Mariner Talk Chat Forum

hadn't looked at Vogelbach's splits lately, he really has been living off his April for quite awhile it seems, wonder where he will be at the end of the season

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Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:52 pm

btw Bob has had success with the A's but still has only a .507 winning %. Even Lou has just a .517 winning %.

sure, a fair amount of that winning percentage is out of his control

this is kind of interesting, at least to me, baseball seems to go against the grain in terms of the tallness factor when it comes to hiring managers, they tend to be short and are getting even shorter. That appeals to me, I have an immediate bias against some guy in a leadership position that is tal...

yea, Bob...I remember him as seen as over his head managing, not having the temperament...interesting, was looking at something from when he was fired, Maddon was seen as a possible successor... Potential candidates include Angels bench coach Joe Maddon, who was in Anaheim when Bavasi was general ma...

So we are talking about SS now?...how charismatic was Doug Melvin? He was run out of here for this very reason wasn't he?

well if we are going to assume that Barney Fife has some other exceptional baseball skills that you hired him for in the first place then you might be over estimating the importance of this general Eisenhower, lead them into battle quality you deem so valuable, when it comes to square jaws I find th...

SS isn't sitting there playing many hunches these days, the moves he makes are pretty much dictated by the analytics being fed to him by the FO, the games are being decided by the work done before the game, getting those sorts of things ready. He really is the epitome of a middle manager, he is not ...

SS in the catching gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqVh7wJKeI

Sox pick up Andrew Cashner for what seems to be next to nothing, a couple of nondescript 17 year olds and the Orioles tossed in dough to boot. Sure wouldn't say much for the market for Leake or whoever, seems like a buyers market these days

huh, we shall see...my point as been i don't think its going to matter that much, with all the attention to route running, the Hawks are going to say screw route running, we have other plans. He may be more limited as one might like, that is, not the greatest WR that ever walked the earth but i bet...