March 18, 201214 yr QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 17, 2012 -> 11:38 PM) In other words, he'll be great. I wouldn't say great, but good enough to be a valuable pitcher. The thought that he'll go to the NL and win 17-20 games because it's an easier league, I just don't buy it. The NL East is a pretty good hitting division, plus the Marlins interleague schedule is tough...6 with Boston, 6 with Tampa Bay, 3 with Toronto, 3 with Cleveland. It's going to be about the same. 30-32 starts. 200-210 innings. 19-22 quality starts. And he'll come away with 13-15 wins, while the Marlins finish 80-82.
March 18, 201214 yr QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 18, 2012 -> 09:16 AM) I wouldn't say great, but good enough to be a valuable pitcher. The thought that he'll go to the NL and win 17-20 games because it's an easier league, I just don't buy it. The NL East is a pretty good hitting division, plus the Marlins interleague schedule is tough...6 with Boston, 6 with Tampa Bay, 3 with Toronto, 3 with Cleveland. It's going to be about the same. 30-32 starts. 200-210 innings. 19-22 quality starts. And he'll come away with 13-15 wins, while the Marlins finish 80-82. Valuable, but not $13.5 mil per season valuable.
March 18, 201214 yr I'd say his gaudy interleague record over 11 years carries a lot more weight than one spring training, but time will tell. I'll go with 17-10, 3.65era. Hoping the Marlins completely suck otherwise.
March 18, 201214 yr QUOTE (sunofgold @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 06:37 PM) Welcome to Miami. Anything is possible in Miami. Nice place to have a Chicago reunion. Wow, Zambrano is in great shape. He looks as slim as Mark.
March 18, 201214 yr Picking tickets up for the 3 games at Wrigley. Hoping Buehrle and Zambrano start two of them. Would be so excellent.
March 19, 201214 yr QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 18, 2012 -> 09:27 AM) Valuable, but not $13.5 mil per season valuable. And not for four more years
March 26, 201214 yr Buehrle gave up 2 runs after three pitches but ended up with a pretty good outing against the Tigers today. 6 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K 7.30 ERA Edited March 26, 201214 yr by flavum
April 3, 201214 yr QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 02:15 PM) DVR alert... Buehrle starts Thursday opening day in Cincinnati. 3pm on ESPN2. Not giving it to Johnson...interesting
April 3, 201214 yr QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 01:19 PM) Not giving it to Johnson...interesting Johnson is opening the Miami park tomorrow night. It's a one game series with the Cardinals for some odd reason.
April 3, 201214 yr QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) Johnson is opening the Miami park tomorrow night. It's a one game series with the Cardinals for some odd reason. I know the WS champion always plays the only game on opening night, but it's usually at home and part of a whole series.
April 3, 201214 yr Good luck to Mark, arguably the greatest White Sox pitcher of the modern era. One of my all time favorites.
April 4, 201214 yr Author QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) I know the WS champion always plays the only game on opening night, but it's usually at home and part of a whole series. Yeah... this 1 game series makes no sense, and it's ALWAYS at home for the Champs. Jeez, you'd think the Marlins actually mattered prior to this year for them to get all this special treatment.
April 5, 201214 yr Johnson is opening the Miami park tomorrow night. It's a one game series with the Cardinals for some odd reason. The Marlins-Cardinals game was not on the original schedule. I remember because at the time Mark B signed with Miami, I was thinking that I would make the 100-mile trek to see Mark pitch the second game of the Marlins-Reds series. Then at some point this opening night game got added and that pushed Mark up to the first game of the Marlins-Reds series, which screwed me because (1) Opening Day Reds tickets are nearly impossible to get and (2) much harder day for me to get off work.
April 5, 201214 yr Buerhle owned the NL when he pitched against them in interleague. I won't even bother looking up the stats. I would be disappointed if he pitched a bad game here. Now in the NL he gets to face the pitcher 2 to 3 times every start. Would like to see Buehrle get the Marlins their first win of the season and Guillen's first win as manager of the Marlins.
April 5, 201214 yr QUOTE (sunofgold @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 10:17 AM) Buerhle owned the NL when he pitched against them in interleague. I won't even bother looking up the stats. I would be disappointed if he pitched a bad game here. Now in the NL he gets to face the pitcher 2 to 3 times every start. Would like to see Buehrle get the Marlins their first win of the season and Guillen's first win as manager of the Marlins. The teams that saw Mark the most often are the ones that hit him the hardest. Expect that gap to close as teams see him on a regular basis.
April 5, 201214 yr Well, he should be fine then against NL teams in the other divisions (like the Reds) for awhile. Phillies, Nationals, Braves should figure him out sooner. As for the Mets...well I wouldn't worry about them right now. haha! I think Buehrle should be able to have a good season this year. And don't forgot that he now gets to face the pitcher. Of course, he has to bat himself. He sucks at hitting even though he did hit a HR once.
April 8, 201214 yr Mayo jar gets Buehrle... http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-b...-to-your-health
April 11, 201214 yr QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 10:12 AM) The marketing of MLB is as bad as you can get. and stupid ideas will never cease with the current commissioner
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