Seattle: 54-51
Kansas City: 41-64
| MARINERS | ROYALS |
EDGE | |
| HITTING (wOBA) |
-67.0 (28th) |
-81.3 (30th) | SEA |
| FIELDING (UZR) |
44.4 (2nd) |
-29.1 (29th) | SEA |
| ROTATION (pRAA) |
-16.7 (21st) |
34.3 (9th) | KCA |
| BULLPEN (pRAA) |
-23.3 (28th) | -4.9 (18th) | KCA |
| OVERALL(RAA) |
-62.2 | -81.0 | Seattle |
The defense went up nearly 10 runs in a week. Thankfully that happened or man would our week have looked just terrible. The rotation got blown up and the offense and pen both also lost significant performance value.
Yuniesky Betancourt, since joining the Royals: .140/.158/.228, -8.3 bRAA, -1.1 UZR (-10.3 UZR/150), -0.7 WAR.
In 17 games.
Meanwhile, Willie Bloomquist, -0.1 WAR, Tug Hulett, -0.4 WAR and Jose Guillen, -1.7 WAR.
Game 1: Ryan Rowland-Smith* vs. Luke Hochevar
Game 2: Lucas French* vs. Kyle Davies
Game 3: Jason Vargas* vs. Bruce Chen*
Luke Hochevar (5.06 tRA) is the best starter we face this week. He has been a bit of a ground ball pitcher and has shown above average command and a good ability to miss bats. He has yet to turn the missed bats into an above average strike out rate, but once he does that, he should solidify himself as a solid upper mid-rotation starter. With Zack Greinke, Gil Meche and Brian Bannister, the Royals could field four legit quality pitchers in the rotation.
Kyle Davies (6.77 tRA) has huge issues with his control in the Majors, but has shown some improvement while in Triple-A. He has always managed to get hitters to chase just enough to hold onto a roughly Quad-A level of performance. As with Hochevar, Davies' tRA is inflated thanks to a big home run rate.
Bruce Chen (6.59 tRA) exhibits an average pitch profile, but his batted ball profile is heavily skewed away from keeping any balls on the ground. As such, he yields a lot of line drives and many of those non-ground balls land on the other side of the pesky wall that some moron erected in the outfield.
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If Yuni were to keep up that pace for a full season, he could be a -10 WAR player!
I’m excited for 2010.
Teej - August 4, 2009
Wait, no. But still amazingly bad.
Teej - August 4, 2009
It'll be interesting to see how long Moore waits before admitting his failure and moving Yuni.
I can’t imagine the sickness in the bottom of his stomach at this thought.
Lanky - August 4, 2009
Maybe he'll try to do the Halladay method
and send him to A ball to rework his mechanics or something.
Jed MC - August 4, 2009
-7 WAR, by games, and by per 600 PAs.
Still impressive!
Jack Moore - August 4, 2009
I am thinking a sweep!
Grass Creek will be ours.
Fin - August 4, 2009
The problem with that stupid wall is that it's really hard to climb over it to get the ball back
and sometimes they make it so you can’t even run all the way around
seattlebruin - August 4, 2009
there are doors in most of them
but annoyingly there are usually only doorknobs on the outside. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
pdb - August 4, 2009
Woodward DFA'd and Hannahan stays.
According to Baker (to make room for Beltre).
Thingray - August 4, 2009
Ballsy move, but I like it.
Hopefully Hanners can play 2B/SS well enough if he has to.
appleshampoo - August 4, 2009
As Baker said, this also gives us good insurance if Beltre has a small setback or anything.
Thingray - August 4, 2009
Honestly I thought they would hang onto Woodward.
BrianL - August 4, 2009
With Hannahan having options left, it surprised me a bit too.
Guess that tells you what they think of Woodward.
Thingray - August 4, 2009
I am sure they think the same of what we all think.
Fin - August 4, 2009
Yay lefties!
MT Olson - August 4, 2009
So without Greinke
and with an average starter in his place, it looks like their rotation would drop about ten spots and be about as good as ours. He’s still like 10 pRAA ahead of Lincecum, and already is getting pretty close to being worth as much as last years pRAA leader with like 12 starts left. Insane.
Manzanillos Cup - August 4, 2009
Yes he is
Graham MacAree - August 4, 2009
Speaking of which...
…it’s weird to think that the Mariners got such a good/lucky 2/3 year out of Washburn to fill out a nice top 3 starters of a rotation, but have ended up in the bottom 10 of the majors in starting pitching. Is there any word on whether Bedard will pitch again this year?
GhettoBear04 - August 4, 2009
Last I heard he had played a "vigorous" game of catch, and then they were going to re-evaluate him.
I think he’ll pitch again this year. They’ve yet to find any structural damage to his shoulder.
Thingray - August 4, 2009
I wouldn't count on it
Jeff Sullivan - August 4, 2009
I'm not holding my breath or anything,
but I’ve yet to hear anything from the M’s saying it’s season-ending. Actually GMZ was mentioning getting him back this year in a radio interview yesterday.
Thingray - August 4, 2009
What gets me is that that's replacing him with an average starter, which is a pretty valuable player.
Manzanillos Cup - August 4, 2009
I'm still waiting for the traditional Battle for Grass Creek trash talk.
Should be a good one with the “addition” of Yuni to the KC roster.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
.
This is what we are fighting for.
Goose - August 4, 2009
More Silva fans there than in Seattle.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
Well the good news is that Yuni's OPS is up 80 points from where it was three days ago
seattlebruin - August 4, 2009
No, the good news is that Yuni is not a Mariner.
[Good news for you, at least]
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
On a side note: Washburn pitches for Detroit today.
For those needing an hour to burn before this epic showdown with the Royals.
ThundaPC - August 4, 2009
Ahahaha
seattlebruin - August 4, 2009
FB post says Corco refused assignment to the minors and is now a free agent.
Forfeiting the rest of his contract seems kind of odd given the season he put together, I don’t quite follow that decision. There might be a reason I don’t understand.
Kermit. - August 4, 2009
GIT R DUN
waldo rojas - August 4, 2009
Right. Mud, whatever was I thinking.
Of course he hit the free agent market.
Kermit. - August 4, 2009
Fantastic.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
To quote RC, you've given me the "church giggles."
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
They can have Silva, too!
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
Our season may be long dead
But don’t think we’ve forgot about Grass Creek.
ratherfantastic - August 4, 2009
Holy shit Bruce Chen
Jeff Sullivan - August 4, 2009
Willie just needs to play every day!
.265/.309/.364 with mediocre defense.
Fuck you, Willie.
Jeff Sullivan - August 4, 2009
NO ONE HAS GOTTEN MORE CHANCES THAN WILLIE
Poochie - August 4, 2009
Some people have
Jeff Sullivan - August 4, 2009
Unlikely
Poochie - August 4, 2009
Daniel Cabrera just got a deal with the Dbacks.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
Maybe he'll pull a Joel Pineiro
and out of nowhere become unbelievably awesome.
Manzanillos Cup - August 4, 2009
Needed somebody to replace Brandon Webb.
Goose - August 4, 2009
How many different teams has Sidney Ponson played for?
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
How many chances did he get to crack the rotation with the same team?
Poochie - August 4, 2009
Willie's getting chances with two teams now.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
And he lost his job to and gut with a .250 wOBA and a -17 UZR
Poochie - August 4, 2009
He's like 7 wins better than Yuni
seattlebruin - August 4, 2009
Oh YAY!
Willie & Rizzsy on the pregame!!!!
msb - August 4, 2009
Reading Baker's blog. The bench coach says Yuni's defensive rating is the result of bad luck..
What does that even mean?
Rudy4three - August 4, 2009
Every single ball hit into his zone is a smoked groundball that he has no chance to get
seattlebruin - August 4, 2009
You're thinking too much.
They just mean that he’s unlucky, in that if nobody hit any balls at him, he wouldn’t have bad stats.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
He's like the Albert King of Cuban Shortstops
waldo rojas - August 4, 2009
He lacks mental signals.
Eyebrows - August 4, 2009
Gypsy curse maybe?
Makes more sense than starting him at short
Bearskin Rugburn - August 4, 2009
I believe he means it is bad luck to have Moore as your GM.
Sec 108 - August 4, 2009
Everyone knows the only things that belong in outfields are hills and flagpoles.
waldo rojas - August 4, 2009
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
EnglishMariner - August 4, 2009
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