Game 72, Padres at Mariners
Mike Snow · June 25, 2009 at 1:43 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Betancourt to the DL, Lopez is back to take his spot on the roster. Washburn v. LeBlanc, 1:40.
RF-L Ichiro
1B-L Branyan
3B-R Beltre
DH-R Sweeney
2B-R Lopez
CF-R Gutierrez
C-R Johnson
SS-R Cedeno
LF-R Balentien
So, Balentien ninth? Maybe he hasn’t exactly been tearing the cover off the ball, but he’s at least hit better than Johnson (I’m looking forward to having Johjima back), to say nothing of Cedeno. I remember Betancourt was saying he couldn’t fix his approach because he had to bat in front of Ichiro, maybe Cedeno has a similar issue? It doesn’t make any sense to me, but that’s selfish Ichiro for you. If only things were that simple.
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Well heck, I’ll take four hits.
Well, I guess AA gets the day off after all.
So based on the first inning in Washington — I don’t know what question Boston was asking, but Smotlz does not appear to be the answer.
I’m guessing the question was “How can we make the Nationals look like a Major League squad?”
Wow! What a major league short stop play by Cedeno! Who’s that guy that got hurt yesterday again?
Wow, 9 runs. Shoulda saved a few of those for the Dodgers…
Wow, great play Cedeno. I am suprised nobody has crashed in to him yet.
Someone in the Tigers front office is thinking, “we knew he’d pitch like that in the AL, which is why we made that deal in 1987.”
Wlad is playing with a hyperextended elbow that causes him visible, excruciating pain on check swings.
In his last six games (17 AB’s), however, he has posted a .918 OPS, with a .529 SLG. (ESPN)
Hey the Mariners are starting to score more runs, hopefully Lopey can get hot again and the M’s can have a good road trip.
FWIW, at the start of the year, Johnson had a week in between starts to sit down, do all that networking/chatting, while Joh was actually catching
Small sample size.
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Has anyone else noticed the sudden influx of people spouting catcher ERA on baker’s blog as a way to say Johnson should remain the starter even after Johjima is activated?
“I wonder who the FSN engineer is … when Dave gets over to radio, it would of course be Producer/Engineer Kevin Cremin”
Or as Rick Rizzs would say: “Hey, Wires!”
I don’t know about Baker’s blog (I never read the comments over there) but when I was at Safeco the other day I noticed whenever Johnson was at the plate his “player’s card” (on the big video screen) showed his catcher ERA rather than any of his actual hitting stats. Has that particular horse been riden by one of the radio blow-hards?
FWIW, at the start of the year, Johnson had a week in between starts to sit down, do all that networking/chatting, while Joh was actually catching
Small sample size.
FWIW, how large does this sample have to be in order not to be called “small sample size”? (We’re talking about two months.)
I don’t get people’s fascination with Johnson. Why people are resorting to something as esoteric as CERA when its essentially meaningless is beyond me. Unless there’s some resentment towards Johjima (which I could understand, given his new contract and his lack of results), but to pull CERA out like its definitive proof is hilarious.
I’d have a lot more respect for the guy who comes out and says that over some random usage of CERA.
That’s because is offensive stats are so horrible and he makes Kenji look like an offensive juggernaut. Speaking of Kenji, he’s back tomorrow, maybe he can help bolster the bottom of the lineup which has been a bit of a black hole.
Based on his comments when he was hitting ninth, Yuni should have credited Rob Johnson for his offensive surge before his injury, since Johnson bats as well as most NL pitchers.
KJR’s midday show started the ball rolling and it was picked up by the morning show, and not long after even Pitman on the official postgame show was shining the CERA trophy.
When it was brought up to Baker on his weekly KJR visit, he did point out that CERA (like ERA) wasn’t the greatest stat, and that Joh had Silva weighing down his numbers … but then went on to say that Johnson must be doing something right, the way the pitchers have been pitching …
Stats are like clothing or music, IMHO. I remember CERA coming up years ago and it seemed kinda cool at the time (like parachute pants or Flock of Seagulls), but then was mostly dismissed by the analytical community as worthless (at least those that I read and/or talked to).
Mainstream sports media is like those third world countries where those things get popular 10 years after they’re ditched here.
That’s true. If batting in front of Ichiro makes hitting hard, as Yuni claimed, then batting in front of Johnson (or Cedeno, recently) had to make it very, very easy.