"There's been a flushing and the marginal players are being washed away," is his answer.
Marginal players are sometimes kept on, because the lesson they preach is useful, even if it isn't true.
"I think it will be longer than initially anticipated and marginal players are going to go out of business.
Total time models are marginal since the player is at risk from the start of play, independent of any previous injury.
Mr. Hollinger's statistic (as its name implies) estimates the number of additional wins that a player is worth to his team, above a marginal-level player that could be picked up for the minimum salary.
Although 7-foot centers often have staying power — the Celtics, in fact, could right now use Collins's ability to occupy space in the lane against the Knicks — he has for a while been a marginal player who could be deemed dispensable by any or all teams anytime.
"What I did as a player was marginal," he said when alone.
As many as five other marginal players could be involved to make the trade fit the requirements of the collective bargaining agreement, with the Knicks and the Lakers possibly swapping backup centers -- Chris Dudley and Travis Knight, respectively.
It's 1962, Jackie Kennedy is whispering her studiously feminine way through tours of the White House, and in the film women are marginal players, as most were then.
It's an open question whether the changes are enough to make Chrome, which is also the name of Google's browser, more than a marginal player, but the system is impressive, and designed to work seamlessly with Google products like Android phones and the (still-underwhelming) Google Plus social network.
