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marlinsfuture
07-07-2006, 05:24 PM
I've followed many of the top rookies and it seems to me that the best young player to build our future around is Lastings Milledge. By next year, Dontrelle Willis will be priced off our team. I say strike now and send him north for Milledge. Imagine him, Danny Uggla, Cabrera, Jacobs and Hermida in the middle of the order for the next ten years? Milledge not only has the "five tools" we always hear about, but it looks he has that killer instinct and tenacity that makes good players great. Once the Mets call him back up, they will be much less inclined to deal him. Now is the time to bring him here and let watch his star rise.
steveironcity
07-07-2006, 09:10 PM
Lastings Milledge is one of the coolest names ever PERIOD
Tylersarticles
07-11-2006, 12:21 PM
Lastings is going to be a great player, but after watching him play in AAA and in his brief stint wit the Mets, I have come to the conclusion that at the present time, he is not a five tool player. Lastings really needs to improve his defensive ability as a corner outfielder. Although he had never played in front of the Green Monster, his performance at Fenway against the Red Sox was not something to be proud of.
He has a cannon for an arm, can hit for a plus average, has blazing speed, and has the potential to have "Water Tower Power", but he needs to track the ball a little better off the bat and focus more on routine fly balls.
He is going to be one heck of a player and everyone will know his name before it is all said and done. One of baseball's premier scouting agencies, Perfect Game USA, said in a report that Milledge could one day be the next Willie Mays. He will certainly have is work cut out for him, but the sky really is the limit and he reminds a lot of scouts of Mays with his style of play.
The only way Florida will give up Dontrelle is if a minor league player the caliber of Milledge is available, but I don't see the Mets giving him up anytime soon. New York is going to get rid of Cliff Floyd before they gid rid of Milledge.
The kid is also very cocky and as a baseball player it is good to have a certain swagger, but only to a point. Lasting, like Devil Rays prospect Delmon Young, needs to realize he is not bigger than the game and baseball will go on without him.
KCGHOST
07-11-2006, 03:18 PM
I say strike now and send him north for Milledge. Imagine him, Danny Uggla, Cabrera, Jacobs and Hermida in the middle of the order for the next ten years?
The Marlins management has never, ever ponied up to keep a group of players together for 10 years. Why would they do so now??
DODGER DEB
07-12-2006, 06:16 AM
The Marlins management has never, ever ponied up to keep a group of players together for 10 years. Why would they do so now??
You are right about that, KCGHOST! However, giving up Lastings now for Willis could be a very good move for the METS, since pitching is the high priority NOW! In a few years, when Loria has his next "fire sale", the METS could then get Lastings back....and perhaps a few others.
It could happen just that way!
c.
Beer2Share
07-14-2006, 09:37 AM
Lastings is a bad ass player--needs to mature a smidge but as a Marlin fan who watched Lastings in spring training--he would be a great pick up =)
W_Marone
07-14-2006, 09:19 PM
The kid's good, if the fish could get him it would be a great pick up. Sure that high five thing was uncalled for but, he's young and dumb, he knows not to do it again.
Gary Gaetti for MVP
07-16-2006, 07:28 PM
Yeah, he looked solid in those games at Fenway.
W_Marone
07-16-2006, 08:04 PM
cmon lets not let a series in which he looked lackluster defensivly deminish how good a player this kid is and will be.
Gary Gaetti for MVP
07-17-2006, 07:41 PM
I Know, he just looked pretty bad with the monster, but he looks like he might have some potential.
TonyStarks
07-20-2006, 02:40 PM
I don't see the Marlins trading D-Train for Lasting straight up.
The Marlins will ask for another B Level Prospect or 2.
None the less, Lasting will not be immediate help. He's about a year or two away.
Baseball Guru
07-20-2006, 02:48 PM
You are right about that, KCGHOST! However, giving up Lastings now for Willis could be a a very good move for the METS, since pitching is the high priority NOW! In a few years, when Loria has his next "fire sale", the METS could then get Lastings back....and perhaps a few others.
It could happen just that way!
c.
Agreed! Although I love Lastings and think he will be a very good player, the Mets priority right now is to get another starter.. They are in a position NOW to win and need to do whatever it takes to win now!
Lasting, like Devil Rays prospect Delmon Young, needs to realize he is not bigger than the game and baseball will go on without him.
I totally disagree with the comparison to Young.. Milledge is not like that at all.. He is a very down to earth kid that just loves to play the game... Yeah, he may have a little cockiness in him but he really is no trouble.... He worked very well taking corrective criticism from some of the Met vets..
DODGER DEB
07-20-2006, 03:18 PM
I think Minaya needs to put a move on in getting Willis. There are several teams out there that want and need a pitcher like him as badly as the METS do. With good pitchers being hard to come by this year, the METS need to be decisive NOW!
Are ya listening, OMAR?
c.
Tylersarticles
07-20-2006, 05:42 PM
Agreed! Although I love Lastings and think he will be a very good player, the Mets priority right now is to get another starter.. They are in a position NOW to win and need to do whatever it takes to win now!
I totally disagree with the comparison to Young.. Milledge is not like that at all.. He is a very down to earth kid that just loves to play the game... Yeah, he may have a little cockiness in him but he really is no trouble.... He worked very well taking corrective criticism from some of the Met vets..
I never said he was as bad as Young, but both players have very big egos. A kid I played with last year went to the same high school (Lakewood Ranch in Bradenton, FL) as Milledge and the majority of the times he has spoke about Lastings it has been in a negative manner because of the attitude. He left his initial school, Northside Christian in St. Petersburg, for allegedly raping a fourteen year old girl (Not Saying he did it) and of what I am told he had one of the biggest egos in the history of high school baseball. I think he is going to be a heck of a player, but he is still very cocky and that could hurt him. By the way, the Lakewood Ranch team that year won the Florida State Championship and Lasting hit around .600 for the season. He has as much talent as any prospect out there and I am looking forward to watching him as his career progresses.
EyeCandy
07-25-2006, 10:40 AM
I heard the Cards offered Reyes, Duncan, and others for Willis.
KCGHOST
07-25-2006, 12:34 PM
Marlins have to be sure they get gold for Dontrelle. The guy is the stud camel. You don't trade those away without getting value. Of course, the smart thing to do would be to keep him.
freshprince85
07-31-2006, 08:49 AM
Marlins have to be sure they get gold for Dontrelle. The guy is the stud camel. You don't trade those away without getting value. Of course, the smart thing to do would be to keep him.
why?
to pay his $3.5m/year contract whitout a chance for the ws in the next 3-4 years??
imo, the smartest thing would be getting really good prospects (like milledge) and hope, that they can hold those prospects for the next years, to become a damn hot team, again
Milledge is not going anywhere. Supposedly last winter when the annual Manny trade rumors surfaced and the Mets were interested, the Red Sox mentioned Milledge and Minaya all of a sudden had something else to do and hung up.
EvanAparra
09-18-2006, 10:13 PM
why?
to pay his $3.5m/year contract whitout a chance for the ws in the next 3-4 years??
imo, the smartest thing would be getting really good prospects (like milledge) and hope, that they can hold those prospects for the next years, to become a damn hot team, again
Like 3.5 is a lot for Willis?
Dalkowski110
09-19-2006, 01:19 PM
If the Mets backed out on Manny Ramirez, Barry Zito, and probably even more because another team wanted Milledge, I doubt they're going to give him up for Willis. Especially considering the free agent pitchers and their willingness to give Mike Pelfrey another try in the rotation. Much as I'd like Dontrelle Willis on our staff now (especially RIGHT now), I just don't see it happening if Milledge is involved.
TonyStarks
09-20-2006, 10:08 AM
why?
to pay his $3.5m/year contract whitout a chance for the ws in the next 3-4 years??
imo, the smartest thing would be getting really good prospects (like milledge) and hope, that they can hold those prospects for the next years, to become a damn hot team, again
Dontrelle Willis @ $3.5M is a steal...even for the Marlins.
Besides I honestly can see the Marlins seriously contending within the next 3 yrs. But that's contingent on them keeping Miguel Cabrerra. :D