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Contents 1 1997 season 2 Hall of Fame 3 All Seasons Project 4 "Buying a pennant" 5 Lucky 6 Succeeded by

[edit] 1997 season

There seems to be a lot of redundant information in the 1997 Season section and the 1998-2002 section. I will attempt to remedy this. --Feitclub 06:01, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hall of Fame

I removed the Hall of Fame section, because Tony Perez was not inducted as a Marlin and therefore the Marlins do not really have a Hall of Fame presense yet. I hesitated to do that, but if you included every person who was associated with the Marlins who eventually went to the Hall, it would be a long irrelevant list. Do you really want to see Mike Piazza listed there in a few years?

--Xenod July 17, 2006

[edit] All Seasons Project

I think we should try and create an article for every season of the Marlins, just as has been done for the Minnesota Twins. That way, people can get more information on a specific season that is not listed on the main page, such as rosters for those seasons, etc. Tamajared 20:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Buying a pennant"

As true as this phrase may be for describing the 1997 season, I recommend that we not use it. This a very common accusation in baseball, especially against the New York Yankees. It's somewhat loaded language and shouldn't be used if we are to keep this article in the neutral point of view. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 17:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Not only that, but the Marlins had a smaller salary than the Indians that season, and were only seventh in team salary at 47 million. Yes, that is more than their current palty 15 million, but it is hardly Evil Empire 200 million dollar level spending. [1]. The fact that this troll User:146.74.1.99 IP address which has already been banned multiple times User talk:146.74.1.99 chose to change that line doesn't make it true. Thanks for catching that bit of NPOV. CodeCarpenter 18:40, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lucky

The Marlins were a team to lose more than 100 games in 2006 but didn't. Thanks to great lucky trades that brought amazing talent to the squad the Marlins are considered a top team in 2007( many had them higher ranked but Joe giradi's firing put a damper on that). It shouldn't be much surprise that the marlins have luck in acquiring sleeper players. Oddly it just doesn't work in the draft. A majority of their highly drafted picks look to be busts. Jeremy Hermida and Chris Volstad, two marlins #1 picks, have not looked impressive so far. Heremida, a highly touted prospect who amazingly fell to the marlins in the draft, is struggling with hiiting and injuries. He appears to play a majority of the 2007 season in the minors. Chris Volstad was a highly touted pick considered "hands off" by the marlins. He was supposed to compete for a roster spot and be a starting pitcher for the marlins in 2007 but poor preseason outings has sent him back to the minors for another year.They managed to draft good talent in the first round though . Those picks being Dontrelle Willis and Taylor Tankersly( miguel Cabrera was a late rounder). A majortiy af the marlins success comes through trades and free agents . So don't be surprised to see Jorge Julio save 40 games and have a great season then suddenly bolt to another team ( joe Borowski anyone?)or players like alex sanchez or eric reed have good years with the marlins.

[edit] Succeeded by

Do we really need to list the 1998, 1999, and 2000 yankees in the succeeded by? Usually, these just have the next year of data, not the next three years. I know this shows that the Marlins prevented a five year sweep by the Yankees, but it is more of a brag of the Yankees than a simple move to the next year of the World sereis, which the template is supposed to represent. Calling for discussion, will revert if no comments made. CodeCarpenter 17:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)