...we've lost some where I was happier with the methodology, so it's about time we win some purely for sake of the results. I mean, I won't complain about the pitching settling back down. But I've been too well-trained as a recent-year M's fan, 1-2 runs a night (with good pitching, wasted or no) just seems too... depressingly normal. I apparently need more of a recalibration than the last half week (not to mention 2016) has given me.
Has Felix forgotten how to walk people, or is that just me?
We better get used to 40-man roster crunches... there few more people coming back, and hopefully a couple coming up. Much as I hate to say it, we're either going to lose a few more like this... or JeDi needs to spin a mega-trade or three with impeccably precise timing. Speaking of JeDi...
Article-potato for the readerishly inclined among us: DiPoto interview from MLB.com. http://m.mariners.mlb.com/news/article/224022128/qa-jerry-dipoto-talks-mariners-direction/ - quite a few interesting scraps in this one. Such as:
"...I then learned how not to get so invested in your mistakes ... when you see the Draft pick or the trade that just isn't going right, don't compound the error -- solve the problem. Whether that be sending the player back to the Minor Leagues and letting him breathe a little bit or whether that means go find another alternative, it could be any number of things. [Former Arizona GM Kevin Towers] taught me that the job won't allow you to sit and watch the player sink; you will lose the player. You have to do the right thing for the human on the other end of things."
"We have now hired multiple people whose job is to sift through all the Statcast™ data, because it is mountains of information that we're still trying to fully understand."
"No, I never turn off the phone. I think now we're at 41 or 42 trades in total. I suppose it's Jedi mind tricks; we're talking the other team into dealing. For the most part, we know who the core of our team is ... this is a team that needed to be augmented on the periphery."