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Biggest Contribution: Brandon Morrow, +31.5%
Biggest Suckfest: Adrian Beltre, -6.2%
Most Important AB: Tuiasosopo double, +9.4%
Most Important Pitch: Jeter single, -7.5%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +42.9%
Total Contribution by Lineup: +7.1%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
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Boy am I glad they kept him in the pen this year

I also want to find these nameless ‘AL Scout’ types who questioned the m’s moving him to the rotation. If I was as good at my job as you are at yours, I’d probably be arrested.

by marc w on Sep 5, 2008 9:52 PM PDT   0 recs

Haha, remains me of the Lewis Black routine about Al Roker

"I don’t know what’s more nuts…weather or the weathermen. A few years ago here in New York City, we had a blizzard. 36 inches of snow. I guess you Midwesterners would call that a dusting. Well, our weatherman at the time, Al Roker, predicted we’d have 4 – 12 inches of snow. Well, giving him the benefit of the doubt, that stills leaves him 2 feet off. This was an emergency condition. Now if you were a roofer and you built a roof and it was 2 feet off, you’d still be serving time. "

I'm more like I am now than I've ever been.

by ralphie81 on Sep 5, 2008 11:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wow. Timmay who?

Remember when “50%” of the organization was against Morrow starting? Yeah, you guys feel real stupid right now.

Go Nova

by dbroncos31 on Sep 5, 2008 9:54 PM PDT   0 recs

Who the hell knows?

Did he even field a ball?

by Jeff on Sep 5, 2008 10:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

you bet your ass he did!

he also hit a double!

by Robert on Sep 5, 2008 10:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I actually got curious and had to go look

He threw out A-Rod on a grounder in the 4th.
He caught a leadoff popup in the 5th from Giambi

That’s all.

by Gomez on Sep 5, 2008 10:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I don't think anyone was really paying attention

I recall a “nice arm” comment though

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by I'm NOT Corco on Sep 5, 2008 10:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This is way late but...

Anyone else hear Niehaus say tui was terrifc at 3rd base? I’m guessing Dave doesn’t have time to catch many Tacoma games…

by zeuswsu on Sep 5, 2008 10:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The radio crew's going to talk up the local boy in his debut

It almost didn’t matter how Tui did today.

by Gomez on Sep 5, 2008 10:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah true..

How do you think Tui will do with more experience at 3rd? does he have potential to be a solid 3rd baseman? That was my first time seeing him play live today

by zeuswsu on Sep 5, 2008 10:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

He's perpetually struggled with his defense in the minors

Of course, he’s also only 22 and did get rushed some in the minors. Things could change for the better with some work, but right now he’s Morse-like with his defense, which doesn’t help with a slower Yuni at SS.

by Gomez on Sep 5, 2008 10:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yikes.

Morse-like is about as low as you can go

by zeuswsu on Sep 5, 2008 10:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Morse isn't terrible at third.

He IS terrible in the OF, and should never have even been allowed to experiment in the OF, but he can handle 3rd and 1st pretty respectably.

Tui’s got a ways to go defensively, especially since he’s only recently moved over to third. But he might get there yet. He just needs to remember to WATCH the ball into his glove:

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by PositivePaul on Sep 5, 2008 11:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well yeah, that's what I mean by Morse-like

His glove and physical abilities are okay. His fielding fundamentals needs work. His range… heh… well….

by Gomez on Sep 6, 2008 12:03 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

As I was trying to race home to watch the end of this, I got a call from work.

Our CC processing was down, and I’m the only person who could possibly hope to fix it. As soon as I hung up the phone, Betemit doubled. Goddammit.

J.K.L.

by acblue on Sep 5, 2008 10:08 PM PDT   0 recs

Thanks

The two stats that jump out at me are
1. Morrow only threw his fastball 58% of the time tonight
2. Average fastball velocity: 95.7 MPH

Was good to see Morrow get a decent number of swing and misses on his breaking stuff

by zeuswsu on Sep 5, 2008 10:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No shit.

This was refreshing. Talent PLUS not pitching like an idiot!

by Teej on Sep 5, 2008 11:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Rec'd.

Nicely done.

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

by misterjonez on Sep 6, 2008 7:44 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That just made the season so much easier to stomach.

Why oh why couldn’t he be in the rotation from the beginning?

(No answers please, it was rhetorical.)

Bleeding Blue and Teal

by JonBBT on Sep 5, 2008 10:17 PM PDT   0 recs

True dat.

I’m excited for Felix, Bedard, Morrow, SIlva, RRS?

That is what I’m praying for anyway…

by zeuswsu on Sep 5, 2008 10:20 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Make RRS #4 and Silva #5 and it works for me.

If RRS ends up panning out as a #4 that is.

by OlSalty on Sep 5, 2008 10:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I hear you

Felix, Bedard (healthy), Morrow in the rotation is enough for me to get excited about next year. Even if Morrow struggled from time to time it would be better then watching the crap they threw out there this year.

by zeuswsu on Sep 5, 2008 10:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The nice thing is, if Morrow and RRS keep pitching well

It’s going to be very hard for them to justify keeping Washburn around next year.

by OlSalty on Sep 5, 2008 10:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Anywhere they can get partial salary relief for him, hopefully

I doubt they’ll get the full salary taken off their hands now but they can likely get a portion of it taken off their hands.

That is, if they stop being stupid and reverse course on the whole salary dump stubbornness now that they’ve gauged the fan outrage over it.

by OlSalty on Sep 5, 2008 10:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Even if RRS pitches like crap and Morrow goes back to the pen

its going to be very hard for them to justify keeping Washburn around next year.

Washburn’s salary == Strasburg’s signing bonus

I see the future. I see cake.

by Blicks on Sep 5, 2008 10:36 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You're forgetting...

…who’s President of this club (and thinks he’s a pocket general manager)…

by rtang on Sep 5, 2008 10:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I know

It just won’t be justifiable from a rational person’s POV.

I see the future. I see cake.

by Blicks on Sep 6, 2008 12:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I think one of the best parts of tonight

Was that (and I don’t have pitch F/X data to confirm this so take it with a big grain of salt), but it seemed like he didn’t have great control of his curveball, but he was still drawing swinging strikes with it when it was nowhere near the zone just because they were all sitting fastball.

Awesome what mixing your pitches can do.

by OlSalty on Sep 5, 2008 10:19 PM PDT   0 recs

My favorite part:

I loved the fact he went so far with the no-no with Tui at 3d and Balentien in CF.

by batura on Sep 5, 2008 10:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

He had what, one-two plays?

I’d say it was a small sample size.. ha.

Bleeding Blue and Teal

by JonBBT on Sep 5, 2008 10:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs