2025 Game Thread

[Nick]

17-year old Andrew Salas has an OBP of .500 currently at Jupiter.

[sports24/7]

It's VERY early, but many of Bendix's moves are looking pretty good thus far. The Marlins may have one of the better systems in baseball in the near future. If only they could supplement that with some smart spending on key positions, there might actually be a future here. Unfortunately with this owner...

[fish16]

It's VERY early, but many of Bendix's moves are looking pretty good thus far. The Marlins may have one of the better systems in baseball in the near future. If only they could supplement that with some smart spending on key positions, there might actually be a future here. Unfortunately with this owner...

i will be thrilled to eat crow on him as that's good for the team. A lot of the moves do look better but it's early so hopefully it continues. the one thing i will say is that the player development seems to be much better than the previous regimes. guys would either get drafted and stall out or just suck entirely. There seems to be real development at all levels right now between Alderman, Mack the last 2 years, Stowers and Conine at the big league level, Sanoja, The development of these guys year to year seems to be getting better, though it could just be bringing in better and more talented pieces.

My concern at this point is if they are just moving from a pitching strength to a hitting strength and we are just right back in the same situation with an unbalanced team. Hopefully white and the 2 meyers and snelling make some noise up here, plus eury and weathers. And if Sandy doesnt get back to his old self this year, id just hold onto him. There is no rush to trade him. I hope they dont trade him at his lowest value.

[Todd]

I wouldn't be shocked if the plan wasn't to alternate high end pitching and position talent every draft from here on out.

[rmc523]

I know it's a pipe dream, but if we could go out and get one of the SS Free Agents (Bo Bichette, Trevor Story, Ha-Seong Kim) it could be an interesting lineup in 2026.

C - Mack/Ramirez
1B - Mervis/De Los Santos
2B- Edwards
3B - Norby
SS - FA SS
LF - Conine
CF - Sanoja
RF - Stowers
DH - Ramirez/Myers

Bench - Ronny Simon UTIL, You could have Fortes come back, since Ramirez would be mainly a DH, or could keep another righty bat like Wagaman.

Deal Otto and Sanchez at the deadline.

Rotation:

1. Sandy
2. Max
3. Eury
4. Weathers
5. Mazur/Snelling/Braxton/Cabrera

White waiting in the wings.

Spend some money on the bullpen.

Channeling your inner Lou, eh? Hahaha

[Nick]

Salas' OBP up to .511. .905 OPS.

[sports24/7]

i will be thrilled to eat crow on him as that's good for the team. A lot of the moves do look better but it's early so hopefully it continues. the one thing i will say is that the player development seems to be much better than the previous regimes. guys would either get drafted and stall out or just suck entirely. There seems to be real development at all levels right now between Alderman, Mack the last 2 years, Stowers and Conine at the big league level, Sanoja, The development of these guys year to year seems to be getting better, though it could just be bringing in better and more talented pieces.

My concern at this point is if they are just moving from a pitching strength to a hitting strength and we are just right back in the same situation with an unbalanced team. Hopefully white and the 2 meyers and snelling make some noise up here, plus eury and weathers. And if Sandy doesnt get back to his old self this year, id just hold onto him. There is no rush to trade him. I hope they dont trade him at his lowest value.

It's definitely still early, but it's encouraging to see some hitting development finally.

I'm not sure I'd be overly worried about moving from pitching to hitting strength. They badly needed hitting, so that was a focus. But you mentioned Eury, White, Snelling, Meyer, and Weathers. That's 5 pitchers who should be here for a while. On top of that you have Cabrera, Garrett, Fulton, and Mazur. While none of them may be front line guys, if a couple are even decent back end guys that would be good. In the lower levels you have Nobel Meyer and Keyner Benitez who both have significant upside, and could end up with something from guys like Aiden May, Keven DeFrank, or Karson Milbrandt.

[Namaste]

Jesus and Augustin with huge DINGERS tonight

The buzz is palpable.

[Nick]

Can we get Adam Mazur up here please?

[Namaste]

Run Differential got CLAPPED tonight

[rmc523]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/...r-surgery.html

griffin combine to undergo shoulder surgery

[sports24/7]

After going so long with absolute garbage at the catcher position, it's so nice to have two legitimate catching prospects in the system.

[fish16]

After yesterdays disaster, Gillespie’s xERA is 3.70 and his xFIP is 4.35

hows that going for him now? the dude stinks and he stunk all year.

[fish16]

Mazur should be next in line and then Snelling soon after that. I'd imagine the guy they brought up when they sent gillispie down is just an innings eater until the next time that turn in the rotation comes up.

[fish16]

ramirez looks ridiculous. his 2 homers in seattle looked like doubles off the bat of anyone else. joe mack is also off to a hot start in AAA