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Jerry Mandering
Jermaine Dye, bank on it. 😛
UnknownPoster
“has just a .385 OPS thus far for Tacoma”… please tell me thats a typo…
mw3
Saunders time in the majors last year exposed his weakness. Pound him with fastballs in and his swing is too long and too slow to catch up. He has major bust written all over him.
swishasnkush
we are screwed, keeping Griffey & Sweeney will kill us…which just made the Cliff Lee trade pointless…we are going nowhere.
bjsguess
Yeah – why Jermaine Dye isn’t a Mariner is quite confusing. He could easily split time with Bradley. Sure his defense sucks but with the rest of the M’s defense, they could afford to trade off some defense for a nice offensive lift.
I said it before the season began – pitching and defense is great but the M’s simply cannot hit worth a lick. No way they win the AL West unless they get a big bat.
ELPinchy
would you like a david ortiz? PLEASE!
bustercherrie
Having a great defense is bonus to have, but offense is more important than defense. If you have good pitching (which the M’s do) there shouldn’t be such a need for a gold glove caliber defense.
Joemomma4hire, the M’s pitching staff relies heavily on fly ball pitchers or pitch to contact pitchers. Playing an average or below average defense behind them would hurt them more substantially. The Mariners need a good defense considering they play half of their games in Safeco, but the problem with that is Safeco kills right handed power hitters. IE, Adrian Beltre, Richie Sexson even Jose Lopez can be argued considering he hit 19 of his 25 home runs on the road last year. The Mariners have the right blue prints just the wrong building materials in some ways. They don’t need an all or nothing home run threat. They need good contact gap power hitters that play good defense, even average/above average defense. The Mariners are not a complete project yet, they have their holes, mainly their Designated Hugger combination of Griffey and Sweeney.
I expect this team to settle in and start hitting towards end of May or June. They are not going to hit a lot of home runs, but as guys heat up perform they will score more and the pitching will remain strong with the defense behind them. This is not a complete project, and I understand that it is frustrating for a lot of fans, myself included. This team is lacking in offense, but they will be average by the end of the season. It’s still too early to be jumping ship.
Ricky Bones
Remembre when the Mariners fans on here insisted their Punch & Judy offense wouldn’t be a point of concern & this was the year Milton Bradley put it all together?
Scott
It’s a little early to be tossing the offense down the toilet when guys like Figgins, Lopez, and Bradley have yet to hit their stride. No one thought we would have Griffey/Sweeney as our DH either. We were told all through the offseason that Griffey was the 25th man and his ABs would be far less than last year.
Jermaine Dye isn’t really the option either as his type of bat has always been negated by Safeco’s winds blowing in from left field.
Ricky Bones
I wouldn’t hold your breath on Bradley & Figgins isn’t a run producer, he’s a run scorer. Someone still has to drive him in. People who think Dye is the answer are really grasping for straws b/c the guy is done. Not only that but let’s say he does have something left, it would take him a good month or more to be ready to play. These guys still on the scrap heap haven’t gone through spring training & have been sitting on the couch for an additional month, 2 months after that.
britishpeoplearesosmart
I’ll (Reds) give you Yonder Alonso and Orlando Cabrera for Chone Figgins… Deal? Please? Okay, take Bronson Arroyo, too.
crunchy1
“LaRue thinks it will be until at least June before the M’s can “find a team willing to admit it’s given up on 2010″ and talk trade.”
How do we know it won’t be the Mariners that will be among the teams giving up on 2010? I agree with those say that Dye is the logical choice. It may not fit into what the M’s are doing, but he can still hit and they can get him sooner and without giving anyone up. If they’re still rotating the unholy trio of Byrnes, Griffey, and Sweeney into the lineup come June, it may just be too late. Bradley may turn things around a bit, but he’s not the kind of guy that carries an offense even when he is doing well.
Redhawk
I was thinking the same thing. It doesn’t look like the M’s are going anywhere soon. In fact, the best thing they can do might be to trade some of that vaunted pitching for some legit hitting prospects.
Redhawk
I was thinking the same thing. It doesn’t look like the M’s are going anywhere soon. In fact, the best thing they can do might be to trade some of that vaunted pitching for some legit hitting prospects.
Redhawk
This is a real question I’ve had for awhile. I’m hoping the M’s fans that are closer to the situation could help me out. One of the issues I’ve seen for the Mariners is NO one could hit there. It’s too big to too many areas. It’s too much a pitchers park. It takes mediocre hitters and make them look awful, in my opinion. It’s almost to the level of Petco as a pitcher’s park.
Am I wrong? Or would a reconfiguring of the OF wall in Safeco be beneficial to the Mariners.
Scott
You’re absolutely right when it comes to power-hitting right-handed bats with heavy pull tendencies. That’s one of the reasons why a guy like Jermaine Dye would struggle in Safeco. That’s also the reason why the M’s have started going after left-handed bats. When they do target a right-handed bat, it’s usually a guy with gap power who hits a lot to right field.
Right field is actually fairly homer friendly. Most of this is because of the winds coming off the water. They blow in and down from left field and tend to blow out towards right field.
Redhawk
This is a real question I’ve had for awhile. I’m hoping the M’s fans that are closer to the situation could help me out. One of the issues I’ve seen for the Mariners is NO one could hit there. It’s too big to too many areas. It’s too much a pitchers park. It takes mediocre hitters and make them look awful, in my opinion. It’s almost to the level of Petco as a pitcher’s park.
Am I wrong? Or would a reconfiguring of the OF wall in Safeco be beneficial to the Mariners.
progmatinee
Griffey for Giambi-straight up!
Redhawk
Giambi for some Iver’s Fish n Chips. They can keep Griffey.
progmatinee
Griffey for Giambi-straight up!
mw3
Jason Bay sure would look nice sharing DH and LF with Milton Bradley.