Sullivan on Felix
Dave · June 22, 2007 at 7:34 am · Filed Under Mariners
I posted a lot of my comments in last night’s game thread and was planning on just throwing up a quick recap of why last night’s performance by Felix didn’t impress me much, but Jeff Sullivan did me one better. Just go read that instead. He nails it.
I never disagreed that he was consistent =)
With numbers like his, I sure hope he’s better behind the plate than he was when he was in the bigs last year. I’m so glad to have Johji in the almost every-day lineup. Even Burke is playing well when he gets the day games.
Go M’s tonight!
Or the PTBNL is Jeremy Bonderman.
“I quite frankly believe Johnson and Rivera are light years ahead of Clement defensively and are nearly as consistent at the plate.”
Uhhh, consistency is overrated.
Grizz this is true but that only applies to the PTBNL in return not the player being aquired as in this case Maroth.
DNC to some people consistency is overrated but in the reality of baseball give me a player I can count on giving me game in and game out performances that rarely strays from his career numbers much as does Ichiro’s be they offensive and/or defensive I’m happy.
Cause I know I don’t have worry about that guy I just need to see where the weakness is and correct it and shore up the the strenghths.
So consistency isn’t overrated but can help build a team and weed out the mistakes and the bustes all the faster.
Most champions are made up of stars with great numbers be they pitchers and/or position players but if you look at their lineup and then their bench along with the pen.
You have consistency in performance so the club doesn’t see a marked drop either at the plate and/or with the glove when the backup or reliever is playing.
Champions are made of teams with a lot of talent, who get luckier in the playoffs than other teams with a lot of talent. Call this luck “consistency” if you must.
#48: Hey, if Tango didn’t arbitrarily add 3.2 to FIP, Maroth’s would barely be over 3. 🙂
Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that neither USSM nor LL have anything to say about Junior coming back to Seattle tonight?
I don’t know about USSM, but since I’ve never lived in Seattle and only got to follow those 1990’s Mariner teams through newspaper box scores, I didn’t get the same Griffey experience as so many people, so my saying anything probably wouldn’t do justice to the significance of this moment for much of the fan base.
That’s OK, KJR is all-Griffey, all-the-time.
And I just posted the game thread with my thoughts on the matter. I’m sure it will be used as more evidence that I hate this franchise and I’m a total pile of crap.
Griffey is special for a lot of reasons, but the other guys you mention, Dave, are special for a reason or two that Griffey can’t claim. Don’t get me wrong…Griffey is the only player who has ever made me stop in my tracks whenever he came to the plate, just so I wouldn’t miss a pitch. But he also took his insane amount of talent for granted…imagine if he had stretched like Ichiro, left it all on the diamond every night like Snelling or Bragg, or appeared to play just for the love of the game. He may have been unquestionably the best ever.
Full disclosure, he used to aim for us while taking BP, while we were changing the out of town scoreboard in the dome. Atop a thirty foot ladder and getting hit by a 320 foot line drive, only to turn around and watch the guy who hit it fall down laughing, will remind you that the hero of your childhood probably isn’t quite the god some people think. Then again, I also saw him stop an interview to do an unscheduled meet n’ greet with my brother and his “Little” in the Big Brothers program, so don’t let me paint him as a total jerk. But he’s also no Edgar.