Dilly is a Ranger?

[Michael K.]

I guess they are hoping he can provide them with some insider information? Watch, they'll straighten out his swing and he'll be a beast down the stretch!

Designated for assignment by the Mariners on Saturday, Dylan Moore agreed to a minor-league deal with a division rival three days later.

Moore, the Mariners’ longest-tenured player this season, agreed to sign the deal with the Texas Rangers, The Athletic reported.

The Mariners designated Moore, 33, for assignment on Saturday and placed him on unconditional release waivers on Sunday, making him a free agent.

Moore won the American League Gold Glove for a utility player last year and had a scorching start this season, earning AL Player of the Week honors for April 14-20, when he hit .385 with three home runs and three stolen bases.

He landed on the injured list on April 29 with right hip inflammation. He was reinstated on May 6 and in his next 135 plate appearances for the Mariners he posted a wRC+ of 35 (where 100 is average) with a 43.7% strikeout rate, hitting .139 with a .461 OPS.

Over seven seasons in Seattle, Moore appeared in 671 games, playing every position other than catcher multiple times. He accumulated 7.2 Wins Above Replacement (Baseball Reference), posting a .205/.310/.381 slash line with 82 doubles, 11 triples, 61 homers, 192 RBI and 116 stolen bases.

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Am I really supposed to put a lot of faith in WAR when seven seasons of .205 hitting equals 1 WAR per year? Instead of WAR, why don't we call it Mendoza?

[bpj]

The Mariners wasted his career.

[DavidGee24]

Am I really supposed to put a lot of faith in WAR when seven seasons of .205 hitting equals 1 WAR per year? Instead of WAR, why don't we call it Mendoza?

The average player over 162 games will put up a 1.8 WAR. Dilly had a 1.7 average over 162 games in his 7 years as a Mariner. He had a low batting average and on-base percentage, some pop, good base stealing ability, and usually played good defense at a lot of positions. Personally, I think that rating him as league-average is lofty and I'd just call him a solid utility guy.

[DavidGee24]

The Mariners wasted his career.

I don't know, it seemed like the more he played the worse he got. Some guys are just like that, although it would have been interesting in a non-contending year to see what he could do over a full season as a starter.

[Donn Beach]

The Mariners wasted his career.

I don't know, it seemed like the more he played the worse he got. Some guys are just like that, although it would have been interesting in a non-contending year to see what he could do over a full season as a starter.

T-Mobile might have wasted his career, that article I posted on it being the most extreme MLB park discussed him actually, the poster child.

[Donn Beach]

“It's definitely hard to hit here,” Mariners utilityman Dylan Moore told MLB.com, and he should know, because in 2024, he was the flip side of Muñoz.

Last year, Moore struck out 34% of the time at home, yet just 24% of the time on the road; his home OPS (.503) was 337 points lower than his road OPS (.840). Among the thousands and thousands of players who had at least 190 home plate appearances since the Wild Card era began in 1995, Moore’s 2024 showed the third-largest home/road split – and his teammate, J.P. Crawford, was sixth on that list, dropping 282 points of OPS at home.

“There's a lot of outfield to cover in the cold and winter months, on both sides, both ends of the season,” Moore continued. “It's a little bit harder. There's different factors that go into it, as opposed to other ballparks that maybe don't have those factors. It's only hot maybe a couple months out of the year, but at the end of the day, you probably get a little less bang for your buck, I guess is probably the best way to describe it.”

Moore is right that it’s cold there (the average temperature of 62.9 degrees was 30th of 30th ballparks), and comparing the actual wOBA on contact (.340) to the expected wOBA on contact (.367), based on the quality of exit velocity and launch angle hitters made there, the resulting deficit of 27 points was the largest of any venue in the Majors. (Coors, to compare, added 29 points of value.)

[DavidGee24]

The Mariners wasted his career.

I don't know, it seemed like the more he played the worse he got. Some guys are just like that, although it would have been interesting in a non-contending year to see what he could do over a full season as a starter.

T-Mobile might have wasted his career, that article I posted on it being the most extreme MLB park discussed him actually, the poster child.

Good point, he hit .178 at home with a .623 OPS, just sickeningly awful production compared to .228 on the road with a .752 OPS. Surprising that a guy like him after 5 years wouldn't hit free agency, but he obviously loved Seattle.

[GL_Storm]

The Mariners wasted his career.

How so?

[Michael K.]

I guess I just long for a time when the Mendoza line wasn't "average".

[Captain 97]

His Numbers in Texas....