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Our pitch for Antonetti
Our pitch to Antonetti
No shame in getting shut out by Roy Halladay. He’s awesome.
Tonight was his 6th complete game of the season. The Mariners team has 7 complete games… since the start of the 2007 season. 7 CG’s in their last 244 starts for the M’s, one more than Halladay has in 17 [...]
Halladay vs Dickey. 7:10.
It’ll be interesting to see what Riggleman does with his lineup now that they’re back home. The road trip was a mixed bag but overall a decided improvement on McLaren. Here’s hoping Riggleman continues to put out serviceable units on the field..
No clubhouse chemistry forecast yet: you’d think that the San Diego [...]
So, the last few years, I’ve written up posts on the most valuable players in baseball, taking age, contract, and salary into account. I’m doing it again this year, but as a week long series over at FanGraphs. I’ll be doing five players at a time, twice a day, through Friday, leading up [...]
Bedard vs. Peavy. (Throwing up a placeholder so there’s a game thread, sorry all.)
In response to some comments made on the broadcast tonight, I did a real quick and dirty check. In 2007, Baek made 12 starts for the M’s and went 70 1/3rd innings, in sometimes short-notice circumstances. That’s just shy of 6 innings a start, which isn’t all that great for a starter, no, on the [...]
Carlos Silva, free agent extravaganza, versus Cha Baek, who the M’s discarded for no reason early in the season. 7:05.
During yesterday’s game thread, I mentioned that I might try and crank out a giant trade value megapost, and someone mentioned “won’t you get depressed putting “no value” over and over?”
And that’s pretty much what happened. In response, I’m scaling back my ambitions.
Hitters with value:
Ichiro. Don’t. Just don’t. Ichiro’s why I tune in every game, [...]
After last night’s game, Jarrod Washburn continued to give credit for his recent drop in ERA to a mechanical tweak made by his pitching coach a few weeks ago. The local media continues to repeat his claim that he’s pitching better since then like its the gospel.
Apparently, we’re the only ones around [...]
Hey, if chemistry’s so important to a team’s success, why doesn’t anyone report the clubhouse mood before each game? Seems like that’d be just as important as the lineups, which we get about an hour ahead of time.
