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it isn’t yet in the M’s official media guide, but [Niehaus] has been just fascinated by the ST media guide which tells him that Bronson Sardinha’s middle name is “Kiheimahanaomauiakeo”
March 4th, 2008 at 8:44 amOn Phillippe Aumont (http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/pressbox/downloads/y2008/sea/players2.pdf):
“2007: Participated in the Mariners 2007 Arizona Instructional League… rated as the Mariners No. 2 prospect by Baseball America and as having the fastball in the organization.”
Is there only one fastball in the whole organization?
March 4th, 2008 at 8:58 amyes.
Wash volunteered to give it up to a younger player. He’s a team guy.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:01 amRandy Johnson had an extra, so he left it with the team, but he hid it so Moyer couldn’t find it.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:17 amI had a couple that I noticed from the minor league section.
Nathan Adcock, 6th round pick from the ‘06 draft out of a Kentucky high school, has apparently turned 23 recently. They grow up so fast… *sniffle*
Anthony Fernandez, a left-hander who pitched in the Dominican Summer League last year, is listed as being twelve-years-old, which I’m pretty sure is in violation of signing laws. Of course, if you’re into hyping age relative to level of competition, the M’s might have something really special here.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:06 amIchiro needs 19 SBs to become the Mariners all time stolen base leader.
Putz needs 44 saves to become the Mariners all time saves leader.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:56 amPutz needs 44 saves to become the Mariners all time saves leader.
And 45 would tie him for most in a single season (Sasaki, 2001). But 44 would represent about 50% of their wins (or more, depending on how you think they’ll do) and that just seems like a lot. More likely that record will fall to him in ‘09 (assuming he’s still with the team).
March 4th, 2008 at 11:19 amWow. There is no mention in the media guide that Ichiro is only 130 hits away from 3,000.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:27 amAppearently A-Rod lead the leauge in runs with .143…
March 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am7- I didn’t mean to imply that Putz was a sure thing to break that, but those were the two records which I saw that looked even reasonably obtainable.
I see no reason that Putz won’t be on the team in 2009. Meaning I can’t imagine the current front office trading him even if it meant improving the team overall.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:45 amDirector of Baseball Administration Jim Na named his kid Cooperstown. Come on, really?
March 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pmInteresting factoid: Willie Bloomquist is now the third longest-tenured Mariner.
Entering his 7th season with the M’s, Bloomquist now trails only Raul Ibanez and Ichiro.
When Willie retires as a Mariner in a decade or so, I wonder if they will have one of those retirement ceremonies for him like they had for Edgar.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmmln,
Sounds like a great opportunity for the shortest retrospective highlight film of all time.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pm#7
I was watching ESPN the weekend uh…this weekend…and one of the “bold predictions” from the Baseball Tonight staff (I can’t remember who, they all run together) was that JJ would save 60 games. Unrealistic, but I thought it was interesting that someone actually noticed that there is a good closer in the American league who doesn’t play for the Red Sox.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:12 pmHuman Resources VP Marianne Short has what could possibly be the worst hair in the entire Pacific Northwest region. Just sayin’.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pmOh, and my Adobe Reader seems to want to open the media guide at 158%, likely in tribute to the amount of effort WFB gives on the basepaths.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pmoh, yeah– it was noted at the time
March 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pmIs that a picture of John Ellis or Sam Waterson?
March 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pmdrjeff,
Noted, not a great pic. When I worked for the club I did have occasion to do some jobs for her, and let me tell you, she is about the nicest lady on the planet. I give her a pass on the hair.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pmNot sure if this is actually in the media guide but
How awesome would it be if Putz came out wearing Charlie Sheen’s heavy black-rimmed glasses with the little skull and cross-bones over the nose piece? (Speaking of Putz, he gets a soul patch night on April 12th).
March 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pm19 - I have pictures of my Senior Prom from 1976 that would make that one look like America’s Next Top Model. Longer hair, too!
March 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pm21 — And those are just the guys!
March 4th, 2008 at 7:00 pmInteresting note on Yuniesky Betancourt:
March 6th, 2008 at 11:53 pmThe media guide points out that Yuni committed 19 of his 23 errors before the All-Star break (thus using a small sample to imply improvement), but also say that he didn’t commit his first error until May 7th. That means he made NINETEEN errors between May 7th and July 8th, a span of 58 games. That’s one error every three games. That’s bad shortstopping.
Of course, during part of that errorfest (May 20th to June 9th) Yuni had a 20-game hitting streak.
Is that a picture of John Ellis or Sam Waterson?
In the Mariners baseball system, the fans are screwed over by two separate yet equally incompetent groups: the front office, who pay too much for the wrong players, and the ownership, who hires the front office. These are their stories.
Dum dum!
March 7th, 2008 at 12:16 am