Series Thread: M's Homestand: August 2nd to August 11th

[ulmax]

Most people ..just dump.
Worse.hitting players.
Down in 7,8,and 9..
But there. .is .
Use s...for those positions.

Base stealers is one

 

[ulmax]

Truthfully Garver should have been DFA'd

They. Won't.cuz..he was a free agent ..
That they paid 25 mil .

 

[ulmax]

They may move raley..into..#6 if the pitcher changes.
Oops meant #5..garvers spot..
Traditionally..

A left handers spot anyway..
Usually..1b..
#6..is a RF. Spot from .way back.
Lololo

 

[ulmax]

If mariners go..

1.Robles..cf
2.Arosarena..LF.

3.raliegh.. not the best spot for 215 hitter.
It's a production spot.
And may hamper hitting

4Turner....1b..
5Raley ....dh.left
6 haniger..rf
7 Rojas..3b..raliegh.should be here.

Maybe why..the lineup..seems dis functional..at times..

 

[ulmax]

My argument..is. Raleigh.will.hit.
3o..hrs yeah ..

But the 215...will prevent as maney. ..
In as many games..
As a 3rd hitter..

Your 3rd hitter needs to hit high ave .and hrs as well...

Maybe Edgar..or junior...

Then bone in hanigers spot.

 

[ulmax]

It lets a bit of pressure..off the pitcher..
When ..
Odds are .Raleigh .will strike out...

.and gives the other.
Team.
An advantage ..
Maybe why .
They been..loseing..
Who knows..

 

[ulmax]

So..apposing pitchers go threw the
mariners

Like crap threw a goose ..

Laughing all the way ...to baseball.
Nirvana..

 

[ulmax]

Nothing like ..a pressure relief .valve.

Unless you are a mariners fan..

Yeah then it...

Sucks..

 

[ulmax]

So...
Still think .they will ..
Go playoffs ..

Yeah .
Good luck .with that..

 

[cezero]

home plate ump giving quintana 6 inches outside for strikes to righties. robles already went after one for strike 3. 2 K's in the first, and another 10+ K night for the m's i'll bet.

 

[NWinAZ]

home plate ump giving quintana 6 inches outside for strikes to righties. robles already went after one for strike 3. 2 K's in the first, and another 10+ K night for the m's i'll bet.

Time to crowd the plate

 

[Lineman16]

Hey Scott, He's batting like .170 probably not the 5 hole hitter you want to drive in runs

 

[NWinAZ]

Hey Scott, He's batting like .170 probably not the 5 hole hitter you want to drive in runs

But he is due to break out...

And his wife and Scott's wife do the puppy adoption thing for the M's...

 

[Msfann]

3-2 and he takes strike 3 looking against a pitcher that paints the corners. ugh swing the bat

 

[NWinAZ]

3-2 and he takes strike 3 looking against a pitcher that paints the corners. ugh swing the bat

Mitch 'The Statue' Garver

 

[Lineman16]

But he is due to break out...

And his wife and Scott's wife do the puppy adoption thing for the M's...

 

[Lineman16]

Boom!!

 

[NWinAZ]

Bliss is back!

Arozarena catches that ball if he is wearing a 1/4" necklace instead of his 1/2" one. Gold is heavy...

 

[wazzu31]

Mariner hitters rely too much on analytics. It's most certainly a fault of the hitters, but management has to take some heat for that as well if they are stressing the importance of analytics and pitch-type expectation at various points in the ball-strike count/# of outs /runners on base in an at-bat. It would be interesting to see how many called strikes they take in comparison to other teams, and then break it down further as called strikes on the five most commonly used pitches in the game: two-seam fastballs, four seam fastballs, sliders, curves, changeups...or, change one pitch out for a 'sweeper'. WTF??

For sure too much info can hurt a hitter. The best hitters have always gone up looking for one pitch and laying off everything else until there is two strikes. But now it just seems launch angle and exit velocity is how they teach. To me, the Mariners biggest offensive problem the past few years are their approach seems to be HR or nothing and they don’t change their approach when they are behind in the count…..basically all of the bad things with Julio. But if you look at why Robles has been so successful and even the Haniger walk off, they are just trying to get the bat on the ball.

Not sure, I’m sure there is some guy who comes up with it. But guarantee they are just like the devil Bill James.

 

[wazzu31]

See I thought they called Jeff Nelson's pitch a sweeper back in the day. Maybe it is just this old memory of mine.

Hmm, I know Dave made up names for stuff like Mr Snappy. But I don’t recall him saying sweeper, but even if he did I don’t think he was trying to rename a pitch.