The All-Star break affords the opportunity to look back at the first half to see what went right and wrong for the thirty MLB teams. The Florida Marlins are up next, and here is the pre-season post on the NL East.

What Went Right

Hanley Ramirez proved to be a good long term signing as he keeps getting better. He’s posting his highest BA, OBA and slugging percentages of his career. He may very well score and drive in 100 runs this season.

The offense as a whole is out-performing their Runs Created prediction, the opposite of the Nats and Mets, although they are only doing so by about 0.1 runs per game. They’ve times their home runs well, hitting more than half of them with men on base despite 43% of their at bats coming with men on.

Josh Johnson is back to being an ace, pitching like he did in 2006 before he was sidelined for a year.

What Went Wrong

Emilio Bonifacio lasted about a weak. He remains a very poor offensive player.

I thought coming into the season, the Marlins had a chance to trot out an excellent rotation. Johnson, however, was the only one who really delivered. Volstad and Miller aren’t bad, they’re just not front of the order guys. Anibal Sanchez ended up hurt again. If one of them came in with an ERA int he 3.00s, the Marlins might be in first place right now.

Other teams in this series:

• Oakland Athletics
• Seattle Mariners
• Texas Rangers
• Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
• Pittsburgh Pirates
• Cincinnati Reds
• Houston Astros
• Chicago Cubs
• Milwaukee Brewers
• St. Louis Cardinals
• Baltimore Orioles
• Toronto Blue Jays
• Tampa Bay Rays
• New York Yankees
• Boston Red Sox
• San Diego Padres
• Arizona Diamondbacks
• Colorado Rockies
• San Francisco Giants
• Los Angeles Dodgers
• Cleveland Indians
• Kansas City Royals
• Minnesota Twins
• Chicago White Sox
• Detroit Tigers
• Washington Nationals
• New York Mets
• Atlanta Braves