Dan Uggla seriously on the trading block

by craig on Nov 16, 2009 11:18 AM EST in News and Rumors

As we all know Dan Uggla is being shopped by the Marlins, and here is one more report.

A general manager who spoke to the Marlins at last week's GM meetings said their No. 1 priority is trading Dan Uggla for cheap, young talent. ``There's a decent market for him,'' the GM said, with the Braves, Orioles and Giants among options. Emilio Bonifacio could replace him at second. ``That's his best defensive position but his bat is still a question,'' the GM said.

Seeing Danny leave the team will be bad enough. Compounded it by making Bonifacio an everyday player again, is like driving the final nail in the coffin. Yes, I do understand that Bonifacio is young and it is still possible he may quit being an out machine. But until he can prove that somewhere else, the club has minor league teams you know, I'm not ready to watch the 2010 season being another on the job training sessions that goes completely awry.

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Uggla is too inconsistent

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by Patssuck456 on Nov 16, 2009 2:31 PM EST reply actions

i like Uggla...

but I would trade him in an instant for a solid starter and a proven reliever (package him with Pinto or Lindstrom)

by xquiles21x on Nov 16, 2009 4:09 PM EST reply actions

No way

If Bonifacio is seriously the starting 2B next year then Fredi has got to go.

by tdp992 on Nov 16, 2009 4:42 PM EST reply actions

I continue to believe that Coghlan is the 2010 second baseman. (Provided Uggla is gone.)

The Marlins don’t usually make mistakes on this order of magnitude — the Bonifacio experiment ended eventually.

Well, there’s the closer thing, but all teams do that. Every team nominates some guy as the “closer”, and won’t pitch an obviously superior pitcher over him, unless said pitcher has also been a “closer”, i.e. a player who does exactly the same thing as all the other relief pitchers, only in a different inning. BASEBALL.

He's currently two-thirds man, one-third amazing. Which, let's face it, is still a pretty good ratio.

by 3.3seconds on Nov 16, 2009 5:28 PM EST reply actions