Morrow is talented enough, even with all the walks, to be quite valuable to the M’s right now. It’s pretty rare you have a guy who could stand to benefit so much from time in the minors who is also good enough to be a substantial benefit to the major league club.

The thing is that at this point, Morrow’s closer to being Matt Thornton or David Aardsma (a relief pitcher who flailed around in the majors for a while until they figured out where their pitches) than Randy Johnson, or even JJ Putz (both of whom spent years starting in the minors). That’s a huge waste of a first round draft pick.

Morrow pitching that Yankee game might have been the worst thing for his career, in hindsight- now everyone expects that as his talent level.

3) Morrow is talented enough, even with all the walks, to be quite valuable to the M’s right now. It’s pretty rare you have a guy who could stand to benefit so much from time in the minors who is also good enough to be a substantial benefit to the major league club.

He wouldn’t be the first wild pitcher to stick in the majors due to K rate. Randy was pretty wild when the M’s picked him up. Morrow has already shown he can overcome adversity, that is a big step. Whether he has stamina is a big question though.

Maybe they want to do the whole enter the minors after a good start but that’s just stupid… He has the pitches he never throws them and leaving him in the ML only makes him trust his fastball even more.

You must have watched a different game than I did. Talented, yes, but until he figures out where the ball is going, he’s likely to provide below replacement level outcomes.

I bet they could sell even more memorabilia if they put Edgar and Wilson in the lineup…

If nothing else, I could wear my 11 jersey and my wife could wear her 6 to games again…

I thought in March when he was made the closer something smelled fishy. And I understand the diabetes excuse, and it is a good one. It is life and death which is way beyond baseball. And if he says that I have to trust him. But also in my mind I think of Adam Morrison and Jay Cutler in other sports who have the same kind of diabetes but live full normal lives in there sports. Nothing against Morrow or pitchers, but I personally think Cutler’s job is way more physically demanding, but his diabetes isn’t an issue. So why should Morrow’s? That all being said I still have to take his word for it. Like I said this is beyond baseball. It is life and death.

But then he was going to Tacoma to be a starter. That was the highlight of my week last week, because he was becoming a starter, and I sniffed it out before they announced it when he started throwing 3 innings of relief. When he started pitching from the wind up. His interview with Gas about a month ago where he said he really missed starting.

But now I feel like with the start in Colorado and now San Diego they are treating him like an innings eater and a disposable arm. Like you would treat Jakubauskas, Vargas, Batista, not a #1 draft pick (no matter how windy his rout to become a starter has been.)

I sure hope they don’t screw up his arm!!!

First off, Everett, Boone, etc. didn’t lose their jobs until a bit later in the year.

Secondly- I bet they could sell even more memorabilia if they put Edgar and Wilson in the lineup…

they’re keeping a 39 year old DH who can’t hit on a non-contending team because it will help the team develop in 2010?

No, they’re keeping the fan-favorite certain-Hall-of-Famer in the lineup because that’s what most fans want to see, judging from the sales of everything in the Team Stores they can slap a “24″ on. Boone, Everett, Vidro, they are many things, but what they are not is the man who “saved baseball in Seattle” and “built Safeco Field”. Conventional, nor even new-school, logic does not apply.