Good teams lose to bad teams all the time in baseball. We just need to minimize it. I think the team letdown a bit after winning by the series against the Yankees.
Yes, of course. Good teams lose to bad teams all the time in every sport. It's one of the reasons many of us find sports so compelling. You never know what's going to happen.
My post was mostly commenting on the lack of offense lately. Again, before yesterday they had played 16 games since the all star break. They scored 2 or less runs in 8 of those games. If you're a fringe wildcard team, like the M's, that probably isn't going to cut it.
The offense just needs to be more consistent. We need to get some of consistent production from guys outside of France and Julio.
Exactly. This is pretty much what I was saying.
I think it will be pretty clear in the off-season we will need to add an established bat we can rely on. Someone who has had sustained success unlike Winker who only did it for one season.
Winker was a career .288 hitter over 5 seasons in Cincinnati before coming to Seattle. Don't think the "he only did it for 1 season" applies to him.
Same with Frazier. Career .281 hitter in 6 seasons before coming to Seattle.
No idea why these guys have done so much worse this season than any reasonable person could have expected. They were both good pick ups by the M's (and so was Suarez). It's just unfortunate they've underperformed compared to their career averages (and not just in BA, in a lot of categories).
