Division Rivals: Marlins in 2013

[Edgy MD]

Marlins and Indians said to be competing with the Mets in the retread marketplace, pursuing wayward gyroballer Daisuke Matsuzaka for the joy of the minor league deal, according to the always reliable Gen Sueyoshi of yakyubaka.com

http://nesn.com/2013/01/report-daisuke-matsuzaka-deciding-between-indians-marlins-mets/

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[seawolf17]

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I totally disagree.

[bmfc1]

Life on the Marlins:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sports-buzz/2013/01/more-loria-behavior-criticized-dolphins-heat-canes-chatter.html
Their two remaining fans should be upset.

[Farmer Ted]

Beating a dead horse.

http://deadspin.com/5983170/this-is-the-line-for-single-game-marlins-tickets-minutes-before-they-went-on-sale

[metirish]

Loria takes out full page ads in various Miami papers


http://miamiherald.typepad.com/fish_bytes/2013/02/jeffrey-lorias-letter-to-our-fans.html#storylink=cpy

[Edgy MD]

That should increase his outreach.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Loria takes out full page ads in various Miami papers http://miamiherald.typepad.com/fish_bytes/2013/02/jeffrey-lorias-letter-to-our-fans.html#storylink=cpy

spent more on that than the roster.

[ashie62]

That letter could have been written by Fred Wilpon after Minaya left.. Fred builds a stadium at the height of a housing bubble, dumbass...

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Ashie62 wrote: That letter could have been written by Fred Wilpon after Minaya left.. Fred builds a stadium at the height of a housing bubble, dumbass...

When would be the proper time to build it?

[G-Fafif]

He spelled incumbent wrong.

[Edgy MD]

The fact is, with your help, we built Marlins Park, a crown jewel in our beautiful Miami skyline, which has won over twenty design and architecture awards and will help make us a premiere ballclub moving forward.

I was going to waste perfectly good time looking up what these awards were. Fortunately Deadspin beat me to it and came up with 16 of them.

Best Project Awards


• Engineering News Report
  National Sports & Entertainment
  December, 2012
  Marlins Park
  
• Engineering News Report
  Southeast Sports & Entertainment
  November, 2012



Eagle Awards


• ABC-FEC Excellence in Construction
  Mega-Projects (More than $200 million)
  October, 2012
  
• ABC-FEC Excellence in Construction
  Other Specialty Construction
  October, 2012
  
• ABC-FEC Excellence in Construction
  Interiors, Acoustical, Drywall, Millwork, or Plaster
  October, 2012
  
• ABC-FEC Excellence in Construction
  Mechanical - More than $20 million
  October, 2012



Craftsmanship Awards


• Construction Association of South Florida
  Ornamental Metal
  November, 2012
  
• Construction Association of South Florida
  Ceramic Tile
  November, 2012
  
• Construction Association of South Florida
  Stucco
  November, 2012
  
• Construction Association of South Florida
  Glass & Glazing
  November, 2012



Grand Awards


• Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers
  Structural Systems
  November, 2012
  
• Planet Professional Landcare Network
  2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program
  
• Florida Parking Association
  Parking Structure: New Design
  December, 2012



First Retractable Roof Sports Facility to Receive LEED-Gold Certification


• U.S. Green Building Council
  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
  May, 2012
  Congratulations are in order.

Not an unimpressive roster of plaudits. On the other hand, many of those are regional and representative of a pretty narrow building niche ("Florida Parking Association"?), so one would expect such a high-profile, broadly funded project to get its share of attention. One would even suspect at least some of these associations to be somewhat biased in praising the product of a public-private partnership representing interests that their members rely on for future projects.

Congratulations, anyways. First LEED-certified retractable roof ballpark. That's not nothing, I guess. CitiField's opening was trumpeted with incorporating many sustainability features, but they elected not to seek LEED certification.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

G-Fafif wrote: He spelled incumbent wrong.

He also uses 'premiere' instead of 'premier.'

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Lefty Specialist]

Hey, Buck's a .333 hitter. Cool.

[Frayed Knot]

Marlins are 2-11 on the so-far young season and have scored a total of 23 runs over those 13 games (1.77/per). They're hitting a collective .203/.274/.262
The Dodgers are the only other team in the NL that's even below 3.0 R/G at this point

Seven of their runs (or just over 30%) came in one game - the one where they did their damage off of Hefner, Burke, Rice & Hawkins - and even then only three of the seven were earned.

Every other game for them has been 3 runs scored or under:
3 runs exactly = 3 times;
2 runs = twice;
1 run only = thrice;
and they've been shut-out 4 times

On the positive side, their runs against average of 3.83/game had been about 1/3 run better than the league average ... until, that is, the Nats pounded them for a ten-spot last night. Now they're right around the middle of the pack on that side of the ledger.

[metirish]

Free Giancarlo now!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe we can get him for Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Damn near took 2 of 3 from us.

[Benjamin Grimm]

5-16, .238.

Projects to a final record of 39-123.

I was rooting for the Tigers to lose 121 games back in 2003, but I felt kinda bad about it.

If the Marlins break the 1962 Mets record, I won't feel bad at all.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Jeff Loria might be a scumbag, but he's a shrewd scumbag. In Miami, Jose Fernandez is on a Goodenesque 1985-like run, and the Marlins are suddenly poised to get real good real quick.



Gone Fishing
By Jonah Keri on August 5, 2013

Jose Fernandez already had 13 strikeouts through 7? innings when Mark Reynolds came to bat in the eighth inning of Friday night's game. He dominated the third-highest-scoring offense in baseball, shutting out the potent Indians lineup and allowing just two hits. Only now Reynolds was being annoying. Fernandez had struck out three Indians on three pitches apiece, eight more on four pitches. Here, Reynolds had worked the count to 2-2, preparing to face his sixth swing of the at-bat. This would not stand. Fernandez reached back and fired a curveball from the depths of hell, an 85 mph bender that will haunt Reynolds's dreams for a week. After that whiff, Fernandez blew on his fingers. Allegedly, he did so to combat the humidity built up at Marlins Park. Of course this was just a front. You do something like that only when you're shooting flames out of your right hand. Fernandez's monster performance Friday gave him 27 combined strikeouts over his past two starts, covering 16 innings. In his past 11 starts (75? innings) dating back to June 1, Fernandez has struck out 86 batters, allowed two home runs, posted a 1.67 ERA, and limited opposing hitters to a line of .164/.234/.219. When it comes to rolling big numbers, the Marlins' early-season attempts to limit his pitch counts have failed miserably: Fernandez ranks 13th in the National League with 138 strikeouts, despite ranking 37th in innings pitched with just 127 2/3. Only Cy Young front-runners Clayton Kershaw and Matt Harvey, the sparkling Patrick Corbin, and off-the-charts RISP performer Jeff Locke own lower ERAs than Fernandez's 2.54. We could keep going and going with R-rated Fernandez numbers, as ESPN Stats & Info did here. Some industry insiders question Fernandez's listed age. But if he's anywhere near 21 years old, as the program says he is � yikes. Fernandez's emergence as a potential Felix Hernandez 2.0 is just one of the multiple bright spots for a Marlins team that could become scary as hell much quicker than you'd think (as is, they're 27-23 in their past 50 games, having knocked off some good teams in the process). The Fish called up top outfield prospects Christian Yelich and Jake Marisnick two weeks ago. Yelich was a first-round pick who hit .313/.387/.499 in 302 minor league games, many of those coming in terrible environments for hitters. Watching him at bat, you're struck by the plate coverage his 6-foot-4 frame provides, but also by how young he looks � he's as lanky as your typical high schooler, with the face of a 13-year-old. Hailed as a top prospect for both his tools and his numbers, Yelich could become a beast when he fills out and adds more power to his high�batting average profile. Marisnick isn't nearly as polished a prospect despite being a year older than Yelich. But he, too, projects as an above-average major leaguer down the road, taking a step forward this year with a .294/.358/.502 campaign at Double-A Jacksonville. Depending on what the Marlins do with star slugger Giancarlo Stanton, this could be the most dynamic outfield in baseball in a couple years. Though trade rumors have dogged Stanton and Miami for a while, he's still under team control through 2016 and he's still one of the best power hitters in baseball, with 106 homers in just 441 career games. Marcell Ozuna got sent back to the minors after hitting a rough patch, but he also showed flashes of potential earlier this year, giving the Fish four potential impact outfielders. The pitching staff isn't just Fernandez, either. Twenty-two-year-old Jacob Turner, acquired as the main piece in the Anibal Sanchez/Omar Infante deal at last year's deadline, has flashed a 2.68 ERA in 12 starts. Twenty-three-year-old Nathan Eovaldi is an easy name to forget, given he was the key guy coming back in the 2012 deadline deal for Hanley Ramirez, who has set the league on fire. But he, too, has shown flashes of brilliance, including a one-run performance Sunday against the Indians in which he was firing 99 mph fastballs in the seventh inning. Turner, Eovaldi, Marisnick, and multiple other intriguing prospects came over in recent trades, the biggest of which cemented Jeffrey Loria's reputation as a genius and looks even shrewder eight months later, with the Jays floundering on a gigantic payroll and the Marlins steadily building a young core with upside. The Marlins' tendency to call up top prospects when they're ready, rather than deploying all manner of service-time shenanigans, is an absolute breath of fresh air if you like to see the best young players actually play in the big leagues. The Marlins still have multiple holes left to fill, starting with just about the entire infield. A cynic would question the team's intentions, given that it tore down the roster just a year after moving into a mostly publicly financed $634 million stadium that has been mostly empty for much of this season. But with a few well-timed moves and a few dollars spent to add talent, this could be a dangerous team, maybe as soon as 2015.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9539550/jonah-keri-ranks-mlb-teams