Mariner Talk Chat Forum

In some ways, Snell’s stuff is more impressive than it was last season. He’s generating more swing-and-misses than ever before. He’s averaging more strikeouts and less walks. Even his percentage of hard-hit balls has gone down. So how do you explain this? Warily, I suppose. There are a handful of t...

Kikuchi tinkers too much “Yusei’s a tinkerer,” he said during the weekly Jerry Dipoto Show. “And we’re getting to know him as a player. His stuff is very good. We’ve seen the fastball up to 97, we’ve seen two above average breaking balls… we’ve seen flashes with his change-up that is primarily still...

didn't say it was, i was referring to his needing to learn to bunt, he knows how to bunt. I don't know if its as much about bunting as it is elevating the ball, that is how to really beat a shift, hit the ball over it. here he is talking about it... (Seager has been shifted against 69.4 percent of t...

Seager can bunt

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-seager ... ized-bunt/

its really getting pretty hard to fault their minor league development these days, there is the carry over from the Z era that nobody is going to allow them to live down, and it does take awhile to turn the ship from GM to GM but it would seem Dipoto is doing it, and that on top of getting criticize...

so it looked like he was using them?...geez, watching a ballgame and come up with the idea to sell fingernail stickers to ballplayers, making a fortune now off of fingernail stickers...

yeah, think that has gotten pretty standard these days, most catchers do something to make their fingers easier to see, in fact a couple of guys came up with a specialty product just for that use, a sticker, trying to market it to MLB During spring training, Flaherty and Passantino, who both live in...

I am not making the point, that is Pete talking. Whether he was prepared or not is a different issue, that is Pete saying he regrets how they handled him. I think Pete has always been pretty open and honest about things like that, probably what makes him a great coach. They need to understand what t...

play MLB games in Havana?....there is still a trade embargo in place, doubt you get that past the State department

I was speaking to this...make sure you know what you got, that to me is a pretty basic aspect to coaching, hopefully they accomplish it Among those strengths, Carroll admitted at March’s league meetings that Seattle needs to do a better job deploying Griffin as a pass rusher, as he recorded nearly 2...