Game 154, Mariners at Blue Jays
Mike Snow · September 25, 2009 at 3:50 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Fister v. Halladay, 4:07.
Remember when Saunders was called up and immediately thrown to the wolves, just as the team started a run of games facing a bunch of lefthanded starters along with Roy Halladay? Well, guess who’s back in the lineup tonight.
RF-L Ichiro
CF-R Gutierrez
2B-R Lopez
DH-L Griffey
3B-R Beltre
C-R Johjima
1B-L Carp
SS-R Josh
LF-L Saunders
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I’d rather see Saunders thrown to the wolves against the likes of Halladay that watch Bill Hall run the bases or play left field. OK, he’s injured, I don’t blame him personally for such pathetic running, he’s a gutty performer, I just don’t watch his guts out there anymore.
I think that is one area where Beltre sets a standard that is hard for other players to live up to. Beltre is as fun to watch with a bad shoulder or severely bruised testicle as he is when completely healthy. But Sweeney with a bad toe, Branyan with a back injury, or Hall with a quad all clearly belong on the bench.
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But what about Saunders and his bruised psyche?
I like Wak, overall. I’m glad he’s here. BUT when it comes to lineup decisions and player preferences I simply do not understand him at all – and that’s sometimes worse than understanding past managers’ insane lineups, since they always explained their insanity was based on “grit” of “veteran-ness” or “leadership” or some other mythical quality that led to bad defense and fewer runs.
When I disagree with Wak, it’s infuriating that I have no idea why he does what he does.
I’d like to see more Tui out at 2nd, he’s looked great so far, not withstanding botching the turn on the double play last night. But I guess Carp needs PT too, and not playing Lopez just isn’t an option while he is still chasing 110 RBI’s.
That’s 100 RBI’s. Although I expect he is also chasing 110.
I’ve always liked Saunders as a prospect and have been tracking him for several years now. I’ve been impressed with his improvement from year to year and can’t really understand why current management has suddenly soured on him so much.
Hopefully they just let him play from here out and give him a good look going into next year as well. I’d love to see what he can do with extended ABs.
That he’s been up since late July(I believe) and only logged 112 Plate Appearances seems a little silly to me.
He better pick up the pace. He needs almost one per game. Hitting into DP’s with ducks on the pond doesn’t help,
I hope JR. well…but please let’s get a DH next year that is a threat for a long ball. Not just drawing a walk.
At least they’re making Halladay throw a lot of pitches. 46 through 3.
They haven’t soured on Saunders. If anything, they’re investing too much time and energy in him — they just haven’t been doing it on the field during a game. Drayer’s had several updates about this on her blog. The latest, from last night:
There’s more back when he was playing, and then when they stopped him, but you’ll have to dig through her archives yourself.
And Fister looks remarkably good so far [kanock on wood]. Good location, especially.
Trouble is he could still find a way to pitch a complete game.
Anybody know what the injury delay was for?
Holy smokes. This game is looking, um, good. On Fister’s part.
FIST-ER! FIST-ER! FIST-ER!
Yeah, Kenji got hit on his ungloved hand.
Well, that was fun while it lasted.
Fair enough joser – I was clearly wrong in saying the M’s have “soured” on Saunders. I’ll have to check out more of Drayer’s blog as that is a resource I have not tapped much.
I would like to seem him get regular PT though. The work in the cages is great – but let’s let the kid play a bit, no? He sure hasn’t seen a lot of live pitching in the second half and while it may not hurt him irreparably in the long term, it doesn’t exactly help either.
Fister is out pitching Halladay (so far). This I did not see coming. I love baseball!
Fister finally left the wrong pitch in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it goes.
It’s a good game anyway. Let’s see the offense take it back for him.
I do not like thee, Aaron Hill,
The reason why I cannot spill;
But this I know, and know it still,
I do not like thee, Aaron Hill.
Oh! Who is this catcher who actually hits the ball more often than fish fall from the blue skies? Have we seen him before?
So, Halladay will most likely go to the Yankees or Red Sox. Instead of free agency like this, why not let such teams simply “buy wins” – up to some limit (10?) – and distribute the money to teams with the top free agents, who would be required to re-sign these players to receive the money.
Crazy, but nearly anything is better than today’s system. The financial imbalance is about to finally destroy baseball in Japan (the draft is effectively dead, since the teams in need often cannot sign – at any price – their top choices, who end up with the Giants, Dragons or Hawks, while all good free agents end up with the Giants, Tigers or Dragons). MLB is hot on its trail.
Bill James was right. Now he’s an adviser to one of the problems,
A Silva sighting! Oh, joy.
Applause to jefffrane, who just gave me more enjoyment with that quatrain than the game could have done.
Non amo te, Sabidi.
I noticed that Silva is still the fly ball pitcher he was before he went on the DL.
I’m guessing that means his sinker still isn’t sinking.
The plan is for him to go to winter ball this year, so he will be seeing more live pitching