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Owner: Marlins Should Make Playoffs

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria says that he expects the team to make the playoffs this season.

"I expect us to make the playoffs," Loria said. "We've got all the ammunition we need."

Florida team president David Samson made similar comments last month.

The Marlins won 87 games and finished six games behind eventual league champion Philadelphia in the NL East in 2009 despite having one of the lowest payrolls.

"If we had won one more game each month, we would have won 93 games, and we would have been in the playoffs," Loria said. "I felt we should have been one of the eight. I was disappointed at the end of the season."

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Ross Beats Marlins, Doubles Salary

Marlins outfielder Cody Ross won his arbitration hearing against the team and will earn $4.45 million in 2010.

Ross hit .290 with 24 homers and 90 RBIs last season, when he made $2.3 million.

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Marlins Make Bid For 2015 All-Star Game

The Marlins want to host the 2015 All-Star Game.

Team president David Samson discussed the team's perspective Saturday and repeated his remarks Monday during a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

"We lost the game before we had a ballpark. Now that there is a ballpark, it is certainly is our expectation that the All-Star Game will be returned to Miami," Samson said. "We look forward to that happening, and are very hopeful that it will be 2015."

The Marlins were awarded the 2000 All-Star Game in July 1995, but then-NL president Len Coleman took it away in November 1998 and gave it to the Braves, saying the league wanted the game in new ballparks.

A $515 million retractable-roof stadium on the former Orange Bowl site is slated to open for the 2012 season, when the team will be renamed the Miami Marlins.

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