John Jaso

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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

Why I Tend to support the Morse trade (Updated)

As you have heard, the Mariners agreed to be part of a three-team deal in which they acquired outfielder/1st baseman, and former Mariner Michael Morse, in exchange for catcher and fan favorite John Jaso. It’s…Read More

Hard to Spin Mariners Trade Positively

The Mariners traded John Jaso for an old friend in Michael Morse, except Jaso went to Oakland because it was a three-team deal. I’ve gathered—since I’m literate—that neither Dave Cameron nor Jeff…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

Will the Mariners Be Improved in 2013?

For all intents and purposes it’s time to stop analyzing the 2012 Seattle Mariners team and start looking ahead to 2013. What does GM Jack Zduriencik  have up his sleeve this off season? The Mariners…Read More

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Seattle’s Future at Catcher

The Mariners are officially out of the playoff hunt, so now that I can stop focusing on this year, I…Read More

2013: Catcher Situation

The Mariners figure to make big changes in 2013 as they attempt to fit themselves into the playoff…Read More

2013: DH Situation

The Mariners figure to make big changes in 2013 as they attempt to fit themselves into the playoff…Read More

I Swear I Heard a “My-Oh-My”

  It has been one special month for all of  us long-suffering Mariner fans, especially this last…Read More

Believe Bigger

This season, the Mariners started slowly, but all of the sudden, they have fought their way back into…Read More

Perfection!

In today’s game, the Rays sent 27 batters to the plate, and King Felix sent each of them back to the…Read More

Encouraging

  Our surging Mariners still find themselves eight games below .500 at 51-59, and yet I’m excited.…Read More

Mid-Season Evaluation

The all star break is always a good time to stop and evaluate a season. It’s easy to just see at the…Read More

The Next Seattle Mariners

Believe it or not, there may come a day when the Mariners roster doesn’t feature Brendan Ryan,…Read More

Life Without Figgins

It has only been less than two weeks since Eric Wedge finally gave up on Chone Figgins. The entire city…Read More

John Jaso To Lead Off

Why? I’m not sure. Jaso has never really profiled as a lead off hitter, though Wedge has displayed…Read More

Unlucky?

With a look at the stats, you will see the Mariner’s disappointing .238 batting average and .275 BABIP.…Read More

How Long do They Have?

There comes a time in every season when you look at some of your players and ask, “How long do we give…Read More

Why Olivo…ever?

In the M’s 4-3 win over the Rangers last night, John Jaso collected two crucial hits, reminding us…Read More

4/11/2012 Game ‘Cap

I will be perfectly honest. I turned this game off after Elvis Andrus smacked a his little solo shot.…Read More