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Marlins officially “The Franchise”

Showtime officially announced on Monday that the Miami Marlins will be featured on Season Two of their reality series titled “The Franchise”.    The announcement has been rumored for the past couple of months but the network was awaiting a finalized agreement with Major League Baseball.    With a cast of colorful characters, the Marlins are sure to bring interest...
Via MarlinsBaseball.com  |  18 minutes ago
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Tiers, Not Fears: Shortstop

You’ll be sweating Dee’s NutsPhoto Credit: bridgetds There’s no getting around it: the shortstop position is shallow as hell. Fantasy owners are forced to either overpay based on position scarcity, or take their chances with a cheap scrub. Most people in your fantasy league will not be happy with their SS, and they might even have one of the best options (see: Hanley Ramirez’s...
Via Sons of Roto  |  5 hours ago
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#8: Is Ryan Roberts a top 10 third baseman?

Let’s get this out of the way first: Ryan Roberts will not become an elite, or even very good, starting option at third base. He has limited upside, which probably means there’s very little room for improvement on his 2011 line of .241/.341/.427 with 86 runs, 19 homers, 65 RBI and 18 stolen bases. Still, despite the low average, that season was good for 106th overall and...
Via Baseball Professor  |  23 hours ago
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The Party Is In Miami

Looks like Will Smith had it right all along when he wrote the hit song some time ago “Welcome to Miami”. The Miami Marlins have made the biggest splashes of the offseason thus far by inking Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle to long term deals. Reyes’ deal is a backloaded contract to ease the transition of payroll down in Miami and to allow more payroll flexibility this winter. There...
Via Baseball Reflections  |  1 day ago
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Yoenis Cespedes will bring more than just power to the Miami Marlins

There are two sides of the coin to any situation. There are yin’s and yang’s to the MLB value of CF Yoenis Cespedes, a Cuban defector who smashed the competition in the World Baseball Classic. Miami Marlins President David Samson has made no secret that the front office desires CF Yoenis Cespedes to be their everyday center fielder and is pursuing a deal aggressively...
Via hardballchat.com  |  1 day ago
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13 Top Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: Third Base

Drafting Ramirez & Cabrera Means Third Base Eligibility HOT CORNER: Neither Ramirez or Cabrera played a single game at third base last year, but they will be opening day third sackers this year. The biggest news for sleepers at the third base position for the 2012 fantasy baseball season is actually two very well known players who didn’t play a single game at the...
Via Fantasy Baseball Dugout  |  2 days ago
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Video: Hanley Ramirez has message for critics in new Powerade commercial

    Miami Marlins third baseman Hanley Ramirez is one of the better all-around players in Major League Baseball. He was the National League’s Rookie of the Year in 2006, has been named to 3 All-Star teams, and finished 2nd in the NL MVP voting in 2009. 2011 was one to forget with Hanley posting [...]
Via Los That Sports Blog  |  2 days ago
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Is third base deeper than first base?

Even just one year ago this was a crazy question, but at the start of the 2012 season we might be seeing a changing of the guard. First base has been the deepest fantasy position for as long as I can remember. In fact, it got to the point where Albert Pujols, the unquestioned best hitter in baseball, was frequently getting passed over in favor of lesser players at deeper positions...
Via Baseball Professor  |  2 days ago
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How will injuries affect these hitting stars?

Take the salary lost to injuries over the last five seasons and you could put in a winning bid for the Dodgers. That's how many big name players have been hurt in recent years and 2011 was no exception. Among those with nine-figure contracts to miss significant time were the Phillies' Ryan Howard, the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez and the Twins' Joe Mauer while other well...
Via SI.com  |  2 days ago
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Hanley Ramirez + Powerade = Viral Marketing

This had to have been created as a viral marketing scheme by Powerade, there is no way this is a national television commercial. Spanish speaking, Twitter handles, angry superstars coming off a struggling season and awful facial hair, this was made for the Internet. This is just going to lead to more people mocking him on Twitter. [Follow me @TravisHouser]
Via Sorry Bro: Sports Through Houser  |  3 days ago
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Hanley Ramirez Is Passive-Aggressive For Powerade (And Morning Links)

I can’t wait to see @MrBrandonStroud on TV swing by as it misses the ball by a foot! - Follow us on Twitter @withleather - Follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and Burnsy @MayorBurnsy - Like us on Facebook. Links 9 More MCs That Desperately Need A Name Change - I guess MC Skatcat finally realized what “scat” means. Good news: Paula Abdul is the opposite of scat...
Via With Leather  |  3 days ago
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Miami Marlins: Hanley Ramirez responds to critics in Powerade commercial

  The advertising folks at Powerade seized on the hubbub surrounding Hanley Ramirez’s move to third base. Panned for his less than warm reaction about Jose Reyes’ arrival and having to slide from short to third as a result, Ramirez in this Spanish ad says his peace. The translation: To all those who sent me critical messages, I want to ask for your forgiveness for not...
Via Sun Sentinel  |  3 days ago
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Social Leadership

When we last left Hanley Ramirez, he was deciding whether he was happy or angry about moving to third base for Jose Reyes. As we catch up with Hanley now, he's found a new way to use social media (courtesy of Big League Stew):[youtube]D3kFEXsGg3s[/youtube]So Hanley is writing twitter handles on a bat with a black sharpie. I'm surprised he didn't write the names on his...
Via Metstradamus  |  3 days ago
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Hanley Ramirez is writing the Twitter handles of those who ripped him on his bat (video)

Apparently, Miami Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez receives his fair share of abuse courtesy of folks hassling him via his Twitter account. Further, it appears that Mr. Ramirez has taken notice. What’s more, it seems that one Hanley Ramirez, to quote the great part-time pacifist Popeye, has had all he can stands and he can’t stands [...]
Via Sportress of Blogitude  |  3 days ago
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NL East: A Fascinating Place: Marlins

This is the third post in a series looking at the newly fascinating National League East Division. In the first two installments, the Phillies were given the top spot they deserve until some team dethrones them. They have been the king. The Braves finished a distant second last season with a fade at the end but were found to be capable of winning 95 games if everything goes according...
Via The Flagrant Fan  |  4 days ago
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You may say I'm a dreamer: Miami Marlins

What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. These dreamer pieces featured here at The Outside Corner have mostly come in the form of telling a story about how so-&-so team surprised everyone and won the World Series because so...
Via The Outside Corner  |  4 days ago
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Wright Ranked #4 Among All MLB Third Basemen

MLB.com released their 2012 Fantasy Baseball Preview and among their top 100 players, they ranked the Mets’ David Wright No. 19. overall. Wright also was ranked the 4th best third baseman behind Jose Bautista, Hanley Ramirez and Evan Longoria. If Wright can put up a season like they project, he’s going to command at least a five year, $100 million dollar contract. Should...
Via Mets Merized Online  |  4 days ago
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2012 Fantasy Baseball: Shortstop Tiers

Your fantasy baseball draft(s) are right around the corner.  Here’s my attempt at separating 25 shortstops into six tiers. Tiers are very subjective and one player could easily be considered just good enough or just bad enough to be in the next higher or lower tier. Let me know what you think.  Also check out my: first basemen tiers and second basemen tiers. Tier 1: Troy Tulowitzki...
Via Win My Fantasy League  |  5 days ago
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Offseason Notes, With a Table re: Velocity and xFIP

Your browser does not support iframes.Even without his excellent secondary pitchers, Stephen Strasburg would probably be decent. Table of Contents Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Offseason Notes. 1. Table: Starting Pitcher xFIP by Fastball Velocity, 2002-11 2. Projecting: ZiPS for Miami 3. Crowdsourcing Broadcasters: Seattle Television Table: Starting...
Via Fangraphs  |  5 days ago
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Miami Marlins: Jose Reyes hair auction ends Wednesday at 5:23 pm

Time is ticking down on your chance to take home Jose Reyes’ dreadlocks. The bidding as of 8:30 am was at $10,200. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida. The good news about the price tag: Free shipping… Here’s a photo of Hanley Ramirez at the unveiling of the refurbished Maria Axiliadora Field in his native Dominican...
Via Sun Sentinel  |  5 days ago
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Final TRI Fantasy Rankings: Shortstops

Shortstop is an interesting position. There are a couple of players aiming to make comebacks into the top of the list. Unlike other positions, the top of the list is sparse which makes for some interesting draft day strategies. You can either strike early and get one of the top two guys or you can wait when the herd becomes crowded with good, but not great fantasy performers. 16...
Via hardballchat.com  |  7 days ago
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Theo wasted $125

Turns out one of everyone's favorite Sox stories of the last decade may not have been necessary. Theo spoke at an event yesterday at Sacred Heart and talked about his infamous three-month leave from the Sox top baseball gig. "That was a time conflict of what organization stood for. I didn’t agree with the values the ownership had of running Red Sox. You have to be all in when...
Via Ted's Army  |  11 days ago
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2012 Fantasy Baseball Peckin' Order: The Top Five Shortstops To Draft In 2012

Troy Tulowitzski (credits below) Trying to sift through the shortstop position is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. If you thought the second base position was slim pickings then you haven’t seen anything yet. At shortstop there may be about seven players that you should sincerely go out and target... you can get away with guys like Derek Jeter (SS, NYY) and Jimmy Rollins...
Via The Fantasy Fix  |  14 days ago
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The 10 Best Shortstops Going into the 2012 Season

US PRESSWIRE The shortstop position is constantly evolving. The days of A-Rod, Tejada, Jeter, and Nomar are over. And with Hanley Ramirez moving to third base, the shortstop position takes another hit. Doing a top 10 for shortstops was the hardest one yet. It was difficult to exclude players like Derek Jeter and Stephen Drew, but one is getting too old and the other is too erratic...
Via Rant Sports  |  16 days ago
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Fantasy Baseball Off-Season Report: Third Basemen

By Adam McGill Third base had several big names change places this off-season, with Miguel Cabrera moving back to the hot corner in Detroit and Miami’s Hanley Ramirez moving over to third to open up a spot for the newly acquired, Jose Reyes. The 2012 season should bring some balance back to the fantasy infield, as there are now ten guys who have the ability to hit over 30 homeruns...
Via Rant Sports  |  17 days ago
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