So Ron Fairly and the broadcast crew have to be careful of what they say about Nageotte because they’re afraid the other team has the game on in the dugout and will use that information, as if the Blue Jays didn’t think to pull their scouting on him coming into this series, particularly since as trade bait they’ve scouted everyone in Tacoma most likely —
ahhh, Niehaus has torn into him for it. Fairly’s defense “Well, sure, but until you’ve seen it–”
Soooooooooooo your information isn’t valuable at all.
CLIIIIINNNNTTTTT
How long before the stadium music idiots play some Clint Eastwood-associated music (Good, Bad, Ugly with the whistling probably)?
Oh, hey, time to check in on some guys:
Greg Colbrunn, traded straight up for QMcC: injured and ineffective.
Ben Davis, in Tacoma, 56 at-bats… .214/.290/.268 and being out hit by Wiki Gonzalez. That’s got to be embarassing.
Oh, Halladay got scratched after he “experienced discomfort” in his throwing shoulder before the game.
“Anonymous Pissed Off M’s Fan” writes:
My case that Bob Melvin is ruining Gil Meche.
IP for Meche:
1999: 85
2000: 85
2001: none (injured)
2002: 65 (AA)
2003: 186
Looking at Meche’s pitch counts from 2003, even after the September call-ups, he pitched two >100 pitch games (106 and 115), two sub-50 pitch games (where he was getting hit hard)… and he also started another game just three days after one of his poor (45 pitch, 1 inning) outings, where he ended up throwing 86 pitches.
Considering they had potential long relievers like Brian Sweeney on the roster, this sounds like pitcher abuse by the manager to me
Meche has also reported feeling tired after bullpen sessions this year, and yet he’s *still* been asked to pitch >100 in 4 of his 9 previous games this year.
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Thanks for the email, APOMF, whoever you may be.
Dave didn’t think Meche was ready last year, I’d hoped he was, but… man, wouldn’t it have been smart to treat the first guy to attempt to come back from a torn labrum with kid gloves? Severely limit his workload? Really play it safe?
Especially late last season, when Meche clearly started to run out of gas?
Bad news is Meche is looking crappy. Good news is that Clint may actually get into a game.
Small ball didn’t ignite
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Can anyone seriously argue that Winn wouldn’t have got on without Ichiro! at third, or that Edgar wouldn’t have hit a double without men on 1st/3rd?
I know that to some extent, every situation is unique and we can’t re-fill the cup to get a better reading of tea leaves, but this isn’t a case where Ichiro! scored from third on a short single and that was it for the inning — given the same pitches, we’d have seen the same events unravel, and there’s no reason Kershner’s changing his pitches based on these situations.
I’d like to point out too that Ron Fairly continually gets this wrong:
The “Butcher Boy” is when you show bunt and then chop the ball past the charging infielder.
Beating the ball straight down into the dirt and trying to get on base before anyone can field it on the bounce is the “Baltimore Chop”.
You can look it up.
Ichiro’s amazing May, which may (or may not) be deserving of an AL Player of the Month award: .400/.436/.496. Huzzah. And look, he just stole a base. Mmmm… speedy contact-hitting Ichiro, where were you in April?
On tonight’s broadcast: it cracks me up when junk stats are used to try and show some point or other. The Mariners are 5 of their last eight? HOLY MACKERAL IT’S ALL COMING TOGETHER!!!
What about their last ten. Oh, 5 for 10. That’s not nearly as impressive. And these stats about the Mariners hitting better in their wins? Well golly gee, if only they could hit that well all the time. I’m going to go out here on a limb:
Teams that score more runs than their opponents win games.
I know, you’re going to tell me the stats don’t support this, but how about this season: every game the Mariners have outscored their opponents — be it through good pitching, hitting, or just holding on through a slugfest — they’ve won. Every game.
New GM Watch
June 1st edition
a brief comparison of GMs in their freshman year at the helm of their teams
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Dan O’Brien, Reds, 30-21, .588 [last year .426]
Paul DePodesta, Dodgers, 27-22, .551 [last year .525]
Bill Bavasi, Mariners, 19-31, .380 [last year .574]