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MLB.com on Hisashi Iwakuma
Felix Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma are the best duo in all of baseball at the moment. Only one other team can claim they have two starting pitchers with ERA’s under 2.00 – the Dodgers
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How Is Hisashi Iwakuma Missing Bats?
Hisashi Iwakuma has had a great start to the season, pitching almost lockstep with King Felix so far. I don’t need to go over the numbers or tell you how good Iwakuma is, because
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How Well Are Mariner Starters Repeating Their Deliveries?
Through 5 games, one whole turn through the rotation, the Mariner starters have walked just 5 batters, 4 of them by Joe Saunders. In this post, I wanted to look at how well the
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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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Ground-Balls, Contact %, and the Difference Between Jaso and Paulino
Matt Klaassen of Fangraphs recently did studies that showed which numbers for both pitchers and hitters were the most predictive. For hitters, contact percentage proved to be the best predictor from season to season, while ground-balls were the
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Free Agent Watch: Hisashi Iwakuma
Of all of the potential free agents the Mariners have, Hisashi Iwakuma is by far the most interesting. He was brought in on a contract that initially was valued at just 1.5 million dollars (with
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Iwakuma faces off against Darvish
On Friday night, former World Baseball Classic teammates Yu Darvish and Hisashi Iwakuma faced off against each other. Each of the two pitchers pitched in the professional baseball league in Japan for several years,
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Erasmo’s Triumphant Return to the Rotation
Erasmo Ramirez was a good pitcher in his first stint with the Seattle Mariners earlier this year. After starting in the bullpen, he moved to the rotation and was very solid there in a
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Carter Capps and Curveballs
As you probably know, Carter Capps is a young right-handed reliever for the Seattle Mariners that throws 100-101 MPH. However, he has been used in virtually only low leverage situations and has been hittable
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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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The Mariners “Missing Wins”
The Mariners are 51-61 this year, 10 games under .500. According to Pythagorean W-L (which is based off run differential) the Mariners should be 55-57. At times this year, even recently, it has said
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The 2013 Mariners Rotation
In recent years, the Mariners have boasted a good to very good rotation along with a lineup that couldn’t score any runs. This year is different. Despite a pretty strong bullpen, the Mariners’ overall
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The Legend of Lucas Luetge
The Mariners acquired Lucas Luetge in the Rule 5 draft in December. In the Majors this year, only 12 pitchers (including Luetge) have pitched that were acquired via the Rule 5 draft (5, including
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Yankees at Mariners Series Pitching Matchups
Game 1 Hiroki Kuroda (9-7, 3.46 ERA) vs Kevin Millwood (3-7, 4.15 ERA) Millwood has had some bad luck this season with the offense not giving him enough run support. If Millwood had played for
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Hisashi Freed: Iwakuma makes his first career MLB start
Hisashi Iwakuma made his first start of the 2012 season and his first start in America that counted. He had been in the bullpen after the team read a lot into his Spring Training
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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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The Mariners beat the Rangers 21-8
The Mariners faced Rangers’ lefty Derek Holland. For some reason, Chone Figgins was starting again and playing right field (Ichiro was getting his first day off) and he looked really bad out there.
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Figuring Out the Puzzle of Hisashi Iwakuma
Blake Beavan was hit on his elbow in his last start, bruising it. Instead of putting him on the DL, the Mariners have used the day off to shuffle the rotation around, moving his
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The Old Pitcher Off-Season of 2012
Kevin Millwood had his 2nd straight poor start on Sunday, as the Mariners lost to the White Sox again, this time 7-4. It was a continuation of a narrative I have seen develop over
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Iwakuma finally pitches and some Minor League Notes
Hisashi Iwakuma finally made his first appearance of the season (he was the last player to appear on an opening day roster to appear in a game in the Majors). Courtesy of Brooks Baseball,
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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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