Ah, a familiar name lands on the #2 spot. For the third time in our top ten seasons list for the decade, Hanley Ramirez shows up once again, this time for his accomplishments in the most recent 2009 season. Let’s take a retrospective look.

For our second #3 season of the Decade Top Ten, we’ll discuss one of the best Marlins of the decade in his best season of the decade. While Miguel Cabrera has always been an excellent hitter as a member of the Marlin, the 2006 season brought about one of the few campaigns in which Cabrera showed a passable glove, and that glove helped supplement an excellent season.

Our #4 and #3 seasons are actually tied in terms of WAR, so I won’t quibble about the order. I did want to talk specifically about one of my favorite players of all time (oddly enough), former Marlin left fielder Cliff Floyd. He logs in tied for #3 on our list best Marlins seasons this decade. Let’s take a look at his outstanding 2001 season.

Now that we’ve finished out the bottom five of the top ten seasons by Marlins this decade, we can move into the top five seasons, all above 6 WAR. The first season we’ll discuss is the Cy Young runner-up campaign that former Marlin Dontrelle Willis put up in 2005. Let’s dive into that awesome campaign.

Rounding out the bottom half of the Decade Top Ten Seasons for the Florida Marlins is yet another season by the best current Marlin in the game, Hanley Ramirez. For our #6 season, we’ll be looking at the offensive breakout 2007 that Hanley turned in.

For our #7 season of the Marlins’ decade, we go to our most recent team season and check out one outstanding pitching performance by one of the better pitchers we have had this decade. Today we’ll discuss the 2009 effort provided by current Marlins fireballing righty Josh Johnson.

I apologize for missing out on yesterday’s Marlins Top Ten Seasons of the decade. I will definitely attempt to make up the number soon. We’ll see how much I can get done today. Now, on to the #8 season of the decadee for the Florida Marlins, the 2006 Rookie of the Year season for current Marlins superstar Hanley Ramirez.

As you all may know, it is Christmas Eve, the day portion of it (at least for me). This Christmas, I’m not planning to get much for myself. I am planning on getting gifts for people, but it is otherwise going to be a dull Christmas. I suspect the same thing will be the case for the Florida Marlins. Still, I think it would be a good idea for me to ask Santa to help out the Marlins with their personnel moves. So here’s my Christmas wish list for the Marlins for the rest of the offseason.

Since I missed out on last week’s Saber-Terms series, I figured I’d give out a double dose of explanations this week. Since I talked yesterday about Carl Pavano and his value to the 2004 Florida Marlins, I figured it would be nice to start a discussion on defense independent pitching statistics, more commonly referred to as DIPS. And so we begin another Saber-Terms chapter!

The first thing I should mention is that there are two awesome new Pitch f/x tools recently released for the lazy analysts like you and me. Of course, you know about Dan Brooks’ site, Brooks Baseball, which gives us live updates on pitchers, complete with awesome graphics. But TexasLeaguers now has a tool that conglomerates that data for pitchers and hitters and gives us some awesome rate data.
In addition, I’ve done some work with Pitch f/x in by gathering player data by collecting all of the data from Brooks Baseball, a tedious task no doubt. However, Joe Lefkowitz has made [...]