2007 Florida Marlins season

2007 Florida Marlins
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2007 information
Owner(s) Jeffrey Loria
Manager(s) Fredi Gonzalez
Local television FSN Florida
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Rich Waltz, Tommy Hutton, Craig Minervini
Local radio WQAM
Dave Van Horne, Roxy Bernstein
WQBA (Spanish)
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The Florida Marlins' 2007 season began with the team with the league's lowest payroll trying to improve on their promising 78-84 record in 2006. Despite the success of the team under manager Joe Girardi, he was fired and replaced with Fredi Gonzalez.

Marlins general manager Larry Beinfest said that the team's goal from the start of the season was to compete in the playoffs.[1]

The Marlins had two goals to address during the 2006 offseason: they needed a new closer because '06 closer Joe Borowski signed with the Cleveland Indians as a free agent, and the Marlins saw the need for a new center fielder. They had platooned Eric Reed, Reggie Abercrombie, Chris Aguila, Cody Ross, and Alfredo Amézaga in the position in 2006, with backup shortstop Amézaga making most of the starts at that position later in the season. The Marlins had added some new relief pitchers since 2006, trading Chris Resop to the Los Angeles Angels for Kevin Gregg and shipping prospects Jason Vargas and Adam Bostick to the New York Mets for Henry Owens and Matt Lindstrom. Lindstrom has been a closer during his time in the minors and has a fastball that reached 100 mph on radar guns in winter league play during the 2006 offseason.[1] The Marlins saw much competition for their closer role, with Ricky Nolasco, Renyel Pinto, Mike Koplove, Gregg, Lindstrom, and Owens all candidates for the job.[1] In April, newly-acquired Jorge Julio was named closer, but on May 13, he was traded to the Colorado Rockies for Byung-Hyun Kim.

The Marlins signed center fielder Alex Sanchez to a minor league deal in the offseason, who competed for the Marlins' center field job with Reed, Abercrombie, Ross, and Amézaga. Beinfest said that the Marlins tried to trade for a proven center fielder but were asked for too much in order to get one.[1] However, Sánchez was released at the end of spring training and the starting role was handed to rookie Alejandro De Aza.

Contents

Regular season

Season standings

NL East W L Pct. GB
Philadelphia Phillies 89 73 .549 --
New York Mets 88 74 .543 1
Atlanta Braves 84 78 .519 5
Washington Nationals 73 89 .451 16
Florida Marlins 71 91 .438 18

Game log

2007 Game Log

Roster

2007 Florida Marlins
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Relief pitchers

Player G W L SV ERA SO

Draft

This is a partial list. For the full draft, see here.

Players Selected

Round Pick Player Nationality School
1 12 Matt Dominguez (3B)  Cuba Chatsworth High School
2 76 Michael Stanton (CF)  United States Notre Dame High School
3 106 Jameson Smith (C)  United States Fresno CC
4 136 Bryan Peterson (RF)  United States UC-Irvine
5 166 Steven Cishek (RHP)  United States Carson-Newman College

References

  • Game Logs:
1st Half: Florida Marlins Game Log on ESPN.com
2nd Half: Florida Marlins Game Log on ESPN.com
  1. ^ a b c d "The Official Site of the Florida Marlins". GM: Closer, center to come from within. http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070206&content_id=1796226&vkey=news_fla&fext=.jsp&c_id=fla. Retrieved 8 February 2007. 
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Formerly the Florida Marlins • Based in Miami, Florida
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Key Personnel
Owner: Jeffrey Loria • Team President: David Samson • President of Baseball Operations: Larry Beinfest • General Manager: Michael Hill • Manager: Ozzie Guillén
World Series Championships (2)
National League Pennants (2)
Division Titles
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