April Game Thread

[Erick]

Good thing for fish16 that he didn’t make that bet with me about this team being better. This team is easily losing 100+ games this year lol.

[dim]

I know we’re supposed to be positive as fans, but it’s worth pointing out that Lewis Brinson continues to suck and I miss Christian Yelich.

Mike Hill on the radio all but said that Brinson's mechanics at the plate are completely broken. Instead of sending him to the minors they're going to continue to let him fail in the majors when even they know there are problems needed to be fixed.

The worst part is he's here because there is literally no backup plan. He batted .199 last year and got 382 at bats. As much as I trashed Jeremy Hermida even he never managed to do that.

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I still have no idea how you OBP .240 over nearly a full seasons worth of at bats. The only player who I can ever remember doing that poorly and continuing to get chances is Jeff Francoeur and that is also because he was a top 50 prospect in baseball (with initial major league success tho). I am not even upset. I'm kind of fascinated it.

[Maddawg]

This offense is putrid. and its not helped by the likes of herrera, wallach, and batting brinson 8th.

It's a process ....cheer up they may win a game by Tax Day

[Erick]

Honestly, Major League Baseball should consider contraction.

Florida shouldn’t have two teams so just bring the Rays down to Miami. Problem solved.

[Ralph]

6,503 in attendance tonight. Safe to say remodeling the stadium doesn’t matter squat and I honestly hope they didn’t expect it too.

[fish16]

It's a process ....cheer up they may win a game by Tax Day

35 wins max this year

[Maddawg]

Brinson isn't a major league player right now. If he HAS to be here, which it seems he does, 8th is where he should be because he's clearly the worst hitter right now in a bunch of bad hitters sans Anderson and Castro.

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Jeter can try to put lipstick on the pig all he wants but at the end of the day it's obvious you're still looking at a pig.

I guess Fish16 won't go after you since you didn't use the "bust" word, but carefully danced around it

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6,503 in attendance tonight. Safe to say remodeling the stadium doesn’t matter squat and I honestly hope they didn’t expect it too.

But but but Project Wolverine !!!!

[Erick]

35 wins max this year

60 max

[Namaste]

I know we’re supposed to be positive as fans, but it’s worth pointing out that Lewis Brinson continues to suck and I miss Christian Yelich.

Brinson hasn’t had a good start. It’s been two games.

One of his outs tonight was a ball he hit 412 feet.

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60 max

I’ll take Over 60 for a friendly 2 week ban bet.

[Madman81]

Fun story. As I drove to class I was listening to Opening Day on the radio and the announcers went crazy after the Marlins got there first hit. It definitely reminded me of Bob Uecker in Major League and I definitely can't stop thinking that we're watching the real life equivalent of that.

yes sir, they love this club here in miami

[Erick]

Brinson hasn’t had a good start. It’s been two games.

One of his outs tonight was a ball he hit 412 feet.

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I’ll take Over 60 for a friendly 2 week ban bet.

I’m in on the friendly 2 week ban bet. I don’t see this team winning more than 60. They won 63 last year and lost their best player.

[fish16]

They also have a significantly improved rotation compared to a year ago

[Erick]

They also have a significantly improved rotation compared to a year ago

Not really

[lou]

Not really

I think the SP is going to be significantly better too

[Erick]

I think the SP is going to be significantly better too

Why? The talent level is nearly the same. There will also be some innings limits to consider with young pitchers in an irrelevant season. As well as the fact that this won’t be the same starting 5 we’ll have all year because there will be an injury or two at some point.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the staff is decent, but they have to be near perfect to win a lot of games anyway. This team hasn’t gotten better from last year, which I guess is irrelevant because their plan starts in 2020 according to tjfla.