Florida Marlins Box Score

by trross1200 on Apr 9, 2010 11:38 AM EDT

For those of you that missed it, there were a few former Tigers who performed well for the Marlins yesterday:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=300408121

Cameron Maybin, Cody Ross, Nate Robertson, and Burke Badenhop. At least the Tigers are only paying the salary for one of those players this year, albeit $9.6.

Thursday was equally good for two guys named Miguel Cabrera and Dontrell Willis too... so at least for one day, this seems to have evened out.

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ill take the two we got.....

….In fact Cabrera is better then all those guys put togetehr.

by BennieBladesFan on Apr 9, 2010 7:12 PM EDT reply actions

+1

Maybin will be good, but it’ll take a little while.

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by David Tokarz on Apr 10, 2010 1:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Maybin could be good......

……who do you think will be the better pro….Maybin or Ajax?

by BennieBladesFan on Apr 10, 2010 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions

still making definitive statements?

Maybin will (probably) be good. (But nothing is guaranteed in baseball).

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by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2010 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions

If we couldn't make definitive statements,

we would never say anything! What fun would that be???

by baum on Apr 10, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions

*sigh

Okay- barring injury, Maybin will be good. And yes, that statement is definitive for a reason.

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by David Tokarz on Apr 10, 2010 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Disagree about Maybin.

I’m not a fan.

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by Mike Rogers on Apr 12, 2010 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Why?

Is it the K rate?

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by David Tokarz on Apr 12, 2010 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Partially.

I think K’s are overrated for the most part, but that’s mostly for guys like Mark Reynolds or Adam Dunn – supplement it with big power and BB rates.

My biggest beef is Maybin’s power upside. I don’t think there’s any there without an overhaul of his swing. He’s around the 55% GB% marks and that puts him with a bevy of light-hitting SS’s like Elvis Andrus and Christian Guzman. Only Hunter Pence hits more than 50% GB’s in 2009 and hit for above-average power.

So, I think Maybin’s power is really limited until he gets the ball in the air more (which is possible, for sure).

So if he’s K’ing a ton and not hitting for power, he needs to be a walk machine and he’s about league average at that.

Basically, he needs to be a plus defender with good value on the base paths (which he could do, save for his arm in CF). I think he’s likely to be more Luis Castillo in CF than he is to be the next 4 or 5-tool player to breakout.

Loads of potential but I think it’ll largely go untapped.

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by Mike Rogers on Apr 12, 2010 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Jackson>Maybin

nice to see Robertson doing well so far. Kinda funny miller isn’t even in their rotation. Burke badenhop is a beast! Loved watching him pitch in Lakeland. Glad the sinker ball reliever is even a regular in their pen now. Cool nickname too… “hopper”

by JAYRC on Apr 11, 2010 3:05 PM EDT via mobile reply actions