So, uhh, Sean Green?
Dave · August 5, 2008 at 10:03 pm · Filed Under Mariners
If anyone has an explanation for why the M’s turned to Roy Corcoran in the 8th inning of a one run game when Sean Green hasn’t pitched since Saturday that doesn’t involve the word “injury”, I’d love to hear it.
Also, the media is going to whine like hell about the M’s blowing a lead because they optioned Morrow to Tacoma before Putz was all the way healthy. Ignore them – the team made the right decision.
I was just about to post aboout Dave referencing losing the game and thus “jinxing” us into a comeback and, well, Lopez.
Thank you, Lopez.
Since I asked that question three times (sorry about that) in the game folder, I’m as mystified as anyone.
As much as I don’t want us to win, it’s hard for me to be upset when Pezzer does well.
That’s it.
Guess we have to blame Dave for the win.
😉
I think we can blame Dave for the win and for my lack of in depth incite into our minor leaguers. Dave – I know Triunfel is a possible star, but I noticed that they promoted Jharmidy De Jesus to Everett and he had a nice first game in the NWL. Have you heard anything about him and his long term potential? Thanks and good luck with the wedding. I loved my wedding.
Reason: Corcoran put the voodoo on Riggles, and now Jim thinks Corcy IS Green, and that Green is Corcy.
That’s the best I can come up with, anyways…
yes, interesting that he seems to have pitched every day for 4 months, and now hasn’t been seen since saturday where he got one out …
on the postgame show Riggleman apparently said Green was being shut down because of his number of appearances. He should be back tomorrow.
Drayer says she asked Riggleman after the game, and Riggleman said [paraphrasing both of them here] he’s been resting him; not because of anything Green said or asked, but that Riggleman felt he had been pitching a lot, and that looking to the future, it was time to give him a rest. He’s likely available tomorrow.
I’m totally happy to see Morrow in Tacoma, but damn.. I have about as much faith in JJ right now as I did in Guardado ’06.
He’s still not right (or something).
I’m not trying to say that Sean Green shouldn’t be pitching there, but didn’t Corcoran come in and get three ground balls (including a hit on a blown call by the 1st base ump) and then get pulled out of the game? What could Green have done that would have been better? I know Corcoran was charged with 2 runs, but his performance looked pretty good to me.
I’d have to agree. Sad to say, the way he’s looked his last
fewseveral outings, he’s clearly headed thru Mesa Country en route to the Ayala Badlands.I’m only going to worry if it is still happening at the end of the year. I can’t imagine trying to get a split finger harnessed by pitching an inning here, an inning there.
Green has thrown 58.2 innings this season on the worst team in the AL…the only full time reliever I could find with more innings in the majors is Carlos Marmol, who is obviously a key bullpen component on a very good team. I agree with Riggleman’s determination that there’s no need to burn Green down all the way to the bitter end of this season, but 3/4 days off is plenty at this point, right?
Let’s try not too go too overboard here.
Agreed. Would a rehab stint or two in Tacoma have been such a bad idea? That is a tough pitch to command the way we’ve seen him do in the past when you haven’t practiced it against hitters for a while.
If the Mariners loose every game they play the rest of this season because they’re trying to give their young players the sort of work they need to become good major leaguers, that’s fine with me. Media “analysts” need to spend more time analyzing and less time talking.
Morrow needs to get streched out and used to throwing 80-100 pitches per game in the minors and then he needs to come up to the bigs. And he needs to stay in the game until he’s thrown 90 pitches, even if he’s getting shelled. He needs experience and he needs outings of starter duration. It’s not exactly blowing our playoff chances, letting Morrow get shelled to make him a big league starter? It’s more like a way develop a future No. 2/3 starter while putting our name in with the Nats in the Steve Strassburg race. (Not that Morrow will necessarily get shelled, but that if he did, we should care.)