Felix Day wooooooooooooooooooooo
DMZ · July 18, 2008 at 12:01 am · Filed Under Mariners
Time to start this season off right, with the guy who should have been the Opening Day starting pitcher. Yeah, there, I said it.
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But, but…he doesn’t have at least five years’ worth of MLB experience! Don’t you know we desperately needed that extra veteran grit on Opening Day so we could overtake the Angels and dominate the division?!
Oh, wait…
It is 10:15 am here in Czech and Strasburg struck out two in the first for US team in World University Championship in Ostrava, Czech Rep. against Korea. The kid looks good, 94 mph
Tech support: the site formatting is off. I have to scroll down to see the posts.
Looks fine on Firefox.
I am on Internet Explorer 6.0 here at work if that helps.
Looks fine here on both Firefox and IE7.
A Strasburg/Felix/Morrow rotation would look pretty darn good one day…but isn’t strasburg a sophomore? Is he even draft eligible in 09 when he’s a junior?
Yes.
one of the first things out of Riggleman’s mouth when he became manager was an off-hand reference to Felix as ‘our no. 1’
I’m seeing the same thing vj. IE 6.0 here at work too.
Yay Felix Day!. I get to go with my parents who are visiting from CA and expose them to the awesome that is Felix.
I think Bedard pitched opening day because snow was in the forecast and him being more acclimated to cold weather.
I’m just hoping I get to the game early enough to get my first bobblehead ever!
For those not in Marinerland and with DirectTv, don’t forget that it is free preview time for Extra Innings. Which means I’ll actually get to see a Felix Day outing out here in Ohio. Wooooooooooooo! indeed.
Unless of course it is blacked out locally because they are playing the Indians but that’s another story….
Feels like a new life. No Bavasi. No Johnny Mac. No Sexson. Lots of work to do, but I am good to go!
So then does he go back to school for his senior year or does he go to the minors?
#7 — Don’t forget Aumont. (And frankly, we could do worse than have Bedard in that mix as well. Aside from the obvious health questions, no reason to think he won’t be a pretty good pitcher at age 31 or 32.)
Same as the NFL, he enters professional baseball once he is drafted.
Strasburg threw seven inn, 22 batters faced, 13 K´s, no hit, one walk, hit 95 mph against Korea, got no decision
Felix…remember, you are my number one guy…
Please tell me somebody gets that reference…
Yay, Felix Day!
Does he have to actually sign first? If he doesn’t like the offer, he says no thanks, goes back to school and lets someone else draft him next year. Or is that only an option for guys coming out of High School?
I got ya, I wonder whatever happened to good ol’ Bob?
In other news, a 600 ft. Felix Hernandez bobblehead has just climbed up the side of the space needle.
In five years I want to be able to buy a 7-foot Costacos Bros. poster of Aumont and Bedard standing back to back with some sort of French-Canadian pitching pun in bold letters at the bottom.
21: No he doesn’t have to actually sign, but if he comes to any agreement with a team about anything, or if he has anyone represent him to the team, then he loses college eligibility. In practice, the NCAA just nudges and winks and, except in very rare cases, players remain eligible until they actually sign a deal.
GO FELIX GO! This is the only thing better than not watching Sexson ever again put on a M’s uniform.
I have the same issue with IE 6.0
According to my IT department, we aren’t allowed to have Firefox due to it’s security vulnerabilities. Yep. I found a more ineptly ran organization than the Mariners.
Felix is also No. 1 because there is such uncertainty about Bedard.
Mcgrath has leapt onto the Strasburg bandwagon; and Larue talks to Lee about trading
woo.
From the Larue piece:
Really? We have pitching and defense? I’ll give him a pass on the pitching since we do have SOME, but defense?
We’re screwed. Pelekoudas has been around long enough, he should be able to recognize an awful defense.
Ugh, McGrath’s article is killing me.
“We’re not starting from scratch, so you begin by evaluating what you’ve got and then take advantage of the good pieces and build around those,†Pelekoudas said. “You always want to emphasize pitching and defense, and we’ve got that.”
“In 2001, we didn’t have a power-hitting team. What we want here is a team that can execute, play the game properly. In ’01, we played it right. We’d get the man on, get him over, get him in – whatever it took.
“Good teams do that routinely, not occasionally. They do it consistently.â€
That suggests to me that Stincoln and Upchuck are -still-, Sweet Jesus, -still- clinging to the mirage that 2001 is a repeatable phenomenon, if only they can find enough veteran grit.
Hey Lee, you’ve got a team right now that does ‘all the little things’ and the worst offense in MLB to show for it. There isn’t a single consistent power threat in the M’s lineup anywhere. Your team will continue to get pummelled night after night until this is rectified.
The 2001 team had loads of power. And they got on base at an absurd clip (Boone batted with runners on in front of him more than 50% of the time).
I won’t be able to see Felix today. 🙁
Instead I will be celibrating my 18th birthday by partying…
On the defensive situation.
When Riggleman took over, the club had a DER of .683 and ranked 29th or 30 MLB teams in DER.
TODAY, they are at .693, and rank 23rd.
Riggleman simply moved from situation defensive alignments to pitcher/batter defensive alignments, and the results have been nothing short of outstanding, (an aggregate .720-ish DER during the Riggleman era).
Small sample, certainly. Could be a short-term fluke. Or, it could be that the defense isn’t remotely as bad as they APPEAR to be — just that the defensive positioning during the Hargrove/MacLaren terms went from bad to worse to horrid.
sure you haven’t already started?
The relative results (the improvement) may be outstanding. The absolute results (23rd in a field of 30) are not. This is still a bad, bad defensive team, even if you assume the recent improvements are not a mirage.
Nope, it’s the Ivar Dogs again. Riggleman forbade them in the clubhouse, so defensive performance went up due to less stomachaches.
I’m being flippant of course, but I’m trying to make a point; namely that while your data might be valid, there’s nothing in the evidence to connect them to the conclusions you’re drawing.
There’s the natural tendency to search for causation in everything; clearly since the defense has appeared to perform better since Riggleman took over, he MUST be doing something different that caused it; when in fact, there isn’t really any evidence to support that.
At least, I haven’t seen anything in the defensive alignments to support your theory, and for it to have such a pronounced effect either McLaren’s must have been amazingly bad, or Riggleman’s must be amazingly good, and it’s just really difficult for a manager to have that significant of a result on results.
There’s a few managers at the very bottom who have a small detrimental effect (yes, McLaren was in that group), a few managers at the very top who have a small positive effect, and a large cloud of guys in the middle who just don’t really matter that much.
For your theory to hold, Riggleman would have to be in that top group rather than the cloud where he actually appears to exist based on past evidence.
Instead I will be celibrating my 18th birthday by partying…
Hmmm, I celibated every birthday (and every other day) of my teen years. Parties just led to near misses.
College was a wonderful thing.
so Felix vs Laffey
Bus vs Sowers
Buffet vs your AL starting pitcher Cliff Lee
Batista vs homeboy Lester
RAD vs Matsusaka
That 2001 team was an outstanding offensive team in virtually every category. In the AL they had more hits and runs than any other team; only one team had more BBs and only four teams had fewer Ks, so not surprisingly, they had the best team OBP in the league — and the best OPS+
Heck, they even stole more bases than any other team in the AL (and were successful 81% of the time, also significantly better than any other AL team).
They overachieved a bit (Pythag suggests 109 wins) but this was an all-around strong offensive team….that also made its pitching look good through great defense.
Not a “power-hitting” team? By what measure? Remember, they had the best OPS+ in the AL. Team slugging was .445, good for fourth in the league (behind Texas, Cleveland, and the White Sox — all playing in more hitter-friendly parks). Their ISO was lower but only because the team batting average was so high.
It’s clear the M’s front office operates on received wisdom and preconceived notions rather than looking at actual facts. According to the actual facts, the 2001 Mariners was a power-hitting team. According to the actual facts, the 2008 Mariners is not a good defensive team.
Insisting the team is somehow intrinsically different than what its performance on the field demonstrates is just insanity. You can insist your Yugo is actually a Ferrari but that doesn’t make it so, and people just laugh at you (while driving rings around you in competition). Sure, it might have a couple of Ferrari parts (hello
Felix). But the Yugo parts aren’t going to magically turn into Ferrari parts if they just want it enough or try harder or you think they’re better parts than every measure indicates. You know how you make that Yugo into a Ferrari? Replace each of the Yugo parts with the equivalent Ferrari part. When you’re done, you have a Ferrari.
(The good news is that on a baseball team, not every part has to be a Ferrari. The bad news is, the M’s have already traded away some of the better ones.)
25:
You watched him?? Gross.
Woooooo!!!
And, as Johnny Cash once said, “one piece at a time”.
Oh, wait…he had a Caddy.
And on this Felix Day, Richie Sexson in his first AB as a Yankee, has an RBI single.
well, they said he was ‘killing lefties’ on BBTN, so it must be true.
Yeah, LoHud writer Peter Abraham is waxing ecstatic on behalf of all Yankee fans over Richie’s SINGLE in the 1st inning. A line drive to CF. There were 2 runners on base. One crossed HP, score tied 1-1.
More in line with the Richie we know, he K’d in the 3rd.
Right after his K, Cano hit a 2 RBI HR. Wrong Masher!
Look at the lineup today – Riggleman’s not even giving Felix a chance.
51 Ichiro RF
16 Willie Bloomquist CF
28 Raul Ibanez LF
29 Adrian Beltre 3B
4 Jose Lopez 2B
13 Miguel Cairo 1B
2 Kenji Johjima DH
15 Jamie Burke C
5 Yuniesky Betancourt SS
re: 45….
God, that’s just depressing to look at.