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by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 26, 2008 10:09 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Game Recaps

I've got a few bullet points, but since I'm a little occupied right now and don't know when I'll be able to get to them, here you go.

Biggest Contribution: Erik Bedard, +33.9%
Biggest Suckfest: Jamie Burke, -17.9%
Most Important AB: Ichiro single, +9.7%
Most Important Pitch: Sweeney groundout, Davis double play, +14.2%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +47.5%
Total Contribution by Hitters: +2.5%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
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Awesome game

JJ needs to fix the his control, though I thought a few of those pitches were strikes.

NORTON FOR DH!!!!!

Beltre for King of Awesomeness…oh wait.

Go Nova

by dbroncos31 on Apr 26, 2008 10:13 PM PDT reply actions

Greg Norton

fuck yes.

by PShwa on Apr 26, 2008 10:14 PM PDT reply actions

Bedard, Norton looked awesome.

I’ll forgive the BBs today, Oakland has always seemed to be really really good at taking borderline pitches. Basically if it wasn’t in the zone they wouldn’t swing. The only thing that concerned me is he didn’t get a lot of swinging strikes in the zone, but from my seat he looked solid.

Fuck salute to kids weekend and that stupid bitchy six year old who kept whining about his DS and wanting to go home.

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by BrettJMiller on Apr 26, 2008 10:27 PM PDT reply actions

Plus, they knew Bedard was on a pitch count

It’s entirely possible they were told to take a lot of pitches to drive his pitch count up as much as possible since Squinty made sure that fact was readily availabe to everyone, in order to get him removed from the game early so the hitters could face our bullpen for the latter half. Luckily Bedard had enough control to prevent that strategy from being successful.

by OlSalty on Apr 26, 2008 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I hope Norton being good isn't counter productive

for obvious reasons. If Norton is consistent, Squinty will think that he has a solid DH, so no need to call up Clement, to leave him to tear him AAA until they decide to trade him for some veteran garbage or call him up and leave him to rot on the bench likes Jones did last season.

by Fin on Apr 26, 2008 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions

On the other hand, I'd much rather go with Norton

than stick with pile-of-suck Vidro.

by vkut79 on Apr 26, 2008 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions

I can't complain about anything tonight.

Bedard look great and the Mariners won. Got a little wild at the end, but it is nice to finally be on the winning side of the tension (last Sunday was good as well).

by Wilder. on Apr 26, 2008 11:25 PM PDT reply actions

This is off topic but it wasn't intended to be

I was about to suggest a Clement/Norton DH platoon. But I just looked up Clement’s stats and holy crap he had some insane reverse platoon splits last year. .317/.427/.685 against lefties and .261/.348/.433 against righties. 2006 he was noticeably better against lefties as well, though not as extreme. Anyone know why is this and if is it likely to continue at the major league level? Graham, our resident Clement fanboy, any idea?

by Nick S on Apr 27, 2008 12:48 AM PDT reply actions

Someone did a write up last year

can’t remember who, where they hypothesized that Clement was mashing against AAAA finesse lefties and it was inflating his splits. Plus, without doing any research, I though Norton wasn’t very good batting right handed.

by JI on Apr 27, 2008 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions

That was over at USSM, citing a minor league scout

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 27, 2008 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions

Yep

I wouldn’t expect Clement to show extreme platoon splits one way or the other at the ML level, though. Reverse splits tend not to be real, unless the player is magical (oh hi Ichiro).

by Graham MacAree on Apr 27, 2008 2:50 AM PDT up reply actions

It's still a very small sample but...

but that split isn’t showing up this year.

vs. left: .391/.500/.478
vs right: .375/.524/.792

Of course, he’s also been playing in some pretty severe hitter parks so far when they’ve been out of Cheney, hence the 1.588 road OPS. It’s something we’ll have to keep an eye on.

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by JY on Apr 27, 2008 1:45 AM PDT up reply actions