2019-2020 Offseason Discussion

[Nick]

Lee's boy Eddy Alvarez went deep.

[Erick]

Lee's boy Eddy Alvarez went deep.

Opposite field shot

[Nick]

Opposite field shot

It was way out too. Helped by the wind a little, but still an impressive shot.

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Sierra has looked terrible so far.

[lou]

Sierra has looked terrible so far.

He might be the cut for Kemp. Straight swap them on the 40 man, and Brinson can still go to AAA (which I think is a good thing):

Alfaro, Cervelli
Aguilar, Cooper
Isan
Rojas, Berti
Anderson
Dickerson, Ramirez
Villar
Joyce, Kemp

CF is going to be a roller (fucking) coaster, but it basically sets up a playing time battle of the entire bench.

I think you can live with this until you get to Monte (or Brinson if he gets his head on straight).

[fish16]

I’d be cool with keeping kemp at the expense of Sierra. I had hopes for Sierra eventually putting it together but it just doesn’t seem like it’s gonna happen.

Is there any info on vvm putting on any weight over the offseason or anything

[Nick]

Jazz drawing a lot of walks so far this spring. A good sign.

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Jerar just annihilated another ball. Guy is turning heads.

[lou]

Same opinion especially since most C ones sign for slot. Only thing is u can't have 10 C around same level because u pretty much have to get reps

Actually have some solid depth just nothing special(maybe 2 who could be in ML at some point) with most older guys Defensive C only

AAA-Wallach/Lavarnway
AA-Leon/Navaretto/Chavez
Hi A-Banfield/BJ Lopez/Osborne
Lo A-Barstad or Fish/Skelton/Arcaya

I know you like naming names of random guys in the system, but you really need to limit it to prospects. What is this? Why is this information relevant? No one here is blocking anyone?

There are three fringe prospects here at absolute best - Wallach, Banfield and Fortes. This is probably 3 career backups if anything, and maybe Banfield starts hitting and becomes a good backup/platoon guy. No one else is even cracking their likely top 60-75 prospects. I think I've seen 1 random sentence on Fish that he's a good athlete. That's it.

They have *BAD* catcher depth and anyone they draft should not be blocked by anyone on this list. You also only need to take 1 in every draft early, so you're never going to get 10. Who cares if your 17th round pick isn't getting PA. Go out and earn them behind Fortes and Banfield.

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You didn't even mention Fortes.

Jesus

[fish16]

I am not as high as jerar as others but it’s clear he has legit major league power if he can figure out the rest of his hitting approach. Reminds me of ozuna coming up

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Ya I appreciate tjflas knowledge of the system but just naming guys they have to play positions doesn’t mean we have depth, it just means we have bodies. Catcher and first base are our two worst positions in terms of depth in the system. Maybe 3b is somewhere close in there

[lou]

I’d be cool with keeping kemp at the expense of Sierra. I had hopes for Sierra eventually putting it together but it just doesn’t seem like it’s gonna happen.

Is there any info on vvm putting on any weight over the offseason or anything

Sierra seems like a Gorkys Hernandez kind of guy. He's going to bounce around professionally for 10 years as he's fast, and maybe he has a swing change in the next decade that gets some low end Juan Pierre years out of him. Dyson was a late bloomer. You never know.

Not sure he matters for the Marlins.

[fish16]

Also spring training results are pretty meaningless but I do think it says something when you have legitimate prospects in these late innings of early spring training games going against organizational depth guys

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Sierra seems like a Gorkys Hernandez kind of guy. He's going to bounce around professionally for 10 years as he's fast, and maybe he has a swing change in the next decade that gets some low end Juan Pierre years out of him. Dyson was a late bloomer. You never know.

Not sure he matters for the Marlins.

Maybe, I just think at this point according to watching him and various scouting reports he’s just a one trick pony with no earthly idea how to use it. He is fast but doesn’t walk and is horribly inefficient at steals, and he has speed but he is supposedly not a good outfielder. He just doesn’t have any real tools other than speed and he doesn’t know how to effectively use that speed. I feel bad for him in that if you look at his year by year stats he was rushed for absolutely no reason by the cardinals in the year before we traded for him but I just don’t see it working out here, especially with our other outfield depth

[Namaste]

I’m at the game.

The food is terrible but my sons got autographs and pictures with Jazz, Bleday and Donny Baseball so it’s been awesome.

Jerar is a MASSIVE human.

[fish16]

The marlins are in the win column once more

[Nick]

Suck it Grapefruit League.

[fish16]

Jazz has impressed the shit out of me so far between his play and the different extremely high scouting reports

[Lee Stone]

I’m at the game.

The food is terrible but my sons got autographs and pictures with Jazz, Bleday and Donny Baseball so it’s been awesome.

Jerar is a MASSIVE human.

You were an especially great dad today! I remember making note of Encarnacion and Pompey at Jupiter last summer. They were like twin towers.

Great to see Urena go out and fire nothing but strikes. It would do my heart good to see him earn his third straight Opening Day start. (Wouldn't hurt his trade value either).