Yankee$ 4, M's 3
Good game! Good game!
May 15, 2013
2
M's 6, A's 1
Being There Dept.
May 13, 2013
2
M's 3 ....
Umpires have no preferences whatsoever
May 11, 2013
5
.... A's 4
Maurer flashes the TOR talent
May 11, 2013
3
Iwakuma Has an XBox Cheat
A's 3 ...
May 10, 2013
6
Sizzlers and Fizzlers
... M's 6
May 10, 2013
6
M's 2....
Mike and Mike show
May 9, 2013
12
... Pirates 1
Toxic Precision, dept.
May 9, 2013
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Shoutbox
GLS: Paxton got lit up tonight, which is too bad. I feel like, if the guy could put five quality starts together, they'd bring him up. Drayer says Brad Miller is on his way to Tacoma, which means we'll have our top 4 position player prospects on the same team in Zunino, Franklin, Miller, and Romero. I have to believe Walker will be up (to Tacoma) pretty soon as well.6 hours 48 min ago
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phxterry: Never saw a play like that double play ball caught by their pitcher. You know your luck is running bad when calls like that go against you. Just weird.7 hours 53 min ago
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blissedj: Thanks for that G! More depth. We should have about 8-10 young guys fighting for the 3-5 spots next year. Hopefully no more Silva/Weaver/Bautista/Saunders/Millwood/Harang for us. Just cycle em through and see who sticks.9 hours 6 min ago
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Gordon Gross: I actually like Elias a lot. I remember when we got him his command and mechanics were supposed to be a problem, but I have NOT seen that. The Ms did good work with him down in A-ball to get him straight and he's learned quickly. His velo is fine for a lefty, and he's a smart pitcher. I don't like Cuban hitters but Cuban pitchers are an entirely different story. He's one I wanna keep around.9 hours 11 min ago
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malcontent: It makes me sad that Adrian Beltre will probably go into the Hall of Fame as a Ranger.9 hours 19 min ago
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blissedj: G are you an Elias fan? Don't recall your take on him. Nice year in Cal league, good so far this year as well.9 hours 21 min ago
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Gordon Gross: No argument, blissed - we definitely wait with starters. Which is funny because we throw relievers at the bigs like they're logs for the fire. Maurer got the surprise bump this year, and Pineda got it a couple years ago, but for the most part we're pretty shy about trusting young starters. I knew Paxton would be hard for this team to swallow (too many walks) and Walker is the same right now. It's not a coincidence that Maurer has a great minor league K:BB to go with good stuff. That's a comfort zone for us. I don't find anything comfortable about Harang and Saunders at the moment.9 hours 28 min ago
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Gordon Gross: I admit, I do like Sucre back there behind the plate. Some guys are just nice to watch (and comparing him to Montero certainly shines him up). I hope he can hit enough singles to make it worthwhile to keep him around as a backup.9 hours 34 min ago
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blissedj: Well Texas is just rolling along in first place with 3/5 of their rotation fill-ins. Lost Ogando, Harrison, Colby Lewis, Feliz. No top prospects to fill in, just marginal guys like Tepesch and Grimm and now Ross. We have the Big 3 uber-prospects and now 2 years later none have cracked the bigs. 5 years to build up some type of depth but we are barren besides the Big 4. I bet if Oakland had them last year both Paxton and Hultzen would have been in their rotation if needed. I mean throw Roenis Elias or Ruffin a bone or something!9 hours 34 min ago
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Gordon Gross: Beavan was our #6, but he screwed himself up. Paxton is not "trustworthy" at 10K/9 and we don't want to burn his redshirt. Ditto the younger Walker. Carraway is a potential #6, IMO. I like him just fine as a BOR guy with good control - he doesn't have a lot of movement on his pitches but he has great accuracy and good deception. Good luck getting him on the 25 man. Every vet we got bombed, which is not what we're used to pitching in Safeco. Any idiot can pitch here unless they are Silva or Weaver bad. It's a hard knock life.9 hours 41 min ago
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malcontent: Well, they didn't have 4/6 of their top 6 options flop with 2 others sidelined with injury. The mariners were built to patch holes in the rotation, but not that many, no organization has that depth.9 hours 46 min ago
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blissedj: 6.5 million ~flush~ M's only team in MLB with no capable #6 or 7 SP in AAA or AA? ERam and Hultzen really are killing us but you'd think there would be 1 or 2 others capable of filling in. Texas does it. Oakland does it. LAA has swingman Jerome Williams step right in when needed and might just powerflush Blanton and his contract soon. Nope, M's just keep rolling the same thing out there praying for a different result and some ROI.9 hours 50 min ago
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Gordon Gross: Based on what we're paying him, we're not deciding that tomorrow. Harang goes first. And we have to have somebody to replace him with. Don't think we're putting Carraway or Bonderman on the 25 Man (and 40 man) to make that happen. Those friggin' injuries to E-Ram and Hultzen have KILLED us this year. Hoping Paxton gets some run, but the "veteran arms" need to stop self-immolating. Please and thank you.9 hours 58 min ago
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malcontent: It's weird that Adrian Beltre, the slayer if mediocre lefties, has looked feeble against Saunders10 hours 1 min ago
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malcontent: So much for Safeco Joe, at what point do we question whether he's just done as a starting pitcher?10 hours 4 min ago
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