Marlin Maniac » Revisiting ’03 http://marlinmaniac.com A Miami Marlins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:56:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 1997 v. 2003: Left Field http://marlinmaniac.com/2012/01/24/1997-v-2003-left-field/ http://marlinmaniac.com/2012/01/24/1997-v-2003-left-field/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:30 +0000 Ehsan Kassim http://marlinmaniac.com/?p=6107 We have already taken a look at the catcher, first base, and second base, third base, and short stop positions. Here is a look at how the current team that you guys have voted on looks like:

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The ironic thing about this question is that the Marlins starting second baseman to begin the 1997 season was actually Castillo. However, after a season filled with struggles for the youngster, the Marlins decided to demote Castillo and made a trade for Counsell. On July 27, Craig Counsell was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Marlins for Mark Hutton. Counsell of course became a Marlins hero in the World Series after hitting a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning to tie the game. He then scored the game winning run on a base hit by Edgar Renteria.

In 2003, Luis Castillo and Juan Pierre provided one of the best 1-2 punches in all of baseball. Castillo earned his second all-star appearance and won his gold glove in 2003. Luis Castillo was a major part of the whole Steve Bartman incident. Castillo was at the plate and was fouling pitch after pitch off to keep his at bat alive against Mark Prior. The incident down the left field line took place, and Castillo drew a walk from there and the infamous inning took place. I am not going to spend anymore time talking about the whole Steve Bartman right now.

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Charles Johnson played baseball at the University of Miami before he was snagged by the Marlins in the first round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft. Johnson became just the fourth catcher to win a gold glove award at the catcher position in his rookie season. Johnson caught Al Leiter’s no-hitter in 1996 and Kevin Brown’s in 1997. CJ was traded in the 1998 season but was back to catch his third no-hitter with the Fish when A.J. Burnett tossed one in 2002.

Ivan Rodriguez’s career with the Marlins is much easier to summarize. Rodriguez signed a one year deal with the Marlins at about $10 million, though much of the contract was deferred. Rodriguez was slotted in the three hole for the Fish much of the season and was a major contributor to the teams success that season.

That is all for the background on those players. For the purpose of this poll, please leave out the fact that Johnson was on the Marlins for a much longer tenure then Rodriguez. Let’s take a look at how each players seasons compared to each other statistically.

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