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1 = Mariners' winning streak
10 = Mariners wins, out of 13 games played with Griffey statue nearby
24.1% = Portion of 2017 schedule played
-3.0 = Games out of playoffs
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2 = Number of times Jean Segura reached base Monday
2 = Number of times Jean Segura scored runs Monday
24 = Runs, Segura, 2017
27 = Games played, Segura, 2017
44 = Base hits, Segura, 2017
264 = Base hit ratio, over 162 games
262 = Ichiro's major league hits-in-season record
7.1 = How many WAR did Ichiro get that season
YES = Are Jean Segura 2017 and Ichiro 2004 "comparable players" (defensive specialists with high AVG and high SPD)
7.3 = How many WAR would Jean Segura get this season at this rate, if he missed 10 more games
IF HE KEEPS IT UP, THEN PRETTY MUCH YES = is this version of Jean Segura as good a player as Ichiro Suzuki
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33 = RBI, Nelson Cruz
38 = Games played, Nelson Cruz
174 = OPS+, Nelson Cruz
-10% = Fishing rate, vs 2015-16, Nelson Cruz
1 = Number of blogs that praised Jack Zduriencik for Cruz' 4-year deal
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SLIDERS = What pitch is still giving the Mariners trouble
NO = Is trend getting better, in terms of results
#15 = Of thirty teams, where do M's rank in terms of most sliders seen, last 30 days
YES = Are April slider woes therefore ameliorated
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2 = Walks, Ben Gamel, Monday night
0 = Walks, Kyle Seager, Monday night (did hit a CF homer of course)
GAMEL = Which of the two Mariners "saw" hard-throwing sidearm LHP Manea better
14 = How many walks is that for Gamel now
18 = In how many games
NO = Did Gamel look comfortable swinging against 99 MPH righties
+3.04 = But what is Gamel's pitch value against fastballs this year
4 = How many hits did Mariners lineup have Monday
7 = How many walks did Mariners lineup have Monday
50% = How many of your wins result from other team playing badly
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WHO EVEN KNOWS = How many eye-popping catches has Jarrod Dyson made this week (four to five of them made in one game)
+8 = How many runs (not bases) has Dyson saved on defense, per John Dewan (+5 in left, +3 in center, equally distributed shallow/medium/deep)
+21 = How many runs (not bases) has Mariner OF saved in 39 games, per John Dewan (but -14 at pitcher and catcher)
+6.9 = Wins Above Replacement, Seattle position players (2nd to Yankees in AL)
NEXT ROAD TRIP = When is Mitch Haniger scheduled to return
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93 MPH = Yovanni Gallardo's average fastball Monday night
95.1 MPH = fastest Gallardo pitch Monday night
TOP 20 = Gallardo rank in velocity, American League starters
? = Exactly where did this velo come from
REMARKABLE = How did Gallardo's "worst pitch in AL" cutter/slider look Monday night (thrown low and hard in zone with late bite)
$11M = How much will Gallardo earn in 2017 at this rate
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BABVA,
Dr D
+8 defensive runs for Dyson sounds nice, but how many more offensive runs does a 100 or 115 wRC+ create than a 73?
Pains me to see that Motter was effectively iced. Left on the bench to rot and got out of his groove for the sake of getting Dyson into the lineup.
but wow, with that kind of defense he's welcome to take his ABs off if he wants ta :- ) ... one of the great weeks in Ms defensive history, him and Trumbo...
1. Number of SSI'ers who pointed out that nobody, almost ever, had their three best batting seasons at ages 34, 35 & 36.
1. Number of SSI'ers who indicated, ergo, that we should expect some Cruz decline from the heydays of '15/'16.
Gazillion: Number of times I've recently wished I hadn't made that prediction.
Sigh
I call roids...so...it's not your fault...steroid users tend to break the normal career progressions.
As a player that was caught before, the trend seems that those guys get more scrutiny, and Cruz is 6 years removed from his positive test.
I'm skeptical. Cruz is enough of a statistical dodo bird to make me seriously question what methods he's using to stay this sharp. Maybe the injuries early in his career have made him a total gym freak and super-hungry to stay in the game as long as possible, so I can't know for certain. It's just that he got busted for steroids at exactly the moment he morphed from inconsistent but highly talented slugger to tops in the game slugger.
Someone here pointed out the effect of PEDs last long after use. I believe it was Doc. I don't think a limit to how long a person could continue to be affected by them was established by anything I read on the subject.
if you'd predicted fewer than 200 more wins for Moyer after the Cubs cut him at 30, we'd have let that slide too ...
who's the greater outlier at this point? Almost wonder if Cruz seems more unlikely than Moyer -
It was a long at bat and sometimes that happens, Khris Davis hits the ball hard. I was more worried about the Vogt homer, until I saw the Adrian Beltre-style swing he put on a dirt bound curve ball. I feel like his command has been improving by drips and drops over the season, and this start saw him nailing the edges of the strike zone with consistency early in the game. Later, after 70+ pitches, the commands got fuzzy again, but he still would have made it through 7 innings if it weren't for his once per game unwatchable 27 hopper....Gallardo that is, I guess I'm taking HWSNBN TOO seriously
somehow we got the 2014-15 Gallardo as you expected, and many be the Ms are even schooling him up past that -
hey all:
Off Speed, my M's centric history of pitching, went on sale this morning. You can buy it wherever fine books are sold. Will be doing readings this weekend in Seattle. Love to meet SSI lurkers.
Maybe with a quick bio my man? quick link to a purchase area? Would sure appreciate it! Other Denizens have done so several times previously.
you offered a copy thanks very much but I'll buy a download if it's available on iBooks -
. . . does one do that? just write it as a comment and make you post it?
and moved to the top of my queue!
Looking forward to it.
Where's Jesus Sucre when ya need 'im?!