Apparently Miami is also looking to trade Logan Morrison. That's a deal I could get behind.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/ml...expected-to-go
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Apparently Miami is also looking to trade Logan Morrison. That's a deal I could get behind.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/ml...expected-to-go
What's the allure?
His twitter account?
I wonder what it would cost to take a flyer on LoMo? Maybe Lotzkar + LaMarre?
They certainly don't need middle infielders, but might need someone to man CF until Marisnick is ready.
LoMo could be a good buy low option for LF. He's 25, hits LH and sports a career .781 OPS despite a down year in 2012.
I imagine some players are just after the biggest payday in FA.
Hypothetically, if you are Josh Hamilton and you only want the biggest payday.. if Miami gives you an extra 20 million over 5 years, would you turn that down to play for another team (who may end up trading you eventually?)
Even when a player gets a no-trade clause, he's often pressured to waive it for relatively little compensation. If he doesn't wave it, it becomes public and the fans turn on him.. I think that's why we are seeing more creative means of enforcing a no trade contract, such as Arroyo's escalation of deferred money if traded.. BTW, Arroyo is a good example of a player that got burned for "Taking less to stay at a place that he really wanted to".
A blow to the head affecting their judgment centers. LoMo heads up my list of terrible ballplayers who have to be completely exposed. He is the worst defensive OF in captivity and pitchers have figured out how to handle him. He's a Ben Grieve wannabe. I'd stay far, far away.
What he can do is give the team bad press. All he has to do is continue to state the obvious about how the ownership sold out the players and the fans. He can add that he'll always bust his hump for the fans and for his teammates, but he'll be leaving the first chance he gets because he wants no part of playing for Jeff Loria.
For a team that's going to get little to no press, having its star player calling out the ownership for being a fraud could be poison at the turnstiles.
And all it may take is the threat that he's going to tell reporters what he thinks about the sad state of the franchise in order to punch his ticket out of town. The Marlins' boat isn't seaworthy enough to survive anyone rocking it.
Plus, imagine how smart the Marlins would be cashing in Stanton at the height of his value?
I think his comments added another thud/splat when we thought there wasn't another bounce after the splat. This is the fish dying, you see.
No, I think Stanton can make things uncomfortable for the Marlins moving forward. I doubt he will because it's Michael Jordan 101 to be docile, compliant and agreeable in order to maximize your earnings (malcontents don't sell Hanes t-shirts).
Yet he could make the ongoing news story with the Marlins that their star player doesn't want to participate in their sham. What Loria doesn't want, and many not want to risk, is ongoing bad publicity.