Oakland (8-11) @ Seattle (13-9)

TTown · Post #1 » by **TTown** » Fri May 1, 2009 2:33 am

Dana Eveland (1-1, 5.95 ERA) vs. Carlos Silva (1-2, 6.14 ERA)
Trevor Cahill (0-2, 5.40 ERA) vs. Jarrod Washburn (3-1, 3.42 ERA)
Josh Outman (0-0, 5.23 ERA) vs. Chris Jakubauskas (1-3, 5.23 ERA)

Potential for a couple of shoot-outs here. Silva pitched decently enough last outing, so the odds of cosmic law are severely out of our favor. Washburn was brilliant his first three starts, but got tagged last time out. Jakubauskas threw an absolute gem against the ChiSox, but we really don't know what we're getting out of him on a game-to-game basis. All of Oakland's pitchers are spotty.

Three game series vs. Oakland, then a small two-game set against Texas before hitting the road again.

Post #2 » by **Sweezo** » Fri May 1, 2009 7:38 am

Hopefully the M's learned how to take a pitch against Cahill, as he just destroyed us a few games back.

Post #3 » by **Bulltalk** » Fri May 1, 2009 8:40 pm

I just don't want us to melt down quickly to .500 from here.

TTown · Post #4 » by **TTown** » Fri May 1, 2009 10:22 pm

Yeah, this is a pretty big home stand. While we can't legitimize ourselves so early, we can sure as heck shoot ourselves in the foot.

Projecting wins/losses is so difficult in this game, but if you figure Felix and Bedard will pitch against Texas, winning the series with Oakland will set the M's up well for their upcoming road trip. I mean, go 2-1 against Oak and then have Felix and Bedard pick up wins against the Rangers and we're suddenly 17-10. Lose the series and you're flying out to the Midwest with plenty of opportunities to drop under .500.

Looking over the May schedule, we've got 10 games with Anaheim and Boston (7 at Safeco) coming up.

Post #5 » by **BlackMamba** » Sat May 2, 2009 12:44 am

well, you can't make anything of the M's pitchers. silva we all now it's almost a guaranteed loss and lots of runs against. washburn, one day he's an ace then he's not. jakubauskas...

Post #6 » by **Sweezo** » Sat May 2, 2009 3:22 am

Quick question: Is Carlos Silva the worst pitcher in MLB baseball right now? I know there's other pitchers on rosters that presumably less talent, but when you factor talent, attitude, and salary together...who would be worse to have on a roster? What's worse than a fat, talentless jerk who thinks he's a team leader but is incapable of giving his team a chance to win a ball game?

The game got ugly quick when Oakland realized they were swinging at balls during those strikeouts. He had no control...in his last at bat he was bouncing pitches up there.

Post #7 » by **Bulltalk** » Sat May 2, 2009 3:28 am

Sweezo wrote:Quick question: Is Carlos Silva the worst pitcher in MLB baseball right now? I know there's other pitchers on rosters that presumably less talent, but when you factor talent, attitude, and salary together...who would be worse to have on a roster? What's worse than a fat, talentless jerk who thinks he's a team leader but is incapable of giving his team a chance to win a ball game?

The game got ugly quick when Oakland realized they were swinging at balls during those strikeouts. He had no control...in his last at bat he was bouncing pitches up there.

Sweezo, I've hit rock-bottom with Silva tonight. I'm in the camp of cutting him loose in some way, and eating what of his salary we have to. He's worthless. I'd rather live with Aumont, or some other youngster in-over-their-heads than this guy. We can't continue to pitch him just because we're paying him a lot of money, and hoping he'll return to being the adequate inning-muncher we signed him to be.

Post #8 » by **Sweezo** » Sat May 2, 2009 3:40 am

I don't know what to do with him. I don't see this team as having a big margin of error. Tonight, they had a nice lead against a division rival, so Silva goes out and promptly takes a big fat greasy **** all over it.

Garrett Olson's starting to put up some numbers. If Corcoran's hurt enough to be on the 15 day DL, surely we can push Silva on to the 60 day DL.

Branyan with a 2 run bomb to dead center. Wow. 1 run game...

Post #9 » by **Bulltalk** » Sat May 2, 2009 3:45 am

He's like Inspector Clouseau. If we win the game, it's in spite of anything he does.

TTown · Post #10 » by **TTown** » Sat May 2, 2009 3:52 am

Gutierrez goes deep in the inning as well, 7-6 M's going into the 6th. Thank goodness the offense came out.

Post #11 » by **BlackMamba** » Sat May 2, 2009 4:14 am

nice, way to turn around the game.

but yes, in won't argue with you Sweezo, he is absolutely terrible, i mean, only looking at his numbers you can see that he isn't doing any good to the team. not even how bad the M's were last year, they didn't deserve someone like silva and this year that they are looking pretty good they also don't need him.

i hope someone in the coaching staff or front office realize that. he won't be easy to move and maybe sending him to some minor league games could help him, but i would rather go with a rookie or batista back as a starter than having silva in the rotation.

a number to pay close attention to: seattle is the 2nd team with the lowest ERA with 3.47, now, imagine if someone better than silva was in the rotation.

Post #12 » by **Bulltalk** » Sat May 2, 2009 5:12 am

What an at-bat by Lopez. Hits the 14th pitch to him for a single to win the game. It's wins like these that give you that feeling that the baseball Gods are on our side now.

Post #13 » by **Sweezo** » Sat May 2, 2009 5:25 am

Bulltalk wrote:What an at-bat by Lopez. Hits the 14th pitch to him for a single to win the game. It's wins like these that give you that feeling that the baseball Gods are on our side now.

Yeah, ended up being a hell of a game. The whole at-bat I was thinking 'come on, you're just a little bit behind it.' He kept staying alive, fouling off pitches that may or may have not been strikes, but got the pitch he wanted and won the game.

3.5 games up in the division

Post #14 » by **BlackMamba** » Sat May 2, 2009 3:58 pm

wow! 14th pitch!!! that's awesome, way to be patient and to be smart at when to make the swing and try to make the hit.

Bay_Areas_Finest · Post #15 » by **Bay_Areas_Finest** » Sat May 2, 2009 5:55 pm

What a great game. Man, I love Russell Branyan. That dude is so strong. And so far this season, he's been able to handle left-handed pitching. He bombed that homer.

Great at-bat by Lopez as well. I thought it was never going to end, haha.

Oh, and Silva is complete and utter trash. We should cut him ASAP. Eat whatever salary you have to. I just dont like seeing his pathetic body in a Mariners uniform. Call up Olson and put him in the rotation. Seriously, you dont get much worse than Silva.

TTown · Post #16 » by **TTown** » Sun May 3, 2009 12:22 am

We got a rare gift last night: a win on a Carlos Silva night. Let's not waste it.

Post #17 » by **Sweezo** » Sun May 3, 2009 1:20 am

Meanwhile, Morrow goes to the 15-day DL with bicep tendonitis, and Denny Stark gets called up.

slaterbug · Post #18 » by **slaterbug** » Sun May 3, 2009 1:36 am

Branyan homer!

Post #19 » by **Sweezo** » Sun May 3, 2009 2:02 am

We keep running ourselves out of the inning. That's 2 CS and one runner throw out at the plate already.

TTown · Post #20 » by **TTown** » Sun May 3, 2009 2:23 am

Luckily, Wash is pitching well again. Hopefully last time out in Anaheim was a fluke.