Comments on: M’s announce rotation order

By: John D.

John D. — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:58:27 +0000

Re: # 19:
I guess it seems odd that it is not a big deal for two righties to be back to back and yet it is amazingly horrible to have two lefties…

I thought it odd too.
In 1954, the Cleveland Indians used a rotation of five (5) RHP, and won 111 games.

By: John D.

John D. — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:50:41 +0000

Re: # 19.
I guess it seems odd that it is not a big deal for two righties to be back to back and yet it is amazingly horrible to have two lefties…

By: manifestus

manifestus — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:32:26 +0000

45 – When I see the name Fukuyama, I think of Edward Said’s statement critiquing his “End of History” as the “End of Fukuyama”. Which I suppose is funny in its own way.

By: Ralph_Malph

Ralph_Malph — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:25:22 +0000

Sorry…the feeble joke would have been better if I said Fukuoka, which is what I meant to say.

By: Ralph_Malph

Ralph_Malph — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:24:11 +0000

(where exactly is Cairo playing, anyway?)

Fukuyama?

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:31:09 +0000

20 – no one makes 38 starts in a season. 34 or 35 is the most possible with a 5-man rotation.

Roy Halladay made 36 starts as recently as 2003.

By: joser

joser — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:25:20 +0000

louder, I think just about everybody here will agree with you. It may be that Morrow was never cut out to be a starter (and it may have taken more than one year in AAA), but we may never know. Certainly they claimed to be signing him as one, and had they been willing to “bust slot” they could’ve got one in Miller. It’s obviously a huge waste of a first round pick to get a guy you never use more than one inning a game. It would seem Morrow has been sacrificed on the altar of expediency — but in a situation where everybody is on the “hot seat,” that’s pretty much the outcome you have to expect. I worry that Clement will be next.

As for Bonds, well, he may not have the opportunity to swing the bat for anybody (except for Ricky “Wild-Thing” Vaughn’s former team in the California Penal League); and while the team has shown in the past couple of years some willingness to depart from its “fan friendly” dogma when signing guys , I suspect they’re not willing to go that far. Not to mention they already have more than a couple of players signed than they have room for (where exactly is Cairo playing, anyway?)

By: bubblegumcrisis

bubblegumcrisis — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:44:12 +0000

Man, I would love to see Bonds on this team.

By: louder

louder — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:40:22 +0000

Sorry, my first sentence should read: I just think that the Mariners’ are missing the boat on Morrow.

By: louder

louder — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:35:45 +0000

Re: #35
I just the Mariners’ are missing the boat on Morrow. I was one of those who thought it was a good idea to have Morrow be on the roster out of spring training. I admit that I was wrong on that count, probably would’ve been better to have Morrow be a starter all last year in Tacoma, and now he’d be in the mix a bit more. I’m just not sold on Washburn. Call me dumb (as people no doubt will!) but I don’t like this idea of keeping Morrow as a one-inning set up guy, and not giving him a chance to become a starter, even if that means a full year in AAA.