2025 Game Thread

[Namaste]

Kyle Stowers 4 for 4 with 2 HR’s. Losing two games 7-6 this week sucked.

[Nick]

Our new City Connect jerseys suck shit.

[Nick]

not sure if sandy is injured but a phantom minor injury that requires a rehab start or 2 wouldnt be the worst thing for him right now

He doesn't seem injured to me. It seems as simple as when he tries to get a hitter to chase he's way out of the strike zone and when he tries to throw strikes it's right down the dick of the plate. He's just not locating.

[sports24/7]

Let's hope Sandy gets better quickly, but assuming he continues to struggle I would really hope the Marlins don't just sell him for whatever they can get to move his contract, and hang on to him hoping he raises his stock, even if that means trading him next year. Their payroll is so low that there's no good reason to do the former.

[fish16]

not sure if sandy is injured but a phantom minor injury that requires a rehab start or 2 wouldnt be the worst thing for him right now

[Namaste]

Has Sandy ever pitched well in a game at Dodger Stadium?

[Nick]

Andrew Salas went 4-5 tonight. His OBP is .500 at Jupiter.

17-years old.

[Todd]

I dont think Lopez should be a late inning

The issue is his glove probably doesnt make up for how bad of a hitter he is.

70 WRC+. 69 OPS+

That's worse than Marlins era Donovan Solano. And it isn't like he has a track record and you can chalk it up to being a slow start like you can with Swanson or Correa.

[fish16]

jakob marsee has a pretty bizarre hitting profile. Doesnt hit for any average or power but walks a ton and steals a shit ton of bases efficiently. last year hit .200 with 10 hr's but 51 steals and 92 walks. this year he's hitting .240 but 20/22 in SB's and has 20 bb's to 22 k's.

[fish16]

joe mack hit another HR in AAA today. Looks like they are going to go from having some of the worst catchers in baseball for like 7 consecutive years to having 2 good looking young ones very quickly.

[fish16]

Moving Cabrera to the pen, Lopez to late inning defensive replacement, Norby to 2B, and Wagaman to 3B, calling up de los Santos and Bellozo are moves that need to be made.

kind of with you. I dont think Lopez should be a late inning replacement but i wouldnt mind seeing him and Wagaman switching days in the lineup with norby shifting between 2b and 3b those days. Neither is probably a starter but both should get some at bats. De Los Santos i would give a couple more months in AAA. Bellozo is probably deserving of being up here above Cabrera and obviously Gillispie at this point, but i'd like to see Mazur get some starts if the choice is between him and bellozo. or you call them both up and get cabrera in the pen and then you have the open spot in the rotation already with Gillispie sent down.

Cabrera out of the pen needs to happen though. Just feels like it wont happen in the rotation and maybe he can find some more consistency or at least be a guy that sucks to face in short bursts out of the bullpen.

[Todd]

Moving Cabrera to the pen, Lopez to late inning defensive replacement, Norby to 2B, and Wagaman to 3B, calling up de los Santos and Bellozo are moves that need to be made.

[fish16]

the payroll disparity between the teams in this series is absurd. Also, maybe time to just get it over with and move Cabrera to the pen and see if it can help him become more effective.

[Namaste]

The Almost Marlins are back

[fish16]

It’s almost as if every trade Bendix made wasn’t terrible like you’ve told us 47 times!

at no point did i say every trade he has made was terrible. ive specifically said he did well on the scott trade and the rogers trade. i have said a full tear down rebuild was completely unnecessary and a complete misread on the market down here, and ive also said he sold low on just about every single guy other than Scott, which he did. And our sub 8k crowds every single night would tell you that this market is done with this franchise doing the bare minimum to compete and tearing it down at every opportunity. It's ok to sign guys long term. It might have helped us keep the top of the rotation lefty arm that we dealt at his lowest value that we dealt for an 18 year old SS who hits for 0 power.

Just like it would be ok to keep sandy and, GASP, build around a great player long term, though of course they wont.