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Spring Dugz: Florida Marlins

Your official The Dugout Guide to This Year in the National League East: The Mets will win a lot of games. The Phillies will win a lot of games. The friggin Florida Marlins will win the division with nothing but Luis Gonzalez and a big snapping trading card binder with pictures of actual professional baseball...

The Dugout: The Number Zero

Luis Gonzalez is forty years old and will spend his 2008 season with the Florida Marlins, a team whose combined age does not equal forty. I think the oldest player on that team is Billy Marlin, and I think he was supposed to be "born" when he debuted. There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said on Fanhouse, but...

Ricky Nolasco Has a Dead Arm, Rick Vanden Hurk is Alive

They say that one man's dead arm is another man's excuse to fly his family from Holland ... or something like that. The bottom line for the Marlins is that another member of their starting rotation is down, and a guy with a career 5-12 minor league record in four seasons is getting the call.The photo you see represents the...

Questions for Phillies and Marlins

Can we really be at a crossroads after one week of the season? Well here we are ... Philadelphia and Florida: the corner of Slump St. and Closer Ave. Will it be the road less traveled, or the path of least resistance? Or will the Phillies and Marlins just be lost without a GPS?For the Phillies, well it's obvious ... in a...

Rooting For Ryan Howard Has its Limits for Dontrelle Willis

Dontrelle Willis likes Ryan Howard. Hey, who doesn't like Ryan Howard? But he doesn't like Ryan Howard enough to let him hit bombs into the upper tank. Willis retired Howard three times, and Howard was retired twice more by Marlins relievers in an 8-5 Marlins victory."That guy's dangerous," Willis said. "All he needs is...