2009 bullpen appreciation thread

by section331 on Sep 16, 2009 2:33 PM PDT

MSB suggested this in this thread, I'm just following through. I was hoping to get more footage last night, but the pre-game stuff was actually pretty tame for whatever reason. I'm planning on going to all the White Sox series this week, and will be at the Yankees game on Sunday (sort of a last ditch effort to enjoy what is left of my summer before I start school next Monday), so hopefully I can get some more shots. If you have video, photos, or just want to give the boys in the back a little love, here's the place to do it (with thanks in advance to the LL guys for putting up with my irrational affection for relief pitchers).

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I had fun with this

by ThundaPC on Sep 16, 2009 2:36 PM PDT reply actions

Choo choo!

by msb on Sep 16, 2009 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions

C'mon I thought we were done discussing things that happened during the Bavasi era.

by lailaihei on Sep 16, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions

"but the pre-game stuff was actually pretty tame for whatever reason."

and I blame the poor pitching that followed on that very thing.

by msb on Sep 16, 2009 3:20 PM PDT reply actions

I would appreciate our bullpen a lot more if they weren't bad.

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 4:16 PM PDT reply actions

Madness

by Graham MacAree on Sep 16, 2009 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't think it's necessarily madness, but I'm fairly sure it's something.

If only I knew what it were…

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

ATHENS!?

No, wait, CORINTH!

50!

by joof on Sep 16, 2009 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I haven't even seen this movie

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 17, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I wish you had your helmets still...

Lowe has easily been my favorite reliever on the M’s. He’s goofy and funny and provides some worry free innings.

You got slurved!

by Slurvey on Sep 16, 2009 4:55 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs

Which is quite a contrast to 2008 and 2007.

by redwolf75 on Sep 16, 2009 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions

I wonder if higher level relievers take more time to mature?

Thornton sucked but now he’s good.
Putz was also no special stuff (yes, I know he learned the splitter from Eddie but anyway) but then he was great (and became not so good now).
Lowe seems to have settled down and as you said, recently he’s been more stress free.

Maybe Kelley will be better next year. (Of course in his case it was an injury which derailed him.)

by Sam Regens on Sep 16, 2009 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions

It is often the "getting better" that makes them higher level, though.

Usually pitchers who pitch really well are good pitchers.

As a more serious answer, relievers are also prone to random fluctuations. When you pitch so infrequently, if you are destroyed in like… 3 or 4 games, all of your numbers for the year suffer. If you were a good pitcher to begin with, chances are the next year your numbers will be just fine.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Sep 17, 2009 2:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Thanks Librocrat

It is often the “getting better” that makes them higher level, though.

You’re right, I wasn’t thinking too straight. Brain cells in a slump..

by Sam Regens on Sep 17, 2009 4:30 AM PDT up reply actions

My favorite member of the Mariner's bullpen

by appleshampoo on Sep 16, 2009 11:59 PM PDT reply actions

Were you at the game tonight?

"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz

by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeppers

I had a CF bleacher seat, but wandered around most of the game, watched the last few innings from one of the seats above the normal seats in RF/CF.

by appleshampoo on Sep 17, 2009 1:20 AM PDT up reply actions

I think we may have been sitting directly above you

I heard someone yell “Come on, Hyphen!”, and looked down, and there was a guy who looked a little like your avatar with a beer, and a baseball hat on . I was in the corner, front row section 195.

"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz

by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions