Chat: 12/23/15 2:39pm
Chat: 12/23/15 2:39pm
Shouts
<p>R.I.P. Hendu :( Such a wonderful personality and fun to watch on the diamond.</p>
<p>I am working on a projection for the 2016 Mariners, just FWIW...will post when I have the time to actually draft a report. My wife seems dead-set determined to prevent me from ever having time to do anything fun on my own again...but at some point I will find the time.</p>
<p>Merry Christmas amigos :- ) and there's some Seahawk celebration up. Hoping you'll present Dr. D with the gifts of your own NFC playoff predictions. Ah, well, off to play chess with my son on the "garden" 5-foot chess set I received this morning ...</p>
<p>Have a safe and merry Christmas everyone! :) ~Gordon</p>
<p>Merry Christmas from the Rockies! All of the conversations on here and all of you are appreciated! Rockies Jeff</p>
<p>Now...if you want to say that Dipoto's moves show a clearer single vision for roster construction, I would not disagree in the slightest. If you want to say that Z would have given Kuma 3 guaranteed years, I'd agree too. But...I would call that a plus for Z...not a minus. In any event, Blengino just annoys the stuffing out of me when he does things like that.</p>
<p>Thanks for that tip gnatto - it was indeed a good article, right up until Tony decided to get unprofessional again and air his grievance with the Zduriencik regime. Which he never seems to be able to resist doing when talking about the Mariners. Casting the acquisition of Trumbo as some sort of shrill, hurried approach, and the flurry of trade activity done by Dipoto as "letting the game come to you". LUDICROUS. Z had many failings, but I would not describe as shrill, and the Trumbo trade was a solid move to make at the time it was made.</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - anonymous - 12/25/15 9:35pm<br><p>Agree Matt 100%</p>
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<p>Really good article about Iwakuma from belingio, finally, up on FG</p>
<p>Merry Christmas to a great group of guys! I hope all of you, and your families, enjoy, relax and rejoice.</p>
<p>Merry Christmas, Festive Fesivus, Happy New Year, and Kwazy Kwanzaa, all!</p>
<p>Warmest Christmas greetings to all who observe it, to those who don't, happy holidays.</p>
<p>Excellent points, Matt. In all my life as a #Baseball fan I've never seen baserunning as consistently poor and sometimes just plain stupid as what the Mariners displayed last year, except perhaps in Little League. It seemed that bad. I have always thought the M's third base coaches were poor even before last year, but in 2015 the players themselves went all Dumb and Dumber on us.</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - DaddyO - 12/24/15 8:36am<br><p>What was so frustrating last year was the their best. most experienced players time and again showed either a complete lack of focus or severe lapses in judgment.</p>
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<p>Yeah...there was a DEFINITE coaching issue. Kyle Seager was -3 runs in 2915 after a career as an average-solid baserunner. #Austin #Jackson was +3.5 runs on the bases with the Tigers in 2014 then zero with the Mariners and negative in 2015 before being positive again with the Cubs. Dustin Ackley had been a huge positive asset on the bases until McClendon came along and destroyed that value with his horrendous base coaches. We had some guys who could have limited the carnage on the bases...I really think the base coaches were the main problem.</p>
<p>Not sure if you guys remember/realize this...but the Mariners were the worst baserunning team in the game last year and literally wasted TWENTY-THREE runs on the bases. Both the first base and third base coaches needed firing and DiPoto is right to desire more athleticism with that sort of a huge problem overhanging the offense. A-Jax was -0.7 runs (and was brought in for his speed...LOL) and is being replaced by Martin, who is +3 runs or more. Aoki is routinely +2 to +5 runs for speed, despite not being that fleet of foot...rather like Jeter used to be. He's replacing Trumbo the Dumbo's -1.2 runs. Ketel Marte replaces Brad Miller (and gains a bit on the bases). Of course...Lind is even slower than Morrison was and his platoon buddy Montero is the slowest baserunner in the game today. But...if we could stop wasting so many runs on the bases, that'd be awesome. :\</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - anonymous - 12/24/15 10:05am<br><p>Lind may be worse than Morrison, but it'll still be a net positive because he knows who he is and won't be running willy nilly as Morrision was want to do.</p>
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<p>Which is encouraging; deep franchises have lots of ex-players active around the league on other teams. The 80s M's used to have NOBODY on other active rosters. Ideally you'd have 10 ex-players on every other roster in the majors.</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - Browns8625 - 1/1/16 12:21pm<br><p>Just want to relive those 90$ Ms</p>
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