Comments on: All-Time All-Mariner Roster: Second Base

By: Phightin Phils

Phightin Phils — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:59:40 +0000

Ah, the 2001 season…so long ago…

2000 was good. Then the offseason. It wasn’t until a single at-bat – I remember where I was, listening to the radio (Rizzs babbling on, and all) – that got me engaged as a fan in the 2001 season. It was Carlos Guillen in NY against the Yanks for the first meeting of the year. He worked the count. There was *hardball* all about that at-bat. And he won that battle, and the M’s one that series, and many, many more afterwards.

But Boonie was about the pure joy of the game. The audacity of that bat flip, the back flips that he seemed he could do on the field, the glory of the game. The final touch to a great season that got me totally back into baseball.

The Mariners. Back when my east coast friends spoke that same language about “your Seattle team” to me as they did about the fears they had about their own precious Yanks: are they great enough?

By: dingdangdo

dingdangdo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:13:08 +0000

#90, thanks. Trying to pick up up the metric knowledge, thats a big help, so is the site ref. Those numbers are a surprise, expected that to be different. Now we’re trying to look up hitting stats in different counts to attempt a rescue of the validity of our assessment of Boone. The open stance not only cures batting problems, it’s makes a good hair tonic and removes gum.

By: heyoka

heyoka — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:32:15 +0000

Is there a metrics stat that takes into account the number of pitches a hitter sees per plate appearance?

on espn miscellaneous batting they have a stat for #P/PA.
Oddly at 3.69, 2001 was one of the lowest totals he’d ever put up.

wow, ot, but…
check out this player’s name

By: Jeff Nye

Jeff Nye — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:50:40 +0000

But did he switch to an open stance?

I hear that fixes hitting problems right up.

By: dingdangdo

dingdangdo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:19 +0000

I’m hoping thats on topic, it started w/Boone then switched to Cammie, then started to slip and slide a bit.

By: dingdangdo

dingdangdo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:19:10 +0000

Something I haven’t seen mentioned yet, was Boone’s ‘new look’ stance in ‘01. Just where did he get that approach? By opening up after strike 2 he managed to reduce his liability as a free swinger by taking more pitches, and opening up the entire field. That entire lineup was great for working counts, I’ve always felt that contributed greatly to everybody’s success that year. Opposing pitchers so consistently go so deep in the game this year, I don’t think enough is made of that. Is there a metrics stat that takes into account the number of pitches a hitter sees per plate appearance? Walks sort addresses that, like a wobble in a star shows the gravitational effects of planets…

By: sealclubber253

sealclubber253 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:58:27 +0000

82- joe, I have to say that link to the Boggs article is one of the best things I have ever read. Funny stuff. Maybe the front office should start distirbuting Miller Lite in the club house cause Wade Boggs was damn good.

I remember a few years ago, it was almost a regular thing for a Boone sighting in Belltown or at the Muckleshoot Casino. He was always out partying. But, he still hit.

By: profmac

profmac — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:24:06 +0000

[ot]

By: Breadbaker

Breadbaker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:58:49 +0000

Boone apparently had a tense relationship with Bobby Cox in Atlanta which blew up when he was benched in game two of the 1999 World Series.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:35:38 +0000

it would be in vein

Hey, I thought we agreed to lay off the drug accusations!