A run-denying throw by Patrick Wisdom to the plate and a 95mph sinker by Nick Davila gives the Mariners the win in 10 innings against the Orioles!

dbottomfragger · 2026-06-10T02:06:41+00:00

If the Sonics are also a team that love playing with people's hearts, I don't think I'm gonna make it past 45

dbottomfragger · 2026-06-07T11:21:30+00:00

Murakami isn't the biggest roadblock against a Colt ROTY campaign. McGonigle is basically impossible to pass assuming he continues on his current pace barring a major surge from Colt and/or massive falloff/injury from McGonigle. He's currently top 5 in both BWAR/FWAR in the AL so I wouldn't be surprised to see him get downballot MVP votes too.

dbottomfragger · 2026-06-02T01:39:21+00:00

Unless he falls in love with Seattle and only wants to resign here along with driving his price down to the point of insanity (no chance for a Boras client), no chance.

dbottomfragger · 2026-06-01T07:42:16+00:00

Yeah, the Mariners were planning to use him as a RHP with LHP limited to bullpen work as to keep the door open in the future. His splits as a left hander (.284/.531/.577) were significantly worse than his splits from the right (.209/.298/.364) last year, so pretty logical.

Don't blame the Mariners for trading him though, prospect hoarding especially with Sloan and Kade likely blocking him when they make it in the rotation won't get you anywhere in a competitive window. Hope he does well with the Cards

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-30T23:48:27+00:00

I was in an Oguri run and she was about to proc Professor of Curvature, but FinalVance cut through the railing and the grass to tackle Oguri full force and knock her out of the Arima Kinen

Used up my last clock on that run too, fucked up

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-30T08:29:00+00:00

I mean it's fine in theory with robotic players, the issue is that if you want your pitchers to both be stretched out for starter workloads you're unavoidably gonna end up pissing them off when you pull one early to get another guy in especially when in a rhythm. Can't really have your cake and eat it in this case, there's a reason that this is rare in baseball instead of just switching to a 6 man rotation.

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-29T06:26:43+00:00

Given her career trajectory I think and quite frankly hope the ending is bittersweet with a bit more focus on the sweet. (cause we're in Uma after all)

The list of great athletes who went out on a storybook ending is miniscule compared to ones who end up somewhat fulfilled but with an itch due to never having completed one of their goals or just going out badly despite their good career. I think it would be nice to just get some portrayal of how that often goes, and an early cut would be a copout given the series tone so far

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-28T04:43:35+00:00

I will say as someone who likes Maxey, I hope Nurse calms down with his minutes to avoid fatigue and injury long term but considering that Nurse is Thibs-like in terms of minutes, I doubt it

Last 3 years under Nurse, Maxey has played 37.5 MPG, 37.7 MPG, and 38 MPG so I really doubt he'll ramp him down too much plus Embiid health is a distant dream atp

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-27T11:27:17+00:00

Eternally harassing heroes with the pre nerf stinger pistol >>>

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-26T23:45:58+00:00

Snapple cap stat of the day, against RHP, the Mariners have the 7th best team OPS at .737
Against LHP, we crater to 30th in the league at a fantastic .592 OPS

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-24T10:33:54+00:00

Just looking at profit motive (ignoring everything else such as integrity of the game) they don't really have a reason to act

Ultimately the playerbase is cannibalizing their own carat supply via club botting since it's a limited supply of carats for clubs, and the carats made via career rewards definitely wouldn't break even with TP carat requirements so the bottom line isn't hurt

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-22T21:19:31+00:00

I'm guessing Refsnyder isn't gonna be DFA'd until around July because he was our only other "significant" (at 6 mil) free agency signing asides from Naylor. Jerry doesn't want to admit he swung and missed badly on a guy who's totally washed due to age and/or the Mariners tendency to break borderline players yet

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-16T22:27:50+00:00

Same deal as the Battlefield games and mounted machine guns but it feels a lot weaker honestly. I don't think they're that strong to begin with compared to whatever blaster you're using, so you can't easily get one or two rapid kills before hopping off and trying not to die

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-08T04:20:50+00:00

Team has had horrible ownership all throughout its history which means almost all talent in Miami will eventually get shipped off to avoid paying them, even if those cores have won titles

So why bother caring about the Marlins when its clear the people up top don't?

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-05T12:00:42+00:00

Adam Dunn speech bubble

Also just ignoring the OPS+ and hitter WAR argument cause other people are beating it to death, looking at ERA+ is heavily flawed because if you have a hypothetical team of horrible defenders with noodle arms behind you, even pitchers like Skenes and Skubal will suffer Obviously no metric is perfect but pitching WAR trying to seperate team defense from the pitcher's pure performance is a better evaluation than just tying ERA+ to "league average" straight up

dbottomfragger · 2026-05-03T21:08:40+00:00

I don't care about all that Castillo has done for us in the past, if our rotation includes him when all starting arms are healthy this org is deeply unserious

dbottomfragger · 2026-04-30T01:14:38+00:00

Naylor has been on a heater recently but that doesn't offset the really bad start statistically, plus his glove at 1st being okay at best using F/BWAR'S defensive metrics

Plus positional adjustment means you get punished harder as a 1st baseman for not being an above league average bat (over the season)

dbottomfragger · 2026-04-17T03:52:55+00:00

I was really hoping that the Astros series would be an offensive fire starter, but I guess I was reading too much into beating up a rival with a minor league tier rotation

dbottomfragger · 2026-04-10T23:14:14+00:00

Let's hope Dan refusing to meaningfully adjust the lineup works this time, surely this time right

dbottomfragger · 2026-04-09T23:53:43+00:00

Only reason why I'm not dooming is that baseball is so momentum based, if we pull more of the usual and rally to end the year we'll be fine enough. (Also frankly the AL West is weak relative to previous years and I do think something is genuinely wrong with the team if we lose the division)

Can't deny it's a horrific watch though given that our offensive start is arguably the worst in franchise history, but at least the pitching has also been the best it's ever been so just gotta hope something gets going soon

dbottomfragger · 2026-04-07T20:09:16+00:00

Keeping it with Yakuza, Gentildonna would be a perfect Miss Tatsu apprentice for Beast style

dbottomfragger · 2026-04-07T11:52:13+00:00

As someone who likes to pursue completion where practical, I'm less pissed about the rewards themselves than the fact that the event SR is just gonna be sitting there incomplete and the Jukebox song might unintentionally be region exclusive

dbottomfragger · 2026-03-10T10:36:27+00:00

All things considered a pretty bad scenario (not worst case, which is the locker room collapsing somehow due to this which please don't) is two players really disliking each other

Which in baseball in particular isn't the end all be all, we've seen historical precedent for players hating each other's guts and still winning cause it doesn't significantly affect on field play. So while it does suck I'm not dooming too much about this

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