January 27, 2008
Team Offense, Seattle Mariners
We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Seattle Mariners.
Adam Jones
Photo: Icon SMI
In 2007, the Mariners scored 4.90 runs per game.
I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. The lineups rate as follows:
- Best: 4.91 runs per game
- Given: 4.87 runs per game
- Worst: 4.67 runs per game
For all the talk of Adam Jones, he doesn't project to be much of a savior in 2008. The Bill James projections put Jones's slugging percentage higher, at .459. But if Jones can only post an OBA in the .320s at age 22, I'd give him up for Bedard.
No one in the lineup projects to a superstar offensively. Not one batters combines a high OBA and a high slugging percentage. It strikes me that one more great batter in this lineup would make a great difference.
Previous teams covered in the series:
"It strikes me that one more great batter in this lineup would make a great difference."
Opportunity for Barry Bonds to displace Jose Vidro as the DH?
