| By Chris Crawford |  | By 06-20-2010 |
Happy Fathers day to everyone.Can't believe we're already three weeks away from the all-star break. Time flies when you're awful.
The Good
It'd be easy to talk about how good Cliff and Felix are -- so I will. There's good, there's great, and then there is a 67/4 K-BB ratio. Cliff Lee is the Cy Young of the American League. Period. And take away the usual Felix whoops-a-daisy in Arlington and he's had a 26-inning 28-strikeout stretch of three games. For all the talk about how 'off' Felix has been -- the stats say other wise. They're fun to watch.
Speaking of command, has anyone seen the numbers Brian Moran is putting up in Clinton? Moran has put up a nice 8/1 ratio himself, and the left-hander is holding left-handed batters to a very nice .217 BAA. Moran isn't going to wow anyone, but the numbers have been impressive.
The Bad
Thanks to a nice start, people started wondering if Jose Lopez is back. The only thing Lopez is 'back' to is being a frustrating offensive player. It was nice to see him hit a couple of doubles on Saturday, but he hasn't walked in ten games and on-base percentages of under .300 are simply unacceptable. There are a lot of Lopez fans in the world. I hope that one of them works for another Major-League club.
Ezequiel Carrera was not one of the more highly-touted pieces of the J.J Putz trade -- but the numbers he put up in West Tennessee last year put him on some peoples watch list. Watch list -- meet reality. Carrera has hit .311 in June -- but is slugging only .361 which is extremely hard to do with so many balls in play. Realists new that the left-handed outfielder was nothing more than a fourth outfield candidate. Now even his bigger fans should probably admit this too.
The Ugly
If anyone wants to see the exact opposite of Cliff Lee's strikeout-to-walk ratio, check out the numbers put up Denny Almonte. The former second-round pick has now struck out in nine straight games and now has a ratio of -- get ready for it -- 93 to 9. Alfonso Soriano would call that number ridiculous. Almonte is putting up decent statistics other wise -- but it's High Desert. If Almonte can't figure out some sort of strike-zone judgment he has a below zero chance of being any type of help for the M's.
gbu----june-20th
Comments
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| 1. By: 200tang on 06-20-2010 18:15:34 Michael Pineda got called up to AAA today. I imagine that should be part of "The Good". :) |
| 2. By: rosterbatorextraordinaire on 06-21-2010 20:31:26 It's easy to be negative... "Happy Fathers day to everyone.Can't believe we're already three weeks away from the all-star break. Time flies when you're awful." If we wanted negative, we can read the 41 box scores where the Mariners lost, and we can read between the lines on the other 10 the should've lost (two this past weekend). The reality is that your job as a writer is to find the positive and while it's fine to write the bad and the ugly as that's part of this peace, talking about the Mariners in such a negative way on your entry sentence is a little annoying and I'm sure I'm not the only one looking for you and the other sites (ussmariner and lookoutlanding to name a couple) to show some positive, look for the good and show it to us. How about Figgins hitting .299 the last month, where's that? How about Ichiro having another awesome year. How about the minimal regression of Franklin, especially considering he does his best work after the break. There are silver linings and bright spots, people don't come here to hear you voice more negativity, they have enough they can point to without the help. You'd get more readers and more subscriptions if you gave a brighter look on things. I know Jose Lopez sucks, but how about how Josh Wilson woke up this year and is doing in the majors what he's done for his career in the minors. That's just off the top of my head, I know you and Jason are smart enough to do a better job than that, if you wanted. Yes it's long BUT YOU NEEDED to READ it all. That's not something that's a one sentence summation. Even Derek quit writing when he couldn't keep up the positivity. I'm almost done reading these sites completely because it feels depressing to come on the internet just to here the hometown writers crap on a team that we are fighting to support when we know that Jack Z. buried us from Spring Training with a crap offense that everyone knew had no hope. Ban me, block me, whatever, but I don't write crap and I don't waste words and word limits are stupid when they are productive and define an opinion more clearly. Count words when Edman writes his 1000 word fluff crap about his opinions, not when other have content worth reading. This is worth reading regardless of whether you feel it's an attack. It's a critique and it's because I LIKE reading what you guys write and I don't want to be turned off by the attitude and I keep telling myself, MAYBE YOU DON'T REALIZE how you come across, because maybe you are INTENDING to be THIS NEGATIVE. Thanks and if you block me, whatever. More censorship, just what you could expect from an almost socialist country. Yeah! (read that, it's the same level of positivity as some of your posts, seriously, smile write happy and find the good, there's plenty out there if you look) |
| 3. By: maqman on 06-22-2010 13:39:38 The country needs more socialist realism and less goody-two-shoes happy crappy! Go where you feel at home. |
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