Today's Fun Fact

by Jeff Sullivan on Sep 16, 2010 3:11 PM PDT in Miscellaneous

Over their 34-year history, spanning 204,534 trips to the plate, Mariner hitters have amassed a batting line of .263/.330/.407.

Using the same methodology as the other day, and limiting the comparison sample to historical Mariners, we find that the player most comparable to the all-time Mariners is David Bell, who - while in Seattle - batted .262/.320/.412.

That seems about right. Yesterday, Jon Bois asked me who is the most Mariner player. I submitted Rich Amaral. After looking at this, though, I might have to change my mind. So much about David Bell just fits.

The Seattle Mariners: 34 years of David Bell.

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Problem:

My mother loved David Bell.
My mother can’t stand the 2010 Seattle Mariners.

This directly correlates with much of the general fanbase

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by Corco on Sep 16, 2010 3:23 PM PDT reply actions

That's not fair to David Bell.

2010 Seattle Mariners: .234/.298/.338. Remember, thats Bobby Crosby.

by Kenneth Arthur on Sep 16, 2010 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions

I liked the 2001 version of David Bell.

Then again, I liked the 2001 version of the Seattle Mariners. Touche, Sullivan.

by Charles Gipson on Sep 16, 2010 3:23 PM PDT reply actions

It is for statistics like these that I come to this website.

Thank you. It all makes sense now.

by Chad Johnson on Sep 16, 2010 3:24 PM PDT reply actions

Man I LOVED David Bell.

Dude looked amazing with the glove.
Not sure if he actually was or not, but he sure seemed like an awesome fielder at the time.

by BigR on Sep 16, 2010 3:25 PM PDT reply actions

I thought so too.

It must have been those throws to first base off his backside to nail the runner.

by nathaniel dawson on Sep 16, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Those sidearm throws that just rainbowed across the field

I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh

by HitKing69 on Sep 16, 2010 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I was also a big David Bell fan

Didn’t understand a lot of the negativity.

by zeeehjee on Sep 16, 2010 6:50 PM PDT up reply actions

I would gladly take a team of David Bells right now.

by Sec 108 on Sep 16, 2010 3:26 PM PDT reply actions

Agreed

At least it would be playing hard and therefore be marginally fun to watch

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by Corco on Sep 16, 2010 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Not if they played a team of Casey Kotchmans

by lemonverbena on Sep 16, 2010 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions

I'd go with Jose Lopez as the most Marinerlike player ever

Batting line isn’t quite the same, but is reasonably close- as a player he has had a few flashes of brilliance but has mostly been really, really frustrating.

Only problem is he’s not white enough

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by Corco on Sep 16, 2010 3:34 PM PDT reply actions

At first I thought you said that was their batting line for this year, and I thought, "There's no way they've been that good"

And they haven’t. My gawd, this year’s team has been way worse than David Bell’s career.

by nathaniel dawson on Sep 16, 2010 3:52 PM PDT reply actions

You enjoy torturing us, don't you?

by PattyB on Sep 16, 2010 4:05 PM PDT reply actions

I can still see those sidearm rainbows flying across the infield...

by moyerLIVES on Sep 16, 2010 4:13 PM PDT reply actions

If there's one thing I've learned from this site...

it’s to be highly suspicious of the word “fun”.

by ralphie81 on Sep 16, 2010 4:14 PM PDT reply actions

Well I had fun

by Jeff Sullivan on Sep 16, 2010 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions 7 recs

It's a matter of perspective.

If you’ve been on fire for most of your existence, you’d probably think getting sprayed with a fire hose full of glacial melt water was fun.

"If you don't want a bat bitch slap you'll launch the batnet and take down those cops."

by Thingray on Sep 16, 2010 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Why would I want to destroy all creatures, artifacts, and lands though?

Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."

by joof on Sep 16, 2010 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

Profit

…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell

by Marinerfanjake on Sep 16, 2010 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions

I liked David Bell.

by SeattExPat on Sep 16, 2010 4:50 PM PDT reply actions

When we go rid of David Bell was the beginning of a long slide

We traded him for Desi (you got some ’splainen to do Lucy) Relaford. The team has never been the same since.

by New England Fan on Sep 16, 2010 5:50 PM PDT reply actions

We should spend an off day soon developing all sorts of abstract curses to explain why a team has not recently been successful and/or reached the World Series.

Or not.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors

by JY on Sep 16, 2010 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

It's NOT the Indian burial ground????

by msb on Sep 16, 2010 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Not sure that many indians were buried at sea

as the ground Safeco Field is on was literally a harbor 125 years ago … perhaps a Viking burial ground

I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh

by HitKing69 on Sep 16, 2010 7:53 PM PDT up reply actions

I always thought it was Stan Javier

I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh

by HitKing69 on Sep 16, 2010 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions

The curse of repeatedly acquiring crappy talent is always a good one.

by Sec 108 on Sep 17, 2010 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

But that's not a unique curse

and the Royals may have more of a claim to it than we do.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors

by JY on Sep 17, 2010 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Well we had to trade him

We had Jeff Cirillo to play third.

by nathaniel dawson on Sep 16, 2010 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Hmm.

David Bell was third generation baseball, and had a very firm idea of the right way & the wrong way to play the game. Lou Piniella was not fond of David Bell.

Richie Amaral was almost a AAA-lifer until his call-up at the age of 29, where he went on to be a utility player, loved by Lou.

by msb on Sep 16, 2010 7:13 PM PDT reply actions