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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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Brandon Maurer, Kameron Loe, and Recalling Spring Training
Kameron Loe wasn’t a Mariner for a very long time. In fact, he threw all of 6.2 innings for the team before the plug was mercifully pulled on the experiment. After he was DFA’d,
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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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Reevaluating Yoervis Medina
Yoervis Medina has been on the peripheral of the Mariners’ 40 man roster since the end of the 2010 season (added at the same time as Maikel Cleto, Josh Lueke, Michael Pineda, Mauricio Robles,
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Brandon Maurer’s Struggles Against Lefties
So far this year, Brandon Maurer has really struggled against left-handed hitters. Lefties are batting .359/.424/.717, with 6 walks and just 2 strikeouts. Of course, looking at regular statistics at this point of the
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Checking in on Endy Chavez’ Bat Speed
In my previous article on Endy Chavez, when the Mariners signed him, I looked at the data between Chavez’ good 2011 season versus his poor 2012 season at the plate. My conclusion was that
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On Ryan Versus Andino
The Mariners, determined to make themselves the laughingstock of baseball, made yet another decision that just doesn’t make a lot of sense based on the evidence we have or the tools we use to
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Checking in on Jason Bay
With Casper Wells officially an Oakland Athletic, I thought it was a good time to look at how Jason Bay is doing at the plate so far this season. Obviously, sitting at April 23rd,
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Michael Morse and Pitch F/X Data
Michael Morse’s return to Seattle has gone a little weird so far, at least offensively. He has already hit 5 home runs, but it has come with a lot of contact and plate discipline
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Comparing Mariner Release Points
In the previous post, we looked at how consistent the Mariner starters were at repeating their deliveries from game to game. In this post, I will look at the Mariner pitchers different release points
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King Felix is Weirdly Awesome
On opening day, King Felix was awesome. Going 7.2 innings, not giving up any runs, and not walking anyone until the last batter he faced, Felix was good no matter which measure or estimator
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Playing Around with Mariner Starting Lineups
It is that time of the year, as Opening Day is but days away, and we have already discussed the 40 man roster, the 25 man roster, and the starting rotation. So now, let’s
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Are Erasmo and Saunders hurt, the Garland Decision, and Rotation Projections
When I wrote my version of what I believe the 25 man roster should look like, it was pretty obvious who I had pencilled into the rotation. So let’s look at them through the
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The Mariners Sign Endy Chavez
According to Jon Heyman of CBS, the Mariners have signed 35 year old corner outfielder Endy Chavez to a minor league contract. Chavez had signed a minor league deal with the Royals over the
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An Ideal 25 Man Mariner Roster
In this post, I will look at what I believe the Mariners 25 man roster should be breaking spring training. In future posts, I will look at the rotation and lineups, and this will
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Ranking the Mariners 40 man roster in Spring Training
With Spring Training coming to an end in a little more than a week, the Mariners face some roster choices, especially when it comes to veteran minor league free agents and the 25 man
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A Chance Ruffin Obituary?
The Mariners optioned Chance Ruffin to AAA earlier this week, sending him to minor league camp. I believe this was Ruffin’s 2nd option (year, he can be optioned and called up as many times
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I Still Don’t Get Voros McCracken’s Critique of the Mariners
Voros McCracken is one of the most influential sabermetricians, mainly because of his “DIPs Theory”. DIPs Theory radically changed the way pitchers were evaluating in a way that wasn’t matched until the availability of
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The Eye Test: Jon Garland
Jon Garland made his 2nd Cactus League start on Monday, on the first televised broadcast for the Mariners of the season. Since it was at the Mariners’ home stadium, we also have Pitch F/X
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Velocity and Location Data Part 2: NPB Pitchers
Yesterday, I looked at MLB starters and the locations they usually threw to and had success in according to velocity. I also wanted to get another look, this time in the NPB (Japan), using
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Velocity and Location Data Part 1: MLB Starters
I’ve always thought that we need to be more specific when we scout pitchers. I am guilty of it as well, as we have seen that just a 1 MPH difference in velocity is
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