Series Thread: Rays vs M's - May 9th - 11th

[NWinAZ]

I don't think he will be ruined. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders and can find confidence. Confidence is the only thing he is missing with his game. He's got the power to use all fields but once he confidence went he quit going up the middle and to right, just tried pulling everything which IMO led to alot more strikeouts than he has shown throughout his life in baseball.

I hear what you are saying, but confidence is one of the hardest things to fix. You can fix a guys hands, or a loop in his swing, but confidence comes from within and some never recover from that loss. Here is hoping he is different.

 

[wazzu31]

I hear what you are saying, but confidence is one of the hardest things to fix. You can fix a guys hands, or a loop in his swing, but confidence comes from within and some never recover from that loss. Here is hoping he is different.

Not totally disagreeing but confidence is much easier when a guy has a good head on his shoulders. There has been plenty of guys who's confidence was shot worse than Zunino's and have gone on to solid careers. Shin Soo Choo and Adam Jones just off the top of my head. Both came up with the Mariners too soon, sucked, went back to Tacoma and sucked more because their confidence was shot. Jones got his confidence back in the offseason and had a historical season with the Rainiers, played decent in his call-up than was dealt. Choo came down with horrible confidence and was dealt since he still had some value (though the whole Ichiro not holding the team hostage had a lot to do with Choo IMO)

 

[blstoker]

Zunino is an MLB ready defensive catcher, but he wasn't ready offensively. I look at our catchers at the time, and wonder why we weren't letting the veterans play instead of forcing Zunino in the line up. I know there wasn't much success offensively, but there doesn't really appear to be any indication that Z was ready offensively and his numbers weren't any better than the others.

Kelly Shopach, Henry Blanco, Humberto Quintero and Jason Jaramillo all had experience at the MLB level in 2013, and yet Zunino catches 52 of 60 games that's he's on the active 25 man roster. That's just a start to Z playing in 84% of the M's games before he got sent down last August. Not only was he struggling - he was over used while struggling.

I am so glad the old regime is gone.

 

[Anointed One]

It's amazing how little people understand what teams look for/hope for from a catcher.

Zunino isn't anything approaching a liability when it comes to passed balls and wild pitches. Just silly. .

Was this in reference to me? Did I say he was a liability? I definitely understand what teams look for at the position...

I firmly believe he's going to be a very good catcher for the Mariners... I wouldn't be surprised if he proves to be one of our best catchers... He's got so much potential... Zunino has the right mentality to get over what happened last year... I think the way he's responding in AAA is a great sign for things to come...