Well they bought the '97 team then the '03 team was the prospects they traded the '97 stars for. So they basically bought both titles. I hate that team. If ever there was a franchise that didn't deserve it's success, it's them
Well they bought the '97 team then the '03 team was the prospects they traded the '97 stars for. So they basically bought both titles. I hate that team. If ever there was a franchise that didn't deserve it's success, it's them
So they basically won those two titles doing the same thing every franchise does? I'm confused. I remember that Pudge trade in 2003 was a big factor in them getting there.
He's the best hitter on that team. Dude can hit a baseball a country mile. Anywhere but that sinkhole of a franchise and he'd be huge.
Yet hes still batting .233. Just cause he can hit it far doesnt mean hes some great player.
If you base a player's worth off of batting average then I don't know what to tell you. He had the worst slump of his career in the first half of the season so his numbers are down from career norms. He was a MVP candidate in 2014 and would have been in the conversation in 2015 if not for injury. And he's only 26. He's a damn good player.
Well they bought the '97 team then the '03 team was the prospects they traded the '97 stars for. So they basically bought both titles. I hate that team. If ever there was a franchise that didn't deserve it's success, it's them
So they basically won those two titles doing the same thing every franchise does? I'm confused. I remember that Pudge trade in 2003 was a big factor in them getting there.
In '97 they went out and signed half the free agents on the market. Alex Fernandez, Bobby Bonilla, Moises Alou, Al Leiter, Dennis Cook...They had a .500 team that they supplemented ridiculously to win a championship. Alex Fernandez was the only one to last through the purge and that was because he tore his rotator cuff. By the end of '98, they had traded Bonilla and Gary Sheffield to the Dodgers, Leiter and Cook to the Mets, Alou to the Astros, Kevin Brown to the Padres, Jeff Conine to the Royals. By the end of '99, Livan Hernandez and Edgar Renteria were gone. They couldn't afford what they had put together. I hate teams that buy their championships anyways. People shit on the Heat teams LeBron was on, but it was no different. It's bad for sports. But anyways, the prospects they got for all their trading formed the core of the '03 team...and then they traded all those guys as well. Pudge was signed to a one year make-or-break contract coming off a few injury-plagued seasons with the Rangers. He was a nice leadership addition, but he was by no means a premier free agent that year. It was different when he hit the market again the next season and you guys signed him. But in total, the Marlins are a shit organization that have never had any problem lying to free agents, managers and their own fans. They used the signing of their free agent crop a few years ago in Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, etc and getting Ozzie Guillen to manage in order to fool the city into building a new stadium. Then, they sold off all those players and fired Ozzie after it got greenlit. It's especially frustrating as a Braves fan because through all of our success in that time period, they won more championships. But the Braves put their teams together the old school way. Aside from Greg Maddux, all of our major players were either home grown or journeyman scrubs that our coaching staff had to fix. We had to build teams the way that the Pirates and A's do now. To have some scrub team in your division come along and just buy a championship like they did sucks. Especially when we still won the division both of the years they won their titles
I've never been on the Fire Ausmus bandwagon but his mismanagement of Sanchez tonight really pissed me off. He always leaves Pelfrey and Sanchez in one inning too long. Also Aviles should not be on a major league roster but that's on Avila.
Good thing you did, because he wasn't done. Two on, one out in the bottom of the 9th, down by 4, you have Collins who hit a home run recently on the bench, and he lets Aviles bat. He lucks into a single, but then you let McCann and Iglesias hit instead of bringing in Salty who's hit the ball well lately. Easily the most angry I've been at Ausmus this season.
Wow Chris Sale refused to wear a throw back Jersey so he was scratched from yesterday's game and now they're saying that he's more likely to be traded. Kind of a bitch move by Sale. There's always room on the Yankees rotation doe. We don't even wear alternate jerseys during the regular season.
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If you base a player's worth off of batting average then I don't know what to tell you. He had the worst slump of his career in the first half of the season so his numbers are down from career norms. He was a MVP candidate in 2014 and would have been in the conversation in 2015 if not for injury. And he's only 26. He's a damn good player.