Barry Bonds' OBP and the Mariners' OPS Fun Fact

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2010 6:23 PM PST in Seattle Mariners Stats

In 2004 Barry Bonds had a .609 on base percentage. That's insane of course, but what stuck in my mind about that numbers is that in 2010, the players used by the Seattle Mariners at designated hitter combined to post that same .609 number as their OPS.

2004 Barry Bonds OBP = 2010 Mariners DH OPS

The following people, please take a bow:
Russell Branyan, 221 PAs
Milton Bradley, 114
Ken Griffey Jr., 100
Mike Sweeney, 93
Jose Lopez, 32
Justin Smoak, 22
Franklin Gutierrez, 20
Matt Mangini, 12
Casey Kotchman, 9
Ichiro Suzuki, 8
Mike Carp, 4
Michael Saunders, 4
Matt Tuiasosopo, 3
Eric Byrnes, 1
Ryan Langerhans, 1

For what it's worth, that .609 figure was higher than the OPS put up by Mariner catchers, short stops and third basemen.

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God damn it, Tui, this is all your fault.

Mute the Sounders. Malamute the Huskies.

by thehemogoblin on Dec 23, 2010 6:26 PM PST reply actions

We should have signed Bonds as our DH

while he still wasn’t formally retired (maybe he still isn’t).

A Bonds not seeing action for a year or two or three would still be better than all of our freaking batters except for Ichiro.

And who cares about the negative PR, it’s better than being the pathetic laughingstock of MLB.

We can laugh at ourselves (I’m all out of laughs though, because our batters asides of Ichiro are just too shitty they blew my mind and sense of humor) but other teams and fans are laughing even harder….

by NeighborTom2 on Dec 23, 2010 8:04 PM PST reply actions

I still can't get over that the FO didn't sign Vlad

last year, and this year also.

by NeighborTom2 on Dec 23, 2010 8:05 PM PST up reply actions

Considering his name is mentioned in only 11 of your 115 comments, color me surrpised.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Dec 23, 2010 8:26 PM PST up reply actions 18 recs

I'll only color you surrpised if it's the same color as "Five-rec Green."

Mute the Sounders. Malamute the Huskies.

by thehemogoblin on Dec 23, 2010 8:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

Probably because Vlad is an average player who is a bad fit for this park

by Poochie on Dec 24, 2010 8:58 AM PST up reply actions

JI, after the dross (Everett, Vidro, etc.) that we had to suffer through, I would be more than happy wth average.

And bad fit or not, Vlad has mashed it at Safeco.
In 214 ABs his line is .350/.408/.603.
I would not say that’s a bad fit. And he was more than average last year, even in decline.

Vlad aside, the way the FO ignored Bonds is irritating, especially since they went so far as to half assedly think out of their goody two shoes freaking box and get relatively bad rep guys like Everett and Bradley, however, who were unsurprisingly unproductive.

Half assedly rarely works. They should have gone all the way and signed Bonds, PR be darned. It would have been better than being laughed at for being one of the most inept, feeble, dead offenses these past few years despite Ichiro giving them so many scoring chances.
Well at least they got rid of Jose Lopez finally but they should have signed Vlad last year (this year also). Signing Ibanez 7 years ago was a no-brainer, this also should have been one.

by NeighborTom2 on Dec 24, 2010 4:19 PM PST up reply actions

=(

1) 214 at bats is a small sample AND includes years when he was better than he is now. He’s old now and sucks.
2) 12/116
3) Bonds has nothing to do with anything.
4) Raul Ibanez was a 1 win player when we signed him, 32, and has nothing to do with anything.
5) JI has nothing to do with anything.
6) Jose Lopez has something to do with anything, and that something is nothing.
7) An average player in decline is worse than average player the next year at a park that still sucks for him.
8) Half assedly?
9) The FO from 6 years ago is not the same FO that is currently in charge of the Mariners.
10) Vlad has nothing to do with PR and this year’s team has literally nothing to do with 7 years ago, Bonds, Ibanez, etc.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Dec 24, 2010 4:38 PM PST up reply actions

by CapSea on Dec 23, 2010 8:32 PM PST up reply actions

Or maybe he does.

Really, I don’t pretend to understand the inner workings of Matthew. It’s like a delicately woven tapestry of something that I’m sure I could describe cleverly but didn’t.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Dec 23, 2010 8:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs