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1. Tom Cervo, backup catcher Posted: July 25, 2011 at 03:36 AM (#3884540)Almost.
.118/.188/.145 over the last 28 days.
WTF is going on over there.
They are now 14.5 games back.
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Looking on the dark side, that's higher than 10 of their position players.
The fanbase, not so much
Of course, four of those were AGAINST the Mariners. Seattle scored two runs in those four games.
It's a team with no offense playing in a pitchers' park - more to the point, it's a relatively *old* team (offensively, anyway) with no offense playing in a pitchers' park. They don't have a lot of younger options available - the best ones they have (Smoak and Ackley) are already playing, and the other ones that they have aren't nearly ready to contribute on a regular basis (if they will ever be). The rebuilding road is going to be long and painful.
-- MWE
The other day I saw a bit on the M's by Christina Kahrl, who wrote:
The Mariners picked up light-hitting Brendan Ryan to add his slick fielding up the middle in their infield, figuring that they could afford the bat that had already cost him his job with the Cardinals -- and they were wrong. If any lineup can’t afford Ryan, it’s the Mariners, not when they’re not getting offense from anywhere in the lineup.
...which struck me as curious. As many things as have gone wrong for or were tactical errors by them, the Ryan pickup has not been one of them. (Also, I think it was clubhouse/off-field stuff, more than the bat, that cost him his job.)
2011 Mariners
With that sort of pitching, even a team of popgun hitters should be able to win at least a game each week or so. The odds of them losing fifteen in a row must be completely off the charts.
2011 Mariners
With that sort of pitching, even a team of popgun hitters should be able to win at least a game each week or so. The odds of them losing fifteen in a row must be completely off the charts.
Did you stroll by the batting section?
The 78 OPS+ more than offsets the 108 ERA+. The ERAs look gaudy, but a lot of that is Safeco.
It's a team with no offense playing in a pitchers' park - more to the point, it's a relatively *old* team (offensively, anyway) with no offense playing in a pitchers' park. They don't have a lot of younger options available - the best ones they have (Smoak and Ackley) are already playing, and the other ones that they have aren't nearly ready to contribute on a regular basis (if they will ever be). The rebuilding road is going to be long and painful.
-- MWE
- this sounds horribly like the astros
- i don't understand why the mariners can't seem to get any ballplayers who can hit
The 78 OPS+ more than offsets the 108 ERA+. The ERAs look gaudy, but a lot of that is Safeco.
I did. I don't contend that they're worldbeaters, or even on the fringes of the "race to suck the least" that the playoffs have become.
Um, they trade them away?
What makes you think they can score 2? Did you miss the part about Brendan Ryan being their most valuable offensive contributor this year?
The very first baseball game I ever attended at Royals Stadium was like the 14th or 15th game of the Orioles 21 game losing streak. Us Royals fans were on pins and needles as we were losing much of the game. But the O's came through in the end, losing in the eighth.
I know we don't put much stock in batting average, but think about this: the highest BA on the team is Ackley at .297 in 121 plate appearances. The next highest is Ichiro at .268.
That includes all players (except for P Doug Fister who is 2/6). You'd think one guy with 20 PAs would stumble into a .300, but no.
Adam Moore, 6 PAs: .167
Kyle Seager, 25, .136
Mike Wilson, 28, .148
Josh Bard, 37, .222
Chris Gimenez, 50, .171
3 guys listed as starters on BB-Ref are under .200, and four more are under .230.
They have no power. They draw few walks. They don't steal bases. They don't even get hit by pitches. The team OBP is .289. The only thing they're good at is striking out.
BBREF doesn't update their park factors until near the end of the year
but in case you were wondering they are dead last in run scoring both home and away
They score 3.04/g at home and 3.46/g on the road
they give up 3.46 at home and 4.12 on the road
That a 46-year-old Satchel Paige would get the save would not have been my guess!
They could hit if they wanted to.
Up through their last win, the pitching was incredible, the hitting lousy.
Then there were several games of very good pitching and sub-Mendoza hitting.
Then the bats woke up - but the pitching slumped.
And here we are.
This used to be the case, but now they update throughout the year.
Some people might be surprised at how rare that actually is. On my Cardinal board someone was pointing out that it's kinda sad for a franchise as old as the Cardinals that Carpenter will probably finish the year second in strikeouts in his career as a Cardinal(which is 1095 to pass Dizzy Dean) so I was wondering how rare it was to get high strikeout totals with one franchise... From memory I think only Bob Gibson(Cardinals), Walter Johnson(Senators), Carlton(Phillies) and Smoltz(Braves) have recorded 3000 strikeouts with one franchise. (25 players have done it) Looking it up, pitchers with 2000 strikeouts for a franchise(current franchises)
Angels--Ryan, Finley.
Orioles--Palmer
Red Sox--Clemens, Wakefield
Indians-Feller, McDowell
Tigers--Lolich
Twins-Walter Johnson, Blyleven
Mariners-Randy
Diamondbacks-Randy
Braves-Smoltz, Niekro, Spahn, Glavine
Cubs-Fergie Jenkins
Dodgers- Sutton, Drysdale, Koufax.
Mets-Seaver
Phillies-Carlton
Giants-Mathewson, Marichal
Cardinal-Gibson
How long until Howard and Chuck talk about how Z is "their guy" and they are "100% committed to him as GM of the club"?
2006; Traded Shin-Soo Choo
2008: Traded Adam Jones
2009: Traded Mike Morse
None of these guys is all world but that's real offense that would come in mighty handy about now
And what about the players they traded for in expense of these players, who have two all-star games to their credit. Talk about incompetence. Eduardo Perez for Absdrubal?!!!! Then because Perez had been so successful, they went to the well again with Cleveland, trading Shin-Choo for Broussard. I can't blame them entirely for Bedard because at least he was coming off a dominant season and they had visions of creating a dominant front pairing in their rotation. They've been unlucky with him. And not many thought Morse could do what he's been doing.
Speaking of Morse, what has gone on with him? He must be on some serious horse steroids, which isn't too much of a stretch since he's been caught once already for PEDs. He went from playing a below average shortstop to maybe being the biggest position player in the game. He's got to be 6'5 and at least 265-270 and a lot of it is muscle.
The problem, in no uncertain terms, is that the Mariners' front office was bamboozled by cutting edge defensive metrics into thinking they could win with a shitty offense. Add in to that some bad risks and an aging star, and this is what you get.
The really incredible thing is that this was actually somewhat predictable. Look at that offense. Who could you really expect to be meaningfully better than they are? Ichiro? Figgins & Gutierrez -- kind of? This was the worst offense in baseball last year, and it was obviously the worst offense in baseball coming into this season. Losing 16 in a row (as it is now) is a shock, but so was being within shouting distance of .500 halfway through the season.
It's my considered opinion that Jack Z is obviously incompetent and ought to be shitcanned.
Crazy how things play out
They have to do something to shake this up. Fire somebody. DFA somebody. Change uniforms. Anything.
I was in WI when Braun, Fielder, Weeks, Hart were up and something like 8 players were AA all-stars. I was so high on them and on Jack when he got the SEA job. Damn....
You can't accuse Jack of drafting based on need this year, at least for the M's top pick.
Really? Seamed to me he drafted the guy he could get to the majors the quickest to try show something...
I don't know that I necessarily agree. If they were playing someone like mientkiewicz at first and Fuld at left, then yeah, they'd purposely be sacrificing offense in an attempt to build an all-world defense. But Smoak is supposed to be a masher who has been horrible for months now and some of the guys they've tried in left (Peguero and Carp) are all-bat, bad-glove guys. Their hitters have just underperformed. Ichiro's been bad, Guttierez's season has been upended by his stomach problem, Figgins didn't rebound. I don't think the bad offense was by design.
Except the Ms problem isn't (well, wasn't) pitching, it was hitting. Top pick was a pitcher.
Edit: Huh. 702+299 is 1001 but BB-Ref's addition tool has it as 991. Something buggered there.
I know range factor/9 is ewwy, but I'm still surprised Kennedy's RF/9 is a hair below average at 2B for his career (4.90 v 4.91). 3B too. Odd.
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