!!???!


Bonifacio is to emerge as the Titanic is to float.

[lou]

$$$$$$$$$$$

He gone

Yep. They would need about $45 million to keep him, and they would have to get rid of Cantu, Ross/Hermida, Anibal, Amezaga, and Proctor at an absolute minimum. That seems like a bit to much salary to me.

I'm pretty hopeful this is the team:

R Maybin CF
L Coghlan 2B/LF
R Hanley SS
R Cantu 3B
L Baker C
R Ross RF
R G. Sanchez 1B
R/S Carroll LF / Bonifacio 2B

Just let Coghlan migrate between the two positions. You also replace Gload with a good 1B/LF, preferably a left hander, and that provides depth if BC and EB cannot do a Michael Bourn impression in 2010. And then you god willingly have Petersen and Morrison ready to hit in June and if life is perfect, they take over 1B and LF both hitting harder than what we start the year with. Groom Gaby to be a baby Wes Helms, EB to be baby Amezaga, and BC for the 5th outfielder who hits lefties, and that's that.

Not that big of a deal if this is how it goes down. Keeping all the pitching together (meaning everyone but Anibal, or even keep him too if it's feasible) is much more important to me than worrying about the hitters.

[Ramp]

We'll prob give Gload a 2 year deal

[lou]

We'll prob give Gload a 2 year deal

I'll take a .781 OPS vs RHP from a guy on the bench if that 2 year deal is cheap.

[Ramp]

nope, not for me

[lou]

nope, not for me

I can't wait till you miss Ross Gload when we sign Mike Lamb or some other assface

[Ramp]

I will never ever ever ever miss Ross Gload ever never

[Party]

That would be hilarious. Marlins brass handing out more multi-year contracts to the bench than to the rest of the roster over the last 3 (4?) years.

[Swifty]

That lineup's fucking horrific.

[Party]

Ehe, remember the Enc, Sea Bass, pitcher Black Hole of outs?

[Swifty]

It'll have nothing on that Gaby/Carroll-Boni/Pitcher/Maybin reach around of suckyness.

[Party]

I have serious doubts about the ability to contend from a line-up that is essentially 1/3 (or 4/9 if you agree with Swift) automatic outs for three months with the rest of the season depending on two or more prospects that have never done anything at the ML level.

With the service clocks ticking, and most of the keepers on the roster at or near what they will reasonably do at the ML level, wasting a season to wait for those can't miss guys before being considered legitimate contenders is setting yourself up for a whole lot of disappointment.

[lou]

That lineup is getting rid of a .750 Hermida and an .825 Uggla.

Maybin can hit .825, Gaby can hit .750. Where's the drop? Or am I being a homer with Maybin? I do think he will go all McCutchen/Ad. Jones on us though. Sooner rather than later.

[Swifty]

You're not just being a homer with Maybin, you're being utterly absurd with Gaby. He put up .850 as a 26 year old PCL'er, asking for merely a .100 drop is overly ambitious.
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And what's more, it isn't just OPS, we're losing the 3rd and 4th highest qualifed OBPs on the team. That can't just walk out the door.

[Bobbob1313]

You're not just being a homer with Maybin, you're being utterly absurd with Gaby. He put up .850 as a 26 year old PCL'er, asking for merely a .100 drop is overly ambitious.
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And what's more, it isn't just OPS, we're losing the 3rd and 4th highest qualifed OBPs on the team. That can't just walk out the door.

Maybin and Gaby both have good on base skills, so losing the OBP isn't really the worry. It's the slugging. I don't think it's absurd to say Gaby vs LHP + random guy who hits RHP at a reasonable rate can't replace + Maybin can't replace Uggla and Hermida.