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Cha Baek Earns Sweet Relief, Gets DFA'd

 

GB% LD% K% BB% tRA FIP Perks
Washburn (2004-present) 38.4 19.5 13.2 6.9 5.36 4.62 Personal catcher
Baek (2004-present) 35.9 19.7 14.8 7.1 5.34 4.72 Freedom

 

So long, Baek. We'll miss your smiles.

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Only thing I can think of

Is that they had this planned already before today, so they use Baek again in back to back games knowing it isn’t a big issue and the results be damned.

He pretty clearly didn't have a role on this team

We’re no worse off without him, but I do hope he’s able to land somewhere with a team willing to give him an extended look in the rotation. He deserves that chance.

I agree but not

I didn’t have a problem hanging onto Baek, but with the 7 man bullpen we’re obsessed with keeping around, he was virtually pointless.

I agree that he should have all the chances in the world with someone else. Christ if Kyle Lohse can find work, Baek can.

Baek just isn't a bullpen guy

he needs to be starting to have any value, and since he wasn’t about to go back to Tacoma, this is the only option. For two months he’s served no real purpose.

Decent dude, wrong team.

He's an NL pitcher anyway

Take away the DH, and his crap will work okay enough for 5-6 innings a night.

Have fun in San Diego Baek.
San Diego would be perfect for him
They have an opening.
Yknow, with the obvious difference between the leagues

I often wonder why it’s so much harder to put together a good team in the NL… just take a few AL 5th starter throwaways and you’ve got magic in the making!

That sounds kind of like a lefty we have
and a couple righties
I'm sold

But you don’t really need to convince me this team is run by morons. Sidney Ponson found work somehow, Baek will be in someone’s employ.

Speaking of Ponson, he threw a complete game today (1ER, 1BB, 5SO)

Yikes….

Check his fat rolls for vasoline.

I’m guessing somewhere DMZ has Ponson under a magnifying glass.

Good luck, Baek.

May you find happiness elsewhere.

I hope this opens up the floodgates...

unlike Wilkerson…or Norton…

I wonder what the record is for most players DFAed by a team in a single season is, and when will we break it?

Matthew's Edit: We'll miss your .?

Too bad this pic is obsolete.

I thought they should have dealt him before the season

considering they had no role for him, and he couldn’t be sent to Tacoma.

Jon Garland has 14 k's in over 60 innings
I won't really miss him or anything BUT

I would miss Jarrod Washburn even less.

How much longer will they continue running this guy out to the mound to get blasted? He’s very clearly a finished pitcher.

I think even Mac has his limit.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Washburn is sent to the bullpen in the next week.

I wouldn't count on it

I mean, you might see Dickey get a spot start or two, but as long as all of the 3-4-5 guys are struggling, I doubt you see one of them removed.

Remember when we were gonna skip guys?
If only we could skip three of them
We can go Felix, Dickey, Bedard, Dickey etc

Knuckleballers are entertaining and rubberarmed.

This would be awesome.
The more I read this

the more I like it…

Bedard, Dickey, Felix, Dickey, um… Hyphen?, repeat.

Can't skip all three backend guys, unfortunately.

And Washburn was already skipped once.

They COULD theoretically push Bedard up to tomorrow’s game to stop the bleeding but nahhh…..obviously we need a Beluga Tits beatdown.

For some reason I read that as "Blackend guys"

and was about to post the “THAT’S RACIST” jpeg.

Remember when I was the ace?

well i guess we arent that bad anymore

Jeff Fassaro opening day starter? what were they thinking

Holy Shit

He’s still alive!?

to be fair, Randy was hurt
To be fair

Jeff Fassero used to be really fucking good.

who else did we have when he was the ace?
He really only became the ace after RJ was traded.

jamie moyer
Bob Wells
bob wollcott
Scott Sanders
Ken cloude
Dennis Martinez
Rafael Carmona

and a shitload of other suck

Well let me rephrase

The odds aren’t great it will happen, but if it does I won’t be the least bit surprised.

Why not?

I liked Baek. He was a pitcher who was good enough and didn’t cost anything. Good for him.

Do you ever catch a glimpse of another franchise's ineptness

on sportscenter and find yourself pitying their fans? I wonder if the Mariners do that to other people…

For you Dave

Quick and Crude, but effective.

There we go.
Captain Picard makes everything better.
I am testing this theory as applied to your comment.

Caption: Jesus Christ I can run faster than Turbo.
of course he can..

he was a star athlete in his academy days.. oh god why do i remember this

Here's a couple options.

or

Jesus this is so very wrong on so many levels.

Nice work.

New rule

J-Wash (not to be confused with the awesome Firefly character) can only date girls with an age higher than his ERA * his WHIP. Hope he likes Matlock and Old Country Buffet…

You know I'm glad for Baek...I could see himself carving out a nice little niche for himself as a #5 in the NL...
So in the interest of moving on

Who’s taking Baek’s place?

Why would you want to move on from talking about Seattle's resident pedophile?

This was actually my first idea.

I was going to take the LADIES… picture and put “Little” in front of it on a Washburn picture. Second idea was to paste Washburn’s face onto Pedobear.

But then I found that above picture of Washburn and I just thought… “oh god, this is too easy”. The real clincher was finding that picture of the little girl. I don’t know who she is, but I just want to say that whomever you are, I am sorry that you are forever associated with Jarrod Washburn and pedophilia and I hope that you have a long and rich life free of Jarrod Washburn and pedophilia.

I give you mad props for the reference.

Well done.

Jarrod does not have many good images.

Oh crap....

Bad picture of Washburn, but a great idea!

Probably Dickey.

Gives the roster a bit more flexibility. If Washburn continues to suck up the place, Hyphen can enter the rotation and Dickey can take the long-man job. If Tits continues to struggle, Dickey can enter the rotation and Hyphen can take the long-man job.

Dickey and Hyphen to the rotation!

Tits to the pen! Pedo to prison!

So we got tits, pedo, dickey

Man this is one fucked up team.

Are you sure Dickey has the stamina to last that long? Won't his arm get flaccid?
I see what you did there
So I'm still a little confused why we cut Baek.

I don’t get it.

No place on the team.

And no where else to go but out.

So what I don't get is how this move improves the team.

Thats usually why you make a move right?

It doesn't make the team worse and it makes both Baek and (presumably) Dickey happy
At least Bavasi can do one thing well.

He goes out of his way to make sure his players are treated right, trading Ben to Texas being the best example.

As much as I despise Bavasi the General Manager, I can’t deny he’s a good person. The team doesn’t get any worse without Baek, and now both him and Dickey have the opportunity to be happy and contribute to ML clubs.

Fuck that

I’m tired of saying that Bavasi was a good guy. Sure he’s made a couple overpaid players happy but he’s making little kids cry every day who have to watch this pathetic team.

It is okay to differentiate baseball from life every now and then.

I’m happy both Baek and Dickey are going to get a chance to contribute for ML clubs.

Are you also happy that Bavasi has been so kind to give

VIdro and Cairo a chance to contribute for ML clubs?

I'm not saying that he's a good GM, you're twisting my words.

The point I’m trying to make is that it is possible to be happy for someone.

Baseball aside, Bavasi has taken care of his employees. From an employer/employee viewpoint, he’s a good man to work for. If he was my boss, I’d probably be very happy.

I can’t stand Bavasi the GM, but Bavasi the human being is a pretty nice guy. I’d have a beer with him.

If my liver wasn’t shot.

Yeah twisting words is fun

At some point I don’t care how nice of a guy he is. He’s driven this team into the ground. If your boss was really considerate but was causing the company to fall apart would you support him. I bet not.

You realize the problem lies further up, yes?

Even if Bavasi gets canned Lincoln and Armstrong are going to bring in another Bavasi (See: Krivsky, Wayne).

I really don’t understand why you’re taking offense with me being happy for Baek and Dickey.

Just in a shitty mood

Not directed toward you at all. Just this shitty ass ballclub I root for.

What are you talking about?

God it's great to root for a good team.

Bummer Andy got blown out of the water today :(

Six strikeouts, one walk. He's fine.

I got my Rays shirt in the mail today.

:)

So who's it going to be?

Andy or Hyphen? You can’t have them both, Jeff.

Sure I can

let’s be honest, these guys aren’t in high demand.

Admit it

you’re not over Ben yet. You’re just using Hyphen and Andy to fill the void he left.

Well they're doing a good job of it so shut up
This isn't healthy, Jeff.

We’re here to help you. Let it out, buddy. We know you miss Ben.

I'll cope however the balls I want to cope
I read "cope" as "cup"

twice

Andy and Hyphen

Two pitchers, one cup?

PHAT ANDY 22 Please!
pfff, I got mine 6 months ago

oh and don’t be ashamed when you find yourself wearing it during M’s games.

Depending on how things progress I may wear it to the LL/USSM gathering next month
that would be awesome

especially if Bavasi comes and talks to you guys again, he’d probably get a kick out of it actually.

I don't think we're inviting Bavasi this time
For the obvious reasons?

Or for something unrelated to his general not-good-at-his-job-ness.

A handful of reasons
Your name is outdated.
.600 SLG% against

When he gets hit, it’s usually hard.

Does this mean...

God I hope so.
i've been asleep all night..

sorry if that was late.

Most likely, yes.
Speaking of stupid decisions

The Royals just signed Ho.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH (breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… Hooo uh… heh

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This news just made my day.

This surprises me

The Royals seems smarter than that.

Fortunately

We don’t play the Royals for about another two months. By then Ho will likely no longer be on the team, so we won’t be subjected to watching him shut us down.

Ho shutting us down

would be cause for bridge-jumping.

Minor league contract

no harm, no foul.

It's a gateway drug.
they didn't trade a very good RP to acquire his services
this could be a good chance for ho to resurect a once promisung..

oh HAHAHAHA who am i kidding, it’s Ho-Ram.

A return to the AL is just what he needs.
How many ex-Mariners does that make?

4? 5? I lost count.

The Battle of Grass Creek just got a lot more exciting.
So...

Jorge Campillo, Francisco Cruceta, and Yorman Bazardo all say hi.

Those guys have a long way to go before they represent substantial losses
I know

I don’t really totally know what I was saying with this. Maybe its fine we got rid of Baek cause we had gotten rid of these guys too. Our bullpen is already doing fine so its no big loss and I guess I can’t really be complaining. Just interesting.

Oh Matt Thorton is also kinda good somehow it appears. I didn’t want to believe it at first but it might be true.

Yeah Thornton kind of pisses me off
We saw him yesterday.

..Leave the mound.

By the way, here's a really low-quality .gif

My Raul gif was fucking awesome, but I couldn't host it without shrinking it down to a fourth of that
I don't have video-grabbing capability

but a cleaner .gif of Raul’s attempted dive (immediately following Thames’ grand slam) would be clutch. It’d be nice to have an assortment of Raul defensive .gif’s for our own amusement.

I fanshotted the video that used to make said gif.
But how did you get that clip?
screen recording of the 400 k feed
the smaller the area, the better the frame rate I guess
With a free program or a pay program?
shareware

it’s a giant pain in the ass, but it works

and clearly you have bought the wrong jersey

Oh God I would love to own one of those

(I only got a Rays shirt, not a jersey. Jerseys are expensive.)

(I figured)

(and I had to customize it too, even though he’s on the team)

I think it was this

link

I think the ball he dropped against Chicago

would be a nice grab too.

My free .gif converter program trial runs out after 30 days

uh oh

The amazing photo editor is adequate

for your AVI-->GIF needs.

New effort:

I’m going to bed.

alright

I mailed the original gif I made to the llhotline. Maybe the SBN pic hosting will do a better job than my freebie one.

And Win.

Good show mates. Good job JI.

me likey
godammit you're padding you rec lead with my gif

you sly son of a bitch

I rec'd you for fairness.
I should log in with my brother's account and rec my best work.
You have a brother on here too????

Coach?

Also, that gif really is sweet. I hope it is worth sidebarring. I can’t stop looking at it.

I'll get around to addressing the sidebar one of these days

For now, bed.

Too late for me

I could watch this thing forever.

No, he lurks.

He’s probably made ~5 posts lifetime.

E-mailed you some tips about how to find good GIF programs.
Never understood needing a .gif converter permanently anyway

I just don’t make enough of them to justify it.

I'll host it on my site
Low quality is looooooowwwwww

But it’s still enough.

I swear, the seattlemariners.com forums are rife with people who want to defend Ibanez’s defense. I wish I could post pictures there so I could remind them of EVERY MOTHER FUCKING SHITTY PLAY he makes.

That would be a wasted effort.
They're starting to listen, actually

Not about Raul, but after this disastrous season, they’re at least willing to accept that some of the warnings I’d been preaching about weren’t all hooey.

It’s been slow and painful, but winning over the moronic masses is starting to bear fruit.

See your problem is that you went to the seattlemariners.com forums
They still have those up?

crap those are worse than the ESPN shithole.

Big fish, small pond.

I admit it, it’s an ego thing being one of the few voices of intelligence on there. Seen a couple of other guys amongst the blog-o-sphere on there.

And Bill Krueger gave "Clean Up the D" a check....(0 errors)
How is the ball going under your glove as you "dive" to catch it not an error?
By that point in the game the play was meaningless
Was there nobody out there

willing to deal a couple of B and C grade “prospects” for Baek before the season started?

Probably were, no doubt management wasn’t taking offers.

I'm guessing we'll still get something worthless in return for Baek
I'd rather have something worthless

than nothing at all.

In fact, that’s probably why I’m a Mariners fan.

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