Archive for July, 2010

Over the weekend, the All-Star teams were (mostly) selected, and two Marlins were selected to play for the National League. Unsurprisingly, those two Marlins were Josh Johnson and Hanley Ramirez. Johnson has had a monster year and should be in contention to start for the team, but it is likely that either Ubaldo Jimenez or Roy Halladay will get the nod. On the other hand, Ramirez will be starting at shortstop for the third year in a row. However, Ramirez has had an odd year this season compared to his last three. Very few players in baseball would find a [...]

A few weeks back, during my hiatus, I stuck in a plug for a project I was working on with regards to the Marlins. Today, I’d like to introduce that project to the Marlin Maniac readership: the Florida Marlins Trade Deadline Primer! About a month back, I was contacted by the guys from TwinsCentric, a group of excellent Minnesota Twins bloggers. They’ve been publishing a few excellent books annually regarding the offseason and trade deadline. This year, they contacted a few of the best team-specific bloggers to help out on their trade deadline primer by contributing what we know about [...]

Editor’s note: John had this piece done well before, right after the draft. However, my work and other such things distracted me and I forgot to put it up. I apolgize. -MJ I generally don’t follow amateur prospects too much, especially those from the high school level.  Without access to numbers, that leaves us only with our eyes.  And considering majority of people do not have the ability to actually watch these players play (myself included), that leaves us with only being able to read what other people see.  So I generally don’t get too high or too low on [...]

Here’s a comparison no one wants to make: Giancarlo Michael Cruz-Stanton: 81 PA, .230/.284/.351, .292 wOBA Cameron Maybin: 201 PA, .225/.290/.341, .287 wOBA Sadly, the early line for Mike Stanton bears a strong resemblance to the putrid line Cameron Maybin put up in his time as a starting outfielder for the Fish this season. For those of you who thought that Stanton would save the team, that was likely not going to happen, even without the early struggle. But for those of us expecting something more tempered, you have to be a little surprised with such tepid results.