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  1. Kimmi
    I agree with you. I posted in one of the threads that I think he has let the media and fan scrutiny get in his head, and we know how intense that scrutiny is during a Yankees series. I most definitely think that Sunday's poor start was due more to his 'baggage' than to anything else.
  2. Kimmi
    I am interested to see how Price bounces back from his start against the Yankees. It sounds as though Wright will be back fairly soon. As of now, I am not concerned about our rotation.
  3. Kimmi
    I did not mean anything by the way I phrased my question. I apologize if the wording of that post and my previous post offended you. None was intended. I'm simply trying to point out that getting Mookie more RBIs by batting him third would be offset by other factors. You cannot look at that move from the standpoint of that single factor.
  4. Kimmi
    1. Mookie Betts ® CF 2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF 3. J.D. Martinez ® RF 4. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B 5. Xander Bogaerts ® SS 6. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 7. Eduardo Nunez ® 2B 8. Sandy Leon (S) C 9. Brian Johnson (L) P JD is back in. JBJ sits tonight. Nunez back in over Holt, which I don't get.
  5. Kimmi
    Are you denying that moving Mookie to another spot in the line up also affects the rest of the line up?
  6. Kimmi
    To my knowledge, no one has ever denied the existence 'choke' or 'clutch' performances or plays. I believe that there are absolutely players who cannot handle the pressure (chokers). I also believe that those players either do not make it to the big leagues or do not last very long if they do. I do not believe that Price is a choker. What I am denying is the concept of 'clutch' being a sustainable and repeatable skill, in terms of the ability to raise one's game to the next level in high pressure situations. Players who appear to be clutch are simply great players to begin with. If you want to define clutch as the ability not to choke, which many people seem on board with, then I can live with that. But in that case, I would say all major leaguers are clutch.
  7. Kimmi
    Harmony, here's a good article from Jeff Sullivan at Fangraphs on this very topic, if you haven't already read it: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-mariners-are-trying-to-be-the-clutchiest-team-on-record/
  8. Kimmi
    Ha. Thanks for this post. Pom will now come back and pitch like an ace.
  9. Kimmi
    Mookie has a .430 OBP. The next closest on the team is JD, with a .391 OBP. Take Mookie out of the lead off spot, and you are really weakening that spot in the lineup. It's also great to put pressure on the opposing pitcher right from the get go.
  10. Kimmi
    I like the bunt against the shift as well, even for big hitters like Ortiz. Not all the time, obviously. But a hitter just needs to be successful at it once in a rare moment (don't remember the exact numbers) for it to be effective. FTR, I dislike the shifts themselves.
  11. Kimmi
    Amen brother Slasher.
  12. Kimmi
    The problem with your line of thinking is that every move in baseball is affected by a counter move. You can't look at the effect on Mookie alone, but rather the effect that moving Mookie has on the entire lineup. Sure, if Mookie were batting 3rd, he'd likely have more RBIs. OTOH, he would definitely get less at bats, the lead off spot, which comes up most often, would be weakened (which is no small thing), and Mookie would likely score less runs. The net effect would be a negative one, if anything.
  13. Kimmi
    The fact that Porcello and Scherzer are such good friends makes the hit even better. Porcello won the bragging rights.
  14. Kimmi
    I'm sure that if I were a Mariners fan, I'd be thrilled with what they are doing this year. It doesn't matter how you get there, as long as you get there. And like you said, anything can happen in the playoffs. I hope that the Mariners and the Red Sox do play again this year. That will mean that your Mariners beat the Yankees in the wildcard game.
  15. Kimmi
    Good one.
  16. Kimmi
    Holt has been doing great, but he still serves the team best as a bench or platoon player, not an everyday player.
  17. Kimmi
    Moments like Porcello's hit is what makes baseball such a great game. The reactions from both pitchers and the Red Sox dugout were priceless. Awesome, just awesome. And oh, Porcello pitched a pretty good game too.
  18. Kimmi
    Somebody brought up the point about how Cora went out to the mound to talk to and calm Kimbrel, something Cora does not do to often. That was mostly an unnoticed move, which IMO, deserves some credit.
  19. Kimmi
    The lineup didn't do much, but I think you have to credit Scherzer rather than blame the hitters. The BP was indeed shaky. I thought it was a great game.
  20. Kimmi
    To be fair, Boone is a doofus.
  21. Kimmi
    Makes you wonder how he's lost 4 games. The offense has to find a way to get to their bullpen.
  22. Kimmi
    I think he did well enough at the beginning of the year to merit another shot at starting.
  23. Kimmi
    Yes, that is a big part of it, I'm sure. I'm still expecting Seattle to fade in the division, though they will likely still win the wildcard.
  24. Kimmi
    I have no doubt that Pedro is working with our pitchers. He's on our payroll to do so. If I'm not mistaken, Pedro was focusing on Porcello and his sinker during ST and early in the season. He seems to have listened. If you ask me, ERod, Pom, and Price all think too much on the mound. The amount of time they take between pitches when there are runners on base is too great. They need to take a page out of Sale's book - get the ball, get the sign, and pitch. If I were the coaches, I would tell those three guys to trust their catchers and not to shake them off. They are overthinking, which messes with their ability to pitch with any conviction.
  25. Kimmi
    Good post Fred. I am not concerned about our SPs either, including Price, provided they stay healthy. I don't think it's necessarily the Yankees that are in Price's head, but rather the media and fan scrutiny surrounding his Yankees starts, though that difference might be subtle. Price needs to stop reading Twitter, or whatever it is that he reads.
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