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Preview: Seattle @ Tampa

By Harrison Crow

Sep 22, 2009

There are two weeks left … here are the teams.

Pos	Mariners	WAR	wOBA		Pos	Rays	WAR	wOBA
	Catchers					Catchers
C	Rob Johnson	0.4	0.274		C	Shawn Riggans	0.1	0.403
C	Kenji Johjima	0.9	0.303		C	Dioner Navarro	0	0.259
C	Adam Moore	-0.1	0.099		C	Gregg Zaun	0.6	0.343

	Infielders					Infielders
2b	Jose Lopez	2.2	0.323		2b/of	Ben Zobrist	7.4	0.4
3b	Jack Hannahan	0.7	0.3		SS	Jason Bartlett	4.7	0.39
SS	Jack Wilson	0.1	0.253		3b	Evan Longoria	6.8	0.381
😕	Josh Wilson	0.4	0.277		1b	Carlos Pena	2.8	0.374
ANY	Bill Hall	0.1	0.269		2b	Akinori Iwamura	1.1	0.338
1b	Mike Carp	0.2	0.353		2b	Willy Aybar	0.1	0.328
3b	Adrian Beltre	1.9	0.297		SS	Reid Brignac	0.2	0.317
2b/3b	Matt Tuiasosopo	0.1	0.333		1b	Chris Richard	-0.2	0.244

	Outfielders					Outfielders
of	Ichiro Suzuki	4.8	0.37		Of	Carl Crawford	5.1	0.368
of	Franklin Gutierrez	5	0.331		Of	Gabe Kapler	0.9	0.328
of	Michael Saunders	-0.2	0.233		Of	B.J. Upton	2	0.299
of	Ryan Langerhans	0.6	0.301		Of	Gabe Gross	1	0.322
					Of	Fernando Perez	-0.3	0.072
	DH
DH	Ken Griffey Jr.	0.1	0.324
😕	Mike Sweeney	0.2	0.334			DH
					DH	Pat Burrell	0	0.318

Pitchers

Mariners Pitcher	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCT/C	wCB/C	wCH/C	wSF/C	wKN/C
Ryan Rowland-Smith	0.51	1.01		2.52	-0.31
Brandon Morrow	-1.23	0.45		0.53	-1.25

Rays	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCT/C	wCB/C	wCH/C	wSF/C	wKN/C
Jeff Niemann	0.72	-1.37		-0.12	1.74	-0.77
Unknown	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Tuesday: RR-S vs. Jeff Niemann

Wednesday: Brandon Morrow vs. TBD

Rays	wFB	wSL	wCT	wCB	wCH	wSF	wKN
Grant Balfour	4.7	1.9	-0.1	-0.3	0.2
Jeff Bennett	-1.2	-3
Chad Bradford	-2.7	-0.5			-1.5
Randy Choate	5.4	2.8		0.2	0
Lance Cormier	-2.4	1.5	13.1	-5.9	-0.3
Wade Davis	3.8	0.4		2	-1
Matt Garza	5	11		5.9	-5	0.1
J.P. Howell	1.6	-0.4		6.2	5.4
David Price	7.3	-7.7		0.2	0.3
James Shields	-11.1	0.5	-1.6	0.9	9.7
Brian Shouse	-1.5	-0.3			-0.1
Andy Sonnanstine	-5.9	-7.2	-0.4	-1.9	-1.5
Russ Springer	-1.8	0.2	-0.4	-0.5	0.4
Dale Thayer	-0.1	0.7			0.2
Dan Wheeler	6.1	3.4		1.7	-1.8	-0.2


Seattle Mariners	wFB	wSL	wCT	wCB	wCH	wSF	wKN
David Aardsma	19.3	1.5		0		-1.6
Felix Hernandez	16.9	3.3		2.9	10.8
Shawn Kelley	3.8	-0.7			-0.3
Ian Snell	3.6	0.7		-4.6	0.8
Mark Lowe	2.3	9.4			-2.1
Randy Messenger	-1.8	-0.6		0.5	1.2
Jason Vargas	-2.4	-0.3		-4.2	0.3
Chris Jakubauskas	-4			1.4	-1.5
Miguel Batista	-4.4	-0.6	-0.7	-1	-0.2	-0.1
Carlos Silva	-5.4	0.7			-3.8
Douglas Fister	-6.2	0.8		-2.2	4.2
Luke French	-11.7	-0.2			-1.1
Garrett Olson	-15.1	0.1		4.1	3.8

Please disregard anything you read that implies that Rowland-Smith is a legit #2 behind Felix. It’s not true.

P.S. I was suppose to be at both of these games… stupid deployment…