Game 103, Mariners at White Sox
Pauley vs Garcia, 5:10 pm.
Tonight should be an interesting test for Pauley. Similar to Doug Fister, he pounds the zone with mediocre stuff and relies on getting hitters to get themselves out, which doesn’t work all that well in a ballpark where the ball flies pretty well. But, if he can get through this line-up, he’s got a pretty decent chance of sticking in the rotation for the rest of the year, and might post good enough numbers to wind up with a major league job next year.
Also, just figured I’d throw this out there, for people who need some good news: Josh Lueke, since coming over in the Cliff Lee deal, for Double-A West Tennessee: 7 2/3 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 14 K. Don’t be surprised if we see Lueke in September. The M’s could certainly use another reliever with an out pitch who can throw strikes.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 2B
Kotchman, 1B
Gutierrez, CF
Saunders, LF
Smoak, DH
Josh Wilson, 3B
Johnson, C
Jack Wilson, SS
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I hate Olson!!!!!
Let’s put the lefty in against Konerko and Quentin. Because why not give the White Sox platoon advantage in their tiny ballpark.
You are exactly right.
Do they move the fences in when the White Sox are at bat?
Olson: “I want that Gas Can Award…nobody’s gonna cheat me out of it this year!”
Because why not give the White Sox platoon advantage in their tiny ballpark.
In fairness, the size of the park was pretty irrelevant to those blasts.
Man, if Jose Lopez got 500 AB’s in that park, I’ll bet he’d feel like Albert Pujols there.
scott19, hilarious. Bobby Ayala is the most flammable Gas Can in the Mariners history. Remember when he punched some glass, cut his pitching hand and wrist, and was put on the disabled list? Awful.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-26/sports/sp-63038_1_bobby-ayala
http://dev.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Bobby_Ayala_1969
OT, but does anyone else remember Ayala and some other reliever combining to throw 14 consecutive balls?
Things have been (marginally) worse, my friends.
I hope for a good outing by Aardsma, for the trade, of course…
Unfortunately, though, poor Lou had sooooo many gas cans on his pitching staff at that point that Ayala’s being on the DL after that incident didn’t really help matters much…
The summary from his Wiki bio, however, is also a hoot:
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Ayala was a veritable, “Mendoza of the Mound”…
Sniff … sniff……………
I am smelling 57-105
If Aardsma is traded, who closes next season? Any free agents that are appealing or potential trades? Or, do you keep D.A. and hope he pitches like 2009, and what little we have seen of him lately? If he is traded, the Mariners definitely lose 100 games.
Yes…but are we smelling or crying at this point? (Or, both?!)
I agree. If we lose Aardsma, we definitely win five more games.
I really wonder why Moore is still down at AAA. By just about any measure, RoJo is stinking up the place. Even if you buy into the whole “he calls a good game” thing (which he’s been very adept at disproving lately) – he’s sucking out loud both with the bat and with the glove.
If he’s up, he’s still at AAA
Oh c’mon, some credit where it’s due here, please…the M’s, to be fair, are at least 3.25 A (/snark).
I am probably too late to get an answer to this, but why does anyone thing Smoak is going to be a star player? If we look at the numbers (which we are supposed to do on this site) he looks like a not ready for prime time player to me: 298 at bats, 288 OBP (same as Rob Johnson), 336 slugging percentage. We already had too many guys with those kinds of numbers. Send him down to get some experience.
Yes, he probably isn’t ready for the bigs just yet, but the only reason he is here is to get some experience. Just like you said at the end of your post. What better place to learn how to hit major league pitching than the major leagues?
Not sure it is a good thing that Gutti and Saunders now have very similar OB% and BA….
Well, given where Saunders started earlier in the year – I’d say definitely good for Saunders, at least.
Why the crap did RA Dickey suck when he was on this team, and now he is decent. Freaking ridiculous.
You can find evidence of several players going elsewhere and succeeding. Conversely, good players seem to come to Seattle only to drop a hot steaming loaf.
Well, the Mets evidently hadn’t forgotten that his best start of ’08 was that game against them where he was lights out.
Jeff Sullivan has a really good piece at Lookout Landing regarding the “why do they always get better” idea.
Short version: people have really, really selective memories in that regard, and in the main it’s not true.
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Ichiro and the Oh-fers