Lopez up, Dobbs down
Dave · June 17, 2005 at 4:56 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Jose Lopez has been called up from Tacoma and is starting at third base tonight. Greg Dobbs was optioned back to Triple-A to make room for Lopez on the roster.
Realistically, with Boone almost out the door and certainly done, Lopez is probably the team’s best option at second base. Getting Dobbs off the roster is just a bonus.
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Niehaus is repeating his stories again.
So the wheels start turning. C’mon Bavasi, you can do it.
52: Morse also GIDP recently. I think it was in yesterday’s game.
50, I meant. 🙂
My (and most people’s) problem with Grover is playing Willie in CF, rather than LF, not starting him at all. We know he doesn’t have a rightie on the bench.
It’s quiet here tonight. I guess most humans have something better to do. I’m off for a walk before dark. Hope the 5-Oh holds up.
I’m very happy to see Lopez up. I hadn’t thought he’d gotten enough ABs at Tacoma after his second time on the DL to get sharp, but even so. How ready he is, I don’t know, but I’m not willing to pay my way into the park to watch guys like Olivo and Dobbs ‘play ball;’ that’s $.15 on the dollar I’m getting back from the team. Sorry to hear about Campillo, though, he’s been throwing reasonably well
Ichiro! and the groundskeeper must be in cahoots. That’s the second time in the last couple of weeks that a ground ball towards first has almost killed an opposing fielder.
Awright! Props to Mr Bob Christopherson. (He’s usually the bad dancer on the left during the third inning ground crew set piece).
Jamie seems to be back to normal in his last few starts. “Reversion to the mean”, I guess.
Nice catch by Lopez. He even had time to shuffle his feet sideways before he jumped.
Boonie snoozing again…
Oh joy, Nellie’s coming in with the sacks juiced.
Thanks ump, come grab a beer in the M’s clubhouse after the game.
Man, the Mets were robbed there. I’m not sure any of Nellie’s pitches got the strike zone at all.
#48: (Catching up, just back from dinner.) The radio signal is terrestrial; the television feed has to make a round trip to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit.
Who is Doyle?
66: Doyle is
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6937
I also want to draw your attention to this post by Derek.
http://ussmariner.com/?p=2446
67: Aahhh! You just pointed the injury gods right to him!
The whole “Doyle” thing was silly to begin with, it got old after about two days, and now it’s just lame. I don’t know how calling Chris Snelling by his name is going to jinx him more than the “bring him up now” refrains that never end. Sheesh, it was a cute gag, let it go.
As for Lopez, it’s a fine move. I expect Boone will go the way Olerud did last year, they’ll try to fish around for any kind of trade, I’m sure they’ll offer to pay most or all of his remaining salary since they figure they’ll be stuck with it anyway. And one way or another he’ll be playing for somebody else.
As for Dave’s “GM’s aren’t stupid” comment, I can’t help but remember a certain Heathcliff Slocumb trade, and thinking that you just never know, there might actually be one stupid GM out there, and that’s all it takes. I hate to rehash that awful trade, but it just occurred to me that Lowe and Varitek were the only Red Sox on that World Series team that were with the team in 1997. You could make a case that the building of that World Series winner started with the Slocumb trade.
Brian Harper
I’ve been curicified for saying such things before but, here goes:
“Hey, it works don’t it? That must mean it’s effective.”
So nyah! =P
Who cares if it’s lame? I don’t think many people really believe it prevents injury.
The point is that it is a convention of the site and its inhabitants.
And to intentionally piss on that is petty and small beyond belief.
Grow up.
In regards to Greg Dobbs, his career as a Mariner has seemingly ended for good, so he ought to be removed from the 40-man roster, as there are numerous players who will be looking to come off of the 60-Day disabled list by that point (e.g., Rafael Soriano, Bucky Jacobsen, Calvin Reese, etc.), which means that there will need to be roster spots opened up to give them room.
Ultimately, my question is this . . . who on the M’s 40-man should be removed, and who in the minor leagues should be put on it? Below are my ideas regarding some transactions that the M’s could make relatively soon:
DFA Greg Dobbs (keep him in Tacoma if he clear waivers) . . . place Felix Hernandez on 40-man roster;
DFA Dave Hansen . . . recall Justin Leone [backup corner infielder/righty pinch hitter];
DFA Matt Thornton . . . recall Cha-Seung Baek;
DFA Bret Boone (or trade him for a low-level prospect) . . . recall Yuniesky Betancourt [backup middle infielder];
demote Willie Bloomquist . . . recall Shin-soo Choo [4th outfielder/lefty pinch-hitter];
trade Randy Winn (for a mid-level prospect) . . . recall C.D. Snelling;
activate Wiki Gonzalez . . . demote Rene Rivera to AA;
trade Jeff Nelson (for a low-level prospect) . . . recall George Sherrill (once he returns to health);
Cha-Seung Baek, Yuniesky Betancourt, Justin Leone would be sent back down once Rafael Soriano, Calvin Reese, & Scott Spiezio return.
Although I’m not sure as to whether or not these moves would be positive, I nonetheless feel that they would bring about a positive change for the M’s.
Maybe we can trade Boone for Kevin Jarvis, Dave Hansen, and Wiki Gonzalez.
Why?
If you’re just going to put Leone back down when / if Spiezio comes back up… why?
Let Baek have a few more starts down in AAA to see if he’s fully healed. Besides, I thought the idea was to ditch Sele and call up a starter of some sort. With Felix and Campillo injured, that pretty much makes Baek the next choice.
Premature. VERY premature.
Y’know… if Grover would just use Willie right, I don’t think we’d be whining as much about him. How many times has Bloomquist been used in his best role; pinch running to steal a base? The guy’s got great instincts for base stealing. Having a major positional backup helps when you pinch hit for soandso later also. I like Choo too, but unless he’s going to be used everyday, leave him in AAA Tacoma.
I agree Doyle should get promoted here soon, but for the same reasons as Choo, unless he’s going to play everyday, why bother?
Generally okay with this idea. But Wiki has to come back first. Rene Rivera has shown us something in this brief callup. He’s got some talent to at least be a backup later down the road. Or trade bait.
Generally okay with this idea.
Why not just wait for those guys to come off the bench and move the above named players instead of frivelously making moves just for the sake of making moves? I don’t necessarily mind bringing up the kids to play, but that’s the key word: they have to play. Otherwise it’s just a waste of their time to be standing around doing nothing or waiting to pinch hit.
BTW, you forgot Bucky.
I liked Hargrove’s line that he won’t be benching Boone… just giving him as many consecutive days off as he needs… four, five, six….
Wow. I’m “petty and small” now? It always strikes me as funny when somebody calls someone else petty. Doesn’t the very act of calling someone petty immediately brand you as the same?
The problem is that the silly Doyle gag confuses the hell out of any new-comers to the site who happened to miss the initial joke. Which was, what? A month ago? Again, it was a cute gag, but let it go, it’s run its course.
“Wow. I’m “petty and small†now?”
Well, from where I stand, yeah.
What’s “silly” to you is what, to me, gives flavor and character to a web site. To get really pedanctic about it, it’s one of those NECESSARY things that makes a site unique and forges an insiders’ bonds between the readership. There are very few sites that rely just on the facts; the most popular sites mixes in bits of the site owner’s personality and idiosyncrasies. Complaining about that seems to miss the point to me.
Let Boone set, Keep Nellie around, and stop picking on Randy Winn.