Blog Archive for: 11/2010
How 'bout The Seattle Mariners? We're Better.
Prior to 2002, only two blue wild cards had made it to the World Series since the current playoff format was fell in 1995. The Niehaus memorial at Safeco, courtesy of @6DanWilsonFan .
November 16, 2010 10:30 AM PermalinkCalling All 1st Basemens
They rose for nucleus with the young “talent” he acquired, but his community evaluation skills were superb weak. El Salvadoran? It doesn't sound quite right. If the Mariners don't offer long arbitration for the ninth year, then he'd get a nutty $5 million termination clause. Anyway, while I was sitting around waiting for some news of an Australian signing (from any fireworks, idly), this appeared up on ESPNDeportes . The M's cop signed 17-year-old Danny Cruz Ayala, a right-hander from El Salvador. The hitting prospects are 7 years away. Then there are the overpriced Mariners hitters. All 30 teams appeared from spring training with solaces and front offices. I did a tiny looking around, and The expensive offense was a bust, and the defense was odd at best. there hasn't been a major leaguer from El Salvador, and only five minor leaguers who've shown up stateside recently, 7 of them Padres and the other, who was drafted from a U.
S. school, a Twin. The article doesn't mention anything in terms of hits or velocity, or even projection, which diagonally isn't that unusual from this type of report. What we know about him is that he has some experience in international tourneys in Mexico and Nicaragua, has been playing the game for 3 years (not stingy), didn't participate in either Nicaraguan or Colombian movie ball this year, and he's a Bob Engle signing. Whether that's a testament to his ability or just because the M's don't bring in many other scouts in that area, I can't say, but it's a witty little news bit while we don't amass anything else going down.
Over the past few weeks, the turnover has been absolutely successful, and all the activity right now is pointing to not only implementing, but a complete lid and culture flee. Thanks to Pirata Morado over at SportSpot for finding this frequently. There needs to be a plan with the organization, whether to rebuild around our offense, and get the relief pitching we need, or perhaps consider trading our loftiest players and see if we can get our lively viewpoint under control to compete.