Comments on: Lincecum Lincecum Lincecum

By: pgreyy

pgreyy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:40:27 +0000

Ryan Franklin > American League

Who knew?

By: jefffrane

jefffrane — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:39:52 +0000

That’s Ryan Franklin?!!

By: Steve T

Steve T — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:30:50 +0000

You know, if we’d taken Manny Ramirez in 1991 instead of Shawn Estes, we’d've been better. Or Rafael Palmeiro instead of Mike Campbell in ’85. Or Todd Helton in ’95 instead of Jose Cruz? Whew. That would have been awesome. Or Jason Varitek in ’94 — oh, wait, we did draft Varitek. But we traded him and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb, so hey, that worked out great.

By: pgreyy

pgreyy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:59:03 +0000

Ichiro > Lincecum

(A bit of a small sample size, I admit.)

By: pgreyy

pgreyy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:28:12 +0000

I still say that it’s amazing how much Lincecum looks like Mitch Kramer (as played by Wiley Wiggins in “Dazed & Confused”.)

Oh…and how thrilling and bizarre is it to see Ichiro!, King Felix, Wak, Rauuuuuuuuuul, AJ and Ryan Franklin all in the same All-Star game?

By: Marinerz51

Marinerz51 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:18:11 +0000

I am counting down the days till Lincecum becomes a FA. We should be able to get him at a home town discount. No? Well that is if he doesn’t hold a grudge against us passing him up. Those commercials that they show with Lincecum and his dad, where he is wearing his Mariners hat just make me more and more depressed that we passed on him. Maybe he is still a Mariners fan deep down inside.

There that is my Lincecum rant for the month.

By: et_blankenship

et_blankenship — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:41:26 +0000

My entry in the Dave’s Top 5 office pool:

1 Longoria
2 Upton
3 Lincecum
4 Mauer
5 Pujols

Mauer is the wildcard. Pujols over Hanley because . . . well, just because.

By: joser

joser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:22:55 +0000

Dave’s criteria:

Essentially, the idea is to take all the information that goes into encapsulating a playerâ€™s value to an organization – his present skills, his future potential, how long heâ€™s under club control, the expected cost of paying him over that time, and the risks involved with projecting his future performances – and figure out which players currently have the most trade value in baseball. The #1 guy wouldnâ€™t get traded, straight up, for any other player in baseball. The #10 guy is someone who his organization would call untouchable, but if one of the nine guys above him was made available, theyâ€™d rethink that stance. You get the idea.

Also: no fatties. (Per the comment uproar over Kung Fu Panda)

Does that mean we can have a one-day (rational) Timmay v. Felix discussion?

Could we, in theory? Yes.
Will we, in practice? Unclear.

By: joser

joser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:19:19 +0000

Am I right in remembering that the Ms havenâ€™t even faced Lincecum in ST? I am looking forward to the first pitch vs Ichiro.

Lincecum didn't face the Mariners during Spring Training, but he did face Team Japan.

Lincecum retired Ichiro Suzuki to lead off the top of the first, but the next hitter, Hiroyuki Nakajima followed with a single to center field. The Giants ace recovered to strike out Norichika Aoki and Atsunori Inaba to end the inning. ... Ichiro walked to lead off the third inning, and Lincecum struck out the next hitter, Nakajima, for his fifth strikeout of the game. After Ichiro stole second, Lincecum walked Aoki and was replaced by Jesse English.

By: CCW

CCW — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:17:10 +0000

No. Position players are more valuable than pitchers.

I think you’re wrong, as the question had to do with the post-season, where it’s a completely different calculus because of all the days off. A #1 starter that during the regular season would pitch 20% of his team’s innings could easily pitch 35% of his team’s innings in a 7-game series.