Ryan Divish on Mariners Pitching, Trade Deadline Approach, Julio Rodriguez struggles
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2024
- Mariners beat writer Ryan Divish joins to discuss the T-Mobile Park effect on home runs, what the Mariners need to add at the deadline, and Julio Rodriguez's rough start to the season
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Divish is always on point & brutally honest with his columns for the Seattle Times. Us Mariners fans are lucky to have him cover the team.
“It’s been brutal to watch the Mariners offense at times.”
-Mariners fans every single year.
The Mariners consistently field a terrible offense, and we are sick of it.
It hasn't always been that way, but the organization seems to struggle with lining up good hitting with pitching. The current M's scouts for pitching are the envy of all MLB teams. I feel like Garver and Palanco will find their groove, but a big bat is a must to go to the next level.
Early 2000s and early 2010s they had offense
Ryan Divish knows his stuff. He's right on on his analysis. Mariners need one more quality bat.
The other aspect is the Mariners are the only team with a winning record that played over 20 games against teams >.500.
One of the best beat reporters out there. Very lucky Seattle has Divish
The reason the Mariners hitters are striking out is because of the approach. They have an “offensive coordinator” and a hitting coach and that is not working out. They get themselves into bad counts every single at bat. This is an issue with the Mariners organization. Players come to us and then they can’t hit.
See: Polanco, Garver, Santana, Winker, Frazier, Hernandez, Raley, etc.
My issue with that is how/why are established major leaguers buying in to what I assume they would plainly see as a flawed approach? I could understand that if our home grown and young players were significantly worse than the veterans we bring in, but it seems to be contagious.
I liked what Divish said at the top about the park and weather playing mind games and affecting the approach. I could see that easily starting a spiral where you as a batter are just not confident until you fall in to success. And we know confidence is contagious.
The talent on the field needs to play to their card...adding a bat or two wont be enough. But would like to see 1b upgrade.
First thing, they need to keep the roof closed until the end of May…that should help at the beginning of the season. After that, it’s all on the hitters…you play to your ballpark. And if you can’t do that you shouldn’t be a pro in the first place.
Interestingly, Safeco Field (now T-Mobile Park) is tied for the 4th most HRs hit at a specific ballpark by A. J. Pierzynski in his career.
Love to see TMay chopping it up!!!
That was a really good explanation of the marine layer.
I find it crazy that mariners are top of the division, with only 109 runs. They rank 27th in the league for it. Every other division leader has 150 runs scored. However they have allowed the least runs allowed in the entire league at just 97. They have the least walks, 3rd most strikeouts, best WHIP, only .209 batting average against them (another 1st in league). 2nd lowest ERA, and 2nd lowest hits allowed. If the offense fixes itself they will be fine, every year they start flat and pick it up second half. If we make it all star break over .500 i think we will win the division.
It's interesting that guys who Seattle acquires at the deadline don't seem to get mentally affected by the elements in Seattle. Off-season acquisitions seem to get demoralized in the early spring of it's the player's first extended experience in Seattle.
Rojas is a recent example. The weather doesn't have him psyched out. It's a theory, but I think any trade deadline addition will have a greater chance at being successful. I also trust/hope that Polanco, Garver, and Raley are mentally tough enough to stick to their approaches.
It'll even out, guys! And we can't waste this pitching staff.
The stadium affects both teams. The M's need to put a line up that uses it to their advantage. They literally pay computer dudes to figure this out. Tell them to be better.
Divish. That was an excellent honest assessment.
10:40 I see more and more of Divish die inside everytime someone makes a 54% reference.
I was talking with a guy i sit by at the games. He made a good point. Julio has had like 2-3 good months in his 3yr career. The rest of the time, he's mediocre. This last home stand, he was way behind the fast ball. And the braves starters were only throwing in the low 90s
Julio needs to go to Drive Line
Isn't that part of the problem though? Why is it our guys have to go outside the orginization for help? We have great coaching for our pitchers so why is it so lacking for the hitters, some of it is talent but its ridiculous how guys have to keep struggling with zero help from guys collecting checks whose sole purpose is to help correct stances and approaches.
The Mariners don't necessarily need power if they stop hitting .217 with a .297 OBP.
Slugging with high strikeouts, bad hitting, and nobody on base is inconsistent and boring.
Good defense, effective hitting and filling up the bases is an easier, less expensive way to supplement this pitching staff.
Hate to say it, but Hancock is expendable and should net a HUGE return.
Unfortunately Seattle can’t just go buy elite bats like Cruz in the past that can slug anywhere. And I also think it’s STUPID that MLB parks can be so varied in dimensions that make a ball an out in 8 ball parks but a homer in 22. It robs us of fair playing level comparison and makes some guys look way too elite when they hit in a little league ballpark. But I digress, I think Polanco will bounce back and Julio will figure it out, Cal and Ty should be solid. The problem is that we have to deal with multiple non power positions at SS, LF, 3B, 1B. Whenever Garver wants to resume hitting I’d welcome it. But he could have been an example of fool’s gold in Texas.
The M's had considerable churn in the off-season in terms of lineup. The players in the lineup need to adjust to their roles and get used to each. A month into season is too soon to make adjustments. Anytime, you add players to the lineup requires time. Look at the Angels after the trade deadline. They had a huge churn. The Angels couldn't get players to gel.. It takes time. The M's have 5 months to get players to play to back of their cards.
Something I’ve never understood is why the Mariners bulk up on pitching to compliment their “pitchers ballpark”. If we have a ballpark that naturally makes pitchers better and batters worse, it would make sense to focus batting development since they have a bigger hurdle to climb than the pitchers. I’ve heard arguments for the opposite and they never make logical sense to me. Focus on batting development more. Alter the field dimensions. It’s been done before and it’s obviously affecting our batters mindsets year in year out.
Orioles and Mariners have always been a great match for a trade. Os have the best young hitting in baseball. Question is will the Mariners part with one of their young starters?
On the surface it’s an interesting proposal, but you can’t believe the Orioles would part with Henderson or Rutschman (also M’s don’t need a SS or catcher). And the other O’s hitters don’t have a great track record of success like the M’s pitchers do
@@Guyzo997would probably need to be something like Santander plus one of our other top IF or C prospects.
Julio DOES put too much pressure on himself and feels he needs to carry the offense. That wouldn't happen if they added that other middle of the order bat that they have needed since Julio arrived.
Maybe Julio needs to just hit the ball...take a pitch...walk more....bunt some time. He is just not a very good "hitter" overall.
What's sad is that Jerry has done everything he could to turn this around. And now it's biting him in the ass again. It's not Jerry's fault. Its no one's fault they'll come out of it
Well it's someone's fault but he's not on the field he's at home with a vice grip on his wallet.
It’s John Stanton being a cheap twat
I call BS it’s just as cold in other NE Ball parks. Look at the home run stats. They swing and miss is the problem , maybe the hitters back drop ?
The “marine layer” excuse is such a load of 💩
Every time we play in t-mobile so deos the other team...
Man i want them to add a bat but at this point ive come to the conclusion that it doesnt matter what kind of bat they try to get, the player will regress hard when they get here because the hitting philosophy is so ass backwards and making the players doubt themselves.
They def need to add someone. Luis Robert, sell Tai Pete or farmelo, clase and Haggerty. Money should not be a concern as we are going for a ring and he has only club options remaining.
The mWo is the only way to go. Taylor Ward walking it off to win the series for the M’s. Idk who else they’ll add
Marners should add Bauer
Boone had the "juice"
It's time to bring in the fences.
Number of people saying we need to add someone. Who? Where are you putting them? 3B? Isn’t Rojas currently the most productive hitter on the team?
Left field leaves a lot to be desired
The Rangers and Astros payroll is $100 higher per year than the Ms. That is like 3 Mookie Betts lol. The competitiveness in the MLB is silly.
Julio look like a damn foolio swinging at pitches out of the strike zone .
Mr RYAN DAVIS
I hope they lessen to you we need offense n the only one i see its ARRAEZ .
N FIRE THIS HITTING COUCH
TO MANNY STRIKE OUTS
I HOPE SCOT SERVAIS MOVE JULIO RODRIGUEZ FROM # 2
to much pressure at # 2
FRANCE ALSO MOVE HEM AT # 8 .N SEAT FRANCE MORE OFTEN N SEE WHATHAPPEN
SCOTT TRY ROJAS AT # 2 OR LED OFF
ONE MONTH
THIS STARS ONE OF THE BEST.
HOPE FOR MORE OFFENSE
Don't matter how good that pitching is, they can't hit the ball.. then you got this dude talking about guys not getting Home runs cause "the ball doesn't travel" at 17, 150lbs, couldn't bench 175lbs hit a curveball off maybe a 60 mph pitch hit the 417ft in the gap off the fence.. it's a joke to hear this marine air crap! What compared to Colorado?? I don't understand why it's so hard to at least hit .250 an not strikeout that much.. just put the dam ball in play, make the other team make a play..
New, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new.......world order!
I mean I doubt we'll trade munoz, but I bet we trade Stanek for a garbage prospects at the deadline, nothing more.
4 life
Jsuxrod on pace for 10 home runs and 220 strikeouts. Can’t wait for that 1 month he isn’t the worst player on the team.
Wait a minute? What? The Trade Deadline is 3 months away. Why are you talking about it now? Relax.
Trade Ty France, please and get us some F-ing pop at first!
The M's just don't have any "good" hitters - no one will take a walk. Very few bunts. There is no Ichiro, no Edgar, no Griffey - no one to work a count, play situational baseball. They are all swinging for the fences. Too many holes in their swings. The M's invested too much, too early for Julio. The team also needs to re-evaluate their hitting philosophy - this issue has been a problem for almost a decade.
Shut up with the 54% thing AJ! It's a tired joke now. Honestly, I think if it were someone else constantly making that joke it would be funny. Your jokes are just so corny. So it's the delivery from your mouth, that just doesn't quite allow that joke to hit right anymore
Julio Fraud Rodriguez 😡