From: jsosa@encore.com (Joe Sosa)
Subject: Re: Post-Draft Thoughts (was:Reaction to Rockies Draft)
Reply-To: jsosa@encore.com (Joe Sosa)
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:52:52 GMT
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In <1992Nov18.034637.7929@panix.com> spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira) writes:


| The Marlins did a much better job.
| 
| Greg 

I overly agree, and would someone punch Joe Morgan in the mouth!  The Marlins
did a great job of taking the best available talent from each team, each of
whom has a great chance of being a good big league player a year or two or
three from now.

Sure the Rockies drafted their starting lineup in the first round, the Marlins
drafted their 1996 starting players in the first round.  This year's starting
lineup for the Marlins came mostly in round 3 and in trades.

The trades for the Marlins:
They send Greg Hibbard of the White Sox across town to the Cubs for two good
infielding prospects:  Gary Scott, a sure-fire starter at third, and Alex Arias
a definite probably in a year or two.  But Arias will play behind....

Marlins send catcher Eric Helfand (from Oakland) to Oakland and a PTBNL 
(player-to-be-named-later) for Walt Weiss, shortstop.

Marlins send 31-yr old middle reliever Tom Edens (from Twins) to Houston for
two young pitching prospects, Brian Griffiths and Hector Carrasco.

Finally, Marlins send Danny Jackson (from Pirates) to Philadelphia for two
more pitching prospects in Joel Adamson and Matt Whisenant.

Now with the trades being done (for now) let's look at the probable starting
lineups.

C	Steve Decker
1b	Jeff Conine
2b	Bret Barberie
SS	Walt Weiss
3b	Gary Scott
LF	Monty Fariss
CF	Chuck Carr
RF	Junior Felix

St.Pit	Pat Rapp, Dave Weathers, Jack Armstrong, Scott Chiamparino,
	Jose Martinez, Ryan Bowen
Md.Rel.	Cris Carpenter, Jim Corsi, Trevor Hoffman
Closer	Bryan Harvey

I like what the Marlins have done in the middle relief and closer area.  These
are established players, and when handed the ball should do a good job in
getting opposing players out.  It does good when a starting pitcher pitches
a good game, has the lead, but gets in a jam only to have the relief come in
and get him out of the jam and seal the win.  These are young starters, they
won't have to worry about the closers blowing their lead when they leave the
game, that will help their mental state of it.

Rockies probable starting lineup?

C	Joe Girardi
1b	<None drafted, but that's why they got Andres Galarraga>
2b	Eric Young
SS	Freddie Benevides
3b	Charlie Hayes
LF	Jerald Clark
CF	Alex Cole
RF	Dante Bichette

Comparing the two, I like the Marlins (with a touch of bias).

Plenty of free agents will still find their way to these two teams I feel.
Time will tell come December and January.

Play Ball, 1:35 PM EST, Los Angeles Dodgers at Florida Marlins, April 5.

Joe Sosa
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