Game 84, Orioles at Mariners
DMZ · July 8, 2009 at 1:11 pm · Filed Under Mariners
1:40, Hernandez v Vargas.
HOT LINEUP NEWS
Branyan moves from #2 to #3
Woodward to #2
LOPEZ to #4
Death to Flying Things at #5
…and a rare Balentien appearance in left, and Ichiro hits DH
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This is a type of loss that demoralizes a team. This is the game that we will look back at that ended our season,
You have a shortstop, his name is Ronny Cedeno.
But even then, if Chris Woodward can’t play 3rd, what makes you think Lopez can?
I can just only hope somewhere Jack Z. is on the phone right now trying to fix this crap.
Those words alone should lead people to suicide.
Well, at least he’s a temporary fill-in for a shortstop.
We have a new shortstop named Alex Cintron by the way.
That’s a start, now we need a new 3rd baseman and 2nd baseman.
He’s an ok substitute, but this team needs a shortstop and not for just this year. Dave made an excellent case that the real hole in the infield is at shortstop so if you’re going to go shopping, that’s the position to be looking to fill. And the fact that Betancourt is rehabbing at 2nd (see his post at the top of this thread) suggests Zduriencik thinks so too. Even if you’re right and Cedeno and his mighty bat is the shortstop for the rest of ’09, Betancourt’s new position in the minors suggests Lopez is going somewhere…. and if that’s not to some other team, then it’s 3rd base (as Wakamatsu has already suggested).
Those kind of trades rarely happen (watch the Halladay situation, for example) and they’re rarely worth it, either.
Since Jose Lopez is really just a jack-o-lantern mounted on Edgar’s body, can’t we just leave him out on the doorstep until somebody smashes him in the street?
That or wait until the Moose goes driving again. . .
Gee, I can’t seem to recall, but didn’t the Mariners make that kind of trade LAST YEAR?
Cintron’s Fangraph
What we wouldn’t do for a replacement level shortstop…
Jesus.
The solution to all the Mariners’ infield woes is not far away.
Wouldn’t it be really really cool if the Mariners make a trade at the deadline to acquire this guy?
Hell no, the solution to the Mariners infield problems is Triunfel, but he’s 2 years away.
Cintron is a horrible defender at every position he has been allowed to play up to this point. He’s not so hot with the stick, either. It’s a curious pick-up for Z – the sort of move a GM makes when he needs to stockpile bodies to fill the holes created by an injury . . . or imminent trade.
You don’t know how it will affect the team. Don’t you think you’re overreacting just a bit? Really, it’s one game.
Cluster***ks like this inevitably happen over the course of a season…even to good or great teams. Why, a good team could never lose a game 15-14 after going into the 8th with a 12 run lead, after all!
Odds are he won’t play SS at this level.
Or, as their manager has pointed out, it is a team that has a great short-team memory for a bad game and so they move on to tomorrow.
or just depth at Tacoma
Having heard the end of that steaming pile of a game while stuck in traffic, the whole “Gee guys, we can go 5-4 on the road against the three best teams in baseball…but boy those O’s are sure tough to beat at home” schtick somehow didn’t surprise me.
It’s now up to Junior and his veteran leadershipness to steer the M’s out of this little funk. Ichiro had best keep his distance.
The M’s season surely is on the line with this upcoming 4 game series. If they lose 3 of 4 or manage to be swept, then it’s time to trade Wash and Bedard.
BUT I happen to have faith in this team, along with the fact that we are putting Felix, Wash, Bedard, and Morrow up against Texas. Lets hope this team rebounds, careless mistakes stop happening and the bullpen rebounds.
GO MARINERS!