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by Donn Beach
Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:00 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Looks like Cano taught Segura well
Replies: 29
Views: 4705

Re: Looks like Cano taught Segura well

but Cano was a slacker before he got here, you think Segura wasn't aware of how Cano played baseball before he got here?
by Donn Beach
Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:38 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Looks like Cano taught Segura well
Replies: 29
Views: 4705

Re: Looks like Cano taught Segura well

D-train wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:34 am
Hy Feiber wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:53 am
Kinda makes ya wonder if Jerry D should have known of Segura’s Cano-like proclivities before acquiring him?
He didn't have them until Cano was his mentor here.
Cano was his mentor before he got here...
by Donn Beach
Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:36 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Blake Snell from Heaven to Hell
Replies: 6
Views: 1174

Re: Blake Snell from Heaven to Hell

yea, was thinking that is pretty interesting, he is basically the same pitcher as last season, shows how much luck is involved, the slash line numbers can be very deceptive. It would seem like his arm had fallen off, Rays fans must think so. And on top of it the Rays are doing ok, if he is able to p...
by Donn Beach
Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:16 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Blake Snell from Heaven to Hell
Replies: 6
Views: 1174

Re: Blake Snell from Heaven to Hell

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...
by Donn Beach
Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:31 pm
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Voyage to the Bottom of the League GT 6/23
Replies: 44
Views: 7012

Re: Voyage to the Bottom of the League GT 6/23

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...
by Donn Beach
Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:25 pm
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Love Trumps Hate 6-22 GT
Replies: 31
Views: 6764

Re: Love Trumps Hate 6-22 GT

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...
by Donn Beach
Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:28 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Minor League Updates
Replies: 1239
Views: 197466

Re: Minor League Updates

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...
by Donn Beach
Sat Jun 22, 2019 2:32 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Day is Darkness and Sky is Sea 6-21 GT
Replies: 34
Views: 5479

Re: Day is Darkness and Sky is Sea 6-21 GT

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...
by Donn Beach
Sat Jun 22, 2019 2:12 am
Forum: Mariners
Topic: Day is Darkness and Sky is Sea 6-21 GT
Replies: 34
Views: 5479

Re: Day is Darkness and Sky is Sea 6-21 GT

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...