Comments on: Best Sweep Ever

By: dw

dw — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:22:48 +0000

Does anyone know what landed Foppert on the DL for so long?

He’s never recovered from Tommy John surgery. IIRC, they shut him down after he had pain while throwing yet again.

Foppert is done, done, done.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:57:40 +0000

Despite his fights with Hillenbrand and Lilly, Gibbons has been a good manager for Toronto. He’s been creative with his use of the bullpen – not constrained by the book – and his willingness to platoon guys or generally use them in situations where they are likely to succeed is an excellent quality.

Unfortunately, he only had one good starting pitcher. Not much he could do about that.

By: mln

mln — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:20:11 +0000

Speaking of wacky roster speculation, how about the Mariners sign Ted Lilly to a contract this offseason?

And then sign John Gibbons to be the manager to replace Hargrove?

By: bongo

bongo — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:30:35 +0000

Any chance LaHair will see some playing time in September? Even if he has little chance of winning a regular job, it might be useful to see what we have.

Does anyone know what landed Foppert on the DL for so long?

By: joser

joser — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:35:49 +0000

He may not be the messiah, but — and relevant to the original subject of this post — he is one of the few fun things left to watch this season, patient approach at the plate and all.

As far as Gibbons goes — I don’t know, but Lilly apparently wouldn’t give up the ball when he went to change pitchers…

By: Oly Rainiers Fan

Oly Rainiers Fan — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:08:46 +0000

214: yeah, sorry I targeted you, I get the irony. Really. But there’ve been a fair amount of posts that are acting like one guy is the messiah (Snelling) and one guy is the problem (Hargrove) and I just couldn’t take it anymore. It’s never just one guy that’ll turn it around, not with a team that hasn’t won a game in their division since mid-June anyway.

200: Rohn. I loved him in Tacoma. Have no idea how he’ll do with the big team, if he gets the chance. But you’ll see more aggressive baserunning, you can be sure of that. And, probably more fits with the umpires.

He (Rohn) and Jeremy Reed were both at Cheney stadium tonight, watching as Bobby Livingston actually had a pretty good start and as the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Jeff Clement, who turned 23 and celebrated with a 2 RBI double in his first AB. I heard Travis Blackley was at the park tonight as well, but didn’t see him myself so it could have just been a rumor.

By: JeffS

JeffS — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:02:20 +0000

Joser, those type of results make me jealous. The A’s aren’t a good team, but they always seem to pull out games like these.

By: Brian Rust

Brian Rust — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:35:34 +0000

Irony, Oly, irony. I’m not trying to extrapolate Doyle’s performance. I’m merely suggesting the sadly realistic possibility that in six weeks of play, he could earn more free passes than three regulars (JLo, Joh, YuBet) will in six months.

By: jephdood

jephdood — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:21:03 +0000

Is Gibbons a huge hothead or something? This is the second major “issue” he’s had with one of his own players this year.

By: joser

joser — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:16:59 +0000

Did anybody follow the A’s tonight? To open the first Haren gave up a home run, a single, fielder’s choice, and another home run. After the first two innings, they were down 0-8. Eight runs, in two innings! Then the A’s came back to score 7 in the 3rd and 4 in the 6th. They ended up beating the Jays 12 to 10, and Haren went 5.2 innings while giving up 9 runs (14.3 ERA) on 11 hits… and still got the win. WTF was that? (Oh, and the Jays’ starting pitcher [Lilly] and manager got into some kind of dustup that ended up giving the manager a bloody nose, though both claim no punches where thrown… can we pay somebody to do this with Hargrove?)