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JJ’s Agent: No Deal
ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick is reporting that negotiations between the Marlins and Josh Johnson have reached an impasse. Agent Matt Sosnick told ESPN.com that negotiations between the Marlins and Johnson have reached an “impasse,” and Johnson expects to play under a one-year deal ...
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Fish@Bat Twitter Updates for 2009-11-19
The # Marlins and Jamey Carroll: http://tinyurl.com/yh8vstq (via @ Alden_Gonzalez ) #
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Wanted: Renyel Pinto on the run from the law
According to local reports, Marlins reliever Renyel Pinto is in a bit of trouble with the law and apparently there is a warrant out for his arrest. On May 30, the Venezuelan pitcher was tooling his white 2007 Infiniti SUV, pimped-out with gigantic subwoofers in the trunk, through Hallandale ...
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Fish@Bat Twitter Updates for 2009-11-17
RT @ Buster_ESPN Spoken with teams about Florida's arb.-eligible trade bait, and there clearly is major interest in Cantu and Nolasco # Amazing thing about # Marlins Coghlan winning NL ROY is that he wasn't named on 7 of the 32 ballots (2nd place Happ was on all 32) #
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Chris Coghlan Named National League Rookie of the Year
Chris Coghlan has earned a well deserved recognition after being named the National League Rookie of the Year. Coghlan ’s rookie year started in May and took off after the All-Star game when he lead all of baseball in hits and batting average. While this year’s NL rookie crop ...
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Are the Fish Going After Aroldis Chapman?
MLBTradeRumors is reporting that the Marlins are a surprise entrant in the chase for the young Cuban left-handed pitcher Aroldis Chapman. MLBTR has learned of a surprising suitor for free agent lefty Aroldis Chapman: the Marlins. They intend to submit an offer and hope to meet Chapman this ...
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Gload and Donnelly Free Agents
Two veteran players are leaving the Fish. Earlier today, the Marlins declined Ross Gload ’s $2.6 million option and he is now a free agent. Also filing for free agency was reliever Brendan Donnelly .
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Say Goodbye to Gload and Donnelly
Two veteran players are leaving the Fish. Earlier today, the Marlins declined Ross Gload ’s $2.6 million option and he is now a free agent. Also filing for free agency was reliever Brendan Donnelly .
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Marlins Fill Coaching Vacancies
The Marlins filled their remaining coaching vacancies by hiring Dave Collins as the new third base coach, Josue Espada as first base coach and former Marlins’ pitcher Reid Cornelius as bullpen coach. In somewhat related news, former Fish 3rd base coach Bo Porter has taken that position ...
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Marlins Hire Remaining Coaches
The Marlins filled their remaining coaching vacancies by hiring Dave Collins as the new third base coach, Josue Espada as first base coach and former Marlins’ pitcher Reid Cornelius as bullpen coach. In somewhat related news, former Fish 3rd base coach Bo Porter has taken that position ...
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Hermida Shipped Out to Boston
The Marlins have traded Jeremy Hermida to the Boston Red Sox for left-handed pitchers Hunter Jones and Jose Alvarez. Hermida was never able to live up to high expectations batting .259 last season with 13 home runs and 47 RBIs. Now that he is in Boston, the Yankees/Red Sox obsessed national ...
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Wiley Joins the Front Office
Recently fired pitching coach Mark Wiley will stay with the Marlins as a Special Assistant to the General Manager.
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Randy St. Claire Named Pitching Coach
The not-so-long search for a pitching coach has ended with the hiring of Randy St. Claire . Let’s hope he can fix Chris Volstad and Andrew Miller .
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