Revisiting ‘03 will go back to reviewing some of the seasons of individual Marlins players, but I also wanted to go through the season and tell the story of 2003 with the sabermetric lens. I wanted to start at the point which I clearly remember, some 10 games after Jack McKeon took over for fired [...]

Welcome back to Revisiting ‘03, a series in which we look at the 2003 World Series champion Florida Marlins through my new sabermetric lenses. Today, I wanted to talk about the often ballyhooed cliche of “defense wins championships.”
As of late, defense has gotten more and more important in the eyes of executives who run this [...]

Last week in Revisiting ‘03, we delved into the 2003 season and subsequent career of former young stud pitcher Dontrelle Willis. Willis of course was an integral part of the 2003 World Series winning Florida Marlins, but he was just one part of an excellent five-man rotation that contributed around 15 WAR for the team [...]

Welcome back to Revisiting ‘03, a sabermetric look at the amazing 2003 Florida Marlins team that won the World Series. As you can tell from the title, we have but one target for today’s piece, and that man is the D-Train, former Marlins lefty starter Dontrelle Willis. Let’s take a look at that 2003 season [...]

Continuing our Revisiting ‘03 series, today we look at one of the most interesting factors of that 2003 team, a factor that the Marlins’ brass often says it attempts to emulate in their recent team designs. That’s right, today we’re looking at speed.
Now, I’m not a huge proponent of speed as an important aspect of [...]