Series Thread: M's Roadtrip: May 3rd - 9th

[WizardHawk]

Game

Wasted another quality start with shit offense

 

[NWinAZ]

I just said this in the Astros series, Thornton is mop up and not tight game. Will Servais ever learn.

 

[MarinersBestFan]

Total of 12 Mariners strikeouts through eight innings.

I just don’t see this strikeout rate fixing itself. It’s gonna be like this the entire season.

 

[NWinAZ]

This starter for Twins pitched 6 innings giving up 1 hit and 8 K's. His last start he played the White Sox and pitched 3 2/3rds, 7 Hits and 2 K's.

 

[cezero]

As I said earlier, both of his last 2 starts were against the white sox. he gave up 7 hits in each of those games to the white sox.

you know he was ecstatic when he saw he was going to get to face the mAAAriners lineup

 

[WizardHawk]

This will be the easiest lineup for every pitcher the M's face all year. They won't lose them all because their pitching carries the team, but most nights will be a breeze for the opposing starters.

 

[MarinersBestFan]

Total of 12 Mariners strikeouts through eight innings.

I just don’t see this strikeout rate fixing itself. It’s gonna be like this the entire season.

Add two more to that from the top of the ninth. that’s a total of 14 Seattle Mariners batters struck out tonight.

It’s simply just not sustainable.

As soon as our pitching comes back down to earth, the Mariners are going to fall back in the standings.

They’re potentially a .500 baseball club.
But I just do not see the current squad of players making the postseason this year.

 

[cezero]

I just keep telling myself it's a privilege to get to see such marvelous pitching from the m's night in and night out. that includes the bullpen. it's not their fault that it's virtually impossible to get 3 or more runs out of the losers in the lineup.

 

[WizardHawk]

Remember when Cal said they were tired of hearing that the pitching is carrying this team coming out of spring training?

I guess they weren't tired enough to do something about it.

 

[WizardHawk]

M's moved back into first place...








(in team strikeouts)

 

[NWinAZ]

Bullshit!

Ryan Divish

@RyanDivish
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4m

The error on Ty France has been changed to a double for Max Kepler. The offiicial scorer reviewed the replays and saw that the ball hit the bag, causing it to misdirect

 

[Cloud]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Shohei ding 50+ this year. Maybe even 60. Dude is a freak.

As a baseball fan, extremely blessed to have witnessed Ichiro and now Shohei.

 

[Destroydacre]

First place was fun while it lasted.

 

[MarinersBestFan]

First place was fun while it lasted.

I think if we fall more than three or four games back from the division lead, we never recapture it this season

 

[NWinAZ]

 

[NWinAZ]

I forgot how bad he really was. He gives Angel a run for is money.

Baseball King

@BasebaIlKing
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22m

Never forget Eric Gregg calls in the 1997 NLCS

https://x.com/BasebaIlKing/status/1787899173645467843

 

[NWinAZ]

In another frustrating setback, Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Marco Gonzales is set to miss a good portion of the 2024 season with another elbow problem.

 

[NWinAZ]

Let's Figure Out What is Wrong with Mariners' Star Julio Rodriguez at the Plate​

Originally posted on FanNation Fastball | Last updated 5/7/24

The Seattle Mariners, who have playoff goals this season, are off to a nice 19-16 start through their first 35 games this year. However, the record feels a little tenuous considering that the M's are relying almost solely on historically great starting pitching and are getting very little from an offense they expected to be better this season.
Newcomers Mitch Garver (.163) and Jorge Polanco (.195) are both hitting under .200. Mitch Haniger, Cal Raleigh and Dylan Moore are all hitting under .215, so this offensive funk the M's are in is certainly an across the board failure.

But the biggest frustration and anomoly of them all is Julio Rodriguez. Rodriguez, who is a two-time All-Star and a former Rookie of the Year, has looked lost at the plate at times. He's hitting .254 but has only one homer and seven RBI through 138 at-bats. For a team that is as light-hitting as Seattle, they can't afford to have their best player posting a .603 OPS at this point in the season.

Let's examine a litle bit about what's up with Julio:

1) Baseball is hard. It could just be this simple, right? Baseball is a hard game and even the best players struggle - and can struggle for a while. And I'm not trying to sugercoat Rodriguez's struggles, because they are pronounced, but we can't discount that this is just how the game goes sometimes. Ronald Acuna Jr., who won the MVP last year in the National League, has only two homers and eight RBI for the Braves, and he has the benefit of lineup protection that Rodriguez doesn't have.

Corbin Carroll, who won the National League Rookie of the Year last season, is hitting just .203 with a homer and seven RBI for the Diamondbacks. He was dropped as low as eighth in the order recently.

2) Rodriguez simply doesn't get on base enough. It's one thing to not have a great batting average, but Rodriguez right now isn't even a consistent threat to get on base. His walk rate is in the 11th percentile according to Baseball Savant. His strikeout percentile is near 30 percent, which is in the bottom 15 percent. The combination of high strikeout and low-walk just isn't a winning formula.

3) Rodriguez is also chasing pitches, as his chase rate sits in the bottom 12 percent of baseball right now. Perhaps he's pressing, perhaps he's trying to carry a bad offense, perhaps he's trying to justify his contract, all of it could be true, but he's certainly not always swinging at the right pitches. He also isn't barreling the ball enough, hitting just 6.4 percent of barrels compared to an 11.8 career average.

So what's the reason for optimism? Well, Rodriguez has been good before so he should be good again. Furthermore, he still hits the ball hard, with an average exit velocity in the 86th percentile. Perhaps those balls will start falling with more regularity, but he still needs a better overall approach.

 

[NWinAZ]

Cool story.

Baseball King

@BasebaIlKing
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9m

In 1996, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr. and the Seattle Mariners challenged their Single-A affiliate to an impromptu home run derby and lost to a 19-year-old named David Arias. You know him better today as Hall of Famer David Ortiz.

https://x.com/BasebaIlKing/status/1787928146051813381

 

[kcden]

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Things everyone except for JeDi knew... when you have an asset that has value, don't fucking give it away for free.