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"Overachieved based on what?"
This team overachieved in a ton of different aspects of the game. Run differential in definitely one. It's extremely unlikely that if we put up that low of offensive numbers again, we won't be above .500, especially with our questionable pitching. Our defense...
Yeah, lets just ignore the fact that we scored the 3rd fewest runs in the league and our team overachieved last year. Keeping the team exactly the same and expecting better results sounds like a good plan.
You're not going to win games with a roster filled with guys who "have potential" or who you "think will be a good major league hitter". And I don't see Carp being anything more than a very average and forgettable major leaguer.
Well if you want to compare stats between a guy who's played 21 MLB games to a guy who has played 770 games, let's look at their WAR:
Carp - +0.5
Johnson - +2.5
I'll take the guy who's going to contribute more wins over the guy who, in his 21 career games, has been the better defensive first...
"Why would you platoon Branyan?"
The first reason is because he's not going to last a full year playing 1st (as we saw this year), so giving him time at DH is going to help his productivity. And even if you want him as the full time DH, we need to find a 1B and I'd take Nick Johnson playing...
If they trade for Hardy (which is what they should do), there's no way they keep Jack Wilson. And you can't compare Branyan and Wilson. Paying $1.4 for an injury prone Branyan is nothing like paying $8.4 million for an injury prone Jack Wilson. Wilson seems like a nice guy, but it would be...
I agree with you that we have pitchers that could be good, but I don't want to risk having 3 starting pitchers who MIGHT be good. Here's a pretty good write up on the Felix situation.
http://ussmariner.com/2009/10/06/the-deciding-factor/
Our pitching situation scares me a little bit next year. You know Felix will kill it, but who knows what will happen after him. RRS seems to be going in the right direction but isn't really a #2, Morrow is a complete crap shoot, and then there's a bunch of random guys. That rotation doesn't...
You're right, we are a couple years away from competing and that's exactly the problem. Felix is a free agent in 2 years and there's no way we can compete with the Red Sox and Yankees in free agency. So unless we lock him up now, Felix won't be a Mariner in 2 years. And without Felix, we...
I think what happens this offseason depends solely on what happens with Felix. The M's either need to sign him to a long term deal (my preferred choice), or trade him and take advantage of his insanely high trade value right now.
If they sign Felix, they need to go into a win now mode. When...
I met this guy at a bar in Bellevue when I was drunk off my ass. He ended up buying me and my friends a round of drinks, which was pretty cool of him because I'm sure we were acting like total d-bags.
I'm not sold on Denver yet, they haven't exactly played the toughest schedule so far. Their next 4 games are against NE, at SD, at Balt, and Pit. They could very easily lose those 4 games and come crashing back down to earth. And even if Denver wins the SB, I would that make trade 100 out of...
I particularly love how ND stormed the field after they barely beat an unranked team, who went 0-12 last year, who they were 13 point favorites over, while they were playing at home. I guess that's just what you have to get excited about when you have a worthless coach like Weis locked up for...
Snead and Bradford are definitely better than him, and McCoy is on the same level as Sanchez. We drafted a future superstar linebacker, quit your bitching.
Locker has a rocket arm, and as long as he keeps improving his accuracy, he could turn out to be an excellent QB prospect. With that...