Mariners are playing .500 ball bitches!

I love how marinoors are celebrating this as some great accomplishment. If the seahawks we 2-2 (basically the equivalent of 15-15) everyone would be pissed
 
Mariners over .500!!!! I tried telling nega Mariners like Tequilla that this Mariners team is legit!
 
Mariners over .500!!!! I tried telling nega Mariners like Tequilla that this Mariners team is legit!
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Ron_Fairly wants to know how Almonte is doing
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My silence on Almonte speaks volumes..............

* I haven't watched at all but assuming he's playing like shit which was to be expected.
 
Gotta say I'm cautiously optimistic about the Mariners. When you look at the numbers you don't see anybody who's really played above their heads so far except for maybe Paxton and even with some inevitable regression there they should improve by getting him back. You know Cano is going to hit much better than he has so far, and you have to feel like they'll get a lot more out of SS either with Miller taking a step forward or being replaced by Franklin.

They just added Iwakuma and subtracted Almonte, both of those should be pretty significant moves that will make their mark over time. And if Walker ever gets healthy you've got six legit arms for five spots, so there's a little margin for someone to get hurt.

Their run differential is plus 5 after tonight, so it's not like they're getting lucky. They're a legitimate .500 team at this point, and it seems to me they're more likely to improve than regress going forward.

I had them at around 76 wins coming into the year. They're still not a playoff team, but I may have been a bit low.

Of course, that June schedules a bitch, so I guess they'll come back to earth then...
 
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Mariners over .500!!!! I tried telling nega Mariners like Tequilla that this Mariners team is legit!
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Ron_Fairly wants to know how Almonte is doing
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My silence on Almonte speaks volumes..............

* I haven't watched at all but assuming he's playing like shit which was to be expected.
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let's see. 5 errors in 20 something games. 258 obp.
Should've been demoted ages ago
 
Mariners over .500!!!! I tried telling nega Mariners like Tequilla that this Mariners team is legit!
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Ron_Fairly wants to know how Almonte is doing
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My silence on Almonte speaks volumes..............

* I haven't watched at all but assuming he's playing like shit which was to be expected.
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let's see. 5 errors in 20 something games. 258 obp.
Should've been demoted ages ago
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Should have never made the opening day roster. He sucked in Spring Training and after the opening series didn't do jack shit.

Too fat to play CF and his plate discipline is fucking terrible.
 
Gotta say I'm cautiously optimistic about the Mariners. When you look at the numbers you don't see anybody who's really played above their heads so far except for maybe Paxton and even with some inevitable regression there they should improve by getting him back. You know Cano is going to hit much better than he has so far, and you have to feel like they'll get a lot more out of SS even with Miller taking a step forward or being replaced by Franklin.

They just added Iwakuma and subtracted Almonte, both of those should be pretty significant moves that will make their mark over time. And if Walker ever gets healthy you've got six legit arms for five spots, so there's a little margin for someone to get hurt.

Their run differential is plus 5 after tonight, so it's not like they're getting lucky. They're a legitimate .500 team at this point, and it seems to me they're more likely to improve than regress going forward.

I had them at around 76 wins coming into the year. They're still not a playoff team, but I may have been a bit low.

Of course, that June schedules a bitch, so I guess they'll come back to earth then...
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My guess is that they'll get out of May 3-5 games above .500 ...

Oakland is probably good enough to still win 90+ and win the division. But with the way the rest of the division is looking, the Mariners could very easily stumble into 85-90 wins this year if the rotation gets back healthy. The pen is still a giant question mark though. The offense is young, will have ups and downs, but in general, is a massive improvement over what has been here for most of the last 5-10 years.
 
Gotta say I'm cautiously optimistic about the Mariners. When you look at the numbers you don't see anybody who's really played above their heads so far except for maybe Paxton and even with some inevitable regression there they should improve by getting him back. You know Cano is going to hit much better than he has so far, and you have to feel like they'll get a lot more out of SS even with Miller taking a step forward or being replaced by Franklin.

They just added Iwakuma and subtracted Almonte, both of those should be pretty significant moves that will make their mark over time. And if Walker ever gets healthy you've got six legit arms for five spots, so there's a little margin for someone to get hurt.

Their run differential is plus 5 after tonight, so it's not like they're getting lucky. They're a legitimate .500 team at this point, and it seems to me they're more likely to improve than regress going forward.

I had them at around 76 wins coming into the year. They're still not a playoff team, but I may have been a bit low.

Of course, that June schedules a bitch, so I guess they'll come back to earth then...
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My guess is that they'll get out of May 3-5 games above .500 ...

Oakland is probably good enough to still win 90+ and win the division. But with the way the rest of the division is looking, the Mariners could very easily stumble into 85-90 wins this year if the rotation gets back healthy. The pen is still a giant question mark though. The offense is young, will have ups and downs, but in general, is a massive improvement over what has been here for most of the last 5-10 years.
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Agreed. Texas has gotten REALLY lucky to be above .500 with the way they've played, their run differential is pretty bad. They are getting healthy though, so there's no assurance of regression there.

I think it's still Oakland or Texas' division to lose, but the M's could potentially at least keep it semi close down the stretch which would be interesting.

If they turn back into the Mariners it will also be interesting.
 
well I had them at 78-84 at the beginning, then 500 after 2 weeks, then 75-87 after that losing streak. So I guess I'll adjust it to .500 again now.
They need Paxton and Pryor back. They also need to find a LHRP better than furshite.
Saunders also needs to avoid his huge slump
 
Gotta say I'm cautiously optimistic about the Mariners. When you look at the numbers you don't see anybody who's really played above their heads so far except for maybe Paxton and even with some inevitable regression there they should improve by getting him back. You know Cano is going to hit much better than he has so far, and you have to feel like they'll get a lot more out of SS even with Miller taking a step forward or being replaced by Franklin.

They just added Iwakuma and subtracted Almonte, both of those should be pretty significant moves that will make their mark over time. And if Walker ever gets healthy you've got six legit arms for five spots, so there's a little margin for someone to get hurt.

Their run differential is plus 5 after tonight, so it's not like they're getting lucky. They're a legitimate .500 team at this point, and it seems to me they're more likely to improve than regress going forward.

I had them at around 76 wins coming into the year. They're still not a playoff team, but I may have been a bit low.

Of course, that June schedules a bitch, so I guess they'll come back to earth then...
Click to expand...

My guess is that they'll get out of May 3-5 games above .500 ...

Oakland is probably good enough to still win 90+ and win the division. But with the way the rest of the division is looking, the Mariners could very easily stumble into 85-90 wins this year if the rotation gets back healthy. The pen is still a giant question mark though. The offense is young, will have ups and downs, but in general, is a massive improvement over what has been here for most of the last 5-10 years.
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Sensing it is time to throw a high hard one, take off the gloves and rumble ...
 
Detroit and Oakland are proving to be the class of the AL right now at 19-9 and 19-14 respectively.

Houston was known to be fairly bad (and they are at 10-23) and Cleveland's got more pitching issues than I think that they were thinking they would have and is in their 14-19 record.

Everybody else in the AL is between 2 games over .500 and 3 games below .500.

Not saying that the Mariners are that team, but it's looking more and more likely that you will have a great chance to be a Wild Card team this year with 88-90 wins.
 
This team still sucks. They will be at least 7 games under .500 at the All Star Break.
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Maybe so, we'll see. If they went on a 5 game losing streak starting tommorrow it wouldn't shock me. Team is so inconsistent
 
Other than Cano, the rest of the lineup is batting 255 or worse. Thats a fucking horrible offense. No way they win 80 games.
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No question that the team hitting .235 is fucking terrible.

However, the league is hitting at a .251 clip and if you exclude Detroit's .281 average, the next highest is Texas at .265.

So you could argue that the AL as a whole is a dreckfest.
 
Guys no. Baseball is a long season they are going to have runs like this where they win 9 out of 11 or whatever. Even the Astros will have similar winning streaks.

Don't buy into anything right now, team is still garbage and will be averaging 1 run a game again soon.
 
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