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Felix Day
O Felix Day
O Felix Day
You come too seldom
Felix Day…
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What about Ryan Feierabend? Can he pitch better right now than Weaver or HoRam? If not, how long before he’ll be able to?
oh, and Ken Rosenthal is floating the “finally both Griffey & the Reds are both willing to look at the trade deadline” rumor …
Willie can pitch better than Weaver.
53: with the added benefit of making his bat unavailable.
Jim, for the record…I don’t listen to KJR to actually glean baseball (or any kinds of sports) analysis, but its funny sometimes so I listen.
What can I say…I’m a creature of habit.
and sometimes, when you are sitting at work and you’ve heard both hours of Morning Edition all the way through, and pretty much your only other options that come through at the desk are KOMO, the two polar-opposite political stations, or the Channel That Never Plays A Song I Don’t Know ….
Remember back in the early ’90’s when the rotation was Randy Johnson and 4 other guys they could find to put it over the plate? Does anyone feel like we’re back there again?
bakomariner – (re: posts 41 and 44) Your point assumes that Soriano could not have been turned into a useful starter. You have to consider the potential likelihood of Soriano being a useful starter (factoring in injury risk and lack of substantial prior starter experience) against the chance that HoRam would fail as a useful starter for the M’s (factoring in injury risk and the apparent higher quality of American League vs. National League hitters).
It seems more likely to me that the Soriano for HoRam trade was made more for personality reasons (I suspect Grover disliked Soriano – but have no evidence) than for straight future performance projection reasons.
Remember back in the early ’90’s when the rotation was Randy Johnson and 4 other guys they could find to put it over the plate? Does anyone feel like we’re back there again?
Deja vu!
i do think it was the personality conflict (soriano supposedly not wanting to take the hill), but i do think that they could have gotten more in return…and i don’t think soriano will be a starter…various reasons…
How sad we’ll all be
If Meche beats Felix tonight
With Grover to blame
loki- worst one yet…no negative thinking about the KING man!
We do not contend.
But we dream of the future.
Long Live King Felix.
Grover taking out Felix after 8 innings of a 1-1 tie game, with his pitch count at 95, and losing in the twelth because our good bullpen pitchers ran out an inning too early says nothing negative about the King.
Yes, I should be deleted, post 61. I’m just reeling with pessimsism after yesterday’s loss, and the 2-1 loss to the Padres when Felix pitched. It’s just a bitter irony I’m not emotionally prepared for…..so let’s see the King with 10 K’s and a Meche meltdown….please?
Hopefully the M’s habit of having quiet bats the day after a lot of scoring…is de-habitualized tonight.
I haven’t read it but I heard excepts from it – if I ever finish reading Derek’s book, this is next on my list:
Baseball Haiku
Weaver out with an “injury”. Ramirez out with a possible “injury”. Mateo out because of legal troubles.
Well, being passive IS working.
As for starters we could call up, Dave has gone over this before. Feierabend is not ready, Woods sucks, Campillo is nothing to write home about, Lehr is not high on the organization’s food chain, and RRS / Mackintosh are career AAA starters. Is there anybody here that we really want? Not really. Would they be better? Maybe, but would you trust the season to them?
Fact is, we’re going to have to look elsewhere if we want an effective starting pitcher, which is why the M’s were scouting BH Kim. Not that I agree he’s an effective starter, but you get the idea. It’s either AAAA scrubs or someone else’s 4th starter.
haha, who would’ve thought that Felix Hernandez vs. Gil Meche would be a marquee pitching matchup right now.
Um, I hate to be a party pooper but…If every day was Felix Day, wouldn’t he go WAAAAAY over his 200 innings for the year? I’m just asking.
I seem to remember an article in the beginning of the season where Hargrove said that Felix didn’t have a limit on innings this year.
My apologies Derek
haha, who would’ve thought that Felix Hernandez vs. Gil Meche would be a marquee pitching matchup right now.
It’s only a matter of time before Gil’s honeymoon with KC ends and they discover what their money is really paying for.
Still, I’d take Meche over 3 of our starters…not for 5 years and $55million, but for one year at $11 million or 2 at $22 million
#67 — I agree that Feierabend might not be ready, but I would hazard to guess that he would be better than any of Weaver, Woods, or HoRam. I also think Lehr would be better as well, but since he is not on the 40 man, Ho would have to have a serious, season ending injury to allow them to add Lehr without letting anyone go.
And its nice to see the Griffey rumors circulating once again. Those and Memorial Day signal the beginnig of summer.
But, but… I talked to a guy to talked to a guy who overheard somebody talking about reading it on the Internet. So it’s GOTTA be true! Griffey is coming back! The glory days can’t be far behind!
w/r/t Rafael Soriano:
Go look up Soriano’s minor league career: he was a starter all the way through the minors. He’s done it before. The starter/reliever thing wasn’t some personality conflict: it was a combination the M’s being super cautious about the arm for a while, seeing him being effective in the role, and then not really finding a good time/way to get him back into starting – and Soriano, as long as he was in the pen, wanted to either start or close, and given the team’s needs and nagging health concerns, they kept him at it.
That’s overly simplistic, of course, but that’s the gist of it.
Where’s Peter again?
Mister White was the greatest
Master of Haiku…
#56:
That’s when you calmly get up, go into the office restroom and duct-tape a bag of dry-cleaning plastic around your head.
I swear this is true: Dave is out, because he’s photographing Pete White’s wedding.
Would a woman really want a man who chooses a woman over baseball?
Even if Meche is inconsistent, and on average, pretty…. average, I would still love to have him on the team again. He gets his share of dubs (3-2 so far), and he’s 50k’s vs 17 walks. Better an inconsistent decent player than a friggin consistent HORRIBLE Weaver with a noodle for an arm, or a 18BB/14K Horacio. The walks kill us every time.
On an also unrelated note, are there any parks that will toss you out if you throw a HR back onto the field? I’ve only caught one, and it was against the Giants… so eh. I’d definately throw back any yankee/bosox HR if I got my hands on it, but isn’t that construed as throwing something onto the field? I don’t know how tight ballparks are about throwing a ball back on the field… Thanks.
Be careful…
Fact is, we’re going to have to look elsewhere if we want an effective starting pitcher, which is why the M’s were scouting BH Kim. Not that I agree he’s an effective starter, but you get the idea. It’s either AAAA scrubs or someone else’s 4th starter.
This is how we ended up with Batista, Weaver and HoRam.
Woods… he’s actually been getting pounded since getting sent back down, with an ERA in the 6’s and an xFIP to fit. He would only get a callup because he’s on the 40 man and would require the least hassle.
RRS has been working out of the bullpen all year, and it looks like that’s gonna be his future.
Feierabend has been hit and miss, effective, but not dominant in AAA. He’s had enough meltdowns to lead me to doubt his ability to competently perform at the MLB level right now.
The other Rainiers are not on the 40 man and would require someone getting knocked off it and exposed to waivers for any of them to get added.
I swear this is true: Dave is out, because he’s photographing Pete White’s wedding.
… ? Like… as in Venture Brothers Pete White? I’m not hip and need some help here.
June flowers in sight!
Seattle’s Latino hope
Versus flop of yore!
Meh . . . why not:
Kaufman yawns aglow
Lord Gilgamesh and The King
Hurling spheres of rage
by the way, today’s haiku collection is saved for posterity…
Felix misses bats
Meche impersonates an ace
While Weaver just blows goats.
Grover at the helm
Garcia over on third
We are in trouble