Game 143, Royals at Mariners
Looks like no thread went up for last night’s exciting Furbush vs. Williams pitching match-up/Liddi’s debut. Whoops.
Hochevar vs. Vargas
The 2005 draft gets a lot of press for being that time when everything went right for everyone but the Mariners and the Cubs (Mark Pawelek!) and valuable players were had by most. People don’t talk about the ’06 draft in the same way, for a number of reasons. Hochevar was supposed to set an uncomfortable precedent by going back to the independent leagues instead of signing with the Dodgers and then pitching himself into first overall. To date, Brandon Morrow accumulated more WAR as a Mariner than Hochevar has over nearly six hundred innings with the Royals.
Greg Reynolds, who went second to the Rockies, was a polished pitcher with good stuff who was thought to be able to move quickly because he had great command of his heater and solid secondary offerings. To date, he’s logged fewer than a hundred innings in the majors and has had a negative WAR. Brad Lincoln, another top five prospect who was regarded as near major league ready, went to the Pirates and had an oblique injury and TJ postpone his debut until June of last season. His positive contibutions this year haven’t yet negated the negative ones from the previous season, and he’s struggling to strike batters out at a reasonable clip. And who could forget that Andrew Miller, the top ranked prospect by most, dropped to the Tigers due to his demands, was traded twice, and now has parts of six seasons in the majors where at no time has he been a positive contributor. Also the Orioles drafted Billy Rowell. This guy.
Morrow was picked over the local guy who went on to make good. In a sense, even if he had done well for us, he probably would have always been regarded as getting in the way of a more obvious pick. But for all his struggles here, he turned out way better than a lot of the guys selected early in that draft.
RF Ichiro!
SS Ryan
2B Ackley
LF Carp
1B Smoak
DH Kennedy
3B Seager
CF Robinson
C Jimenez
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Kennedy? Really?
No Olivo, at least.
Among certainties in life: death, taxes, and a gritty veteran’s playing time.
Damn it Wedge. Stop making dumbass decisions.
I don’t know about you,but I just can’t get enough of Adam Kennedy playing.
I’m interesting in Robinson playing CF the rest of the way. Obviously the arm strength is below average but he’s also looked very tentative out there. I’m assuming it’s just a mental thing and more experience will fix that.
Kansas City at Seattle on a weekday. I have a feeling tonight will be one of the least attended games this year.
Mike Carp may have surprised us by turning out to be a major league hitter, but he’s still not an outfielder.
Kennedy succeeds to spite us.
Makes up for it be screwing up with Carp on 2nd.
Carp needs to realize that by hitting a lead-off double he is just going to have to hang out by himself for 3 hitters.
Should have stopped at first to at least have a coach to talk to.
8 strikeouts for the M’s through end of the 5th.
Robinson needs to work on catching and throwing and strengthening his arm. The ability to run around out there is only one part of being an outfielder.
Watching Seattle M’s baseball is a little like watching your nephew’s pee wee football team.
The score doesn’t matter, you want it to end because you’ve got better things to do, and you hope that no one gets hurt.
At no point did this dawn on Randy Winn.
Ack, that’s who he reminds me of! I couldn’t put my finger on it!
Although those big yakker tosses he calls throws in remind me a lot of Ibanez.
GM henryv: Knock knock.
Adam Kennedy: Who’s there.
GM v: Not you anymore.
Man, I absolutely HATE those Sound Transit screen bumps.
Way to go Royals!
The old lady ones?
Those are freaking horrible.
I’d rather hear the “We come again…” song.
Mike Carp has played in 3 major league seasons.
He still gets an M’s logo as his MLB picture.
I think it may just be an ugly guy thing.
Yeah, sorry, I didn’t realize I was about 3 minutes behind “live” there. By the time I said that, you guys had forgotten about the abomination that was still at the bottom of my screen.
Wilhelmsen will be a starter next year, his stuff is pretty good right now…
Oh, hey – Ex-Mariner Carl Everett’s in the news again.
Trading for Milton Bradley showed the M’s aren’t blessed with much institutional memory.
Our rotation will be something like:
Felix
Vargas
Pineda
Wilhelmsen
Paxton/Beavan
And I´m not sure we can give 5 millions to Vargas…
Hultzen in June maybe…
60th win!
Two more wins… let’s see them sweep the Royals and guarantee no triple digit in losses this season!
Does anyone look more like a big kid straight out of farm country than Justin Smoak?
Carl Everett was signed as a free agent, i.e., a totally advertent act. Milton Bradley was traded for Carlos Silva, an attempt to roll the dice on one team’s damaged goods in exchange for our own. It didn’t work out, but it’s not like Zduriencik had just signed the guy off the street.
I know, I know… it was mainly that I’d forgotten we ever had Everett, but as soon as I saw that story I remembered that M.B. wasn’t our first crazy dude with anger management issues.