February 26, 2007
Hargrove on Baserunning
U.S.S. Mariner is a bit hard on Mike Hargrove in this post. The Mariners manager is expressing a good sabermetric take on stealing bases, which I translate as run aggressively when you judge there to be a high probability of making the base. I agree with comment #6, Hargrove isn't a great manager, but this isn't an example of that.
re: uss mariner & seattle
excuse me for breathing, but do we really care about baseball comments about a team in a town that traded away Ken Griffey, Jr. and Alex Rodriguez in their prime when they were both playing together on the same team?
Let's see--a shortstop and a centerfielder with 35 win shares each year. I think you could build a ballclub around that.
Add trading Freddie Garcia and other young talent to that and you have to wonder what the Mariners overall game plan.
Twelve years ago they had the Yankees on the run. Now they're Ichiro and pray for rain.
Mike Hargrove could be the second coming of Connie Mack and Yogi Berra and every other great manager and it wouldn't help him because, as they say, the Mariners roster stinks.
Management has thrown away more HOFers from Seattle than any other franchise in baseball. Compared to seattle dumping Alex Rodriguez & Ken Griffey Jr, philly dumping Scott Rolen and Curt Schilling seems like a minor mishap.
--arthur j kyriazis, philly
We could have asked the same question about the Phillies not that long ago.