Game 38, Padres at Mariners
DMZ · May 19, 2007 at 6:37 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Greg Maddux, future Hall of Famer, versus Horacio Ramirez. While Maddux is certainly not the absolutely amazing pitcher he used to be, you have to wonder what he might do to carve up this SHOCKING MARINER LINEUP!!
CF-L Ichiro!
DH-B Turbo
RF-R Guillen
1B-L Broussard
3B-R Beltre
C-R Johjima
2B-R Lopez
SS-R Willie “The Ignitor” Bloomquist
LF-R Ellison
What did Hargrove say about lineup changes? That once you started making changes, it was a sign of desperation or something? I forget.
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I wonder what Port Orchard’s ISO is at…
Kid Dy-no-mite will retire the Padres 1-2-3!
Ken Griffey Jr.?
153. Was just going to say that Mike.
153. I have erased “Mr. I want to go home to be with my family” from my love list. However, it was Griffey Jr. that made me an M’s fan.
144 – I’m not sue that ARod’s biggest success has been with other teams. In fact, I’m almost positive it wasn’t.
Smokey!
I still root like crazy for Griffey. I saw the D-backs home opener this year and they just happened to be playing the Reds. It was nice seeing Junior live again.
His years in Texas were pretty successful.
156. Check A-rod’s three seasons 2001-03 with the Rangers.
Yes, but don’t you have to park adjust the hell out of his Rangers stats?
His 00 season has to be the gold standard of his career once you consider park factors. This year could surpass it, but it’s still way early to conclude that.
Also, ARod was here much longer than he was in Texas, and had more team success.
It’s either Seattle or NYY for ARod – Texas isn’t even in the discussion IMO.
M’s win!
JJ always makes it a little exciting.
That was weird, the MLB.tv video went down and after a couple minutes it came back and was showing the Padres feed instead of the M’s.
Now we’ll probably hear that Mike Hargrove is a lineup constructing genius. Maybe he’ll get a three year contract extension before midnight.
Headline:
“CRUZ, KOUZ SHOW FEET OF CLA”
162. The M’s had a much more talented team than the ones Pay-rod played with in Texas. Especially pitching.
162, no kidding.
There’s still no way his three years in Texas outweigh his 6 years here.
I was thinking — if there was a pitcher who had a 10 year career cut short by injury, say, and his final stats were
168-103, 3.07 ERA, 1600 K, 485 BB, 6 post-seasons where he was just as effective, including three starts in two trips to the World Series, four All-Star trips, two Cy Youngs and high placements in other years — ten years, most of which where he was consistently one of the five best pitchers in baseball — would you vote for him for the Hall of Fame?
Even if you value longevity over raw talent and greatness over short spans, I think you at least end up flipping a coin.
That’s half of Greg Maddux’s career. We say that half of Rickey Henderson’s a Hall of Famer, but I think that’s true of Maddux and Clemens, too.
Les Schwab R.I.P.
Good post, DMZ.
Maddux’s career is mind boggling, especially when you consider his lack of “ace” stuff.
Extraordinary ability to hit the spot you want to hit seems to me just about as much a matter of talent as having extraordinary stuff.
Basically half of Greg Maddux’s career was three-quarters of Frank Tanana’s career, minus the Cy Youngs and World Series appearances. Tanana won 240 games, and I don’t think he got a single HOF vote.
173, never suggested it wasn’t talent. It’s just much more rare of a talent. Which goes back to my point that it is “mind boggling”.
Yeah, Maddux never had the 95 MPH fastball. What he did have was ridiculous control, a multitude of breaking and offspeed pitches, and Leo Mazzone.
And, when he was really on in the Nineties, umps like Eric Gregg who’d give him a dugout-to-dugout-to-upper-deck sized strike zone.
I saw another HoF player in person tonight, and he was beated by a pitcher who will get into the HoF by paying at the door.
174, Frank Tanana was consistently one of the top 5 pitchers in the game for a decade?
For five years, before he blew out his arm in an era in which doing so usually meant your career was over.
Oh, and Koufax got in the Hall on a five-year stretch where he never broke 200 in ERA+. He peaked at 190 in his final season.
Maddux had a five year run of where his season ERA+ was 191 or more, including 273 in 1994 and 259 in 1995. Yeah, they were strike years, but who’s to say he couldn’t have maintained above 200 in those missing 17 or so starts?
And what’s even more incredible is that Pedro’s peak absolutely dwarfs Maddux’s. Pedro finished with an ERA+ of 200 or higher four times. If he hung it up now, he’d have the third highest career WHIP ever. None of the other players in the top 10 pitched past 1927; most didn’t pitch after WWI, and only two were even alive the day Pedro was born. And oh, he’s the career leader in ERA+, 12 percentage points ahead of second-place Lefty Grove.
Yeah, yeah, ERA and WHIP suck as useful stats, YMMV, but Pedro, Maddux, and Clemens are the three best pitchers this sport has ever seen, with Johan Santana starting to make his case to be added to that list.
Don’t forget Mad Dog, with his catlike reflexes and 16 Gold Gloves, is also one of the best fielders at his position ever.
well, that was fun, if cold by the end of the evening.
I assume Yuni is back after his day off, and hopefully Hargrove sticks to his day-or-two off for Sexson– does Ellison’s play in LF heal Raul’s back in time for the sunday game?
oh, apparently Joh has a bat humidor, too.
Can we get some for all the other M’s as well?
Drayer also posted about Pentland discussing Sexson & Chaves discussing Weaver
The expression you’re looking for is this:
When you start thinking, ‘Let’s try something new’ … that’s a panic move,”
http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2006/05/30/mariners_manager_hargrove_admits_hes_clueless.php
Oh yeaahh… we actually referenced that in a game thread.