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And that's better than a glance.
1.  A fascinating question for me would be, is there something in the conditions that --- > rewards the Safeco hitter for a well-struck ball in the air?  Certainly the closer LF fence might be part of it ...
2.  For what it's worth, it has seemed to me that ALL Mariner outfielders have had trouble SEEING the ball this year, home and road.  Probably my imagination.  But there have been dozens of cases where it seemed like, going back on balls, they underestimated how hard the ball was hit.  Particularly this has seemed to be the case on pulled balls in the air -- as if the batters are loading up.  Morse gets beat to the right-center alley by lefties, not by righties...
Could be positioning that's part of it.  Could be that Harang, Beavan, Maurer and earlier Saunders were just getting toasted?
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Gingerly, I would start with the premise that the 2014 Mariners need to be careful with the COMBINATION of bad pitcher and bad outfielder.  We're probably the first baseball fans ever to think of that, wouldn't you say?  :- )
But show me the articles on Hardball Times and Baseball Prospectus that address it, beyond the simple "fly ball pitcher" and "-UZR outfielder" ... we are talking about BAD pitching, not fly ball pitching.