There go the Marlins...

[Chip Douglass]

Jesus...again? Delgado..Pierre...Burnett...Lowell...Encarnasion.. .Lo Duca...Beckett.
The disgusting part is that the Marlins were talented enough for a World Series. This team already looks like the 1998 team, you know the one that traded practically every player from their World Series team from 97.

[nyisles16]

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Jesus...again? Delgado..Pierre...Burnett...Lowell...Encarnasion.. .Lo Duca...Beckett.
The disgusting part is that the Marlins were talented enough for a World Series. This team already looks like the 1998 team, you know the one that traded practically every player from their World Series team from 97.

the worst thing is that the heads of the MLB allow for this to happen.. i wonder what would happen if a real commish was in office - maybe someone like a Giamanti.. & from what I hear too is that while not a major player he once was, Conine may be gone too (back to the O's)..

[dkgojackets]

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Thanks for combining 7 trade threads into one (not really bein sarcastic here)

This team is loaded with young talent and will be in the playoffs within 3 years, guaranteed

[CoRruPt-]

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Thanks for combining 7 trade threads into one (not really bein sarcastic here)

This team is loaded with young talent and will be in the playoffs within 3 years, guaranteed

Who knows if the team will even be around for that long...

[dkgojackets]

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Who knows if the team will even be around for that long...

they wont be in miami, but will still be a team

[PdiddyPop]

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they wont be in miami, but will still be a team

Yup. Despite all that's happened 2 WS in 8 yrs is good enough for me. Some teams still haven't won a WS!

[dkgojackets]

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Yeah, Id take two championships mixed with 6 bad seasons than 8 above average ones with no rings

[cjonesfan921]

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Yeah, Id take two championships mixed with 6 bad seasons than 8 above average ones with no rings

Basically what Atlanta has done.

[dkgojackets]

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Basically what Atlanta has done.

pretty much

[Chip Douglass]

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Basically what Atlanta has done.

Except Atlanta finds a way to screw up in the playoffs EVERY year.

[buccanes]

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Jesus...again? Delgado..Pierre...Burnett...Lowell...Encarnasion.. .Lo Duca...Beckett.
The disgusting part is that the Marlins were talented enough for a World Series. This team already looks like the 1998 team, you know the one that traded practically every player from their World Series team from 97.

it had to be done to unload payroll

dont want to get into a detailed post but when you own a team and lose around 20-40 million a year, you have to do something to cut your losses.. after all it is a business and no business man wants to lose that much money, ever. payroll was to high, so they had to deal the expenisve guys..

burnett and encarnacion were FA and were going to leave anyway.. Hermida was going to start in RF no matter what next year, and Burnett was going to price himself out of the marlins range.

[Stoud]

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it had to be done to unload payroll

dont want to get into a detailed post but when you own a team and lose around 20-40 million a year, you have to do something to cut your losses.. after all it is a business and no business man wants to lose that much money, ever. payroll was to high, so they had to deal the expenisve guys..

burnett and encarnacion were FA and were going to leave anyway.. Hermida was going to start in RF no matter what next year, and Burnett was going to price himself out of the marlins range.

I've been secretly feeling the same way about all this. Everyone is mad about the Marlins doing this, but I'm thinking to myself...if I was trying to prepare my team for a move, I wouldn't do it with a payroll that hefty....I mean sure, it's a fire sale, and in this particular case most of the talent from one team has gone to only two or three other teams, essentially making the Mets and the Jays one whole Marlins team, but it's not like that was the whole idea or anything. It's called trading down, people. If you have a big payroll, and you're planning on moving in 3-5 years, and you want your team to be at least mildly successful after the move to promote attendance, you're going to trade away your veterans for young players. Not just any young players, but youngsters who will be great and ready for the MLB in...ohh...call me crazy...say 3-5 years?

It seems pretty obvious to me that they are preparing for the future of their club here. If that means that they have to make some big and difficult moves before they do that, then that's just too bad.

It's better that the owners have the money to move the team and pay the bills in 3 years than for them to lose the team entirely.

[CoRruPt-]

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Except Atlanta finds a way to screw up in the playoffs EVERY year.

Yeah, but at least Atlanta doesn't have "financial problems".

[dkgojackets]

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guess ill put here that they just traded villone to the yankees for someone

[GBrushTWood]

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guess ill put here that they just traded villone to the yankees for someone

I'm not quite sure why, but I have an irrational hatred for Villone. There's just some players who when you see, you'd like to club with a lead pipe. Villone is one of mine. It may be because he beaned Justin Morneau in the head last year while Morneau was on my roto-team. I look forward to disliking Villone and his goofy moustache even more for NY.