Agreed. The rumor mill says the Phils are desperate to move him. Well, they must not want to get rid of him that badly if they expect a package like that in return.
so take the m's out of it and look up every other team's offensive stats when hitting at tmobile. it will be in their top 5 every year for worst offensive production. it's objective fact. there's nothing to agree or disagree with.I agree 100%, but I also believe having the worst hitting team in the world playing there 81 games a year has a lot to do with the park factor stats.
I do think you are downplaying the park just a bit. There is an acknowledged problem with the park for hitters. But a problem the Mariners have had is not only identifying the type of hitter who can thrive, but also they keep getting (it appears) mental midgets (couldn’t think of a better word sorry). You can tell by how much distain for the park a lot of these players who leave have, is in their heads they weren’t only facing the pitcher but also the park. They need to find guys who can have a slump to start the season and instead of playing the park they blame themselves. More clones of Kyle Seager, where he always seemingly struggled in April and May then tore it up the rest of the year.
i listened to him. the only way we even got robinson cano to come here was to give him an offer no other team would dream of matching since the steroid era was coming to an end the year his NY contract ended and safeco is safeco. same with beltre, who by the way, went from going through motions here after trying hard for half a season and realizing it was feckless in a steroid-era ballpark. dude rode out the rest of his fat contract just going through the motions and his stats shot straight through the roof when left. hell, unless you're a vapid moron, you have to understand that fucking mitch garver only came here because we offered him at least 30% more than any other team would to a guy who had been part-time player for half a decade. argue against that all you want. it's an opinion for sure, but i'm not interested in arguing with vapid fools about it, so jerk yourselves off and enjoy.
I have always argued that we did not overpay for the players you mentioned. It was the cost of doing business for Seattle. You are exactly right that we won't get them for standard market price. We have our own market price and it is what it is. Not an overpay, just the cost of bringing someone to the edge of the baseball world.
They do need a change in hitting philosophy to go along with getting some damn hitters. The launch angle bullshit needs to be revamped with this team.
They're floating him out there hoping someone over spends but they'll be fine if he's still on the team.
