So uh. Griffey is on is way back for yet another year of Mariner baseball. He resigned for basically a “slightly” higher base salary and similar incentive laden deal. It would be interesting how this will change the targets of who we sign this off-season. I do think it’s encouraging as Larry Stone mentioned in his article that “Brian Goldberg, has said that neither money nor playing time would be an issue for his client.” Which is very important with building this next years team.
We are currently in a dangerous position with next years team. After last years 85 win team there are some expectations that with an increased pay roll we should be able to start pressing forward and have a real shot at a division title. Be careful of your expectations M fans.
Oh, and by the way. I finally got to be the who published the “breaking news”. Take that Griffin and Taylor!
Taylor’s Edit: My first reaction was: “Well this is obnoxious.” I’m not quite sure how to term my second one. Griffey is old. He is not good at hitting. He is not good at fielding. He is good at two things: plate discipline/approach and making Ichiro smile. On one hand, this move goes along completely with Zduriencik’s emphasis on bringing in baseball players who are well-behaved. The Yuni move seemed to have more to do with the fact that he simply refused to work with the system. However, this move doesn’t go along with Zduriencik’s other emphasis on bringing in good baseball players. Griffey is no longer a good baseball player. He is simply a good human being (and a famous, ticket-selling one at that), and evidently that’s what matters to Zduriencik.
Griffin’s Edit: I’m not surprised, I’m not excited, and I’m not all that upset. Griffey is not going to help the team all that much when it comes to winning games, and he’s going to take up a roster spot. Obviously this move was completely aimed at keeping team chemistry good, and keeping Ichiro happy. That’s all fine and dandy, but it just means that we have one fewer roster spot to work with when it comes to improving this team. Let’s see what happens.
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I don’t see how they could possibly expect to have great success while having Griffey play just about every day. I understand that everyone is saying, well Wak won’t play him that often and it sounds as if Griffey understands that, but it won’t effect the seat selling unless he is out there playing which means it won’t effect it at all.
You guys should check out this foxsports.com buzz thing, because it’s kind of shocking. It sounds as if Z plans on doing the exact opposite of what everyone thought he would do. A couple of things said that a reporter who came away after talking to GM Jack Z believing that he was going to try to add a bunch of veteran talent this winter because he wants to win now….WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10343728/Latest-buzz-from-MLB%27s-GM-meetings
The most baffling quote that a reporter said……”Jack wants to win”. Old ass vets and Griffey don’t really lead to that haha
We better not do what the damn A’s did last year
GMZ is apparently discussing a trade with the Jays that would send us Lyle Overbay….thoughts?
So, yeah. It’s impossible for me to evaluate Z on this because I don’t know how much of it was his decision and how much came from Armstrong/the marketing people. It’s a bad baseball decision and it likely costs someone like Langerhans his job. It shows that the M’s haven’t completely shifted away from their old, failed methods of player evaluation.
However, it’s not a team-killer. The M’s can still improve. It’s just a little harder now. Go Z.
Lyle Overbay = Mike Carp … with half the ISO
One thing to remember Chad is alot of the pitchers we are looking at are vetern. Ben Sheets, John Lackey, “Doug Davis”, Rich Harden. Are all considered “Veteran” Pitchers…
There is no reason to think that we can not win now. Jack is putting together the best group of guys within his disposal and they will give us a great chance to win.
It’s all we could ask for…
yeah…
So you are saying that you hope he doesn’t make the Lyle Overbay trade
Yeah Chad he’s expensive and he’s not worth enough to justify signing him to play over Carp. Those talks won’t go anywhere.
alright cool
I just tweeted this earlier but I think you guys should take a look
Lyle Overbay
vs.
Mike Carp
the difference … .25 ISO POINTS.
Alot of people say Overbay is much better with the glove but I seem to think that Carp isn’t as bad as previously thought of at first. Maybe i’m wrong. Small sampsize is in effect.