Mariner Talk Chat Forum

Personally I think the team saw their window was wide open and then Dipoto pumped the brakes. Instead of adding players to put the team over the top, Dipoto kicked it into cruise control. Watched Geno and Polanco walk and replaced their bats with Brendan Donovan, Rob freakin Refsnyder, and Cole Youn...

Personally I think Dipoto has Dan's hands tied. He's nothing more than an if/then computer scenario programmed by Dipoto. If there's a right handed starting pitcher, then these are your starting bats. If there's a left handed starting pitcher, then these are your starting bats. If Munoz is unavailab...

The Mariners have to be among the worst at win streaks over Dipoto's time here. Their abandonment of the final game of a series when they already secured a series win is the weirdest strategy ever. They have no instinct to go for the throat of their opponents. Just a bunch of sissies running the team.

Or they could play better They're not that good to begin with. Jerry tries to pass off our guys who should be #6 batters as MOTO bats and they're not (even though you bought into it hook, line, and sinker). Even at 60 HR's Cal didnt have a great OPS and not many of us expected a repeat year from Mr...

Yeah, I don't expect them to add another set of star players next season to try and compensate for the stars they have sucking. No matter who they add, it's going to come down to those guys not sucking. They aren't adding another 12 war of value over the off season. And I don't think there's many t...

Those that watch this fucking team for any stretch and worry about anything more than the offense confuse the shit out of me. I worry about more than the offense. The offense in most years isn't good and that probably won't change so long as they are playing in this ballpark, which means it won't c...

We got Dipoto'd so bad.

Yep. The bad defense doesn't help with that either. But defense doesn't matter right? When you have bad defense because you have good bat-first offense, no, it doesn't. When you have bad defense but you still can't outscore the other team, yeah, it sucks. So, defense matters to pitchers ERA. But no...

Julio in the second half of this season: AVG .207 OPS .596 Plus all the stupid plays. They really need to trade him because he's not going to be that star player he should be. That ship has sailed. And play Laz in center field. That be fun If we had three Laz's for the outfield, I'd take that all d...

Ferrer and Bazardo are both good pieces. They've just been used too much. The bullpen needs to be more of a fortress but the Mariners think they can rebuild it every year and rely on the pile to fill spots 7 and 8, which means with injuries you're looking at 5 or 6 (or more) pile guys every year pl...