Even if it ended badly for the Mariners, and for Willie Bloomquist in particular, last night's game against first-place Tampa Bay showed that the Mariners still have some fight in them. Though they blew a four-run lead on errors by Jose Lopez and failed to drive home a run in what should have been an easy game-winning situation, Seattle provided some excitement and refused to give up, even with an utterly depleted bench that had them giving up the DH in order to have enough position players. And we got another glimpse of the Mariners' future, at least on the mound.
Willie Bloomquist
10 August 2008
9 August 2008
DHed in last night game, an interesting choice) and hopefully diminishing the time that utilityman Willie Bloomquist takes away from the younger players.
But for a team firmly in rebuilding
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17 July 2008
As I expected, Richie Sexson was signed by the one team in major league baseball who signs every single castoff, just in case he might turn it around in pinstripes: the Yankees. The temptation of that short porch in Yankee Stadium right field, combined with Sexson’s power potential, was too tempting to the team that claimed Jose Canseco off waivers in 2000, just to be sure he didn’t go to a division rival.
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27 June 2008
son that no longer matters.
Instead, the Ms have gone with Option A, platooning him with supersub Willie Bloomquist. It's worked fairly well so far--the pair have a combined BA over .400--but the cost is two-fold. First, any further development of Reed is delayed, perhaps forever. The longer they put him in a platoon, the more he's going to be resigned (in both his own mind and those around him) to being a permanent platoon player, a disservice to him and a possible waste of a roster spot down the road.
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18 June 2008
Without Ichiro, Jeremy Reed and Willie Bloomquist will fill in at center, although neither is adequate defensively. The move was made in part because the Ms sent down struggling right fielder Wladimir Balentien, whose .196/.265/.346 line, with 35 K against only 10 walks in 107 ABs wasn’t helping the offense any.
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