Surveillance Posts on Jeffrey Loria's Front Company for Laundering Cocaine and Stolen Art Profits: The 2015 Miami Marlins

@Ken_Rosenthal
Sources: Brett Butler out as #Marlins third base coach. Indication is that he resigned.

Turns out he was demoted, and is now OF/baserunning coach.

omg

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/28/the-marlins-considered-hiring-dusty-baker-ron-washington-and-ozzie-guillen-before-going-with-dan-jennings/

shdve hired all 3 btw

will jennings make it through the all-star break y/n

i mean it's ridiculous enough even before you make him wear a uniform

Justin Bour, eh

RHP Jose Fernandez (Tommy John surgery) is set to throw 45 pitches at extended spring training Monday. RHP Jarred Cosart (vertigo) is scheduled to pitch against him.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGSkymHWgAAEIrc.png

j0rdan could've been there for that AND gotten a Mets' beach towel.

With his .253/.291/.298 line, Lagares is now the HACKING MASS leader in CF.

https://twitter.com/FlashGJr/status/605450123255140352

five scoreless for fernandez in his second rehab outing friday

now scheduled to return 7/2 vs the bee oks

thank you yelich for destroying the would-be no hitter pineda had going

maybe Jose F should wait til he's back a month or two before making an Inspiring Energy Drink Ad about it.

pretty nice debut for nicolino. his strikeouts have kind of disappeared over the last couple years, but he seems to get away with it fairly consistently

via the Effectively Wild FB group -- Dee Gordon's #1 BR comp died in 1904.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgarch01.shtml

jose fernandez is 23 today, and rules

let us bow our heads and give thanks that he is a part of our lives as baseball fans, let us curse the empty heavens that he's stuck on a marlins team that made pretty solid acquisitions and somehow got worse than last year

(insert obvious loria joke here)

Marcell Ozuna descbribed his stint at Triple-A New Orleans like this: "I was in the jail over there. It's like a jail,"

GOAT franchise

https://i.imgur.com/iDz75Ga.png

talking to Dusty!

http://www.fishstripes.com/2015/9/25/9394367/miami-marlins-manager-dan-jennings-dusty-baker

Fernandez became the first MLB pitcher to start off his career 17-0 at home.

pitcher wins, bah

pitcher wins for the marlins, tho

"Marlins express interest in Bowa"

that pic of pauley shore upthreat looks like richard simmons

re Bowa mgr interview

@robneyer
This would be the best thing for baseball writers since Bobby Valentine.

This Jose Fernandez 5-Hour Energy ad is something.

@joecapMARLINS
#Marlins announce Ichiro -- 65 hits shy of 3,000 -- will return and play for Miami next year.

A moment for Jonah Keri who predicted the Marlins would win the WS this year.

such a bad player now

xp i thought that was michael baumann (also a grantland guy, so the confusion is understandable)

Ichiro walked one more time this year than he did in 2001 -- with exactly 300 fewer plate appearances -- and still had a terrible OBP.

Ha. Third Google search result for "fangraphs 'infield hits'" is http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1101

Crude comparison, but his 2001 batting average on infield grounders was .129. In 2015, it was .069.

#sochill

gonna trade ozuna because loria doesn't like him to make room for ichiro

both keri and baumann picked miami -http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-predictions-playoff-picks-mvp-cy-young-surprise-team-flop-team/

huh weird, kinda surprised at keri for that but tbf he was far from the only one bullish on the fish. baumann picking them never surprised me bc he's, like, a moron and stuff, dude legit used "intangibles" unironically in his AL wildcard preview to justify picking the Yankees

I wouldn't judge writers on preseason picks; most of the analytics-savvy ones HATE writing that column, it seems, cuz everyone usually knows what the most statistically likely teams to win are, and that's boring. So they have to throw in an offbeat choice or two.

RJ Anderson at BP on Ichiro:

There are two ways to view this deal. From a baseball perspective, it's rotten. This is Wade Boggs with the Devil Rays all over again, to the extent that you wonder if the Marlins intend to retire his number sometime after he collects his 3,000th hit. There's nothing wrong with teams co-opting or embracing milestone chases, but there has to be a facade of prioritizing winning; otherwise it comes across as a cheap PR stunt, as this signing does. It doesn't help that the Marlins have earned a bad reputation over the years on these things, nor that Ichiro ended the season with the sixth-highest salary on the roster.

What's then is the best defense of this deal? That, from a fan's perspective, it's cool....

Perhaps he is a valuable mentor in the clubhouse.

Happy birthday to the god Rich Waltz.

The Marlins are just a strange club.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2015/11/11/the-marlins-made-a-lopsided-trade-with-the-pirates-as-a-compensation-deal/?ocid=Yahoo&partner=ya5nbcs

that's actually one of the only good trades the marlins have made recently

@HardballTalk
#Marlins taking offers on Marcell Ozuna because Jeffrey Loria "can't stand the guy"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUq2EigUkAAYmsS.jpg

the only button that works is "basement"

has there been speculation about Ozuna landing spots or are people considering this just a bunch of hooey? feelin like any "need" to deal ozuna is more spectacular/weird/eccentric/irrational than "needing" to deal fernandez

supposedly the mariners are interested?

http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0220%2Fr55636_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&w=1140&cquality=40

Ichiro: 2935 hits, 596 walks.
Bonds: 2935 hits, 2558 walks.

cream + clear = good eyes

slothro come up with a thread title