A Home For The Aged: A BBM Marlins Expansion Dynasty

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APRIL 10TH: Marlins (2-5) Vs Padres (1-6)
It was a close game until the 8th when Seanez and Hillman would combine to give up 6 runs over the final two innings. The lone bright spot was Chuck Smith giving 7 decent innings and Dave Nilssons 2 run homer.
Final Score: Padres 10 Marlins 3




APRIL 11TH: Marlins (2-6) Vs Padres (2-6)
Today was a pretty awesome pitching duel between Andy Benes and Tony Saunders that was tied at 1 until our pen gave up and 8th inning run and that was that. Shumpert hit a homer for our only scoring.
Final Score: Padres 2 Marlins 1




APRIL 12TH: Marlins (2-7) Vs Padres (3-6)
Seminara gave up 5 thru 5. Our bullpen was shit again. A Gaetti homer was our only offense. We suck bad right now. Our team ERA is 7.88. Yikes.
Final Score: Padres 8 Marlins 1

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APRIL 13TH: Marlins (2-8) Vs Braves (6-4)
Reynoso threw 6 innings of 4 run ball and we scrapped but ultimately Glavine and the Braves pen, capped off by Trevor Hoffman, were too much as lost our 8th in a row.
Final Score: Braves 5 Marlins 3




APRIL 14TH: Marlins (2-9) Vs Braves (7-4)
Bryn Smith gave up 4 over 6 innings and Smoltz totaly held us down until the 9th when we got 3 runs, 2 of which came off a Vinny Castilla homer but we were never really in it. Rudy Seanez gave up 2 more runs and he's about to be demoted.
Final Score: Braves 6 Marlins 3




APRIL 15TH: Marlins (2-10) Vs Braves (8-4)
Chuck Smith gave up 4 1st inning runs but settled down to throw 7 good innings. The problem once more is that we can't score as Millwood & their pen shut us down. Hillman gave up 4 9th inning runs to continue our dissasterous relief efforts.
Final Score: Braves 8 Marlins 2




APRIL 16TH: OFF DAY




APRIL 16TH: INJURY & TRANSACTION NEWS
Tanana will be activated tommorow and start tommorows game. Reynoso will head back to AAA. I'm not gonna make any roster moves yet but all of our bullpen is on notice, they've been dreadfull. As far as our lineup goes, McGee and Castilla have struggled mightily but i'm not gonna panic just yet, although 2-11 is good reason to panic.

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APRIL 17TH: Marlins (2-11) At Giants (9-4)
Tanana threw 7 innings of 2 run ball, allowing only a 2 run Barry Bonds homer and we were tied at 2 after seven innings against Bill Swift. Gene Larkin got a pinch hit 2 out RBI single in the 8th to give us the lead. Bedrosian came in in the 9th but a Nilsson throwing error on a sacrafice attempt allowed the tying run to score. Goodwin then hit an RBI single in the top of the 10th to give us the lead back. A Gaetti error in the bottom of the inning helped them tie the score again. Oy. Finaly in the 13th inning at the end of our pen again, Heredia gave up the game winning hit and we lose our 11th in a row.
Final Score: Giants 5 Marlins 4 (13 Innings)




APRIL 17TH: INJURY & ROSTER NEWS
Bryn Smith punch a wall after todays game and broke his finger. Awesome. We DL him and call Reynoso back up to take his spot in the rotation. This is getting sad.




APRIL 18TH: Marlins (2-12) At Giants (10-4)
Down 2-1 in the eigth, Nilsson jacked a 3 run homer off of Bryan Hickerson in relief of Dave Burba to give us a 4-2 lead.
Saunders threw 8 strong innings and in the ninth we brought in the least worn out of our reliever, Manzanillo, and he set the Giants down in order to get the save and break our losing streak.
Final Score: Marlins 4 Giants 2




APRIL 18TH: INJURY & ROSTER NEWS
Tests done on Steve Bedrosians hand show he has a broken bone. So he's out for a couple of weeks.
We DL him and call up AJ Sager. We'll go with a closer by commitee I guess.




APRIL 19TH: Marlins (3-12) At Giants (10-5)
Back to the grindstone as Russ Ortiz shut us out on 3 hits wasting a good performance from Frank Seminara and our bullpen.
Final Score: Giants 2 Marlins 0

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APRIL 20TH: Marlins (3-13) At Phillies (5-12)
Reynoso gave up 5 thru 5 but we came from 5-1 down to tie it thanks in part to a 2 run homer from Castilla. Seanez gave up the go ahead run in the 7th however and they're bullpen shut us down from there.
Final Score: Phillies 6 Marlins 5




APRIL 21ST: Marlins (3-14) At Phillies (6-12)
Chuck Smith needed 130 pitches to get thru 7 innings. He's way too wild, walking 7 and striking out 9 but only giving up 1 run on 2 hits and leaving with a 3-1 lead. Heredia & Candaleria closed it out to secure the win.
Final Score: Marlins 3 Phillies 1




APRIL 22ND: Marlins (4-14) At Phillies (6-13)
Tanana went 7, giving up just 3 runs but Jose Deleon pretty much shut us down. Our offensive highlite was a Guillen homer.
Final Score: Phillies 3 Marlins 2




APRIL 22ND: LINEUP NEWS
Gonna make some changes here. My order will now be Cora, Guillen, Goodwin, Nilsson, Vanderwall, McGee, Castilla, Gaetti.

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APRIL 23RD: Marlins (4-15) Vs Rockies (6-13)
Saunders left after 6 innings with a 4-3 lead but Manzanillo had a bad eigth and gave up the lead and Reardon closed us out.
Nilsson had 3 hits and Guillen had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Rockies 6 Marlins 4




APRIL 24TH: Marlins (4-16) Vs Rockies (7-13)
Seminara threw 8 innings of 2 run ball. Vanderwall hit a 3 run homer and Goodwin had 2 RBI as we rolled to a win. Yippee.
Final Score: Marlins 6 Rockies 2




APRIL 25TH: Marlins (5-16) Vs Rockies (7-14)
Reynoso right before the game complained of chest tightness so we had Chuck Smith make an emergency start and he did a good job of allowing just 3 runs in 6 innings. We trailed most of the way but tied it in the bottom of the 8th. Unfortunately we brought in Candelaria specificaly to face Helton and he allowed a 2 run double to him and that was that.
Final Score: Rockies 5 Marlins 3



APRIL 25TH: INJURY NEWS
Reynoso has chest tightness. Tanana and Saunders will move up a day and pitch on 4 days rest and Reynoso should be good to go after those guys.
Vinny Castilla has a finger blister that will keep him out a few days.
Shumpert has a sore hamstring so we're gonna be short for the next couple of days.
AJ Sager has a strained ankle that will force him to miss a couple of games as well.




APRIL 26TH: Marlins (5-17) Vs Rockies (8-14)
Tanana allowed just 2 runs in 7 innings. Santovenia hit a 3 run double and Heredia pitched a scoreless ninth for a save.
Final Score: Marlins 5 Rockies 2



APRIL 26TH: INJURY & TRANSACTION NEWS
We continue to get banged up all over. Gaetti has a sprained ankle that will keep him out about a week and Joey Cora has a bruised collar bone that will also keep him out at least a week. With so many injuries we have to make some moves.
We DL Gaetti & Cora and call up Phil Hiatt and Esteban Beltre.
I'm not really sure how our lineup will look but i imagine Goodwin and/or McGee will move back to the top of the order.
John Candelaria has a finger blister and is unavailable for a few days as well. Oy.

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APRIL 27TH: Marlins (6-17) At Mets (18-5)
Saunders got rocked for 7 runs in 4 innings. Hillman pitched ok till he tired in his third inning of work. Mullholand pretty much shut us down. Beltre did hit a homer and have 2 hits but we just got blown out.
Final Score: Mets 10 Marlins 3




APRIL 28TH: Marlins (6-18) At Mets (19-5)
Reynoso got clobbered for 8 runs in 6 innings and Dwight Gooden baffled us.
Final Score: Mets 10 Marlins 2




APRIL 29TH: Marlins (6-19) At Mets (20-5)
Saberhagen shut us down thus negating Seminaras 6 inning, 2 run performance.
Final Score: Mets 4 Marlins 1




APRIL 30TH: OFF DAY

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APRIL STATUS REPORT
Record: 6-20 (15 Games Back)
Profit: -$90,000

1994 Batting          G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Goodwin, Tom         25  .350   100   35   5   0   1    7    6    2   5    9   10  .430  .393
Cora, Joey           22  .267    90   24   2   1   0    5    5    1   3    4    9  .311  .313
Guillen, Ozzie       23  .247    93   23   4   0   2    2    9    4   1   11   12  .355  .260
Gaetti, Gary         23  .231    91   21   1   0   2    5   15    0   1    9    4  .308  .271
Nilsson, Dave        22  .253    79   20   2   0   3   12    9    0   1    8   10  .392  .352
McGee, Willie        22  .209    91   19   1   0   0    2   18    1   2    6    7  .220  .223
Vander Wal, John     25  .207    87   18   1   1   2    7   28    0   2   12    7  .310  .274
Larkin, Gene         22  .270    63   17   1   1   1    2    6    0   0    6    5  .365  .313
Castilla, Vinny      16  .230    61   14   1   0   3    4    6    0   0    7    6  .393  .277
Shumpert, Terry      15  .273    33    9   1   1   1    2    3    1   0    4    1  .455  .351
Stillwell, Kurt      15  .171    35    6   2   0   0    2    5    0   0    4    4  .229  .216
Petralli, Geno       11  .235    17    4   1   0   0    1    1    0   0    2    3  .294  .278
Hiatt, Phil           3  .200    10    2   0   1   0    0    4    0   0    2    0  .400  .200
Santovenia, Nelson    4  .222     9    2   1   0   1    1    2    0   0    1    5  .667  .300
Beltre, Esteban       1  .500     4    2   0   0   1    0    0    0   0    1    1 1.250  .500
Reynoso, Armando      4  .333     6    2   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    1    0  .333  .333
Smith, Chuck          5  .222     9    2   1   0   0    1    4    0   0    0    1  .333  .300
Saunders, Tony        5  .250     8    2   0   0   0    0    3    0   0    1    0  .250  .250
Hillman, Eric        12  .500     4    2   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    2  .500  .500
Cangelosi, John      15  .111     9    1   0   0   0    3    1    1   3    5    1  .111  .333
Tanana, Frank         4  .125     8    1   0   0   0    0    3    0   0    0    0  .125  .125
Seminara, Frank       5  .000     8    0   0   0   0    0    5    0   0    0    1  .000  .000
Heredia, Gil         13  .000     2    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Smith, Bryn           3  .000     5    0   0   0   0    0    2    0   0    0    0  .000  .000

Obviously a number of guys arn't hitting. Goodwin has played awesomely however.

1994 Pitching        IP    ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Smith, Chuck        33.0  4.09    5   5   1   2   0   30   12 12.27
Seminara, Frank     29.1  4.30    5   5   1   3   0   20   13 15.03
Saunders, Tony      29.0  5.28    5   5   1   2   0   27   18 14.59
Tanana, Frank       28.0  2.89    4   4   1   2   0   16    4  9.64
Reynoso, Armando    23.0 10.17    4   4   0   3   0   11   14 18.39
Hillman, Eric       18.1  6.38   12   0   1   0   0    7    6 15.71
Smith, Bryn         17.0 10.06    3   3   0   2   0    8   10 20.12
Heredia, Gil        16.1  1.65   13   0   0   2   1   12    7 13.78
Seanez, Rudy        11.0  7.36   12   0   1   1   0   10   10 18.00
Manzanillo, Josias  10.1  9.58   13   0   0   3   1   14    7 19.16
Candelaria, John     9.0  6.00   12   0   0   0   1    4    2 10.00
Bedrosian, Steve     6.0  7.50    6   0   0   0   1    3    3 13.50
Sager, A.J.          2.2  0.00    2   0   0   0   0    2    0  0.00

For the most part we've gotten decent output from the starters we were counting on. The pen however has been awfull but has been a tad better as of late. Still dreadfull.

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AROUND THE LEAGUE IN APRIL

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GET RID OF REYNOSO

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Brother, you have no idea how badly I want to,

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MAY 1ST: Marlins (6-20) Vs Giants (15-10)
Dave Burba mystified us. Chuck Smith went 7 and gave up 5 runs. Castilla had 2 hits. Our offense is HORRID.
Final Score: Giants 6 Marlins 2




MAY 2ND: INJURY & ROSTER NEWS
Terry Shumpert has a sprained ankle is gonna be out for awhile, we need to DL him.
We DL Shumpert and bring up SS Keith Kessinger.
Bryn Smith is coming off the DL today and he'll jump right into the fire. Reynoso is sent down to AAA.




MAY 2ND: Marlins (6-21) Vs Giants (16-10)
Unusual explosion from us as we score 8 times in the first 2 innings off of Bill Swift & their pen. Castilla went 3-4 with a HR. Larkin, Nilsson & Vanderwall all had 2 hits. Bryn Smith threw 6 innings of 2 run ball and our bullpen was aces. Nice win.
Final Score: Marlins 8 Giants 2




MAY 3RD: Marlins (7-21) Vs Giants (16-11)
Wooo hooo!! Tanana scuffled thru 5+ and our bullpen gave up a couple runs as we trailed 4-0 going into the bottom of the 9th where we proceed to single Dave Righetti to death and then with 2 outs and the score tied, Dave Nilsson singles in the winning run off of Rod Beck to give us a five run 9th inning rally to win it. Wooo Hooo!
Final Score: Marlins 5 Giants 4




MAY 3RD: INJURY & ROSTER NEWS
Steve Bedrosian is coming off of the DL tommorow and i've decided to send down Josias Manzanillo and his 8.74 ERA to AAA.

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MAY 4TH: Marlins (8-21) At Braves (21-9)
Saunders gave up four runs over 6+ innings and Smoltz allowed just a 9th inning Vanderwall homer as he schooled us.
Final Score: Braves 4 Marlins 1




MAY 5TH: Marlins (8-22) At Braves (22-9)
Seminara struggled thru 5+ innings and Danny Cox did a pretty good job on us as we never really got close.
Final Score: Braves 7 Marlins 3




MAY 6TH: Marlins (8-23) At Braves (23-9)
Chuck Smith only made it thru 5 innings giving up 7 walks and 3 runs. He's way to erratic. Greg Maddux shut us out on 5 hits. So that's that.
Final Score: Braves 3 Marlins 9




MAY 7TH: OFF DAY




MAY 7TH: ROSTER & TRANSACTION NEWS

Trade
We send Willie McGee and prospect 2B Quilvio Veras 60/78 to Milwaukee in exchange for 1B Eric Karros who is 26 and rated 77/77. Karros won the rookie of the year in 1992 and belted 26 homers last year but has been traded twice now in 3 full seasons and is hitting just .235 with 5 homers this year. He's a real solid player but eligable for arbitration after this season and may have some personality issues that have Milwaukee so invested in dumping him so quickly. On our end we give up McGee who has been awfull this year and we also clear his salary but Veras is a solid prospect. This is a calculated risk on our part that could help add some much needed pop to our lineup.

Gene Larkin will step in as our everyday Right Fielder.

Roster Move
It's time Everett, Green, Ordonez & Cordero all to move up to AAA.

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MAY 8TH: Marlins (8-24) Vs Dodgers (15-17)
Karros payed immediate dividens, going 2-4 with a HR. Bryn Smith went 7 great innings outdueling Kevin Gross and Candelaria & Bedrosian wrapped it up. Nice win.
Final Score: Marlins 3 Dodgers 1




MAY 9TH: Marlins (9-24) Vs Dodgers (15-18)
Tanana has a decent outing but Hillman and Sager get roughed up in relief and Pedro Martinez shuts us down.
Final Score: Dodgers 9 Marlins 1




MAY 10TH: Marlins (9-25) Vs Dodgers (16-18)
Saunders pitched 6+ innings of good ball and we got some late runs thanks to good hitting and bad Dodger defense. Bedrosian worked a 1-2-3 ninth for the save and we take 2 of 3 from the Dodgers in a pretty impressive showing.
Final Score: Marlins 4 Dodgers 3

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MAY 11TH: Marlins (10-25) At Phillies (13-24)
Seminara gave up 7 runs in 5 innings work and Jose Deleon made us look like little leaguers. We got some runs in the ninth to make it look much closer than it was.
Final Score: Phillies 8 Marlins 5




MAY 11TH: ROSTER NEWS
Cora and Gaetti are both coming off the DL today. Kessinger goes down to AA and Hiatt is headed down to AAA.
Cora resumes his role as everyday 2B while Gaetti will backup Castilla and Karros.




MAY 12TH: Marlins (10-26) At Phillies (14-24)
Chuck Smith went 6+ of 1 run ball but Hillman and Heredia got knocked silly in the 8th as the Phils exploded for 6 runs and ran away with the win. Our offense is just.........Efffin Horrid.
Final Score: Phillies 7 Marlins 1




MAY 13TH: Marlins (10-27) At Phillies (15-24)
Bryn Smith gave us just what the doctor ordered. A Complete game shutout. Karros had 3 hits and Nilsson hit a 2 run shot.
Final Score: Marlins 3 Phillies 0

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MAY 14TH: Marlins (11-27) Vs Pirates (20-20)
Tanana threw 7 innings of 1 run ball. Bedrosian got the save.
Final Score: Marlins 5 Pirates 2




MAY 15TH: Marlins (12-27) Vs Pirates (20-21)
Saunders went 7 and gave up just a run. Larkin had 4 hits and 4 RBI. Vanderwall had a HR and 4 RBI as we knocked out 15 hits and 10 runs en route to a romp over Esteban Loaza and the Pirates pen.
Final Score: Marlins 10 Pirates 4




MAY 16TH: Marlins (13-27) Vs Pirates (20-22)
Our string of solid starts came to an end as Seminara and our pen got roughed up. We couldn't touch Wakefield today.
Final Score: Pirates 8 Marlins 1




MAY 16TH: INURY & ROSTER NEWS
After the game we found out Rudy Seanez had a broken hand, he's headed to the DL.
We recall Josias Manzanillo to take his spot in the bullpen.