Bullpen coach Steve Foster (Australian for “Get up Pinto”) and third base/outfield coach Bo Porter (known to many fans as “Windmill”) declined the Marlins contracts for next year, meaning the Fish are now in the market for a first base coach, a third base coach, a bullpen coach, and a pitching coach. Only bench coach Carlos Tosca, hitting coach Jim “Hack-Hack” Presley, and bullpen coordinator Pierre Arsenault are staying on Fredi Gonzalez’s staff next season, baring a Perry Hill-like spring training resignation.

I think it’s safe to say that most Marlin fans will not miss Porter, who was constantly criticized for sending almost any runner home in almost any situation.

In other news, the Marlins released pitchers Dave Davidson and Scott Proctor. Davidson was picked up off waivers in April, then only pitched in 1 game for the Fish in May before being DFA’d, picked up on waivers, and then sent back to the Fish when he was found to be injured. Scott Proctor didn’t even make it that far, injuring himself in spring training and missing the entire season.

Additionally, infielder Andy Gonzalez and pitch Dallas Trahern were outrighted to AAA New Orleans.