derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 06 2009 | mariners, baseball, seattle, sabermetrics
Having read much of tangotiger's work, this is great news.
Quoted: Derek noted it in passing in his thread on Blengino's BP interview, but it deserves its own post. The Mariners have hired Tom Tango as a consultant to assist
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 12 2008 | mariners, seattle, blogs, baseball
Jack Zduriencik continues to get high marks from me. He definitely seems to have a plan.
Quoted: The idea is that the team will receive video of their opponents and have workers in the new department break down each pitch from a statistical viewpoint. They can grade the break on curve balls, tendencies to throw certain pitches in certain situations, figure out what hitters like to swing at, that sort of thing.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | mariners, baseball, seattle
Quoted: This whole situation with expecting value back for Washburn is absurd on so many levels. The Mariners are like a guy who got suckered into a timeshare presentation in Mexico, and spent $20,000 on a one week per year one-bedroom condo with $1000 per year in fees. Now the guy is trying to find someone in his office who will buy it from him for $10,000 - half price, he tells them - but the reality is that he's lucky if he can simply find someone who will take that albatross off his hands for nothing. He still thinks this is something valuable because, after all, he paid $20,000 for it, didn't he?
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 31 2008 | seattle, mariners, trade, rhodes
Golf clap for our interim GM, nice work.
Quoted: MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2008 | baseball, seattle, mariners, petition, chris antonetti, sabermetrics+1! +1!
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 30 2008 | mariners, seattle, baseball, news
Anxious to see if Clement sees any time behind the dish.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2007 | mlb, mariners, seattle, trade, carlos silva
Ugh.
Quoted: Not really the worst signing in the world, since he was sadly one of the most valuable starting pitchers in the FA market and Nintendo's awash in Wii-cash, but something just seems perverse about signing a player for $11 million a year and have him not even be good enough to crack the starting rotation of your primary competition the upcoming season.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2007 | mariners, seattle, baseball, dave cameron
Dave nails this one as usual.
Quoted: Great qualities as a leader = He lets me do whatever I want. Asking Ibanez if he likes McLaren is like asking the eight year old who is eating chocolate cake for dinner and playing video games til midnight if he likes his babysitter.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 31 2007 | mariners, baseball, seattleMcLaren's incompetence is absolutely beyond defense. He's thrown away more games in his short tenure this season than "Bad Hargrove" did last season. Absolutely inexcusable.
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- doug - Jul 28 2008
You must be Derek's friend before you can comment on this Fave.hmm, he's still pitching for the m's today.
Deal isn't done yet, M's are playing hardball.
The M's better play hard ball. Bavasi would consistently roll over for any lousy deal, just so he could feel like he was accomplishing something. Wash has figured it out finally (with help from his college coach) and we better get plenty for him.
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