Mariner Talk Chat Forum

I would feel more comfortable if they were, everybody else failing to field a .500 team with all the great trades for me doesn't bode well with the Mariners doing it with all their great trades

was thinking maybe he was being used as a pinch runner, and he did score twenty runs so there is that

its the 89 plate appearances, that is like 22 games...1.6 WAR? That extrapolates to like almost 12 WAR over a season, had a shit load of circus catches come is way?

Broxton put up a slash line of .179/ .281 /.410/ .691 last year in Milwaukee, and accrued 1.6 bWAR in 89 plate appearances, that seems pretty remarkable

those one inning starts really paying off “He’s got four pitches, he throws a ton of strikes and he misses bats,” Dipoto said. “He did the same thing in college. He still got innings to give. We did the one-inning starts with Logan and felt like we’ve set him up to pitch until the season’s end and h...

I am sure it didn't hurt that he went from hitting in between Ed Sprague and Wiki Gonzalez in a terrible Padres Order to hitting between Edgar Martinez and John Olerud in one of the most complete lineups the game has ever seen. yea, a bunch of things coming together, health, luck, the team...that i...

sure, baseball is fluky, Boone's 80 point jump in average seems fluky to me

they use the term "improve", there doesn't seem to be evidence of it improving as opposed to his power During Rodriguez’s confessed era of doping, his homerun average jumped to a super-slugging 52 per season, compared with 36 during his first four seasons in the league and about 42 since. His runs-b...

by all means, Jerry Jones should give him $40 mil, just do it!

Arod's average went down during his PED seasons...You could get some advantage in terms of batting average but It would be pretty incremental i would think, an 80 point jump in a season seems pretty remarkable a physiologist discussing it in Scientific American Why didn’t Rodriguez’s batting average...