Sheeeesh, watching the Cano/Seager ballet is WAY fun. That one double play they had last night was Brooks Robinson/Bobby Grich stuff: Blink and you missed it! (BTW, it is easy to foget just how good Bobby Grich was. B-R has him as #105. Two spots ahead of Stargell, two behind Sandberg, three behind Alomar)
And the Cano/Seager pas de deux at the plate is pretty cool!! I think they lift each other, inspire each other to bigger leaps. Or it looks that way, at least.
Seager is Cano's west coast Jeter, his sidekick in all things heroic. Or, in some weird way, Cano (although the better player in many years) was Robin to Jeter's Batman. Here on the left coast the roles are revered. Cano is the Dark Knight. Seager the Boy Wonder.
Honest to bleepin' goodness, give me a .360 OBP guy batting leadoff (we have one in Tacoma) and any RH .260/20+ homer bat (it isn't Hart) batting behind of between our Dynamic Duo and watch this Batmobile take off.
Until we get get that RH bat, I'm using the lefty mashing monster we have in Tacoma. He homered again last night (against a righty), beats up lefties like Batman beats up The Penguin's henchman (POW!), and is a much better bet to smoke for a while than Smoak (IMHO). He recently had TWO 5-hit games in a 7-game span. Holy Ted Williams, Batman!
And Kelly was on base twice (again) last night. In 6 of his last 7 starts he's been on base at least twice. In one of those games he hit 2 homers. I know, I know...more Kelly. Shuuuuuut uuuuuuup, Moe! We're tired of hearing it!!!!! But this guy can help us now! And I'm talking with the bat, not just with flexibility.
In his last 16 starts, he's failed to get on base only twice. He's had 21 hits and 12 walks over that span. He's on base twice a game! he started the year 2-26 (but still walked 11 times). Since then he's hit .297. And he is an .400 OBP machine and he hits homers....And And And (Anybody ever see the movie the Commitments?)*
Sigh. But I know this...The Beane Orcs would figure out a way to use him. Vogt didn't even make it to AAA until he was 26. He keeps bloodying our nose.
Oh: Walker Tacoma Ranger threw 5 innings of 4 hit, 1 run ball last night.
*And And And was the name the band in the movie The Commitments almost called themselves. It is also a band in Portland (Best Portland Band of 2011, Willamette Week) made up of three former students of mine and 3 of their friends. Their stuff isn't right up my alley (Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Sinatra, Mellencamp, Buffett....in no particular order. Oh, I love Adele's voice) but it is interesting....or something like that.
Here's one: Muscle Stuff..... http://andandand.bandcamp.com/
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