Padres @ Marlins 1:10

[Goodfella]

"The Leslie Neilson diary", really?

[Marlinsfan4lyfe]

Thnk god we didnt get swept by the padres

[Sashimi]

We ride the Cantu train hard out of the notion that he's "clutch."

I love him, but the guy hasn't been the same since he hurt his hand. He was ungodly before the injury, so I'm willing to say there might still be something to that, but yeah, our offense is pretty weak.

It'll never happen, but hitting Baker or Hermida 3rd, Hanley 4th might not be the worst experiment in the world.

The weird thing is, he actually stayed hot for a good while after getting hit on the hand. Maybe it eventually caught up to him. And maybe that's just who he is: capable of a great month here or there but pretty much a sub-.800 OPS guy with so-so power, but not someone who should be the clean-up hitter on a team with playoff aspirations.

[dgriot]

I couldn't live with that.

Carroll, not a slight at all, is a high end 4th OF. Great defense, lets you get him 4 days worth of AB's resting people, plus being a late inning defensive fill in and a Sunday starter, but his bat just won't let him play a corner as a starter, even if his defense is superb.

If Maybin falls on his face again (you never know) that outfield is fucking awful, and a team on a budget cannot throw away production from the outfield in the name of defense. Outfield defense is overrated, and production from a corner outfielder is cheap and easy to come by.

I think if Maybin falls on his face again, we're screwed regardless. Am I overrating Carroll by thinking he has a decent shot of replicating what Ross gives us now? Who do you see being starting LF next season - would the FO actually go out and get a legit offensive stopgap there until Morrison or whoever internally can take the reigns?