Miami Sports- The City of Champions

An actual quote from Fredi Gonzalez following Monday night’s 4-2 win over the Nationals:

“Boni, even through all the stuff he’s been going through, at the beginning of the year and hitting .900 and people expecting him to hit .970, he comes every day to work and he’s getting better. He’s got a nice little hitting streak going. He’s hitting a little over .300 from the right side…He’s doing fine. He’s one of those guys you characterize as a winner because he’ll find something to do during the course of a game to help you win a ballgame.”

Seriously? That’s your analysis of Emilio Bonifacio’s season? That he’ll “find something to help you win a game”. We’ve never really understood what that means. Perhaps his .299 OBP is beneficial to the team. Not in terms of scoring runs obviously, but hey, maybe we should give him credit because he works hard.

It’s laughable at this point, what the Marlins have done with Boni. Every chance they get, they defend him, as if he’s their golden ticket to the Chocolate Factory. Name one thing Bonifacio does to help a team. Forget for a second “how hard” you may or may not think he works, or whether his speed even matters given that he can’t run bases. Just isolate his baseball skills. Does he do anything well? The only point to concede here is the lack of options to take his spot. Wes Helms, Ross Gload, and perhaps Gaby Sanchez. It’s not the most enticing list you’ve ever seen. But it can’t get much worse can it? Mark Grace used to break his “slumps” by going into opposing cities and banging the fattest chick he could find. Gross, obviously…. But maybe it’s time we made Bonifacio into a fat chick with 3 moles and 2 hairs poking out, and made him another team’s bitch.