Seattle Mariners bats are worse than we thought but there is a fix
The wrap up
Seattle Mariners batters need to stop jumping at the first pitch. By working counts, they get better pitches to hit. They also need to change the line-up around because it’s not a good one. Trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
It definitely hurts that the M’s best on-base man is injured right now. While everyone thought that interjecting some of Kelenic’s confidence and energy would change the offensive’s trajectory, so far, it hasn’t. Right now, he isn’t helping the team.
For those who are into WAR, the Seattle Mariners combined WAR for the entire baseball team is -3.8. Only the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers are worse. WAR stands for Wins Above Replacement, but to further define WAR, it’s the distance that a player has on being replaced by someone from AAA.
That is a rabbit hole for another day. The great Vin Scully paraphrased Scottish poet Andrew Lang when he said “statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. Even Lang and Scully would be amazed at the depths Seattle bats sunk in 2021.
The bottom line is that the Mariners’ lineup is terrible. They are lucky to be two games under .500 on the season, and their offense needs rescuing right now.
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Joe Swenson is a lifelong Seattle Sports Fan, awarding-winning playwright, and director, as well as a producer, author, and executive producer for the Quarantine 2038 Project, coming soon to a streaming service near you.