Marlins DFA Renyel Pinto, Prove Existence of God
Sure, the Marlins have had worse relievers in the bullpen than Renyel Pinto, but you certainly wouldn't know it by the skyrocketing blood pressure of 99.97% of fans at the mere mention of the pitcher's name.
The prayers of the masses (sabermaniacs excluded) were answered Wednesday night after a Marlins loss to the Rangers in which Renyel Pinto gave up a home run to Josh Hamilton. Following the loss, the team announced that they had designated Pinto for assignment.
For those rejoicing at the idea of Pinto’s Marlins career being over, let me temper the enthusiasm. The Marlins have 10 days to trade him, release him or outright him to the minors if he clears waivers. I can’t imagine Pinto would be back any time soon, but considering the Marlins are on the hook for the all of his $1.075 million salary, they could keep him at Triple-A rather than give him his outright release.
Then again, maybe the Marlins figure they no longer have any use for a left-hander who can’t get left-handed hitters out. Pinto, who the Marlins activated from the disabled list Tuesday, was allowing a .350 average (7 for 20) to left-handed hitters.
Tim Wood has been recalled to take Pinto's spot in the bullpen. No word yet on who will take over his Baseball Graffiti Project.
So who's your least favorite Marlins reliever of all time?
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I was half-reading.
Spooneybarger is my all-time favorite. Least favorite goes to Vic Darensbourg.
by creeperjones on Jun 17, 2010 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
off the top of my head i can only think of the most recent ones...
so my top 3 are:
1. Gregg
2. Pinto
3. Lindstrom
we've gone through a million bad relievers..
funny thing is we used to have nothing but great ones.. mantei, nen, cook, powell, alfonseca, harvey, turner, armando, jones, urbina, even had hoffman for a year but ever since bowoski or whatever his name one we havent gotten one decent closer/releiver.. jason grilli was pretty shitty hands down but everyone recently is horrible to watch.
Marlins Team/Managerial
Hello all, Opinion of a True fan. We have a good team not great yet cause the kids have to mature and learn while playing;However Manager Gonzales needs to stop been too nice and put some discipline in the pitching staff, Hes pitching coach needs to light a fire in the starters except Johnson and Nunez other than that all are playing in slow mode,opinion if they dont want play 100 percent bring kids to pitch . I rather have us loose having new kids learning than a pitcher who goes outhere and is clueless ,For example; Nolasco,Volstad,Robertson,Both sanches and the catcher, I played catcher in School and I think my grandmother is suit to throw better than those catchers we have, they throw like girls. If you need a new pitching coach and bench coach is the time now before it gets worst, Last what took so long to realize that pinto and the other pitchers threw last few games last yr for the playoffs and this yr same thing is been pinto,nolasco and sanches giving up games. Need to bring new blood that will keep our ace johnson in shape and motivated to throw those great games he needs players around him, I think he is a player model along with Cody ross plays with heart no talent heart and he gets it done, Uggla,Ramirez needs a wake up call, put Haslem,Cantu,Uggla, Ross , Stanton,Coughclann,and find pitching the bats are there, we Need pitching in the relieve dept.Nunez you are good just relax a bit, you are closing games and you be super good keep doing your thing. Manager Gonzales be more vocal with your pitching coach and bench coaches. Sit ramirez he needs to grow up.Last you be a great manager dont worry if you get fired, Many teams deserve a great coach like you, just need to be more affirm dont worry about sorry ass owner , he sucks hope someone buys the team from that looser.
But Vuvuzela night proves that there is no God
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""It only ends once. Everything that comes before is just progress"
Well, yeah, Pinto is obviously the problem.
He’s certainly not one of the better relievers we have (even though his statistics this year say otherwise.) Because, you know, he walks people — and any reliever who walks people is clearly intolerable, even though he allows very few hits and almost no extra-base hits.
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