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strostro
RIP Jose Fernandez. Dearly missed. Great Person, Great pitcher.
thekid9
Great person? Really?
Ley_z 3
Yeah really
thekid9
He killed 2 people. Not exactly in the Ripken/Jeter category.
leefieux
Thekid9….I’m with you.Had Fernandez survived he would’ve been brought up on manslaughter charges. Hardly the type of person to erect a statue to, imo. But, because he was a darn good pitcher who died too soon (albeit his own fault….drugging and driving) he gets a statue.
24TheKid
I also agree.
Goop Pooberson
pretty sure his moment of reckless decision making that led to his ultimate demise doesn’t negate the impact he had on people. actually i’m positive. referring to yourself as “the kid” is obviously an out of context reference, but you’re maturity level surely matches that of a 9 year old. good day, bless
lesterdnightfly
“Positive effect on others” ?!?
How about the effect he had on the lives of his two friends, who died because of Jose’s own lack of “maturity level”? And the effect on the lives of their loved ones?
Hold off on the pedestal and the halo please. Such abject and rationalizing hero-worship is sick.
p.s. Anyone who calls himself “Goop Pooberson” shouldn’t try to belittle anyone else’s moniker.
jd396
Hero worship? Are you that sanctimonious on purpose or is it really a novel idea to you that Fernandez (like any other mortal) had flaws? You don’t have to deify the guy as a moral and ethical pillar of society to acknowledge that he was quite involved with the community and was otherwise a much loved superstar. He was all that **AND** he got drunk, did some rails, crashed a boat, and killed himself and his buddies in the process. Welcome to the real world where things are sometimes complex and unsettling.
chandlere
I think you’re missing the point
bastros88
tom Kohler needs to go to another team, maybe a change of scenery might help, or maybe he just sucks. he seems like a AAAA pitcher
Sano Smash
A “Quad-A pitcher” that threw 700 Major League innings with a 4.14 ERA from 2013-16?
dudeness88
Is that supposed to be good? In the NL? In a pitcher friendly park?
TheMichigan
It’s suitable for a major leaguer starter so yea, it’s pretty decent.
Not everyone can toss consistently sub 3.00 ERAs. If you can get a guy who can consistently throw 175 innings of 4.00 ERA ball, then that’s pretty damn good.
And pitcher friendly parks only go so far. OCo is one of the few parks I can reasonably see being a real “pitchers park” due to the egregious foul line territory. Petco too due to high strikeout totals and a long porch. It still only goes so far. The Marlins stadium is like Comerica (which is also a pitchers park) due to a very “spacious” and “forgiving” center field. It basically means you can maybe leg out one or two more doubles a season. I’m not saying it’s not a factor, it’s just not the “main” factor. The dude is a solid, albeit unspectacular Major League Starter.
MarlinsRising16
Bout time……nuff said
MarlinsRising16
He just sucks. Without Jose his stuff is the same as the other 5 starters. Hitters are seeing 5 pitchers with the same stuff night in night out (Hence the ERA spike for all members of the staff). Loria should have built a staff of guys who had different looks. Instead you have a staff of average arms with average stuff and hitters are just teeing off now. Minus the different look from Ziegler and, of course, Ramos. The Marlins staff are all mirror images of each other #thanksloria
baseballjunkie68
Ok enough blaming everything on Lori I’m a Marlins fan so I hate him to but most of our problems are self inflicted and not all his fault. Making him a scape goat is not going to help.
ghost of harambe
Exactly, ame for red sox fans that blame farrell for everything
johnsilver
Agree there, tho Farrell really doesn’t have a clue with regards to BP useage and neither did Tito when he was with Boston and say that as a Sox fan since early 60’s and watch just about every game. The way both use their pen assets will drive one mad..
nailz#4life
Bet he’s hiding an injury….
thinkblech
If nothing else, Koehler can make a heck of a cup of coffee.
Solaris611
And I thought for sure going into the season that the Padres had far and away the worst starting staff in the Majors. Boy was I wrong.
Kram321
LMFAO!!! That’s what the Houston Astros team does to pitchers…
#GoAstros
metseventually
….what?
Zach725
What? Hurt pitchers?