Morrow signs
DMZ · June 16, 2006 at 12:52 am · Filed Under Mariners
From the PI which is running an AP story:
The Seattle Mariners have scheduled a Friday news conference to announce they have signed Brandon Morrow, the fifth overall choice in this month’s major league draft.
Can he start tomorrow instead of Meche? …please.
Actually I think Felix is pitching tomorrow with Meche going on Saturday.
Wow: quickly done! The Ms knew who they wanted and what the number was, at least. Now, let’s hope his arm doesn’t fall off. Onward and more-ward.
so I guess that’s better than drafting someone better and never signing them.
where does he get to play?
Peoria, then Low A ball to see where he is?
The Seattle Mariners have scheduled a Friday news conference to announce
I’m always amused by the silliness of such a press release/news story. Doesn’t the story itself, noting the press conference, announce whatever it is the Mariners have to say. Not that this is Mariners specific, but why not say “the Mariners announce they have signed Brandon Morrow. A press conference is scheduled for Friday.”
Churchill thinks if he even stops in Everett it’ll only be for a start or two. Most likely Inland Empire.
Because the Mariners don’t announce they’ve signed Brandon Morrow. They’ll do that at the press conference, unless of course they don’t; but as of now, certainly, they haven’t announced any such thing. Those kind of matters get announced at press conferences.
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so, what, those two unnamed ‘Seattle reporters’ just ranged through the Giants clubhouse asking every player there if they’d like to play in Seattle? What did Omar & the Randinator say?
Doesn’t the story itself, noting the press conference, announce whatever it is the Mariners have to say.
Not at all.
In fact, we don’t even know that the Mariners have signed Morrow. We just know that they expect they will have by the time the press conference takes place.
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this just in 🙂
MARINERS SIGN FIRST ROUND PICK
The Mariners have come to terms with 2006 first round draft pick
Brandon Morrow. The 21 year-old RHP was the 5th overall selection
from the University of California-Berkeley.
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ah, now you’ll be telling us that Richie Sexson doesn’t spend all his off time in Brush Prairie….
Any info on signing dollar$?
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I was going for the old & creaky angle. That Giants squad is pretty ancient.
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I’m excited about Morrow. Because of Washburn, Beltre and Sexson, however, I’m not excited about him until 2010, however.
What is the timetable on Morrow, anyway? Will he be able to handle a sort of Mulder/Hudson timetable and arrive in 2008? Perhaps a more Joe Blanton-esque 2009? (I’d use a Mariners example, but I can’t think of a recent successful M’s college arm.)
This is presumably a scouting report on Morrow which is straight off the Mariners web site. Is it possible that the Mariners will consider developing him to be a closer?
Comments: Fastball-splitter duo will be tempting for any team looking for an advanced college arm. With those two pitches, he could move to the bullpen, where he has previous experience. His weight and his diabetic condition make a relief role more possible.
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thank goodness.
he got signed really quickly. This is a good thing.
Wherefore will he be assigned?
DJC — Dude, ya got some Vashon Island cobwebs or sumthin’? In the AP link above, they state:
Not sure if they’re going to let him shake some rust off in Everett as Jason Churchill guesses, but, really, is Everett really a place to shake off rust? 😉
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32 – FYI, “wherefore” means “why”, not “where”. See, that scene makes sense now, doesn’t it?
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That was the scouting report on draft day before the Mariners got him. I don’t know who exactly it comes from, but those words should be considered from “MLB” instead of from the Mariners people.
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37 – That was the scouting report on draft day before the Mariners got him. I don’t know who exactly it comes from, but those words should be considered from “MLB†instead of from the Mariners people.
Understood. But why would the M’s be posting this at all. It’s not the most flattering description for a #5 pick.
But why would the M’s be posting this at all. It’s not the most flattering description for a #5 pick.
Copy-and-paste is easier than analyze-and-write?
Speaking of Morrow, I believe that Andrew Miller is pitching for NC today on ESPN.
I don’t understand this.