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Feb 7 update - if you REALLY don't get this, Mo' Dawg is willing to spell it out in the comments.  Thanks for coming in today.

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Studieth been done, saying that drive tired can be as bad as drive drunk.  I wadn't shure wad they ment by that until like now.  The potht won' be gud but its fun to type with yellow meemies screaming across the iMac dial.

Don't feeel like proving everything.  Will just tell you the truth.  My teacher said if I just tell the truth nobody will get made at me.  And oh, last night Algernon died.  They were real sad when they told me but I don't get why.  He had a real nice funeral and people cried and hugged me.

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=== 2005-11 ===

Saunders was in the Dime a Dozen Leftie Pitcher Familie.  Jarrod Washburns now doing the running acrross my iMac.  

Difference between Saunderses and Washburns, or AAA pitchers, just getting a chance and also they differ a teeny little bit of execution.  They know the right pitches too, Washburn and Saunders and Mark Clark and those guys.  Is cause catchers and coaches and computers and umpires tell them.  

These guys throw lots of straight fastballs but they throw them where they want a little better than AAA pitchers.

Bill James said all pitchers, if they didn't get hurt or cut (roster cut not hurt cut), would figure out some way to be average.  

Usually, sorry almost always, AAA pitchers go boom time and they don't find out how to be average.  Saunders, Washburn, Mark Clark, Oil Can Boyd, Bill Wegman, Bill Krueger whoops I like Bill, Bruce Chen, usually they got lucky one year (like by winning 15 games or like by getting drafted #4 in the draft) and then they always got time to figure out how to be average.

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=== Mechanics ===

Saunders has a throw that looks like he would weigh 350 lbs., but he really doesn't.  Not athletic and pretty as, say, silverback with club feet after eating fermented bananas.  Does short-arm the ball and hide it pretty good.  When watching him throw the ball I usually try to watch like the dugout so I don't have to look right at the throw.

Saunders keeps pitching a lot every year, his control last year was super nice to him, so the weird way he throws doesn't matter.  We just said it for not really any reason.

Except it's no fun to watch him when you could be watching somebody fun, like everybody who wants to be a Mariner pitcher.  Compared to him Jason Vargas and Rick Porcello and Kristie Alley are a lot more fun to wtach.

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=== 2012 ===

Three True Outcomes went to 5.7 strikeouts, 2.0 walks, and 1.1 homers.  He beat teams in the playoffs.  Jack Xurincik maybe thinks he can do good now.  If Saunders could do good like that, he'd be really good.

Except he won't do good.  His strikeouts were high but his swing and miss was not high.  He used 70% fastballs and guys who do good don't miss a slow fastball.  Sometimes pitchers just put the ball right where they want for like 20 starts.  

This happened to Esteban Loaiza one year.  It happened to Shiggy one year and he gave up 0 runs pretty much.  It happenned to Washburned one year REALLY a lot, in 2002 where it says in Awards that Washburned won the Cy Young that year.  Then Washburned needed only one other lucky BABIP year like 2006 and we gave him $400 millino, all the money we were supposed to give Randy Johnson.

Like if you see Sanders in this playoff TV show against the guys wearing red, Sanders throws the ball to that little blue rectangle where they just watch it.  But nobody can really do that, but he did it, but hed have to do it again and maybe he couldn't.

Pitchers have times where they can't miss the glove but it's only for a while.  For sure that was the way with Saudners last year.

With some guys they do good and it's because they got good.  Other guys had some good games.  Funny but Bill James says one season's worth of stastistics is usually not enough.  He didn't say enough for what.

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=== Righties and Lefties ===

If you go look at Saunders throwing to right batters they slugged .500 against him last year, and it was his great year.  He really could do good late in the game against Josh Hamilton.

Maybe Saunders could like throw a lot more curves and changeups next eyar.  But my teacher says those kind of questions aren't supposed to ask any more once we get out of first grade.  Jarrod Washburn wasn't going to use his lots of curves and changeups.  I forget why but he wasn't going to.

Today; we learned; the; semicolon; its; used when yowant; to; say two things; and don't have; a period.  Sanders throws 70% fastballs; his curve and change don't work against righties; his short arm doesn't work against righties; he doesn't work against righties.

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=== Dr's Prognosis ===

He has heard that there are neat pitchers available to play for the Mariners.  Maybe they should use them instead.

Nitey nite,

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