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Weekly Around the -Ists
Seattlest Pix 09Nov09
Can't Miss It: Monday
Mariners with Felix Hernandez
Record: 2-0
Payroll: $106,516,833
Mariners without Felix Hernandez
Record: 3-9
Payroll: $106,096,833
Sometimes, words can't tell the story as well as numbers. Look at that--the $106 million of player that Mariners GM Bill Bavasi recruited to surround Felix Hernandez can't manage to win more than 25% of its games.
To put it another way--0.39% of the Mariners' payroll is responsible for 40% of its wins.
The blueprint for the season was this:
1) The M's go 20-10 in Hernandez' 30 or so starts.
2) They somehow manage to play .500 ball in games started by other pitchers.
If 1) and 2), then the M's win 90 games, which might be enough in a weak AL West.
Instead, neither 1 (injury) or 2 (optimism) looks likely. Without Hernandez, the M's appear to be not just bad, but '62 Mets bad.
After Jeff Weaver (who makes 19 times more than Hernandez) botched his chance to stop the M's week-long losing streak, the $106 million men will turn to...some fella named TBA to stop the bleeding in today's game versus the Tom Emanski Baseball School Texas Rangers.
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"To put it another way--0.39% of the Mariners' payroll is responsible for 40% of its wins."
Huh? You're comparing apples to peacocks. If you really want to work it out this way, then you should be comparing pitchers' salaries only. What percent of pitchers' salaries does Felix get?
Pitchers do "win" games. After all, they receive official credit for wins and get tagged with losses, unless they don't figure in the decision. So, regardless of whether or not Felix goes up to bat and drives in a run, and regardless of whether or not he makes all 27 outs by himself (which, frankly it looks like he's going to have to do that at some point this season), you can reasonably say that Felix *is* responsible for 40% of the team's wins.
Not only that, but at $490,000 he's getting paid a lot less to do a far better job than his sucky teammates.
it really is amazing who Bavasi will sign or trade for. Jeff Weaver, Adrian Beltre, Washburn, 15 mil to Sexson?!?!?! What ever happened to smart spending? Its a great thing the M's are in the same division as Bill Stoneman(we gotta hold on to our 4 2b prospects), Tom silly spendin' Hicks(A-rod, CHAN HO PARK), they would be out of the race in the AL East or Central by May
While wins is a sucky stat, Felix COULD win games on his own, as the rest of the M's stank (Japanese players excluded).
You know, as a Cubs fan, I empathize.