Good News From T-Town
Dave · August 22, 2008 at 9:24 am · Filed Under Mariners
Brandon Morrow in Portland last night – 4 2/3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 10 K, 72 pitches, 52 strikes.
In his last couple of starts, Morrow has begun to mix in his breaking ball and not just depend on the fastball, and well, the results are obvious. He faced 18 batters yesterday, punching out 56% of them. Almost three quarters of his pitches were strikes. He was dominating.
The M’s will probably give him one more start in Tacoma, getting him up to 85-90 pitches before bringing him back to Seattle when rosters expand. With Rowland-Smith succeeding last night and Morrow flashing his potential, there is some hope for this rotation yet.
We should sit Washburn just to annoy him.
Hey, that’s right along the fallacious “Anderson/Heaverlo/Meche/Pineiro/Nageotte” line of thinking. Tillman’s progressed to AA nicely in the O’s org, but we still don’t know what will become of him at the MLB level. His chances are better than most, but let’s not pencil in his success just yet.
(And yes, that trade was still bad. I have no disagreement there.)
Let’s be realistic here…
The Mariners starting rotation will probably look something like this:
The King
Bedard
Washedburn
Tub Of Goo
RRS/Morrow
The again if no one is scoring any runs does it really matter anyways?
And bad news from Tacoma.
Meh. Sosa looks like organizational filler to me…doesn’t strike me as anything to be concerned with.
I want to be optimistic about our future pitching staff but I’m afraid it has to be cautious optimism. The memory of the “good, young arms” from 2002-2003 that were going to come along and speed the franchise’s rebuilding (since pitching is your most expensive acquisition) is still too fresh. I really really hope this time is different.
Stockpile the arms Stockpile the position players. Hope for the best….Don’t be tempted by trying to short cut the process by pouncing on veteran free agents; the system is set up so that players hit free agency after they hit their peak (and the Ms were foolish to think otherwise the past few years).
He might gnaw the bench.
streak! streak! streak! streak! streak!
54. Sosa was picked up just to fill in space in the bullpen anyway. For all we know, they may have known the clock was ticking on him before he got caught. Don’t quote me on that, but either way, Sosa’s not a huge loss.
So are you saying that the M’s should pass on Strasburg if they get #1 pick because he COULD end up not as good as some others in the draft? Your logic makes no sense.
No, I’m saying it’s ridiculous to go into ZOMGORGASM!!11!1!!!! over ONE arm and start projecting people years down the pike when they aren’t even under contract with the Seattle Mariners yet, or still in A ball, or whatever.
Everyone thought Ryan Anderson was going to be throwing shutouts for the Mariners- now he’s in cooking school.
For a minute when they picked him up (a little before the trade deadline) I was thinking Sosa might be their way of insuring for an emergency, in case they traded Washburn and didn’t have anyone else ready to fill his spot in the rotation right away. But that’s passed, and I agree that he shouldn’t be a significant part of anybody’s plans or hopes.
Re: # 52 –
i>that trade was still bad.
The JONES trade ?