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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Is that really the managers fault though? I don't pretend to know if Wakamatsu is a good manager or not, but if he doesn't have the lineup available to produce wins, can he be fully blamed for this? Maybe Seattle, like Toronto, should keep their ace pitchers and build a legitimately good team around them. Both franchises are going nowhere fast if they keep up this losing mentality.
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It's not that bad of a lineup.
Opening Day was
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp...eamlb_oakmlb_1
It's not great but it's not 40-70 bad. Figgins Lopez and Kotchman aren't bad players, they succeeded in other places. With Ichiro and Figgins at the top of the order, the Mariners should have ran wild. They should each have 50 stolen bases right now.
Ichiro has 144 hits and 35 walks and only 28 stolen bases? That's not aggresive enough, especially with the great pitching of Felix, Lee and a combination of Vargas and Fister. Mariners should have been manufacturing the little runs they need to win. Give this team to a Guillen or a Scoscia and they could be .500
Plus they're in probably the easiest division in baseball. They can't be 40-70.