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My piece for the Brock and Salk blog this week deals with Justin Smoak s struggles and what they mean. Hint not much. -- This post came from: U.S.S. Mariner, and is copyright by the authors. This RSS feed is intended for the personal use of reade...

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Wondering why there are so few rumors involving what the M s might do between now and 1 pm pacific time tomorrow, when the trade deadline passes? It s fairly simple for the Mariners, this deadline isn t really one. Besides Brandon League and maybe...

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Pauley vs Garcia, 5:10 pm. Tonight should be an interesting test for Pauley. Similar to Doug Fister, he pounds the zone with mediocre stuff and relies on getting hitters to get themselves out, which doesn t work all that well in a ballpark where th...

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We ve all seen it, and it certainly doesn t take a sabermetric fan to understand that they were watching something historic. I ve always hated the if he keeps up this pace caveat, but the numbers were absolutely stunning. Simply put, he d left hi...

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Vargas vs Buehrle, 5:10 pm. I posted this on twitter this afternoon, but here s something depressing the five lowest wOBAs in baseball over the last 30 days:1. Justin Smoak, .1712. Ivan Rodriguez, .1753. Miguel Montero, .2274. Ichiro Suzuki, .2315....

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We ve gotten a lot of emails asking for a post about Ryan Rowland-Smith s problems, so by popular demand, here you go. This one just isn t that complicated, though. There s no great insight to be found here it s just as simple as the fact that he...

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Rowland-Smith vs Floyd, 5:10 pm. In a rush, so not much to say about this one, other than bet on Chicago this is the wrong environment for RRS to try and fix his HR problem.Ichiro, RFFiggins, 2BBranyan, DHLopez, 3BSmoak, 1BSaunders, CFJosh Wilson, ...

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I try to avoid linking to things I write other places, because I don t want to become a self-promoter and I figure most of you probably know how to find my stuff at FanGraphs, WSJ, or ESPN anyway. But, I m making an exception today, because my after...

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Hernandez vs Danks, 5:10 pm. Happy Felix Day. As has been pointed out in several different places recently, Felix is having essentially the same season he had last year. His numbers are almost identical across the board in every meaningful category...

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This one is on time! I don't really know about the ones in the coming weeks Well, let's get to it, shall we?To the jump!Odds and Ends:I don't have any big item for this week, but here are a few tidbits from the week.One is that the MLB has insti...

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