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Miami Marlins frontrunners to land Yoenis Cespedes
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes is scheduled to land in Miami Tuesday afternoon. According to an American League source from a club that’s been monitoring his free agency, the Marlins likely will be his future employer.
Though with an outfield that already boasts the power hitting Mike Stanton, uber fast Emilio Bonifacio and home run hitter slash king of Twitter Logan Morrison I can’t for the life of me figure out why they’d be willing to overpay for another outfielder.
Cespedes is expected to meet with club officials Wednesday. Though the U.S. Treasury’s Department of Foreign Assets Control must unblock Cespedes before he can play professionally here, he is able to negotiate and come to terms with the club of his choosing. Team President David Samson last week said they were aggressively negotiating with Adam Katz, Cespedes agent from the Wasserman Media Group.
The AL source said all indications are the Marlins have the inside track to land the outfielder who many believe is the most talented player to come out of the island nation. In addition to the Marlins, the Tigers, Cubs and White Sox are among the teams reported to have the most interest.
The Tigers after signing Prince Fielder to a nine-year, $214 million offer likely won’t make an aggressive move for Cespedes, the source said. He said the Cubs have as much interest in fellow Cuban defector Jorge Soler and ultimately may choose to make a stronger run at him. Two other teams to monitor in the Cespedes sweepstakes are the Orioles and Athletics, who joined the fray in the last few weeks.
Katz on MLB Network Radio on Sirius/XM last weekend said he anticipates Cespedes will be ina team’s camp for the start of spring training.
Source: SunSentinel.com
Are the Marlins punishing Logan Morrison?
The LoMo demotion continues to confound. The team tolerates Hanley Ramirez’s lack of work ethic, sit by as he dogs it on the field several times a year and look past the fact that he has produced (quite literally) half as much as Logan Morrison has this year, yet they demote LoMo for “lack of production”.
The Marlins’ front office isn’t saying much on the matter, and Logan Morrison kept his comments light on Twitter last evening. So we’re left only to wonder whether his demotion was performance-related or a punishment for an off-field incident.
Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post seems to think it might have been a mixture of both.
Here’s a snippet of Capozzi’s Saturday evening article on the Marlins’ sudden and surprising decision to send the talented and productive 23-year-old outfielder back to Triple-A New Orleans. It seems to go beyond LoMo’s recent slump:
I might be able to clear up the “incident” LoMo referred to when he said he suspected his demotion was related to something off the field.
First, I was told by a person close to LoMo that the matter was not criminal related or even sordid.
Earlier in the day, he refused to participate in a photo session with season ticket holders at Sun Life Stadium. That might sound surprising, given Logan’s outgoing personality and popularity with fans, but apparently there were some hard feelings related to earlier promotional activities.
I know that this past Thursday — a Marlins off day — Logan canceled a charity bowling tournament in Miami because he said the Florida Marlins Community Foundation “dropped the ball” and didn’t sell enough lanes in advance.
Logan wasn’t happy about that. And there apparently were some other events in which players were supposed to participate. There was also an autograph signing earlier Saturday, which Logan participated in. But he put his foot down and did not participate in the photo session with season ticket holders.
Read the rest of Capozzi’s piece for more. It also has a full transcript of quotes from LoMo’s pow-wow with the media after learning that he had been sent to the minors. This story is obviously far from over.
Source: Drew Silva @ Hardball Talk
