After tonight’s 3-0 loss to the Giants, the Marlins made some personnel moves. One of them was releasing struggling veteran bench bat Wes Helms, which doesn’t make much sense because they probably could have traded him to a contender for something of value. The second move for the Marlins made even less sense. They demoted budding star outfielder Logan Morrison to AAA. Back in June, we touched on Morrison’s Twitter use. That is the only reason I can think of for the demotion.
This is absolutely, positively, not related to Morrison’s on-field performance. He has a .791 OPS this season, including an .836 OPS in August so far, so it’s not like he’s slumping. On Friday, he drove on the team’s first run, and scored their second in a 2/4 game. He hit third for the team tonight. He has been the Marlins second or third best player (behind Mike Stanton and maybe Gaby Sanchez) on a team trotting out awful baseball players like Alfredo Amezaga, Mike Cameron, and Greg Dobbs.
Why did he get demoted? Because the Marlins are a petty, juvenile team. Morrison called out oft-injured and slumping shortstop Hanley Ramirez earlier this week. He also tweeted about missing a meet and greet with season ticket holders today. He made the Marlins and their franchise player look like fools. So he’s got to pay the penalty. It’s clear that the Marlins don’t really give a damn about winning games this season, if they don’t want Morrison to play for them in the majors. If you have this much of a problem with him, trade the man when the season ends. But based on the Dan Uggla trade, they’d probably just get spare parts for him. Shame on you, Marlins.
