Riggleman - Morrow as a starter

by MfaninAlaska on Jul 31, 2008 3:02 PM PDT

So with all the trade deadline discussions going on today, I wasn't sure if anyone had come across this article on the M's website where Riggleman talks about converting Morrow to a starter.

He says that if they want to see Morrow as a starter.... do it now... here's the quote

"If we're going to do something down the road with Morrow as a starter, we have to get the transitions started," manager Jim Riggleman said Wednesday afternoon. "There is enough time to do it between here and Tacoma, but we probably would have to do start it in the next couple of weeks."

He says that to wait until the off-season and then judge in ST just wouldn't work you can't get a real feel for what he could do as you are trying to stretch him out in the spring.

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If only someone was arguing for this

this past offseason! Damn you hindsight!

by DCMariner on Jul 31, 2008 3:08 PM PDT reply actions

At least it's seriously being considered

... maybe.

by Gomez on Jul 31, 2008 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Please God yes.

Do this!

I'm back to liking midgets too much.

by Thingray on Jul 31, 2008 3:26 PM PDT reply actions

Of course...nearly 3/4 of a year as a reliever we FINALLY decide to do this...injury alert..WAHOOOOGA WAHOOOGA

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Jul 31, 2008 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions

He'll be fine.

If they move him down now it won’t be a massive increase in innings. Remember he missed some time earlier in the year.

I'm back to liking midgets too much.

by Thingray on Jul 31, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions

I still say the timing is stupid.

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Jul 31, 2008 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Better stupid than never

Wait….

by Gomez on Jul 31, 2008 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

If they started it earlier, he would have maxed out his innings way before the end of the year, then he would have to sit.

What’s the point in that?

I'm back to liking midgets too much.

by Thingray on Jul 31, 2008 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Riggleman must have been blogging on LL

while HE was at work. Its about time for rational thoughts.

I have a cousin with 1 testicle, when they yell play ball, he smiles.

by Montucky on Jul 31, 2008 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions

They claimed that Maclaren read all the blogs

but then got upset by all the criticism, which makes no sense to me. Why get upset over this, just stop playing Vidro and Cairo, it’s that simple.

by LantermanC on Jul 31, 2008 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions

No, they claimed MacLaren read "the internet"

which pretty much guaranteed it wasn’t true.

I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.

by Llewdor on Jul 31, 2008 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Not only doesn't he read the Internet, he doesn't even read computers anymore.

Those blogs will eat you up.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Aug 1, 2008 1:25 AM PDT up reply actions

Yay

Jim Edmonds is making me happy today.

by JI on Jul 31, 2008 3:38 PM PDT reply actions

I'm honestly beginning to believe that we will see Morrow stretched out this season.

by BrianL on Jul 31, 2008 4:02 PM PDT reply actions

Signs are pointing towards yes for sure

by seattlesundevil on Jul 31, 2008 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Please. Please. Please.

I'm back to liking midgets too much.

by Thingray on Jul 31, 2008 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

I hope to God they give him a few starts in Tacoma.

FanShots are underrated.

by Aaron Campeau on Jul 31, 2008 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

They'll have to do it soon

Their season ends at the end of next month.

by Gomez on Jul 31, 2008 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions

I know.

I need to get out to a game or two before the year is out.

I hate baseball.

by Aaron Campeau on Jul 31, 2008 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions

With everything being said and everything in print...signs are pointing to yes, it will happen this season

Which is good…pretty bad when you have basically no starting depth in the minors…gotta take them from the ‘pen

by Smith18 on Jul 31, 2008 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions

/believe-it-when-I-see-it

Seriously, the season has been over for months, and he just now realizes this would be a good idea, when it might already be too late?

by OlSalty on Jul 31, 2008 9:10 PM PDT reply actions

I agree with everything...that it should have been done earlier and all that

but in Riggleman’s defense, Morrow was quite valuable while Putz was on the DL

by Smith18 on Jul 31, 2008 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions

This would be true if the M's even had a long shot

but they were so out of it already. There was no point to slotting him as a closer.

JI/Robert '08!

by Fin on Aug 1, 2008 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions

True, but they didn't want to make it obvious they're chasing Strasburg!!

by Smith18 on Aug 1, 2008 12:53 AM PDT up reply actions

We were playing for nothing, who cares who you have closing?

by OlSalty on Aug 1, 2008 6:38 AM PDT up reply actions

Oh hell yes!

I’m soooo going to every single one of his starts at Cheney if they do this. With my cameras of course…

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by PositivePaul on Jul 31, 2008 9:38 PM PDT reply actions

Seriously, if JJ can’t stay healthy this year, who cares if the back of the ‘pen blows chunks (and leads) quite often. Let Batista close, call Hyphen and/or Feier up to swallow some innings in the rotation, and put Morrow in Tacoma getting a little bit of a head start on becoming an SP…

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by PositivePaul on Aug 1, 2008 1:28 AM PDT reply actions