Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:08 am
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Saturday Night Lights game thread
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Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:15 am
Pretty good numbers other than Naylor.
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Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:19 am
Young with a nice turn for a DP at SS. Wild they have him at SS.
Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:22 am
Healy isn't bad as a color guy.
Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 4:25 am
Gabe Speier looks ready to go...
Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 2:25 pm
Our pen is going to be our downfall. Book it.
Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2026 5:01 am
Troy Taylor can't be too long for a DFA... guy has gotten rocked ever since his call up. 9 hits, 3 BB's in 5 innings.
The only pitchers worth anything who aren't already locks for the roster are Cole Wilcox and Yosver Zulueta.
Legumina still sucks. Vargas and Ferrer are concerning.
Hopefully it's just some guys getting in the groove cause the stats are horrific.
Re: Saturday Night Lights game thread
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2026 5:26 am
Interesting how much having another effective lefty could help. Wish they would have made the Ferrer deal at the deadline
There were countless times last October where Wilson could’ve benefited from another southpaw, especially during a tense American League Division Series vs. Detroit. That bout went the distance primarily due to the Tigers’ ability to create massive momentum swings based on when and how Wilson would deploy Speier.
Games 1, 2, 4 and 5 all featured pivot points with Speier on the mound where the outcome was won, lost or pushed to extras, including the 15-inning marathon in the finale. By the end of that exhausting series, the Tigers had the upper hand against Speier, having seen him for 17 plate appearances
The Mariners faced a lefty hitter in 2,984 plate appearances last season (third-most in MLB), and held them to a 1.27 WHIP (tied-ninth) and .722 OPS (16th).
It wasn’t a massive platoon disadvantage. Yet Speier was the only left-handed arm on their entire pitching staff, other than Trade Deadline acquisition Caleb Ferguson, whose struggles became so pronounced that he only pitched in mop-up duty or dire need in October.
“We’ve seen lineups with seven guys in there that are lefties, sometimes eight guys that are left-handed hitters,” Wilson said. “So to be able to intercept that in some ways later in the game with a couple of lefties is a huge lift.”