Renyel Pinto News

Matt Lindstrom might still light up the Land Shark Stadium radar gun, but he'll have to do it as a visitor.

Ah, Winter Meetings: that fabulous time of year when everyone in baseball gets together, trades Twinkies for Capri-Suns, sells human beings in an open market, and cheats on their wives.

How the Marlins roster will eventually shape up will be a bit clearer at midnight Saturday.

The Winter Meetings came and went, and Dan Uggla remains a Marlin ... for now. Heading into Indianapolis, Florida had dangled three players on the trade market -- Uggla, Renyel Pinto and Matt Lindstrom.

Relievers Matt Lindstrom and Renyel Pinto likely are out the door, but the guys they threw to last season appear to be staying put.

Marlins reliever Renyel Pinto - a popular hot-stove name here at the winter meetings - might be cheering for the front office to trade him, if a report last month in Miami New Times is true.

A familiar face is expected to compete for a bullpen spot when the Marlins open Spring Training in February.

The Marlins front office doesn't arrive in Indianapolis until Monday, but one of their players was generating some Winter Meetings buzz Sunday.

Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla isn't eager to leave South Florida. But if the speculation about his imminent departure is well-founded, he wishes the team would hurry up and trade him.

Marlins baseball operations president Larry Beinfest said "we'll definitely be active" at baseball's winter meetings, which start Monday in Indianapolis.

Hanley Ramirez was chosen as the Marlins' Most Valuable Player for 2009 by members of the Miami chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

What is it with baseball and the enticing lure of fleeing the apparently stubby arms of the law? In recent days, one blog alone has tracked down deadbeat dad Jose Lima for his ex-wife Melissa and Enrique Wilson for his own stiffed baby mama.

Blessed is the life of the anonymous Major League middle reliever. You work six months of a year, spend half of your team's games shooting the shit in the bullpen, and make as much money as the president.

The Red Sox acquired Jeremy Hermida on Nov. 5 from the Florida Marlins in exchange for two minor-league pitchers.

Are the Marlins going to keep Renyel Pinto? It looks like he gives up a lot of runs.

Of late, the phone in the Marlins' bullpen has been ringing earlier than the team has hoped.

Three outs was all that separated the Marlins from gaining ground in a dwindling division race.

Forty-something: Hanley Ramirez went 1 for 4, giving him 43 hits in August. He is two hits shy of tying Luis Castillo 's franchise record for most hits in a month .

ATLANTA a ' Brian McCann wasn't expecting an intentional walk from Florida reliever Renyel Pinto.

"The guy has punched me out every time he's faced me," McCann said. Pinto's dominance of the matchup ended when McCann hit a tie-breaking, two-run single in the eighth inning, lifting the Atlanta Braves to a 7-5 victory over the Marlins on Sunday.