2007 Florida Marlins

The Florida Marlins' 2007 season began with the team with the league's lowest payroll trying to improve on their promising 78-84 record in 2006. Despite the success of the team under manager Joe Girardi, he was fired and replaced with Fredi Gonzalez.

Marlins general manager Larry Beinfest said that the team's goal from the start of the season was to compete in the playoffs. ^[1]

The Marlins had two goals to address during the 2006 offseason: they needed a new closer because '06 closer Joe Borowski signed with the Cleveland Indians as a free agent, and the Marlins saw the need for a new center fielder. They had platooned Eric Reed, Reggie Abercrombie, Chris Aguila, Cody Ross, and Alfredo Amézaga in the position in 2006, with backup shortstop Amézaga making most of the starts at that position later in the season. The Marlins had added some new relief pitchers since 2006, trading Chris Resop to the Los Angeles Angels for Kevin Gregg and shipping prospects Jason Vargas and Adam Bostick to the New York Mets for Henry Owens and Matt Lindstrom. Lindstrom has been a closer during his time in the minors and has a fastball that reached 100 mph on radar guns in winter league play during the 2006 offseason. ^[1] The Marlins saw much competition for their closer role, with Ricky Nolasco, Renyel Pinto, Mike Koplove, Gregg, Lindstrom, and Owens all candidates for the job. ^[1] In April, newly-acquired Jorge Julio was named closer, but on May 13, he was traded to the Colorado Rockies for Byung-Hyun Kim.

The Marlins signed center fielder Alex Sanchez to a minor league deal in the offseason, who competed for the Marlins' center field job with Reed, Abercrombie, Ross, and Amézaga. Beinfest said that the Marlins tried to trade for a proven center fielder but were asked for too much in order to get one. ^[1] However, Sánchez was released at the end of spring training and the starting role was handed to rookie Alejandro De Aza.

1 Regular season
2 Draft
- 2.1 Players Selected
3 References

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

NL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	Elim. #
New York Mets	83	64	.565	—	—
Philadelphia Phillies	79	69	.534	4½	11
Atlanta Braves	75	73	.507	8½	7
Washington Nationals	66	82	.446	17½	E
Florida Marlins	65	83	.439	18½	E

E = Eliminated from winning the division

NL Wild Card	W	L	Pct.	GB	Elim.#
San Diego Padres	80	67	.544	--	--
Los Angeles Dodgers	79	69	.534	1½	14
Philadelphia Phillies	79	69	.534	1½	14
Colorado Rockies	76	72	.514	4½	11
Milwaukee Brewers	75	72	.510	5	11
Atlanta Braves	75	73	.507	5½	10
St. Louis Cardinals	70	77	.476	10	6
Cincinnati Reds	68	80	.459	12½	3
San Francisco Giants	66	82	.446	14½	1
Pittsburgh Pirates	66	82	.446	14½	1
Washington Nationals	65	82	.446	14½	1

[edit] Game log

2007 Florida Marlins season game log

[edit] Roster

Template:Florida Marlins roster

[edit] Player Stats

[edit] Batting

Note: PA = Plate Appearances; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In; SB = Stolen Bases; AVG = Batting Average; OBP = On-Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging Percentage. All statistics through July 7, 2007.

Player	GP	AB	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG
Miguel Olivo	76	287	7	36	2	.247	.264	.394
Aaron Boone	69	189	5	28	2	.286	.388	.423
Dan Uggla	88	357	17	51	2	.249	.321	.493
Miguel Cabrera	84	321	18	61	0	.324	.393	.576
Hanley Ramirez	85	349	14	34	27	.330	.385	.539
Josh Willingham	85	305	11	54	4	.262	.365	.456
Alfredo Amezaga	77	258	1	19	11	.267	.325	.363
Jeremy Hermida	50	172	8	27	2	.227	.318	.419

[edit] Pitching

[edit] Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Dontrelle Willis	19	114.3	7	7	4.72	80
Scott Olsen	18	102.3	6	6	5.01	81
Sergio Mitre	15	84.3	3	4	2.85	55
Byung-Hyun Kim	10	52.3	3	2	4.30	45
Anibal Sanchez	6	30	2	1	4.80	14
Rick VandenHurk	7	29	2	2	8.38	32

[edit] Draft

This is a partial list. For the full draft, see here.

[edit] Players Selected

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School
1	12	Matt Dominguez (3B)	Template:CUB	Chatsworth High School
2	76	Michael Stanton (CF)	United States	Notre Dame High School
3	106	Jameson Smith (C)	United States	Fresno CC
4	136	Bryan Peterson (RF)	United States	UC-Irvine
5	166	Steven Cishek (RHP)	United States	Carson-Newman College