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Time for Brendan Ryan (Robert Andino) to Go
I have defended leaving Brendan Ryan at shortstop for a while, even when he was hitting below .200 for the majority of last year and partially into this year. But after almost 30 games and almost 100 AB’s…Read More
The Value of OBP and Slugging
It is often said that a team with little power needs to go get it. As in, get more power. I have no source, but I think many, many people have said something similar in regards to professional wooden-bat…Read More
Mariners Awards: Like You’ve Never Seen Them
We’ve obsessed ourselves with league-wide MVPs, Cy Youngs and Rookie of the Years for long enough now. Don’t worry, you won’t find any of those, or Silver Sluggers, Roberto Clemente awards or any…Read More
A-Rod and Slumps: A Former Mariner’s Non-story
Inspired by the recent controversy surrounding the play of former Mariner, Alex Rodriguez, I did some interesting (perhaps interesting to me, only) research on the matter. To catch anyone up, ESPN and…Read More
AL West: Power Division
Though ESPN has dropped the Mariners from existence*–likely due to an ineptitude in the department of scoring more runs than their adversaries–Seattle’s division is another a story.…Read More
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Yet Another Take on Ichiro
Everyone seems to have their own take on Ichiro, and this blog, and just about every other Mariner related…Read More
In The Hub This Week
Over in the Hub this week I will be posting some links regarding Sabermetric principles. I don’t…Read More
Spring Chaos with Graph
As Bryant kindly reminded us yesterday, it is, indeed, baseball season. For the next month, players…Read More
Dustin Ackley vs. Umpires and Two-Strike Counts
The oldest baseball meme associated with the internets, at least to my knowledge, would be that of the…Read More
The Sophomore Slump
Mariners fans are still absorbing the loss of Chris Gimenez, and with an entire fan base in a state of…Read More
You bored? I am too. Let’s talk Felix Hernandez
Not too much going on right now. I’m pretty much loving all the pictures and video supplied by…Read More
Give Into Your Marinerism: Compairing Smoak vs. Montero
When I first came into the military, I came in with a few guys that were very much like me. We were loud,…Read More
My Response
I started this as a reply (and posted my reply) to a blog post and then it took on a life of it’s…Read More
Ichiro: Just For Fun
Let me start by saying: I don’t think it’ll happen. The odds are extremely stacked against…Read More
Not Necessarily The Same Old Offense
It’s easy for one person or another to point out things that are unusual that have taken place…Read More
Exactly how bad were the 2010 Mariners? A lesson in the flaws of pythagorean projections.
We all know the Mariners were bad, but exactly how bad were they? If you read Geoff Baker’s blog on…Read More
Former M’s Part One: Jamie Moyer’s Recent “Success”
Sure, Jamie Moyer doesn’t play for the Mariners anymore, but he’s been one of the most intriguing…Read More
Statistics of Note: Pitching Staff Edition
Doug Fister has been worth 1.1 WAR through 5 starts this year. Jason Vargas has been worth 0.5 through…Read More
Ichiro and the Month of April
With Ichiro’s slow offensive start, one explanation I’ve seen thrown around quite a lot has…Read More
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