http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/is-this-a-great-game-or-what/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/is-this-a-great-game-or-what/#comment-72124 PhDBrian Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:56:08 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=4283#comment-72124 If Bedard, King Felix, and Washburn stay healthy I am not sure the Mariners can't keep it up and finish with 85 or so wins. They have a very talented rotation, and have dramatically improved their defense. Gloves might be the best in the game. Sure the bats are somewhat suspect, but they aren't awful. Mike Sweeney platooning with Ken Griffey at DH seems formidable to me. If Bedard, King Felix, and Washburn stay healthy I am not sure the Mariners can’t keep it up and finish with 85 or so wins. They have a very talented rotation, and have dramatically improved their defense. Gloves might be the best in the game. Sure the bats are somewhat suspect, but they aren’t awful. Mike Sweeney platooning with Ken Griffey at DH seems formidable to me.

]]> http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/is-this-a-great-game-or-what/#comment-72023 Colin Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:09:55 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=4283#comment-72023 The game gives back to those who put in. David Price's last pitch in college was a HR that ultimately eliminated his Vanderbilt team (the #1 overall seed in the tournament) before the Super Regional round. To see a kid who had given so much of his life to the game absolutely beside himself (at the end of arguably the most celebrated year in SEC athletics history) emotionally crushed was unbearable. Then this past fall those of us who have been lucky enough to watch Price go from HS phenom to college superstar to budding prospect were elated to see the game give back to him with that Game Seven appearance in the ALCS. The game gives back to those who put in. David Price’s last pitch in college was a HR that ultimately eliminated his Vanderbilt team (the #1 overall seed in the tournament) before the Super Regional round. To see a kid who had given so much of his life to the game absolutely beside himself (at the end of arguably the most celebrated year in SEC athletics history) emotionally crushed was unbearable. Then this past fall those of us who have been lucky enough to watch Price go from HS phenom to college superstar to budding prospect were elated to see the game give back to him with that Game Seven appearance in the ALCS.

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