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1997 Florida Marlins Roster by Baseball Almanac The 1997 Florida Marlins played 162 games during the regular season, won 92 games, lost 70 games, and finished in second position. The 1997 Florida Marlins team roster seen on this page includes every player who appeared in a game during the 1997 season. Did you know that a 1997 Florida Marlins Schedule is available and it includes dates of every game played, scores of every game played, a cumulative record, and many hard to find splits (Monthly Splits, Team vs Team Splits & Score Related Splits)? www.baseball-almanac.com /teamstats/roster.php?y=1997&t=FLO   (363 words)

Florida Marlins Tickets Mlb Ticket - Buy Cheap Florida Marlins Tickets In actuality the Florida Marlins have lost 54% of their games in their first seven years of existence, with just one winning season, but due to the wild card they managed to win the 1997 World Series and again in 2003. With the injection of the talents of Delgado, the Marlins were predicted to end the season in either first or second place in the NL East. The Marlins were one of the favorites to win the NL wild-card race but they went into a slump and lost 12 of their next 14 games. www.onlineseats.com /mlb-tickets/florida-marlins/index.asp   (1335 words)

Florida Marlins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Additionally, Guillermo Mota, who was acquired by Florida in 2004 along with Paul Lo Duca and Juan Encarnacion and was expected to be their closer, turned out inconsistent, and the Marlins gave the closer job to veteran Todd Jones, whom they signed in the offseason. The underdog Florida Marlins went on to face the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series and won in 7 games, with an amazing extra-inning single by shortstop Edgar Rentería off of Cleveland pitcher Charles Nagy, which barely cleared his glove, scoring Craig Counsell to win the game. After the Marlins finished last in their division in 1994 and fourth in 1995, Lachemann was replaced as manager midway through the 1996 season with the Marlins' director of player development, John Boles. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florida_Marlins   (3532 words)

Florida Marlins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Additionally, Guillermo Mota, who was acquired by Florida in 2004 along with Paul Lo Duca and Juan Encarnacion and was expected to be their closer, turned out inconsistent, and the Marlins gave the closer job to veteran Todd Jones, whom they signed in the offseason. The underdog Florida Marlins went on to face the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series and won in 7 games, with an amazing extra-inning single by shortstop Edgar Rentería off of Cleveland pitcher Charles Nagy, which barely cleared his glove, scoring Craig Counsell to win the game. After the Marlins finished last in their division in 1994 and fourth in 1995, Lachemann was replaced as manager midway through the 1996 season with the Marlins' director of player development, John Boles. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florida_Marlins   (3345 words)

Florida Marlins : Roster : Manager and Coaches Saw the Marlins hit.261 in 2002, including a.337 on-base percentage, the second-highest in Club history, behind the.346 mark of the 1997 World Champions... Led the 2003 Marlins to a.266 batting average, the top single-season mark in team history... led the Marlins to a.264 batting average (tied for third-best in franchise history),.329 on-base percentage and a.406 slugging percentage... detroit.tigers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/team/coach_staff_bio.jsp?c_id=fla&coachorstaffid=54103171212   (692 words)

Washingtonpost.com: Florida Marlins Resources on the Florida Marlins are available in Sports Across America. The Marlins dealt every member of the 1997 championship team for prospects expected to bloom down the road. Bottom line: The Marlins improved by 10 victories last season and still finished 39 games out of first place. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/baseball/longterm/2000/preview/capsules/marlins31.htm   (197 words)

Florida Marlins coverage for Atlanta from AJC ajc.com Clinching the NL wild card, the Marlins return to the post-season for the first time since their World Championship in 1997. Florida Marlins coverage for Atlanta from AJC Woman confesses to slaying adopted son she reported missing www.ajc.com /sports/content/shared/sports/mlb/marlins   (38 words)

Company News On Call Highlights of the special issue: -- Building A Winner: An examination of the Marlins' five-year construction project that resulted in a World Championship -- A chronicle of the Marlins' best-ever regular season that launched them into the postseason as a wild card entry. Entitled "World Champions" and featuring Series MVP Livan Hernandez on the cover, the special edition will be sold throughout the state of Florida at a cover price of $5.95 and will begin reaching retail outlets Saturday, November 1. This week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, which has a cover date of November 3 and is currently on newsstands, features a cover shot of Marlins hero Edgar Renteria and his teammates celebrating their Series triumph. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/10-31-97/349764   (38 words)

Major League Baseball : History : World Series History Notes: The Florida Marlins won their first World Series in their fifth season, which is the fastest for any expansion team in history. And in the bottom of the eleventh, Florida won the World Series when Edgar Renteria's two-out single plated Counsell, who had reached base on a Fernandez error. The Indians, who were making their second World Series appearance in the last three years, were two outs away from the title in the bottom of the ninth before rookie Craig Counsell tied the game with a sacrifice fly. mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1997   (543 words)

Moviefone: MLB: 1997 World Series - Florida vs. Cleveland Movie Synopsis: The 1997 World Series consisted of a seven-game showdown between the Florida Marlins and the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland · MLB: 1997 World Series - Florida vs. The season is recalled with player interviews taped prior to the start of the series... movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1131599   (543 words)

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Jeff Conine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Conine has the distinction of being the only player to appear in the opener of the Marlin's inaugural season, the 1997 World Series Marlins' championship team, and the 2003 World Series Marlins' championship team. While in his second stint with the Marlins, Conine was active in the South Florida community and was widely regarded as a crowd favorite. A graduate from UCLA, Conine started his major league career with the Kansas City Royals and was selected by the Florida Marlins in the 1993 expansion draft. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeff_Conine   (437 words)

Jerry Manuel BaseballLibrary.com When he was hired by the White Sox as the 36th manager in team history, Jerry Manuel joined Larry Rothschild (appointed as the first manager of the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays) as the second coach to defect from the World Champion Florida Marlins after their championship season of 1997. Although he played in the League Championship Series as a member of the 1981 Montreal Expos (making one appearance as a pinch-runner) Manuel never made it to the World Series until 1997, when he became bench coach of the eventual world champion Florida Marlins. In fact, Manuel had only managed one full season in the minors, winning Manager of the Year honors after leading Double-A Jacksonville to the Southern League crown in 1990. www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Manuel_Jerry.stm   (430 words)

FOX Sports - MLB - Former Phillies' star gets metaphysical The 44-year-old Daulton said he first realized that more was happening than what meets the eye during the 1997 season after he had been traded to the Florida Marlins. Daulton retired at the end of the 1997 season after helping the Florida Marlins win their first World Series. Daulton reportedly claims the accident was a result of getting run off the road in lieu of a business deal with ties to the FBI and the White House. msn.foxsports.com /mlb/story/5340822   (800 words)

Wikipedia free encyclopedia The underdog Florida Marlins went to take on the Cleveland Indians and won the 1997 World Series in 7 games, with an amazing extra-inning single by shortstop Edgar Rentería off of Cleveland pitcher Charles Nagy, which barely cleared his glove, scoring Craig Counsell to win the game. The Florida Marlins are a Major League Baseball team based in Miami, Florida, USA. While losing All-Stars Carl Pavano and Armando Benitez in the off-season, the Marlins signed P Al Leiter and 1B Carlos Delgado. saintvincent.paellaman.com /encyclopedia.php?title=Florida_Marlins   (800 words)

BASEBALL NOTE It is unfortunate that he has not been able to achieve his goal and return to the game." In his first season with the Marlins in 1997 after signing a five-year, $35 million deal, Fernandez helped the club to its only championship by going 17-12 with a 3.59 ERA in 32 starts. One of four holdovers from the Marlins' 1997 World Series championship team, Fernandez last pitched for Florida on May 18, 2000 before being sidelined with elbow problems. In his final season in 2000, Fernandez went 4-4 with a 4.13 ERA in eight starts. www.canoe.ca /StatsBBN/BC-BBN-LGNS-AFERNANDEZ-R.html   (800 words)

Chicago White Sox News If Leyland showed any interest, he would be competing for a job held for the past six years by his friend and a former member of his coaching staff with the Florida Marlins&; championship squad in 1997. Jim Leyland guided the Marlins to victory in their first World Series appearance in 1997. There were players on the Cubs, Yankees, Red Sox, Marlins and Atlanta during the current playoffs whom Leyland managed, making it tough for him to miss a game. chicago.whitesox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cws/news/cws_news.jsp?ymd=20031017&content_id=584019&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cha   (800 words)

McQueen High will retire Aguila’s No. 20 (printable version) The Florida Marlins outfielder and former Lancers star fondly remembers his career at McQueen, where he tied the national high school record for home runs in a season as a senior in 1997. He was consequently drafted in the third round of the major league baseball amateur draft with the 96th overall pick by the Marlins, and after eight grueling years in the minor leagues finally made his major league debut with Florida last season. If all goes well Aguila could be in the starting lineup before season’s end, and the transformation from high school phenom to big league ballplayer would be complete after eight arduous years. www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=90543   (800 words)

Florida Marlins : News : Florida Marlins News A native of the Dominican Republic, Alfonseca broke in with the Marlins in 1997. On Tuesday, the Marlins, who are likely to streamline their payroll, declined a $2.75 million vesting option for the 2006 season for the veteran right-hander, who was 1-1 with a 4.94 ERA in 33 games this past season. After spending two seasons with the Cubs, Alfonseca joined the Braves in 2004, where he was productive in 79 games. florida.marlins.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051101&content_id=1263276&vkey=news_fla&fext=.jsp&c_id=fla   (356 words)

Marlins Designate Al Leiter for Assignment Leiter agreed to an $8 million, one-year contract with Florida in the offseason, but never regained the form that saw him win 27 games and a World Series ring with the Marlins in 1996 and 1997. Leiter threw Florida's first no-hitter in 1996, and was traded to the Mets during the Marlins' payroll purge following the 1997 World Series season. Leiter was designated for assignment Thursday by Florida, perhaps signaling the end of a 19-year career for the left-hander who helped the Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays win World Series titles. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/14/sports/s155155D11.DTL   (713 words)

Antonio Alfonseca Once Again Leads Major-League Relievers In Fingers The Onion - America's Finest News Source Alfonseca, who made his debut with the Marlins in 1997 and wasted no time making this particular statistical category his own, led the NL for almost the entire season, only falling into a close second during an unusual two-week period in mid-August. MIAMI—Florida Marlins pitcher Antonio Alfonseca dominated the MLB in appendages for the ninth straight year, finishing the 2005 season with a league-leading 12 fingers. Alfonseca's performance will trigger a $1 million bonus, as the Marlins signed him to an incentive-laden, oft-criticized, finger-enumeration-based contract. www.theonion.com /content/node/41417&rss=1   (243 words)

Tony Saunders Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac Saunders was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 5, 1997, with the Florida Marlins, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page. Did you know that you can compare Tony Saunders to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1997 National League season? Tony Saunders's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Tony Saunders baseball statistics page. www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=saundto01   (243 words)

Al Leiter BaseballLibrary.com Leiter signed a lucrative three-year deal with the Florida Marlins in December 1995, citing his desire to play closer to home. As part of the club's post-season dismantling, Leiter was traded to the New York Mets on February 6, 1998 in a package deal that sent the Marlins minor-league pitcher A.J. Burnett. Despite struggling most of the season during the team's pennant drive in 1997, Leiter was given the ball by Marlin skipper Jim Leyland for the seventh game of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/L/Leiter_Al.stm   (1424 words)

FOXSports.com - MLB- Pavano proves Beattie right -- it just took time Other than the Marlins themselves, no one is happier than Orioles executive Jim Beattie to see Florida righthander Carl Pavano develop into a front-line starting pitcher this year. Beattie, Orioles executive vice president/baseball operations, acknowledges having a soft spot for Pavano, who is 12-4 this season with a 3.21 ERA. It was Beattie who, as the Expos ' general manager in 1997, traded Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez to the Red Sox for Pavano and a player to be named, who turned out to be Tony Armas Jr. nmsn.foxsports.com /mlb/story/2653034?print=true   (1424 words)

Major League Baseball News Alex Fernandez, despite his strong 1997 season during the Marlins' World Series run, has not been what Florida had hoped for when the big right-hander returned to his hometown. Fernandez tallied 91 strikeouts in 135 innings, despite working on strict pitch counts and ending his season early in September. Fernandez would also bring another proven starter to the rotation, something the Marlins didn't have until Ryan Dempster emerged as a star. www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news_story.jsp?article_id=mlb_20010206_marlinspreview_news&team_id=mlb   (1424 words)

Mark Kotsay Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac Kotsay was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 11, 1997, with the Florida Marlins, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page. Did you know that you can compare Mark Kotsay to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1997 National League season ? M ark Kotsay's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Mark Kotsay baseball statistics page. www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=kotsama01   (1424 words)

Welcome to Comcast SportsNet Jim Leyland managed the Pittsburgh Pirates to three post-season appearances and the Florida Marlins to a World Championship. As far as getting to the World Series is concerned, Leyland is the lone managerial candidate to win a title, which he did with the 1997 Florida Marlins. Jim Leyland is one of those guys who carries a certain cache around baseball. philadelphia.comcastsportsnet.com /view_content.asp?ID=1411   (1424 words)

Gonzalez big on blasts  Gonzalez, who cheered for the Marlins when they beat the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, has his namesake playing short for the Marlins: Alex Gonzalez.  In the Cubs' 12-3 win over the Florida Marlins last night in Game 2 of the National League championship series, Gonzalez hit a 3-2 pitch to left to give the Cubs a 10-0 lead in the fifth inning and a solo homer in the sixt.  Gonzalez was a meagre.228 hitter for the Cubs this season, 19 points below his career average. www.canoe.ca /Slam031009/mlb_chcfla1-sun.html   (635 words)

Florida Marlins The Marlins lost 54% of their games in their first seven years of existence, with just one winning season, but due to the wild card they managed to win the 1997 World Series. The Marlins entered the 2001 season with hopes that they could move out of the NL East cellar, and they did, finishing 4th and eight games ahead of the Expos, but still well out of the race in the weakening NL East. The following season, despite a talented pitching staff and the stick of Luis Castillo, the Fish floundered near the bottom of the division once again. www.thebaseballpage.com /present/fp/nl/fla.htm   (466 words)

Chicago White Sox News Valdez was originally signed out of the Dominican Republic by the Expos in 1997, by Fred Ferreira (now the Senior VP and Director of International Operations of the Marlins). The Marlins were close to releasing Valdez until Guillen, then Florida's third-base coach, sat down with Valdez and helped him rededicate his efforts on the field. This was Valdez's third season in the Marlins system, starting with Double-A Portland in 2002. chicago.whitesox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cws/news/cws_news.jsp?ymd=20040618&content_id=773683&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp   (466 words)

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