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OK. Sorry that I have not posted for all of the off season. Alot has happened with the Marlins since the end of last year. If you have not heard, the Marlins traded Cabrerra and Willis for six players. A couple of pitchers, a catcher I think, and the king of the lot was a young centerfielder named Cameron Mabin. He is touted as the next “big thing in the baseball world”. Problem is he is only 20 years old. Alot of speculation has been made as to how ready he is to play in the big leagues. Well spring training is here, so I guess we will see how this trade dishes out for the Marlins. Also this summer the Marlins made a stadium deal with Dade county. Looks like baseball will stay in Miami. To bad Loria wanted to save some money and trade off their best player in Cabrerra. Go figure. All of that said, there is still the fight for a starting centerfielder. Enter CODY ROSS, DE AZA, and MAYBIN. Of course Ross has the most experience and the best numbers going into this contest, but by golly the Marlins are going to make it another fiasco as to who will win the position. I have not seen Maybin play, but the jest of it is he is not ready for the show. De Aza shows potential but cannot seem to hit a breaking ball. Ross seems to have all the goods but not enough speed for the ever searching Marlins. Enter the first game of spring training………..

Ross walks his first at bat and scores. Strikes out his second at bat, and hits a three run homer his third at bat. Damn, pretty good. Well later in the game De Aza hits a grand slam in the ninth inning. The games begin. I will try and keep everyone updated as this heated competition begins. This is what baseball is all about. My hidden feelings are that maybe we have the wrong players at the corners. Just a shot. Forget it. The Marlins win 16-3. Spring training is here and Ross is Healthy. Time will tell! Freddi did tell the announcers that Ross was their centerfielder. I’m not sure if that was to take pressure off of Maybin or he really meant it.

Here’s an article on Cody dealing with the challenges he faces for getting the starting position at center field.  A bonus is the video that’s there with the squad practicing using footballs.  See it here >

Hi folks.  Been a while since we’ve had a post here, but then again baseball was on hiatus, but now it’s time to ramp things up a bit as spring training is arriving soon.  Today, in my lucky gift bag of RSS feeds came an email of a news article posted by Joe Frisaro on the 17th.  There’s a section on Cody regarding a medical procedure.  It goes as follows:

Ross ready: A relatively new medical procedure has helped Cody Ross overcome a nagging left hamstring problem that caused the outfielder to miss substantial time in 2007.

Limited to 66 games and 173 at-bats a year ago, Ross was willing to try just about anything to strengthen his hamstring for this season.

The 27-year-old outfielder was recommended for examination by renowned physician Dr. Richard Steadman in Vail, Colo., in October.

Steadman asked Ross if he wanted to undergo a procedure. Basically, Ross had blood withdrawn from his arm. It was placed into what he calls a “high-tech machine” that cleans out the blood, leaving in the cells that help healing. The blood was then injected directly into Ross’ hamstring. He received three or four of the injections.

The procedure has paid off.

“They said just relax a couple of weeks and don’t do anything strenuous, and it should help the healing,” Ross said. “I took an MRI. They told me I didn’t have a tear or anything. It was a little scar tissue.”

Ross is one of the early arrival position players who already is doing some light working out at Roger Dean Stadium. Position players take their physicals on Wednesday, and the first full-squad workout is on Thursday.

After his series of injections in October, Ross was advised to rest, and he didn’t start serious running until late November and early December.

“Dr. Steadman is world renowned,” Ross said. “He’s had Olympic skiers, football players, basketball players. Everybody knows about Dr. Steadman and that he is really good with leg injuries. He told me, ‘We have this new procedure if you want to try it. It can’t hurt you. It will help you.’ I said, ‘Let’s do it.’ I was ready to try anything.”

Ross enters Spring Training competing for an outfield spot, and he is in the mix to play center field if 20-year-old Cameron Maybin doesn’t win the starting job.