Runaway Renyel

Fish@Bat informs us that Renyel Pinto is in a bit of legal trouble. This will seriously affect next year's revision of the Renyel Pinto Flow Chart...

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Congratulations Lowell!

The votes are in, and Chris Coghlan has been named National League Rookie of the Year in a very close race. Congratulations to Chris.

Coghlan joins former Marlins winners Dontrelle Willis and Hanley Ramirez.


UPDATE: Rob Iracane is mad, because Andrew McCutchen didn't win the award and Rob's a Yankees fan and now that he can't be mad at Melky Cabrera or something he needs to direct his anger somewhere else so this is where it landed also what's the point in telling everyone that baseball writers are idiots, it's kind of like calling the sky blue...zzzzzzzzz

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Not Funny, Baseball America

Baseball America listed the top ten prospects in the Marlins organization last week. You can read their analysis here. What I found interesting, though, was BA's projected 2012 Marlins lineup:

Catcher: Kyle Skipworth
First Base: Logan Morrison
Second Base: Chris Coghlan
Third Base: Dan Uggla
Shortstop: Hanley Ramirez
Left Field: Isaac Galloway
Center Field: Cameron Maybin
Right Field: Mike Stanton
No. 1 Starter: Josh Johnson
No. 2 Starter: Chad James
No. 3 Starter: Ricky Nolasco
No. 4 Starter: Chris Volstad
No. 5 Starter: Sean West
Closer: Ryan Tucker

Apparently, no one at Baseball America has heard of the Florida Marlins, because their is no way that Dan Uggla, Josh Johnson, Chris Volstad, and Ricky Nolasco will all be on the team by the time 2010 rolls around. At least half of that quartet will join the Marlins Diaspora in the next two years.


h/t: FishStripes

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Trivia

In case you're bored, below are some Marlins trivia quizzes from Sporcle.com.

• Name the Marlins' 2003 World Series roster
• Name the Marlins' 2009 roster
• Name the Marlins' all-time Opening Day lineup

And from YardBarker.

• Marlins career home run leaders
• Marlins career ERA leaders
  

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So Long, Jeremy

Well that was quick. The Marlins figure to have a busy offseason and they wasted no time making their first move. They have cut the cord on the Jeremy Hermida balloon and are letting him float up to Boston (unless he's hiding in the 400 level of Landshark Stadium). In return the Red Sox are sending us a couple of average pitching prospects, both lefties I think.

We've had a good time ribbing Jeremy for his lofty LOB numbers and then being elated by his few clutch homers. The truth is, he has never lived up to expectations. He was a first round pick, and was often reffered to as our best prospect. He also hit a grand slam in his first major league plate appearance, which hadn't been done in 100 years. That probably set the fans' bar pretty high. But, he was often injured and underperformed. A good second half in 2007 gave new hope that he would put it together and be a let's say Jayson Werth-like player. Wrong. He was reduced to a platoon role this year in the outfield and struggled. Did I mention he isn't the best of fielders?

So now the question is who will be the next to go? Dan Uggla is probably the biggest candidate and safest bet. We'll keep you posted.

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