Game 132, Rangers at Mariners
King Felix vs. Martin Perez, 12:40pm
Happy Felix Day. It’s a bit more subdued even than recent understated Felix Days thanks to this losing streak, and thanks to the fact that the M’s lost a game on a crucial late-inning, go-ahead balk. Maybe I should be happy that the M’s are changing things up, and that I’d be even more bored if it was just a line drive single that scored Kinsler. But I don’t feel that way at all – I feel that baseball is trolling me. On the internet, the maxim “Don’t feed the troll” is great advice. But this is what we do here – we discuss, analyze, hope, worry, get swept up in baseball. I don’t have the option not to feed the troll. As I feel like I’ve said dozens of times this year, at least there’s Felix.
1: Miller, SS
2: Franklin, 2B
3: Seager, 3B
4: Morales, DH
5: Ibanez, LF
6: Smoak, 1B
7: Saunders, RF
8: Ackley, CF
9: Blanco, C
SP: El Rey
After a few days off, Raul Ibanez returns to his usual LF spot, and I’m oddly glad. I think at this point that Raul may actually be the superior defensive option in LF over Morse. Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2013 Seattle Mariners.
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So we are stuck with Z. I can think of worse GMs. What we can change is the manager. I heard Scoscia might be out in Anaheim….anyone think he would be excellent here?
Manny Acta.
One thing that I DO think is Z’s fault is this whole business with the 40-man moves so close to the September call-ups.
If he hadn’t DFA’d Harang, we wouldn’t have needed someone for Friday…and if we hadn’t needed someone on Friday, we wouldn’t have to drop someone from the 40 man roster just before the September call-ups.
Seems messy and done without much thinking ahead.
Just need a Junior and Edgar to materialize.
You’re saying we need HOF-caliber players? That’s fairly self-evident that HOF-caliber players make for good teams.
“So we are stuck with Z.”
If the 2014 extension has already happened as rumored the M’s could conceivably fire Z and eat that last year. Depends on how much the top brass feels about the future.
hindsight such a wonderful thing
I remember Edgar as a 27 year old who Lou wouldn’t give a full-time job to. His only skills seemed to be that he hit a lot of line drives and he walked. Certainly didn’t play very good defence and was questionable whether he would ever hit for much power, and he was slow like Morales slow.
Going forward I think we do have some players that have HOF type potential but except for Trout not easy projecting forward – thinking Zunino, Felix, Walker, maybe Ackley (I’m smitten again with the Ackley I have seen the last 3-4 weeks).
Again if I was a new GM and handed this team I would think I had a foundation that was pretty exciting. The measure would be what I could make of it in the coming 3 years.
Can’t wait for next year’s draft when the M’s will target a toolsy outfielder only to have him drafted one spot ahead of them. Then drafting a player that plays a position that is locked up for the next 8-10 years.
Did we fire Bob Melvin? He’s good.
I remember Edgar as a 27 year old who Lou wouldn’t give a full-time job to. His only skills seemed to be that he hit a lot of line drives and he walked. Certainly didn’t play very good defence and was questionable whether he would ever hit for much power, and he was slow like Morales slow.
I think you’re thinking of Jim Lefebvre- who also didn’t do Jay Buhner’s career any favors. By the time Lou Piniella was the skipper in ’93, Edgar was a 30-year-old who had won the AL batting title in 1992.
And when he was in his mid-20s, Edgar could run fairly well. Leg injuries started to creep up on him right around the same time he became a perennial threat to hit .300 in the major leagues.
I think Wedge is gone. He knows it. The players know it.
Maybe. They sure as hell aren’t playing inspired baseball with him back.
But I’ll bet every dollar I’ve got in my wallet that until he’s gone, Wedge is gonna John Wayne this managerial stint…his way, he’s the boss until the org says different.
To be fair, I think that’s what a manager should do.
“Can’t wait for next year’s draft when the M’s will target a toolsy outfielder only to have him drafted one spot ahead of them.”
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Julio Morban, James Jones, Jabari Blash, Gabriel Guerrero, and Austin Wilson say hello.
Ms won 4 innings and Rangers won 4 innings; and, all our numbers were pretty and straight, and, the Ranger numbers were all crooked.
kcw
Too bad baseball isn’t match play.
Ivan,
How many years do we have to wait for any of those players to crack the 25-man roster? 2? 3? 5?