Morse/Wilkerson platoon
by kentroyals5 on Mar 29, 2008 12:09 PM PDT
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And Dickey and Norton to the minors.
Prospects are under-valued.
What the fuck are these morons doing to my team?
by Graham MacAree on Mar 29, 2008 12:17 PM PDT reply actions
Bending it over
So I get to watch Wilkerson flail against righties all year and Morse butcher RF. No Norton who actually was a useful bat. Instead we have Willie, Cairo & Jimerson who will hit nothing and thus further making use of the bench pointless. The whole team will be tired by late August.
Same as it ever was.
The user formerly known as Sec 108.
With the exception of Dickey
I like these moves. Hopefully Morse will keep hitting and earn the everyday job.
Still, I think Dickey should have made it over Beak. If anything, he would have been more fun to watch.
It keeps a good option at AAA
Just in case. Not to jinx anything, but injuries DO happen. Baek would have been lost completely.
So, Dickey's gone?
Don't we have to send him back to the Twins or the Brewers or wherever he came from?
Curse you, Detroit Lions!
No he's back at Tacoma
Traded a minor league catcher to keep him there. Some nobody, from what I gather.
Jair (CJ) Fernandez
Played limited A ball last year due to injuries. Wasn't showing much anyway. Not much to give up.
Idiots still running the show
Sending Morrow down needed to happen....but they send him down to STILL be a reliever...what the hell was the purpose of winter ball and extending him out again? This is the opportunity to keep the winter ball mentality going..dumbasses.
Then the put a platoon on the wrong OF.....They can't even fuck up right.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Whilst I agree we need Morrow in the SR
He went to WB before we signed two new starters, which made Morrow redundant to the win-now M's.
And to think, I could have chosen to support the Yankees or Red Sox...
by EnglishMariner on Mar 29, 2008 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm aware..the 'looking to the future' in me says don't
send him down to the minors to be a reliever damnit....We are wasting his value away.
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Mar 29, 2008 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
So start him for Raul vs. LHP!
Why won't this fucking team platoon him? He's not a fan favorite anymore! The crowd cheers Ichiro and Willie God Damn Bloomquist more than him. If Raul doesn't play 2 times a week, I think people will forgive them. This is fucking horse shit.
Good morning everyone, by the way.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 29, 2008 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Why the fuck aren't we platooning Raul
God damn these stupid mother fuckers who can't read the most basic stat sheets that are available freely to everyone. When the fuck will this team start giving a fuck about winning motherfucking baseball games instead of pleasing crowd favorite? Brad Wilkerson's OPS is NINETEEN POINTS BETTER VS. LHP THAN RHP OVER HIS CAREER. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT?
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Trading an A baller to keep Dickey
makes this decision worthwhile. I think Dickey's still developing his knuckler, and I'd rather give him extended work in Tacoma to do that, than have him play the Sean White role in Seattle. Baek, meanwhile, helps the team right now, is basically developed in whatever he's gonna be, and gives the pen a swingman that can step in at a moment's notice and start if it comes to that.
As for the Morse/Wilkerson platoon, I'm on board. I'd think that a couple years of spot practice has helped him progress from the guy who was watching flying seagulls while the ball dropped ten feet in front of him in LF during 2005-2006. He's not much of a defender but would you rather have Wilkerson looking helpless against LH SPs just to upgrade the RF defense from poor to passable?
Morse's bat is a useful one, and against LHPs it'll have a platoon edge. There are worse decisions this team could've made.
No...
I bet they're not convinced his ball will do better Northwards, so they're sticking him in Tacoma to see how the ball dances.
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I'm a fan of Saunders
I have nothing to back that up....but I like him.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Saunders is good.
Strikes out a lot but actually draws walks and hits for a decent average with good power. I like him too.
by Graham MacAree on Mar 29, 2008 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
And he's a lefty..which I love and Safeco needs more of
I fucking hate you Mariners
Give Saunders another year
and he'll probably become a serious part of the conversation for either LF or RF.
Platoon ICHIRO!!
I fucking hate you Mariners
Jesus
Calling this team retarded would be an insult to retards everywhere.
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I know this is off topic but...
is there a worse actor than Chris Klein? Damn he is terrible. I'm sitting here watching Say it Ain't So (not much on Danish tv), and I laugh everytime he tries to be serious.
[ot]
I'M KIDDING.
Chris Klein looks like the cookie cutter stud prototype in that weird Jockey commercial. His look is the only reason he gets roles, because as you noticed, he has no acting talent.
I wonder if people did this in, say '95
Like...Doug Strange and Darrenn Bragg on the same bench? Outrage!
I don't even know if that's factually accurate, o'course.
Continue to drink
I fucking hate you Mariners
Morse/Wilkerson
The only reason they're doing this is because Morse is hot and Wilkerson is new.
Morse cools off...Wilkerson plays more. Doesn't bother me none.
People forget this
If Morse doesn't produce, it just means Wilkerson plays everyday. This is not the end of the team.
It's a bad decision, period
bad decisions are to be criticized, not ignored.
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 29, 2008 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
How many runs can this team afford to give away?
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 29, 2008 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh?
Needing to squeeze every last run out of the roster != bollocksed (fuck you Graham)
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 29, 2008 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
So, good
we're already giving away some runs. Let's give away some more.
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 29, 2008 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I find myself using "bollocks" more and more now too.
God damn Brits invading OUR language. (redneck American sounding statement intentional)
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 29, 2008 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
According to Ron Fairly, if it's four we lose a win.
I'd imagine 2-5 or so without doing any math or real analysis of any sort, which could be a win in the standings.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 29, 2008 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
More like...
Mercilessly mocked leading to a general wrath at the team leading to a beer thread.
At least, that's what I've gathered from my short time here...
by GhettoBear04 on Mar 29, 2008 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
We're not freaking out.
This is a fucking retarded decision. Good teams don't make these decisions. Good teams don't choose to give away runs on purpose.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 29, 2008 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
It seems like you've become angrier over the offseason.
...and now I'm here
Maybe.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 29, 2008 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
This isn't even permanent.
This only lasts if Morse hits. If he doesn't hit, the "platoon" is over. It's that simple.
Plus, if we asked Mike Hargrove about this
he'd probably tell us it's not a platoon at all. And who knows more about baseball than Mike Hargrove?
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 29, 2008 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
this is rhetorical right?
because if not it's going to take me a couple days to compile the full list.
No it doesn't
Morse might hit superficially tolerably, but the defence will be ignored.
by Graham MacAree on Mar 30, 2008 2:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Someone clearly forgot to tell McLaren
Spring. Training. Stats. Do. Not. Count. For. Shit
I'm surprised they aren't benching Bedard right now if they're finding an imaginary place for Morse on this team, based solely on his Spring Training performance. Apparently short term results only matter if you're doing well, if you're doing poorly you just have to ride out the badness (even if it ends up being not so short term).
Morse sucks, he is not nearly, NEARLY as good as his spring training performance indicates, it's a small sample size in a time of fake baseball that means absolutely NOTHING. He isn't a passable major leaguer ANYWHERE when you look at his true ability (okay, maybe the Giants). He's terrible at OF defense, he's hit terribly in the minors, his platoon with Wilkerson makes no goddam sense since WIlkerson does not need a platoon at all......
The lunatics are running the fucking asylum, god.......dammit.
These snozeberry's taste like snozeberry's
I fucking hate you Mariners
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