"I'm astonished to tell you the truth when I look up and I see Vidro's average is what it is, because I feel like every time he goes up there I'm very confident that he's going to give us a good at-bat," Riggleman said. "And for the at-bats that he has, he's knocked in quite a few runs ... he's been fairly effective in the way we want to use him.
...
"It's not a classic DH situation, but I feel good every time he walks up to the plate," Riggleman said. "The numbers may say otherwise, but I think he's going to give us good at-bats."
Jim Riggleman on Yuniesky Betancourt:
"I don't have the solution. But he has to be more selective at the plate. He needs to study pitchers to have a better idea about what's coming. He needs to study pitching sequences. He's a very good major league player right now. But with his ability, he should be an All-Star."
..."He told me how much he wants to play, and I appreciate that," Riggleman said. "I had to let him know that the day off wasn't for him but to get other guys in the lineup. But the thing is that he's making it easier for me if his on-base percentage stays at .275.
"He's giving me reasons to give him days off. He has to understand that."
Jose Vidro: .226/.271/.329
Yuniesky Betancourt: .261/.273/.364
Jose Vidro
-has been having good at bats
-has awful numbers
-ergo, has smarts, can't hit
-has not disappointed Jim Riggleman
Yuniesky Betancourt
-has been having bad at bats
-has less awful numbers
-ergo, is stupid, can hit better than Vidro
-has disappointed Jim Riggleman
A diagram:
This team cares far too much about the red line, and not nearly enough about the black one.
4 recs | 67 comments
One conclusion: This team is racist.
kentroyals5 - July 26, 2008
Haha they're both Latino
Gomez - July 26, 2008
(You got the joke)
But to be honest, I’m not sure M’s management/Riggleman know that.
Riggleman: “Hey, one is really dark, they can’t both be Latino.”
Perlozzo: “Yeah, but maybe they are both Latino. They are easy to control.”
kentroyals5 - July 26, 2008
At least Riggleman has a losing record.
ThundaPC - July 26, 2008
Someone needs to write Riggleman a letter
(And no Robert, don’t send him a letter that’s ‘ticking’)
kentroyals5 - July 26, 2008
haha that's totally something robert would do
he crazy
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - July 27, 2008
Is this because Jose Vidro has a track record?
Experience? Dat burn it Riggy.
Frosty Raptor - July 26, 2008
Shouldn't the expectations for Vidro be greater?
JI - July 26, 2008
Like not eating the bat boys?
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Apparently not, since he seems to be meeting them
Jeff Sullivan - July 26, 2008
But a .300 hitter as recently as last year
JI - July 26, 2008
But good at bats
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - July 27, 2008
There's another way to look at this
Jose Vidro
Expectation – is fat
Reality – is fat
Jose Vidro fulfills expectations
Yuni Betancourt
Expectation – is not fat
Reality – is fat
Yuni Betancourt does not fulfill expectations
Nick S - July 26, 2008
I think you're on to something.
Lets start delivering pizzas to Kenji.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Riggleman must have bigger fat expectations for Yuni, because he's filled out rather nicely
Gomez - July 26, 2008
I've heard from a reliable source that he bleeds Easy Cheese.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Maybe somebody's been reading this blog and USS Mariner.
And since Jeff and Dave and everybody all call Vidro one of the most, if not THE most, finished hitter in baseball their expectations for him are super low.
Coach Owens - July 26, 2008
I'm pretty sure Vidro > Cairo though right?
Edgar for Pres - July 26, 2008
As far a hitting probably
Cairo has more overall value
JI - July 26, 2008
Miguel Cairo has more value than our DH, who hits cleanup.
Miguel fucking Cairo.
I just…I mean…hmm.
Aaron Campeau - July 27, 2008
In general, that's a good response to anything regarding this team.
Kirsten Schlewitz - July 27, 2008
Vidro is the best!
Riggleman has advanced baseball knowledge and is way past using these results based batting statistics to evaluate players.
Berf Lafette - July 26, 2008
butthol?
Coach Owens - July 26, 2008
I think you mean Vidro4MVP
Mariner John - July 26, 2008
Speaking of STUPID, there's this:
Please tell me this has no basis in reality.
lemonverbena - July 26, 2008
We're going MONEYBALL now bitches!
kentroyals5 - July 26, 2008
Moneyball
Is that like an extra large dimebag of crack?
Gomez - July 26, 2008
I've had one of those.
That fucking Belushi was a riot to hang out with.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Yeah, throwing Sexson out saved us about $.00
batura - July 26, 2008
It's the thought that counts
OlSalty - July 26, 2008
It's the NY Post
Mariner John - July 26, 2008
Hey,
that’s $.00 we didn’t have yest… oh.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
...and again I blow the reply.
Wine + LL = completefuckingfailure.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
That was nothing.
Kirsten Schlewitz - July 26, 2008
Just wait. I'll get worse!
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
*Opens Evan Williams bottle*
kentroyals5 - July 26, 2008
Too pricey.
I prefer a bold fortified wine.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Drunk posting is so last May.
JI - July 26, 2008
June.
Kirsten Schlewitz - July 26, 2008
Whatever.
JI - July 27, 2008
That's when I started this particular binge.
Truthfully, I have no excuse for fucking up my reply. I’ve yet to switch from diet soda to the booze
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
You're like a random drunk who wanders into a small house party.
JI - July 26, 2008
I'll go easy on the couch cushions.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Ahh, I'm that way on my own site too.
If the shoe fits…
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Hello again, UNLV college years!
Gomez - July 26, 2008
Gomez can attest.
I’m actually a really endearing asshole.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
A friend and I stumbled into a house full of Filipino college kids once
They had piles of oyster shells in an empty pool and were smoking some bright green hash. They seemed friendly but girl whispered in my ear to high tail it or we’d get knifed, and we GTFO pretty quick.
Gomez - July 26, 2008
You can't trust those folks.
I’ve cut my feet on oyster shells in their pools before. That’s racist. White people have sensitive feet.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
And this wasn't no small party either
There had to be 60 people in that little house.
Gomez - July 26, 2008
You went to UNLV?
Smith18 - July 26, 2008
Grew up in Vegas, so yeah
A couple of different stints, 97-99 and 02-04.
Gomez - July 26, 2008
Is that so hard to believe?
Is it his inherent smugness (and affinity for strippers), or his debilitating addiction to numbers on horses that surprises you?
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
Richard Marcus named a roulette scam after a stripper named Savannah that he got a lap dance from once
Gomez - July 27, 2008
Now that I know...I can see it
Was curious cuz I will apply there for grad school
Smith18 - July 27, 2008
In Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.
Eyebrows - July 26, 2008
This reads like something I would post.
I want you banned immediately.
kevin_ess - July 26, 2008
You have been the only Angels fan posting here of late.
The_Optimist rarely posts here nowadays.
Susheel Ramasahayam - July 26, 2008
Yuni not meeting expectations?
Maybe Riggleman would seem more credible if he hadn’t expressed how high he thinks of Vidro.
Fin - July 27, 2008
I don't understand how the Mariners can be disappointed in Captain Bananas
They should have known what they were getting when they found him following a man in a bright yellow suit on the streets of Cuba and signed him.
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - July 27, 2008
That raft ride must have been one wacky road trip.
JI - July 27, 2008
I think his first idea for getting to America was to hold on to 5 balloons and fly across the ocean
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - July 27, 2008
I love this comment.
JI - July 27, 2008
Sometimes it feels like they are running a little league team and not a professional sports franchise.
JI - July 27, 2008
There's our answer!
Move in the fences and make them 5 feet high!
Gomez - July 27, 2008
I like how this looks like a MO diagram
Look at that ligand field splitting for Betancourt.
JLC - July 27, 2008
I love you
Jeff Sullivan - July 27, 2008
You're making Robert jealous
JLC - July 27, 2008
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