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Marlins Way: Miami Marlins Defense Struggling Early On

One of the few strengths for the Miami Marlins coming into this season was supposed to be their defense. That has not however played out like manager Mike Redmond envisioned so far. “I’m…Read More

Miami Marlins Silenced by San Diego Padres 5-0

In last night’s west coast night cap matchup between the Miami Marlins and the San Deigo Padres, the Marlins ecently surging offense was put to rest by San Diego’s Andrew Cashner. Cashner (2-2) pitched…Read More

Marlins Way: Giancarlo Stanton Awakens

It’s been a long winter this year with inclement weather causing snow outs, rain outs, and frost outs of baseball games all over the northern part of the country in the early part of the season.  While…Read More

Rob Brantly, Giancarlo Stanton Lead Miami Marlins to Victory Over Minnesota Twins, 8-5

Source: FanGraphs After dropping the first game of their double header with the Minnesota Twins, the Miami Marlins were able to bounce back in a huge way. The Marlins offense tied a season high scoring…Read More

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Recap: Miami Marlins (4-14) vs Cincinnati Reds (10-8) 4/21/13

I promise that one day I will have more good than bad and ugly, and it will happen before the season is over, but that day is not today. Welcome to another edition of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Marlins…Read More

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Marlin Maniac’s Miami Marlins Player of the Week

At the beginning of each week and month, the MLB usually names a player from each league to be the player…Read More

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Recap: Miami Marlins (1-4) vs New York Mets (3-2) 4/7/13

Welcome to the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Marlins Recap. So here is the quick recap. The good: Jose…Read More

2013 Marlin Maniac #8 Prospect: C, Rob Brantly

We are almost through our Marlin Maniac top prospect list for the 2013 Miami Marlins. So far we have…Read More

Marlins Way: Miami Marlins to use committee to man centerfield?

If manager Mike Redmond had his way, Christian Yelich would open the season with the Miami Marlins big…Read More

The Miami Marlins: The Nuclear Option vs. Keeping Placeholders

    Ehsan, our fearless leader (and source of all wisdom here at the Maniac) and I got into…Read More

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Recap: Miami Marlins vs St. Louis Cardinals 3/17/13

Welcome to another edition of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Marlins game recap. Today we are recapping…Read More

Miami Marlins Spring Training Recap: Tuneup, 2013 edition

    Even us pond scum bloggers need a little spring training, I guess.  The Marlins hosted…Read More

Three Miami Marlins to Keep an Eye on This Season

When the Miami Marlins kicked off the start of the 2011-2012’ MLB season last year, many people believed…Read More

Marlins Fantasy Value: Pitchers and Catchers

With pitchers and catchers reporting this week, I found it fitting to wrap up the Marlins fantasy outlook…Read More

Miami Marlins: Searching for Silver Linings

    Dark days, indeed.  Cynical ownership.  Shady deals cut with borderline use of public…Read More

Brantly Drives in Game-Winning RBI

    Issuing two walks and two strikeouts in a no-earned-run 5-inning appearance last night,…Read More

Who Earned a Starting Job for Next Year?

    The Marlins, in their struggles this year, brought up a number of players in an effort…Read More

Quick Hits: September in Miami

    The “Twister” needle is spinning so fast right now, no one has a clue where it will…Read More

A Perfect Game. Wrong Winner. Again.

      My son’s baseball coach describes a perfect game as one with a final score of…Read More

Trade Deadline Notes

      The trade deadline has come and gone.  Are the Marlins better off? I’d like…Read More