Do you know how hard it is to come up with something to write about, that is Mariner specific, day after day? It gets old. Don’t get me wrong I love writing and I love Seattle baseball. They are two things that I’ve spent the better half of my 27 years thinking about and wasting my time analyzing.

But in the middle of winter when all anyone and Keith’s mom want to talk about is either signing Prince Fielder or trading Felix Hernandez there reaches a specific boiling point if you will. There is just not a lot of positive things that are going on with this team right now and that’s largely due to conjecture.

People keep saying things like we need to do A (or we need to do B) because the Mariners suck right now. I mean regardless of how we would fix “it” we can all agree that “it” needs to be fixed and the team that is currently standing needs to be retooled to a degree.

But the degree is widely disputed.

Some people say that Casper Wells is merely a fourth outfielder wear as I believe he can be a suitable CF or even RF given the chance. Some people think that Mike Carp is solid in left, citing that despite his defense that his bat will allow him to stay there. I prefer him to stay at the DH. Some are worried about Justin Smoak and what the future may hold and I think he’s a stud.

We all have different opinions on this team and that’s what makes it so much fun to talk and argue with one another.

So I thought let’s stir this pot up a bit and talk about getting this Mariner team back to scoring runs, which is a real focus and one of the main points to acquiring Prince Fielder. So I thought it fun to play with Tom Tango’s simple Markov Run Estimator calculator.  

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