Seattle: 79-73
Toronto: 69-83
| MARINERS | BLUE JAYS |
EDGE | |
| HITTING (wOBA) |
-94.5 (30th) |
-16.9 (16th) | TOR |
| FIELDING (UZR) |
76.2 (1st) |
-35.2 (28th) | SEA |
| ROTATION (pRAA) |
-35.5 (23rd) |
-6.0 (17th) | TOR |
| BULLPEN (pRAA) |
-22.9 (29th) |
4.0 (12th) | TOR |
| OVERALL(RAA) |
-76.7 | -54.1 | Toronto |
Two game series are annoying in some way to me. Maybe because, as we just witnessed, a 1-1 split leaves you feeling unsatisfied. I bet it's no fun for the players either since it means more frequent travel. It's not like Tampa and Toronto are that close to each other. Thanks, schedule maker(s).
10 games left. That's it. For what it's worth, we currently stand to pick 17th in next year's draft.
Among teams with a winning record, we are the only one with a negative run differential.
Toronto's differential is 68 runs better than ours.
Game 1: Felix Hernandez vs. Ricky Romero*
Game 2: Doug Fister vs. Roy Halladay
Game 3: Ian Snell vs. David Purcey*
Game 4: Ryan Rowland-Smith* vs. Brain Tallet*
Remember that fortnight or month or so when we had an all left-handed rotation aside from Felix and no southpaws in the pen? And now we have an all right-handed rotation aside from Hyphen.
We could clinch .500 this series with a split, but that might no be an easy task. For one, Toronto is probably a better team that us. For two, the three lefties we face, Romero, Purcey and Tallet are all pretty decent, ranking slightly below average. Halladay is pretty good so I've read. At least we'll get to see plenty of the red hot Mike Sweeney this series. At least, y'all will, or those that watch the games anyways.
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Only probably better?
Time to sweep.
ThundaPC - September 24, 2009
17th, you say?
AJ POLLOCK!!!!!!
Or something like that.
Faux - September 24, 2009
How much is Tornto's position of 28th in fielding affected by Vernon Wells?
Wasn’t Toronto one of the best fielding teams in baseball a couple of years ago?
Coach Owens - September 24, 2009
Wells's UZR is -19.6
But the Blue Jays don’t have many positive fielders, according to Fangraphs, and the ones they do have are both lower than the suck brought on by Wells and Lind so far in the field.
Mariner John - September 24, 2009
Woooo. Another Felix Day!
Something worth watching.
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sirbrianwilson - September 24, 2009
I'm sad there's only 10 games left.
It seemed like it was just yesterday that there were 11. Time flies.
pdb - September 24, 2009
I wonder how Ryan will do against a
“Brain.” In other thoughts, it’s odd to me that people get so indifferent about the games when we’re out of contention. They seem just as interesting to me (well, maybe slightly less), and it would still be cool to read good commentary/insights on players we’re up against and such. Guess I’m weird.
olystuart - September 24, 2009
.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/7/27/964683/series-preview-toronto-blue-jays
Aaron Campeau - September 24, 2009
Totally.
What I did was start my own blog, and it’s worked wonders.
Teej - September 24, 2009
i Viva la revolucion !
waldo rojas - September 24, 2009
It did great things for Pedro Calderon, that's for sure.
pdb - September 24, 2009
Speaking of him, I found this today. (emphasis mine)
Teej - September 24, 2009
I nominate Pedro for the Most Awesomest Guy Ever award.
pdb - September 24, 2009
I get what he's doing - it's a Babylon 5 parallel
Which means season 1 and 5 will be mediocre, the end of season 3 and beginning of season 4 will rock, the Ms will wrap up most of its interesting storylines in season 4, and sometime in the middle of 2011, Ken Griffey Jr. will be sent backwards in time 1000 years….
Spoomeister - September 24, 2009
There is now the unquenchable desire to use memorandum operatus in a sentence.
But not in an awkward way, no, it must be smoothly and unflinchingly dropped into the middle of a conversation as if it’s a completely natural thing to say.
Kermit. - September 24, 2009
And it has to be in the middle of some sort of serious discussion
and said with the utmost gravity, like it’s the final nail in the rhetorical coffin you’ve just built for your conversational opponent.
pdb - September 24, 2009
Excellent, par for course Mr. pdb. The execution is going to be difficult.
I feel it is important for this conversation to happen organically. Hmmm. This might be a bit of challenge.
Kermit. - September 25, 2009
Would you like a GIF with that?
Matthew - September 24, 2009
!
Aaron Campeau - September 24, 2009
well that's both adorable and sad
pdb - September 24, 2009
This bird:
Photo link
Tried to eat this entire roll, then got badgered by another bird and took off, but was unable to outfly the other bird. It eventually dropped the roll midflight and the attacking bird swooped down and caught it mid air. It was impressive.
Matthew - September 24, 2009
Poor guy.
That would have been a sight to see, however.
Aaron Campeau - September 24, 2009
THEY ARE INCREMENTALLY BETTER THAN US
Jeff Sullivan - September 24, 2009
We won game 1!
Dewey N - September 24, 2009
and we have 10 more wins!
Poochie - September 24, 2009
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