[Lonnie]

The iguana got out of it's cage last night, and nibbled the heads off of all the plastic army men that are crucial components of the Rube Goldberg Stat Machine. Needless to say, it is down for maintenance at the moment while I shop on line for new army men and find a cure for an iguana with an upset stomach. Lacking that as a means of determining value, or, as in the case of the Mariners, an absence of value of players in any given position, I am forced to actually think for myself.

Oh, the horror...

If in fact I have to think for myself then I guess it is rather important that I write about something that I have, at the very least, a passing familiarity with. Kineseology of pitching or hitting? Nope. The economic impact of signing a free agent player to a long term contract for about $20M a year? Um, no. Speed, and the managerial discisions required to utilize it fully on the basepaths? Ah, no. Not that either. Judging the 2007 draft and how it has gone for the players who remain in the Mariner system? Well, yes!!!

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