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Kiko Calero is gone


It seems that Kiko Calero's performance last season means he won't be a Marlin in 2010.

Don't look for the Marlins to offer salary arbitration to any of their four free agents -- Kiko Calero, Brendan Donnelly, Ross Gload and Nick Johnson -- at Tuesday's deadline. However, the Marlins remain very much interested in re-signing Gload to a two-year deal similar to the one granted last year to his mirror opposite on the bench, Wes Helms.

 The Marlins won't offer arbitration to any of the players.  Kiko and NJ especially, they are type B free agents and if the Marlins offered them arbitration, the worse could happen, in the club's eyes, they might take it.  Even if they didn't that would mean the Marlins would be awarded a sandwich pick between the first and second rounds of the draft.  Wouldn't won't that to happen, those guys cost money in the way of signing bonuses.

The only one we could see back is Gload, don't have a problem with him off the bench, but other clubs can read the stats tables and may offer a better deal.  The only thing the Marlins have going for them is that they may be willing to go two years.

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The Marlins are stupid. There's no chance Nick Johnson will accept the offer so atleast offer it to him so we can get pick!

And same for Kiko. If he accepts it, oh well! He’s not gonna cost that much. And if he doesn’t take it, we walk away with a pick.

by JP 23 on Dec 1, 2009 3:48 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

The Marlins are stupid. There's no chance Nick Johnson will accept the offer so atleast offer it to him so we can get pick!

And same for Kiko. If he accepts it, oh well! He’s not gonna cost that much. And if he doesn’t take it, we walk away with a pick. It’s so stupid.

by JP 23 on Dec 1, 2009 4:02 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

The Marlins are stupid. There's no chance Nick Johnson will accept the offer so atleast offer it to him so we can get pick!

And same for Kiko. If he accepts it, oh well! He’s not gonna cost that much. And if he doesn’t take it, we walk away with a pick. It’s so stupid.

by JP 23 on Dec 1, 2009 4:04 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

well you did

Current Phinsider Feud Points: 23

T.Lex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt. Can't just suppress sixty five million years of gut instinct.

by Patssuck456 on Dec 1, 2009 11:39 PM EST up reply actions  

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