Free Agent Signings:
Carlos Santana
Mike Minor
Michael Taylor
Ervin Santana
Top 10 Prospects:
1 Bobby Witt Jr., SS
2 Asa Lacy, LHP
3 Daniel Lynch, LHP
4 Jackson Kowar, RHP
5 Erick Pena, OF
6 Nick Loftin, SS
7 Kyle Isbel, OF
8 Khali Lee, OF
9 Jonathan Bowlan, RHP
10 Carlos Hernedez, RHP [Reply]
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
Mariners no hit for the 2nd time in 13 days
It's weird how baseball just flip flops between the balls being ridiculously juiced and now this. We're a quarter of the way through the season, no small sample size, and the Mariners are hitting .199 as a team. Obviously batting average isn't everything these days but it's a different story when your team has a under .200 average.
I'm fairly confident they could drag 47 year old Ichiro out of retirement and improve that stat. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
Hard to know what to make of them. They have the best record in the AL, best run differential. They're getting it done.
Yet they're missing two of their best young stars, their manager is openly dissing his own players and not defending them when they get thrown at, and their former manager Ozzie Guillen is pretty much angling for the job in their pregame and postgame shows. This just seems like too much of a circus to end well.
It feels like it has the potential to implode mid 2010’s Nationals style. But with such a talent gap in the division it might take a Black Sox lite implosion. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
It's weird how baseball just flip flops between the balls being ridiculously juiced and now this. We're a quarter of the way through the season, no small sample size, and the Mariners are hitting .199 as a team. Obviously batting average isn't everything these days but it's a different story when your team has a under .200 average.
I'm fairly confident they could drag 47 year old Ichiro out of retirement and improve that stat.
The shift is a real issue when it comes to BA, putting balls in play, etc.
Some of it is pitchers maxing out their stuff and using foreign substances to be able to snap off crazy breaking stuff.
But the defensive positioning for everyone is brutalizing batting averages.
I really think it needs some limits. I always come back to limiting the number of times you can shift in a game.
Moving the mound back a foot would probably also be a good idea. Would equalize some of the advantages pitchers have developed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
It's weird how baseball just flip flops between the balls being ridiculously juiced and now this. We're a quarter of the way through the season, no small sample size, and the Mariners are hitting .199 as a team. Obviously batting average isn't everything these days but it's a different story when your team has a under .200 average.
I'm fairly confident they could drag 47 year old Ichiro out of retirement and improve that stat.
Ichiro might be their best player if he suited up today. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
It's weird how baseball just flip flops between the balls being ridiculously juiced and now this. We're a quarter of the way through the season, no small sample size, and the Mariners are hitting .199 as a team. Obviously batting average isn't everything these days but it's a different story when your team has a under .200 average.
I'm fairly confident they could drag 47 year old Ichiro out of retirement and improve that stat.
They changed the fucking baseball again, idiots. Over corrected and now jags like Turnbull and Miley are throwing no nos. The league average is in the 230s methinks. Baseball always finds a way to sit on its balls. [Reply]
Can anybody tell me about Daniel Lynch? I've watched part of all of his MLB starts and MLB players just tag him. They see the ball well off of him. You can see he has good velocity. He's left handed bla bla bla. Is there no deception? It just doesn't look like he's fooling anyone and if he puts it in the strike zone MLB players smoke it. Never seen as many hard hit balls in three starts in my life. The eye test just didn't do it for me. But I'm a retard and I can't determine if a prospect is good by the sound of the ball hitting the mit like Clint Eastwood. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Can anybody tell me about Daniel Lynch? I've watched part of all of his MLB starts and MLB players just tag him. They see the ball well off of him. You can see he has good velocity. He's left handed bla bla bla. Is there no deception? It just doesn't look like he's fooling anyone and if he puts it in the strike zone MLB players smoke it. Never seen as many hard hit balls in three starts in my life. The eye test just didn't do it for me. But I'm a retard and I can't determine if a prospect is good by the sound of the ball hitting the mit like Clint Eastwood.
My dumbass eye made it seem like a lot of it was about control. He would get behind in counts early, then groove his pitches in the zone and get tattooed.
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Can anybody tell me about Daniel Lynch? I've watched part of all of his MLB starts and MLB players just tag him. They see the ball well off of him. You can see he has good velocity. He's left handed bla bla bla. Is there no deception? It just doesn't look like he's fooling anyone and if he puts it in the strike zone MLB players smoke it. Never seen as many hard hit balls in three starts in my life. The eye test just didn't do it for me. But I'm a retard and I can't determine if a prospect is good by the sound of the ball hitting the mit like Clint Eastwood.
