Battered Marlins: A Miami Marlins Podcast

Coming off the best first half in franchise history, the Marlins stumbled into the second half of the season on a 6 game losing streak. We are discussing is it panic time, what has gone wrong over the last week, and what we should try to do at the trade deadline to fix these issues.

We are talking first half of the season, All-Star break, MLB Draft, Trade Deadline, and predictions for the second half of the year.

We are talking about a Marlins beatdown in Atlanta, and bouncing back against St. Louis. 13 games over .500 with the All-Star break approaching, have the expectations for this team changed? All that and more on this weeks episode of Battered Marlins Fans. 

The only other years the Miami Marlins have been 14 games over .500 were 1997 and 2003, and who better to talk about that with than the Marlins Historian himself. Fransisco from the Marlins Historian social media pages joins the show to talk about this years Marlins, this past week of Marlins baseball, and also some history. 

The Battered Fans are back, and we're talking about the Nationals sweep, followed up by a disappointing series against the Blue Jays. We are joined by Kenny from Takes Were Made as we talk about possible Marlin MVP candidates, pitching, Sandy, and if this first half of the season has just been a mirage.

Despite a .500 week, the Marlins remain in the playoff conversation and have looked like a team that looks like they belong. We discuss the last two series, injuries, pitching, Arraez cooling off and a lot more.

We are discussing 2 series sweeps, second best start to a season in franchise history, and if we could take the Marlins serious as a legit playoff contender. All that and more on this weeks episode of Battered Marlins Fans

We are discussing going 4-2 over the last two series, and being in position to take the division lead by next week. We are also talking about players getting healthy, rotation decisions, and much more on this episode of Battered Marlins Podcast.

We are covering the rough West Coast road trip, the positives, negatives, and Skip's decision making. Also what we expect at the trade deadline and a lot more.

We recap the last two series against the Reds and Nationals, talk about the hot bats, injuries, players we think should be benched, and Eury Perez's impact. We discuss if this pitching rotation when healthy could be considered the best in the league.