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Hector Noesi as a Starter
Aaron Harang was scratched with back stiffness on Thursday, meaning the Mariners had to turn to Hector Noesi to make a spot start against his old team, the Yankees, in the hitter friendly ballpark.
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The Mariners Rotation Batted Ball Rates: Home/Road Splits
In a previous post, using players that had played with the Mariners and at least one other team, we saw that there wasn’t a lot of evidence that batted ball distance rates dropped for
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Re-Ranking the Mariners 40 Man Roster
So it is December, and the Winter Meetings have now passed. While the Mariners were rumored to be going after every hitter imaginable, the only player they got in the Winter Meetings was Jason
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Mariners’ Interested in Garrett Jones?: Statistical Scouting Report
According to Geoff Baker, the Mariners may be interested in trading for Garrett Jones, a 31 year old Pittsburgh Pirate. Jones is perhaps the epitome of what the Mariners’ need offensively. He is a
Read More »Projections and Looking for Outfielders
FanGraphs has come out with their “Bill James” Projections and added them to the player pages. As more projections come out (especially ZiPS), they will also be added to the player pages and give
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Are the Mariners the A’s?
On the last day of the season, Angie Mentink of Root Sports mentioned the similarity of the Mariners in 2012 to the A’s in 2011. In 2011, the Athletics went 74-88 with a Pythagorean
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Looking at Out of Options Mariners
As the season ended (with an excellent 12-0 blowout of an Angel team that looked sloppy after being eliminated on Monday) on Wednesday, it became officially time to look at next year (even though we
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Hector Noesi is back (Whether you like it or not)
I was going to write a pretty detailed post on Hector Noesi’s start today using both what I saw and some Pitch F/X data from today’s outing versus the Orioles against his previous big
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Looking at the Potential September Call-Ups
September is coming. This means that MLB active rosters will expand from 25-40. Of course, a team cannot bring up any 15 players in the minors that they want. They can only bring up
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Ranking the Players on the Mariners 40 Man Roster
With September quickly approaching, many teams (especially losing teams) will want to bring up young players when rosters expand to 40. However, for one to be brought up, they have to be placed on
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Time to Move Hector Noesi to the Bullpen
Hector Noesi made his 3rd start for Tacoma on Tuesday night, racking up strikeouts but giving up plenty of runs as well. The outing started off well, as he threw 3 straight fastballs for
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Hultzen and Noesi pitch in Tacoma
The Mariners’ first round pick in 2011, Danny Hultzen, made his 4th AAA start for the Tacoma Rainiers. Hultzen had a lot of fastball command problems in the first at-bat. For most of the
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Should Blake Beavan be put back in the Mariners Rotation?
Blake Beavan made his 5th start for Tacoma after being demoted from the big league rotation. He took the mound after Tacoma dropped 5 runs on Salt Lake in the first inning, driving starter
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The 4 Man Rotation and the Seattle Mariners
Colorado Rockies’ Manager Jim Tracy made a lot of news earlier this week by announcing that the team would be going to a 4 man rotation, limiting their starters to 75 pitches. So far
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Mariners jumble roster after loss to Padres
The Mariners lost to the Padres 5-4 on Wednesday behind another unlucky Felix Hernandez start (he had a 7.50 ERA but 4.05 FIP). Felix’s struggles have been real though, as he has a FIP
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Expected OPS and Mariner Pitching
The Mariners pitching this year has been a bit odd. The Mariners have actually been able to basically keep the same 5 man rotation. Young pitchers Hector Noesi and Blake Beavan have looked incompetent
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Hector Noesi’s Platoon Splits, Change-up, and Slider
Hector Noesi has had some pretty profound platoon splits this season as a starter with the Seattle Mariners. Righties are hitting .193/.244/.395 while lefties are hitting .262/.324/.516 off of him. This is despite a
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A Bad Day for the State of Washington
The Mariners lost to the division foe Texas Rangers 3-1, spoiling a solid Hector Noesi start. Noesi was 93-94 MPH to begin the game, mainly displaying his fastball. He was getting some calls on
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Noesi shuts down the Athletics, Mariners win 4-0
The Mariners flipped Friday’s score against the Athletics on Saturday, winning 4-0 behind Hector Noesi, who struck out 6 and gave up just 6 walks/hits in 8 innings. Noesi was awful against the Rangers
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Hector Noesi’s BABIP Adventures
Hector Noesi made his Mariners debut last night and was terrible. Yes, he was making only the third start of his big league career and yes, it came against the Texas Rangers in Arlington,
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Mariners Play the Tigers (but not the ones from Detroit)
The Mariners played their first game of the Japan trip, losing 5-1 to the Hanshin Tigers. Hector Noesi started for the Mariners and struggled a bit, getting 4 fly-balls (one homer), 4 infield fly-balls,
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