Miami Marlins 2016 (Jose Fernandez RIP 9/25/16)

https://twitter.com/darenw/status/841698434637811716

http://deadspin.com/report-jeb-and-jeets-team-up-to-make-bid-for-marlins-1794465949

yeah jeets

please clap

http://deadspin.com/reports-jeb-and-jeets-got-the-marlins-1794640432

yeah jeets

i have already seen the "well, neither could go to their left" joke

Jeb out! love to hear tapes of the 'dispute'

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/05/30/jeb-bush-out-miami-marlins-sale/

Public funding for Marlins Park has been a disaster. Who could have seen that coming? (Everyone.) https://t.co/pHoTT594Bb

— keithlaw (@keithlaw) July 5, 2017

I'm sure many of you caught this already

It's almost unheard of for professional sports teams to sue their own fans. Leave it to Loria to change that. https://t.co/lhlMTjga0T

— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) July 10, 2017

fernandez would have been 25 today

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-marlins/fl-sp-jose-fernandez-birthday-25-story.html

The photo with his daughter touching a picture of her dad (scroll down) is really something.

Schoenfield, espn:

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has reportedly agreed to sell the team to a group led by New York businessman Bruce Sherman and some guy named Derek Jeter.

He also reports that Jeter will be running the day to day operations of the team??

paychecks delivered via gift basket

will the home run sculpture survive the ownership change

Stanton's got 21 in 33 games by my count--gotta be one of the best stretches ever. Found a 24-in-32 stretch for Bonds in 2001, and I'm sure he had a couple more like that at some point that season. McGwire in '98, too, maybe Sosa.

another one tonight, #43

10 in the last 11, 22 in 34 games

Chasing Maris, if you think that's worth anything. (I recall a similar watch for Ryan Howard in 2006.)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/giancarlo-stanton-will-need-to-slug-like-barry-bonds-to-beat-roger-maris/

ha, i do! hey, i'm not an enemy of all counting stats :)

I meant more the idea that there's two HR records, the official one and an unofficial one. (Which is inherently ironic in that Maris went through exactly the same thing for different reasons.)

he's chasing the steroid record (because the ball is on steroids)

will the home run sculpture survive the ownership change

Before the #liberals find a reason to deface, destroy or degrade this one, I thought some of you might like to see it one more time... pic.twitter.com/Va0OUsWliS

— Grant Brisbee (@mccoveychron) August 15, 2017

another one tonight!

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THE THING IS SAFE (I guess)

http://deadspin.com/miami-dade-county-to-derek-jeter-you-cannot-move-home-1797958928

#45 for Stanton.

Marlins pull one out in Philly, Stanton hits 47th

Whoa! #48 and #49 first two times up tonight.

the Marlins still have 35 games to go

in his last 35 games he's had 21 HR

i think he's on pace for 13 or 14 more HRs, if he played each of those 35 games

Marcell Ozuna getting slept on a bit, but he just hit his 30th tonight and cleared 100 RBI.

remember when the marlins were going to trade ozuna because loria didn't like him

Stanton is 3-3 with a double and #50. He's obviously overtaken Goldschmidt (and hurt Harper) for MVP favourite.

"obviously"

for the sabe-inclined, Harper is the 4th MVP candidate on his team

Jesus, you need everything explained. When I post stuff like that, I'm commenting on what would happen, not expressing a personal opinion. If today were the last day of the season, Stanton would win and Goldschmidt would finish second; if you think Rendon or Gonzalez actually would finish ahead of Harper, that's silly.

Why don't you go make some more flood jokes.

i think the BBWAA membership might be getting smarter a little faster than you think

as the Marlins would not make the tournament and Stanton wd have 50 hr, no, he would not win.

i do think Stanton will win that doorstop if he hits 60, if that helps you sleep tonight on your Mrs Robinson pillow.

i think stanton would win if voting were held today too. btw he's more or less tied for the NL lead in WAR by fangraphs and B-R and is lapping the field by baseball prospectus

i became convinced over the lsat week that he's gonna win

the marlins have more good hitters than most people realize but the team is hysterical right now... the rotation is like sub-AAA and they're playing guys like mike aviles and tyler moore pretty much every day. he's leading the majors in the WAR over the second half for a team that should prob be nowhere near the playoff discussion in its current state. i think he has a great case.

also been thinking about this article from the offseason. this sorta stuff is everywhere preseason of course, nonetheless... http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18898859/to-grieve-jose-fernandez-death-miami-marlins-giancarlo-stanton-took-life-changing-journey

There has been something different about him this spring, though, that has struck those around him. His team's president of baseball operations, Michael Hill, went so far as to punctuate his review of the 2017 edition of Giancarlo Stanton with three attention-getting letters: M-V-P.

"You'd be smart [to pick him]," Hill says. "There's a focus there that makes you really excited."

Today is Monday, August 28. Let’s go back to May 28 — that’s a nice, clean, even three months. Who’s been the best team in baseball over the past three months? That’s easy. The Dodgers. Everyone knows that. Who’s been the second-best team in baseball over the past three months? That’s less easy.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/here-come-the-marlins-somehow/

51

do they often bat Stanton 2nd?

also he just missed a second tonight, a long sac fly again off Edwin Jackson, which I guess isn't as big an Asterisk Argument as the juiced ball.

As of right now, I would vote for Rendon.

Phil: If Stanton reaches 60+ homers and 7+ WAR, he the likely MVP even if the Marlins don’t reach the playoffs?

Dave Cameron: I don’t know. He’d get votes, but I could still see there being enough “has to be on a winning team” voters combining with “homers aren’t everything” voters to give it to someone else.