Jack Wilson out with fractured finger
For those of you just hearing about Shawn Kelley’s upcoming surgery, I have even more good news. SS Jack Wilson slipped in the bathroom and fractured a finger; the M’s will sit him until they learn the extent of the injury. He’s set to see a hand specialist tomorrow.
For now, we’ll see a lot of Josh Wilson. Chris Woodward, make sure your phone is charged.
Wilson’s pained pinky could conceivably end his 2010 season – a season which saw his batting eye/contact rate tumble, his UZR tip below zero and saw his wOBA plummet to Ronny Cedeno levels. His acquisition was always something of a gamble, and unfortunately for everyone, the house won this one. At this point, Wilson’s in a real fight to hang on in MLB. I wish him the best of luck…somewhere else.
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The bathroom fall strikes again… could we call this Griffey’s curse?
If Woodward gets called up, could we see Triunfel promoted? Has he shown enough in AA after his injury last year?
What a year we’ve had– unbelievable. It seems my preseason expectations were so far off, and over inflated, these guys can’t even live up to how well I thought they would perform in the bathroom.
(During the Yankees/Red Sox game yesterday, they broke coverage to update scores, and almost giggled when they reported the Mariners score and mentioned “some people at the beginning of the year had these guys winning the West”– not a direct quote, but it was something to that effect).
Ummm…he’s still signed through next year.
I like it, if Jack send him to Tacoma, what are the possibily that Triunfel debut in the M´s in 2011??
And just to rub salt in our wounds, Brandon Morrow throws a complete game, 17 strikeout, 1 hitter against Rays today. Deep breaths, relax.
Fractured his finger in the bathroom? Wow…this teams even shitty at shitting!
The thought of the paperboy and Woodward as our shortstops makes me want to bang my head against something hard.
Jack W. is so fragile… maybe he needs to be taking calcium supplements?
every time we get any news about jack wilson, or anytime morrow pitchers, i start slowly losing faith in jack, hopefully theres light at the end of the tunnel, but its startin to dim
Why is it that Morrow has one good game and suddenly trading him was a bust? He still is inconsistent and has a high ERA and WHIP.
It was a bad deal then and is a bad deal now. Handle Morrow properly and he has way more value to you than a good 7th/8th inning reliever. It’s quite simple, they completely screwed up with Morrow.
@ DC
ding ding ding, thats hitting the nail on the head, the mariners handled it bad from the start, right up until the bad ending
Morrow has had several good games this season. He’s really starting to come into his own as a starter. League for Morrow was NOT a good deal. Jack didn’t do well on that trade. You can’t win em all.
While I agree I hated to see Morrow go for fear he would finally tap out his potential as a starter… don’t forget this was NOT a one-for-one trade.
Johermyn Chavez is hitting .310 with 27 HR and a .955 OPS at High Desert, and he’s still only 20 years old.
Not to mention that I still believe League will fetch us value in trade either this month or in the offseason.
It might be awhile until we can accurately asess this trade.
Re: Morrow – not all pitchers with no-hitters or near-no-hitters are necessarily special. Sometimes they just have a really good night. Wait another season or two to judge the body of Morrow’s work as a starter.
Re: Wilson:
I’ve been doing that since about early May. Freak accident, but still, his overall fragility was going to catch up with him sooner or later. He looked good on paper, and seemed to be made of it too. Nice guy, tried hard, very occasional flashes of defensive brilliance, just not worth it overall. Meh.
When he plays, he plays hard. I wish it would work for him here.
Right on Chris – you hit it on the head. He was a bit past his prime when he got here and he never has been able to get on a positive roll.
He does play hard (always did) and has very quick hands, but he just doesn’t play to a level that makes a difference any longer. With limited (or perhaps zero) trade value and a $5M price tag, he isn’t likely to go anywhere unless he decides to retire (which apparently he has considered in the recent past). I doubt he would want to go out on this kind of note though.
I’m not saying that this is what happened, however, I have heard that Jack Wilson broke his 5th bone in his hand.
The most common way you break that particular bone is by punching a wall, or something else very hard.
He was trying to pound some sense into Figgy, but the guy’s head is just too thick…
Morrow had starts almost to this level as a Mariner too (maybe not 17Ks but lots of innings few hits.) Z botched that trade, and he botched Morrow by putting him in the bullpen. It was a bad trade then, it’s a bad trade now.
The M’s are good at screwing themselves in search of relief pitching. They should never be allowed to trade for relievers again…
What is it about professional athletes that makes them completely uncoordinated outside of their job?
I am as far from an athletic person as you could find, and yet, having taken countless sojourns into my bathroom, never once did it result in a trip to the hospital.
And by “he”, I’m guessing you mean Bill Bavasi…if you are trying to be accurate that is…
I was at the Jays game yesterday and Morrow was dealing. I have never seen anything like that before. Bill James’ Game Score ranks his performance as the fourth-best since 1920.
If only Hill could have made the play.
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I’m wondering why a post on Jack Wilson’s injury devolved into a bunch of replies about Morrow?
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BTW, Chris Woodward has been called up from Tacoma.
But 17 K’s is special. M’s gave up on him too soon. Would have been nice insurance to replace struggling Hyphen and it seems Fister is getting figured out by the league. Imagine Felix, Vargas, Morrow, Fister, Pineda next year. If Jack thought League was a piece he needed to go for it this year then fine but the fact that he thought the rest of the offense was enough to make the playoffs before the season started is a joke.
Morrow this year: 127 1/3 IP, 3.69 xFIP, +3.1 WAR to-date, which is higher than any Mariner (pitcher or hitter) this year not named Felix (or Cliff, if you want to count recently traded M’s).
I think the reason Morrow comes up in discussing a Jack Wilson post is that the two of them are shaping up to be two of the top five negative moves for Zduriencik.
For my part, I think both moves highlight different problems in the M’s org. Wilson highlights just how bereft of talent the M’s are at the premium defensive positions. When Zduriencik took over, they had zero MLB-ready guys up the middle (C-SS-CF) and it took a miracle trade to get even one position filled with an average or better guy. Two offseasons later, the M’s still only have Guti. Maybe Adam Moore will step up at C, but it’s very hard to fill those positions and the lack of production from C and SS continues to be a boat anchor on the M’s.
Morrow highlights something just flat busted in how the M’s handle guys. Not just how he was jerked around, but League on the other side of the trade too – what happened to “the best pitch in baseball” after he showed up in the M’s clubhouse? Felix’s overuse of the fastball, Lopez and Betancourt wasting their talent, a string of prospects with decent talent flaming out, the M’s have had serious flaws in how they coach guys.
Zduriencik needs to improve the talent both on and off the field.
At this point, Wilson’s in a real fight to hang on in MLB. I wish him the best of luck…somewhere else.
I think we’re going to have to wish him luck here, because the only way I see Wilson leaving is a white elephant deal. At this point, given that the 2011 season is likely going to be a throwaway one anyway, I’d rather we just eat contracts if it comes down to it, and see if guys like Wilson and Bradley have any comeback potential, rather than deal for crap from other teams.
I think the reason Morrow comes up in discussing a Jack Wilson post is that the two of them are shaping up to be two of the top five negative moves for Zduriencik.
Yeah, and they are arguably the ones that the local sabremetric community was most “meh” about.
Two offseasons later, the M’s still only have Guti. Maybe Adam Moore will step up at C, but it’s very hard to fill those positions and the lack of production from C and SS continues to be a boat anchor on the M’s.
Yeah, and the organization’s love affair with Rob Johnson’s pitch calling (and ignoring his sucking at pretty much every other aspect of the game) didn’t help, either.
We can only hope that Jack the Hack pulls a “Johjima”, and retires.
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Apparently a SS isn’t the only AAA callup. Yikes.
Brown couldn’t do any worse than Wakamatsu has, its zero-risk, Brown gets a chance to show if he can manage in the show, if he does well, maybe he gets a shot to start next season, if he doesn’t, oh well, we lose a few extra games in a 100 loss season.
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As you might learn from what gets moderated, creativity is encouraged if you need to make something on-topic. See JMHawkins’s comment.