Comments on: Crazy

By: Churchill

Churchill — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:21:49 +0000

Morse would have made sense short term, but he’s on the DL, too.

By: Benno

Benno — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:20:33 +0000

I did some looking at the M’s farm system, and this is what I found for 3b;

238/289/310 – Ronnie Pettyman (AAA)
288/330/397 – Brant Ust (AAA)
313/383/485 – Mike Morse (AAA – Injured)
293/412/438 – Mat Tui (AA)

Pretty slim pickings down there. I think it was mentioned before the season began that Beltre was pretty indispensable. Unless Tui is for real or Beltre isn’t hurt that bad, this could be trouble down the line.

By: CouchGM

CouchGM — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:34:52 +0000

So, what options do we have at third beyond WB16? Sean Burroughs didn’t work. Anyone at AAA/AA.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:22:44 +0000

The AL West is now 19-9 against the NL this year. Not sure if this is crazy luck or if the AL West is really that good.

The AL is 58-43 against the NL. Most of that is the 10 games over .500 by the AL West.

The White Sox (2-7) have the worst record intraleague. So the Cubs must have been beating on them pretty good.

By: lokiforever

lokiforever — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:33:03 +0000

Raul to DH and Jones in the Outfield. Dave contends it will never happen. Or at least not this year, unless there’s an injury.

By: Colorado M's Fan

Colorado M's Fan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:08:48 +0000

Granted, the M’s defense has not been its usual amazing self this season, but Mariners pitchers have the 3rd worst BABIP in the AL. If the teams Batting Average is unsustainably high, it will regress to the mean, but the teams pitching BABIP will probably regress too, which should help out.

A couple of other factors to consider-

The offense (and defense) will get even better when they eventually make Vidro the 10th batter, moving Raul to DH and Adam Jones, he of the .900 Tacoma OPS, to LF.

If the team trades for a rent-a-pitcher like Buerhle at the deadline, that would probably add 2-3 wins.

We have Lowe coming back.

Lastly, I seriously doubt Sexson will tank an entire season like this when he’s fully healthy. Even last year, as horrible as he was, he still OPS’d about 1000 in the last month and a half. As we saw in the D-rays series, when Sexson is on this offense is terrifying, because we’re getting him baserunners by the bunches.

By: eponymous coward

eponymous coward — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:55:14 +0000

Who says I’m not enjoying this, or that we can’t win some games?

Hint: go look at Felix’s ERA and IP. We won’t be hitting .327 the rest of the year, but Felix is going to improve, too.

By: dnc

dnc — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:53:55 +0000

“We have been hitting .327 without some of the biggest pieces of our offense really clicking (Richie and Adrian).”

Why does everyone insist on believing that Adrian is part of the problem? Will people ever learn to value what he brings to this team?

By: msb

msb — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:53:29 +0000

personally, I vote for the original version of Angels in the outfield, with the woeful Pirates as the team in need.

By: Beniitec

Beniitec — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:37:25 +0000

To quote the kid from Angels in the Outfield, “It can happen!” Either way… I think most of us are enjoying the wink from the Baseball gods that the Mariners have experienced in the last few weeks. Winning is neat.