Ozzie Guillen suggests that a roster shakeup is due for the Marlins

Written by  //  August 24, 2012  //  MLB  //  2 Comments

Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is at it again. The controversial manager once again failed to reel in his tongue in regards to potential upcoming roster moves that could shake up the franchise.

“If we’re going to be younger here, then OK, what kind of young team are we going to have?” Guillen said on Thursday. “Are we going to go forward, or are we going to stay the same? If we’re going to go young, just go young, and suffer for a couple of years and see what happens. Or are you going to compete, and make a mix [of veterans with young players]? Then who’s coming here to make the mix? It’s all a process.”

The comments are rational and far from his usual WWE-style rants and raves but they point to a problem within the organization.

Do the Marlins now what type of baseball team that they want to be?

Do they have a direction?

If so, they might want to fill in their manager who was tossed from their game against the Diamondbacks on Wednesday.

“I have been ejected 27 times but that one was a weird one,” Guillen said. “The excuse he is going to make is I was throwing water at him. I never did. I just threw water on the field then some of the players were telling me I got kicked out of the game.”

Even in defeat Ozzie at least keeps in interesting.

With a record of 57-69, the Marlins are in the cellar of the NL East. When the team remade themselves over into a Technicolor dream they never planned for this.

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  • Sporteric11

    The guy is hilarious. Don’t make a big deal about it like the illegal aliens in Miami who destroyed the Marlin’s season by attacking Ozzie Guillen when he made a joke about Fidel Castro. They handcuffed Ozzie’s explosive atitude and tried to get him fired so the Marlins were not motivatd after that. If Ozzie didn’t have to put up with that illegal alien crap in the Banana Republic of Miami Florida (NOT PART OF THE USA), they would have won the division. I went to the final game yesterday from West Palm Beach driving to IllegalAlienLand and saw an empty BRAND NEW stadium built with Taxpayer funds. They should have built that stadium north of the border in Broward or Palm Beach County so US Citizens would have watched the games !!! They should keep Ozzie an listen to the true fans, not the whining illegal aliens who cannot support the team by purchasing tickets only wanting you to give them money to buy themselves beer !!!

    • http://www.playersview.net Hurricane-PV

      Thank you for your comments. Our policy is to not censor or edit the reader’s comments. Our goal is for Players View to host a open forum on sports related news and features.

      With that out of the way, I have spent a lot of time in Miami. I met my wife there and my child was born there. I understand and have felt the issues that you are discussing first hand.

      If we are going to discuss Ozzie’s mouth, there was never anything that was cool about joking about Castro. As a South Floridian you know that to be the case.

      Sports teams should unite communities instead of opening larger divides between them. I’ll leave my personal view on immigration off to the side and state that there’s a lot of reasons as to why the Marlins had a tough year. I would say it’s a safe bet that even if the stadium was erected as far north as Delray Beach that there would have been empty seats.

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