2007 Florida Marlins season

The 2007 Florida Marlins season was the 15th season for the Major League Baseball franchise in the National League. It would begin with the team attempting to improve on their promising 78–84 record in 2006. Despite the success of the team under manager Joe Girardi, he was fired and replaced with Fredi González.
Marlins general manager Larry Beinfest said that the team's goal from the start of the season was to compete in the playoffs. However, failed to make the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.
The Marlins had two goals to address during the 2006 offseason: they needed a new closer because '06 closer Joe Borowski signed with the Cleveland Indians as a free agent, and the Marlins saw the need for a new center fielder. They had platooned Eric Reed, Reggie Abercrombie, Chris Aguila, Cody Ross, and Alfredo Amézaga in the position in 2006, with backup shortstop Amézaga making most of the starts at that position later in the season. The Marlins had added some new relief pitchers since 2006, trading Chris Resop to the Los Angeles Angels for Kevin Gregg and shipping prospects Jason Vargas and Adam Bostick to the New York Mets for Henry Owens and Matt Lindstrom. Lindstrom has been a closer during his time in the minors and has a fastball that reached 100 mph on radar guns in winter league play during the 2006 offseason. The Marlins saw much competition for their closer role, with Ricky Nolasco, Renyel Pinto, Mike Koplove, Gregg, Lindstrom, and Owens all candidates for the job. In April, newly acquired Jorge Julio was named closer, but on May 13, he was traded to the Colorado Rockies for Byung-hyun Kim.
The Marlins signed center fielder Alex Sánchez to a minor league deal in the offseason, who competed for the Marlins' center field job with Reed, Abercrombie, Ross, and Amézaga. Beinfest said that the Marlins tried to trade for a proven center fielder but were asked for too much in order to get one. However, Sánchez was released at the end of spring training and the starting role was handed to rookie Alejandro De Aza.

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Miguel Olivo	122	452	107	.237	16	60
1B	Mike Jacobs	114	426	113	.265	17	54
2B	Dan Uggla	159	632	155	.245	31	88
SS	Hanley Ramírez	154	639	212	.332	29	81
3B	Miguel Cabrera	157	588	188	.320	34	119
LF	Josh Willingham	144	521	138	.265	21	89
CF	Alfredo Amézaga	133	400	105	.263	2	30
RF	Jeremy Hermida	123	429	127	.296	18	63

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Aaron Boone	69	189	54	.286	5	28
Joe Borchard	85	179	35	.196	4	19
Cody Ross	66	173	58	.335	12	39
Matt Treanor	55	171	46	.269	4	19
Alejandro De Aza	45	144	33	.229	0	8
Todd Linden	85	129	35	.271	1	8
Jason Wood	98	117	28	.239	3	26
Reggie Abercrombie	35	76	15	.197	2	5
Brett Carroll	23	49	9	.184	0	2
Eric Reed	18	20	2	.100	0	0
Robert Andino	7	13	5	.385	0	0
Paul Hoover	3	8	3	.375	0	0
John Gall	3	4	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Dontrelle Willis	35	205.1	10	15	5.17	146
Scott Olsen	33	176.2	10	15	5.81	133
Sergio Mitre	27	149.0	5	8	4.65	80
Byung-Hyun Kim	23	109.2	9	5	5.42	102
Rick VandenHurk	18	81.2	4	6	6.83	82
Aníbal Sánchez	6	30.0	2	1	4.80	14
Ricky Nolasco	5	21.1	1	2	5.48	11
Josh Johnson	4	15.2	0	3	7.47	14

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Wes Obermueller	18	59.0	2	3	6.56	35
Daniel Barone	16	41.0	1	3	5.71	18
Chris Seddon	7	17.1	0	2	8.83	10

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Kevin Gregg	74	0	5	32	3.54	87
Matt Lindstrom	71	3	4	0	3.09	62
Taylor Tankersley	67	6	1	1	3.99	49
Lee Gardner	62	3	4	2	1.94	52
Justin Miller	62	5	0	0	3.65	74
Renyel Pinto	57	2	4	1	3.68	56
Armando Benítez	36	2	5	0	5.73	39
Randy Messenger	23	1	1	0	2.66	12
Henry Owens	22	2	0	4	1.96	16
Ross Wolf	14	0	1	0	11.68	6
Jorge Julio	10	0	2	0	12.54	6
Logan Kensing	9	3	0	0	1.35	13
Harvey García	8	0	1	0	4.38	15
Mauro Zárate	4	0	0	0	10.80	3
Erasmo Ramirez	4	0	0	0	5.40	1
Marcos Carvajal	3	0	0	0	6.75	2
Carlos Martínez	2	0	0	0	13.50	2
Jason Wood	1	0	0	0	0.00	0
Nate Field	1	0	0	0	27.00	2

Draft

''This is a partial list. For the full draft, see here.''