Miami Marlins close in on filling opening day roster spots as Aaron Rowand is released - MLB
Aaron Rowand is ousted as Miami Marlins close in on filling their opening day roster spots. Spring Training has been terrible for him and as he managed a below par .133, role of out-fielder is now likely to be handed to Austin Kearns and Chris Coghlan. Given
the fact that he was signed to a Minor League contract with the Marlins back in December 2011 and was just invited to Spring Training, exclusion will not be all that surprising for him.
Because his Spring Training performance is not what had been in his career with batting average .273 and 1193 hits, he is disappointed with his own performance. He owns plenty of experience at Major League with clubs namely Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago
White Sox and San Francisco Giants. He tasted two World Series Wins with the White Sox in 2005 and the Giants in 2010.
Soon after he helped Giants in a World Series game, his decline began. It actually culminated at the end of August 2011, when he posted a mediocre .233 with just four home-runs in 108 games he played. As he was released by the club from then onward, it was
almost certain that his chances for appearing in the Big League again were minimal.
Lurking in free agency now, he is hoping a revival of his Big League experiences by being called up from any club. Far from a realistic development, he will most probably go back home with $12-million, San Francisco Giants owe him as part of the contract,
club he was a part of last season.
“I’ll either go somewhere else if another teams needs an outfielder,” Rowand said. “And, if not, I’ll probably take it to the house, call it a career. Not everybody gets to decide when they’re going to hang ’em up.”
Marlins’ manager Ozzie Guillen felt for him, mentioning jubilance he enjoyed with Chicago White Sox in 2005 in their World Series Win and how productive he has been since then, but he did emphasise that other contenders exhibited much more than he did in
Spring Training.
“It was very hard,” Guillen said. “I felt, when we brought him here, I was pretty sure he would make the club. But it’s not what I say. It’s what we say. There [were] better guys than him during spring training.”
Veteran, Rowand, with his abundance experience of Major League still has lot to offer Baseball. By nurturing new players at any club, he can teach them of what it likes to be there and thus can ease up their quest for making it to the Major League.
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