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2011 Seattle Mariners Offense

Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭
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It's the worst I've ever seen. They are going through games with 4 hits, 2 hits, 6 hits.... fairly regularly. The pitchers have to practically throw a shutout to not lose the game. If the pitcher gives up 2 runs they are done. The Mariners organization is not fooling me. One little issue here and there with those starters and this could easily be a 100 loss team next year. This team is like a bunch of salmon swimming up stream to their demise. They have like 3 starters who are not even close to batting .200 You get the feeling that this is not going to get better either. They need a miracle offensively in the organization or this team is going to be doomed for awhile....No chance of winning with that offense. They have to hope that someone in the minors is going to be a MLB stud. Ackley is the only one to get excited for at all. Ichiro is little to no impact whatsoever.

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  • jdip9jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
    If that pitching staff had the Yankees or Red Sox lineup, we might be seeing the M's challenge their own 116-win record. King Felix or Pinieda might go 29-2. Jason Vargas is their worst starter statistically and he has a 3.49 ERA and 1.14 WHIP!!! That is silly.
  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    Franklin Gutierrez and Chone Figgins are the biggest disappointments for me and the teams hitting with RISP with less the two outs its absoultely horrendous. Pineda should be in the All Star game by the way.
  • GootGoot Posts: 3,496
    You can make the same case for Oakland, as they too have a very good pitching staff while their offense is abysmal.

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's the worst I've ever seen. They are going through games with 4 hits, 2 hits, 6 hits.... fairly regularly. The pitchers have to practically throw a shutout to not lose the game. If the pitcher gives up 2 runs they are done. The Mariners organization is not fooling me. One little issue here and there with those starters and this could easily be a 100 loss team next year. This team is like a bunch of salmon swimming up stream to their demise. They have like 3 starters who are not even close to batting .200 You get the feeling that this is not going to get better either. They need a miracle offensively in the organization or this team is going to be doomed for awhile....No chance of winning with that offense. They have to hope that someone in the minors is going to be a MLB stud. Ackley is the only one to get excited for at all. Ichiro is little to no impact whatsoever. >>


    There was an article last year that made the case that the Mariners offense in 2010 was the worst AL offense in the DH era. That's pretty impressive. And this year's? Might be even worse. .226/.293/.337 BA/OBP/SLG. That's amazing. You could field a team of pitchers and come out with nearly those numbers. In 2010, the Mariners had *7* guys with at least 32 ABs that hit under .200 - including one guy under .100. They had another *8* guys hit between .200 and .230.

    This year? Three STARTERS under .200, another at .215, another at .218, another at .226. Ichiro, with absolutely zero power and hardly any walks, is hitting .277 - to lead all Mariners starters by *33* points.

    And they are STILL at .500.

    We're talking the 1906 White Sox here, folks.

    Tabe
  • jdip9jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
    You can make the same case for Oakland, as they too have a very good pitching staff while their offense is abysmal.

    No doubt. I saw a stat last night that in their last 20 starts, the A's rotation has a sub-2.00 ERA. That is filthy!
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭
    The M's are ripping the ball again tonight....notimage
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭
    image Even the great Ichiro looks to be at the end of the line. It appears that there are only 3-4 major leaguers in the lineup.....I'm serious. The pitching absolutely does not matter when the offense can barely get any hits let alone any runs. And the joker manager can't get balls and strikes right. Two 3 ball walks in just over a week tells me they have completely lost focus and the organization is in trouble in the future. The 3A team could not do any worse hitting. I'm pissed at the way the Mariners front office thinks they are fooling everyone.
  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    Someone needs to remind the Mariners that the All Star break is over and the games have resumed. Seriously, it will be interesting to see how long this losing streak can go because they cannot hit at all, Olivo who was their most productive hitter is getting worn out behind the plate and everyone else is in a season long slump. I stop to look at a car crash just like everyone else so I'll be watching this train wreck of a team pile up the losses.
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭
    Well, the offense has been doing better lately. This organization is a train wreck.image
  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭
    SEA's team OPS+ is 79. As awful as they've been, it's actually only the third lowest since 2000. The 2004 (111 loss) D-Backs finished at 77 OPS+, and the 2004 (95 loss) Expos finished with a 78 OPS+. So the M's are going to have to struggle a bit more to reach the most recent era of sucktitude...at least in terms of OPS+.
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    0-17 image

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1-17 !!!

    M's win! image

    Dave

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    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    Great picture Dave. Two vending icons now gone. My I ask where you got this picture?
  • RoarIn84RoarIn84 Posts: 859 ✭✭
    My Tigers have gotten embarrassed by the M's this season...... They gave up 24 runs in a 3 game sweep at a time when the M's couldn't buy a run. Pathetic....
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Piggs - Yes, it is a great pic. It probably has no meaning to anyone unfamiliar with the Kingdome, and Safeco Field. I snagged it off the M's Facebook page.

    $1.50 beer? Wow.

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one of Bill must be even older. $1.25 ???? So cheap it looks like he had a few himself.

    Dave

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    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Dave, I stole the two shot picture for my facebook page and then a bunch of friends stole it. Went to the Sonic night game tonight, the game sucked 8-0 but there were alot of sonics fans there. This town needs them back.
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