This team has been neck and neck with the Tigers for the best OPS in Baseball since Miller's arrival. It hurt to lose Zunino but the catchers that replaced him have seemed to hit a bit over their heads (OK Blanco's OPS has not been great but he has those two timely home runs).
Here are the OPS of the team members since Miller arrived.
Smoak .973
Quintero .970
Morales .963
Seager .933
Saunders .923
Ibanez .785
Miller .763
Franklin .690
Zunino .690
Ackley .594
Blanco .585
Morse .564
Ryan .541
So far in August the Mariner are leading the Majors by a lot with an OPS of .842 after being number 3 in July.
The pitching and the defense have let us down but the bull pen may be sorting itself out now. Rick82 is spot on. The young starting pitchers needed to be ready by now so we could rid ourselves of Harang at least and possibly Saunders by now. I think there is too much energy from the young players to say the team has quit, either consciously or unconsciously.
BTW, I echo the thought by several others mentioned above. I thoroughly enjoy reading this site but rarely post anymore. Hats off to everyone who contributes to it.
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