Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

The Marlins had the second overall pick in the 1999 draft and drafted Josh Beckett from the state of Texas.

The Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.

After posting the worst record in baseball for the 1999 season, the Marlins had the first overall pick in the 2000 first-year player draft and selected first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California.

* Josh Beckett ( 2001 – 2005 ) — Beckett was drafted by the Marlins in the first round ( 2nd overall ) of the 1999 Amateur Draft.

He produced somewhat better offensive numbers as a member of the Florida Marlins in 1999, hitting for an average of. 288.

A two-time All-Star, Urbina led the National League in saves with 41 in the 1999 season and helped the Florida Marlins win the 2003 World Series.

In 1999, while with the Florida Marlins, González made the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

During a 13-year career, Lowell played for the New York Yankees ( 1998 ), Florida Marlins ( 1999 – 2005 ), and the Boston Red Sox ( 2006 – 2010 ).

Lowell was traded to the Florida Marlins on February 1, 1999.

Hernández has played for the Florida Marlins ( 1996 – 1999 ), the San Francisco Giants ( 1999 – 2002 ), the Montreal Expos ( 2003 – 2004 ), the Washington Nationals ( 2005 – 2006, 2009 – 2011 ), the Arizona Diamondbacks ( 2006 – 2007 ), the Minnesota Twins ( 2008 ), the Colorado Rockies ( 2008 ), and the New York Mets ( 2009 ).

On July 25, 1999, the Florida Marlins traded Hernández to the San Francisco Giants for minor leaguers Nate Bump and Jason Grilli.

He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the Florida Marlins ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ), the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1998 ), the Baltimore Orioles ( 1999 – 2000 ), the Chicago White Sox ( 2000 ), the Colorado Rockies ( 2003 – 2004 ), and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2005 ).

Martinez became a free agent after the 1999 season and signed with the Florida Marlins on December 6, 1999.

Henry became the sole owner of the Florida Marlins in 1999, purchasing the Major League club from Huizenga for a reported $ 158, 000, 000.

Robertson attended Wichita State University and was drafted by the Florida Marlins in the fifth round of the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft.

In June 1999, the Marlins traded Counsell to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a player to be named later ( minor leaguer Ryan Moskau ).

After graduating from UCLA, where he played as a catcher, Zeile played for 11 major league teams during his career: the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1989 – 1995 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1995 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1996 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1996 ), Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1997 – 1998 ), Florida Marlins ( 1998 ), Texas Rangers ( 1998 – 1999 ), New York Mets ( 2000 – 2001, 2004 ), Colorado Rockies ( 2002 ), New York Yankees ( 2003 ) and Montreal Expos ( 2003 ).

A prominent recent example is Johan Santana, who was chosen in the 1999 Rule 5 draft by the Florida Marlins when the Houston Astros declined to put him on their 40-man roster.

In 1999, Wilson was the Marlins ' regular center fielder.

His previous stints were with the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1999 – 2001 ) and Florida Marlins ( 2002 – 2004 ).

He had been drafted by the Florida Marlins in both the 1998 and 1999 amateur drafts, but refused to sign.

Aztlan Underground were signed to a Basque record label in 1999 which enabled them to tour Spain extensively and perform in France and Portugal.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

In 1999, a limited run of cartridges were produced by Atari historian Curt Vendel using ROM code from Gary Rubio ( the former Atari liaison to GCC on the Atari 7800 project ).

In 1998 and 1999 AMRAAMs were again fired by USAF F-15 fighters at Iraqi aircraft violating the No-Fly-Zone, but this time they failed to hit their targets.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Over 1600 compounds were identified by 1999.

The sessions of the German Bundestag were held there from 1949 until its move to Berlin in 1999.

In the 1999 census, there were 215, 363 inhabitants in the city ( commune ) of Bordeaux.

In 1999, the team at LBNL claimed the discovery of long-lived < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh ( 5 atoms ) and < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh ( 1 atom ).< ref > Later, both of these were confirmed.

The logo was rounded and embossed ( but later flattened in February 1999 ), and there were 8 extra pages.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

They were published weekly from 1995 to 1999 in Network Week and since 2000 they have been published most weeks in The Register.

Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054 ; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970 ; and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

By a decree of 27 December 1999, the constitution was suspended and all the institutions of government were dissolved.

In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.

However, fewer than 165, 000 passenger journeys were made in 1999, as compared with more than 5 million in 1972, and the figure was only 160, 130 in 2005.

They were reduced to around 65, 000 in 11 combat brigades and the Air Force in 1997, to 63, 601 in 1999, and to 35, 000 in 2005.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

Conventional warhead versions were first fired in combat by the RN in 1999, during the Kosovo War.

Papers from a recent Rabbinical Assembly conference on theology were printed in a special issue of the journal Conservative Judaism ( Winter 1999 ); the editors note that Kaplan's naturalism seems to have dropped from the movement's radar screen.