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Well? Was it?
Here's a rock solid guarantee. By the end of this year everyone who reads the stuff here at Mariner Central will have a firm grasp on these words and phrases:
any way the wind blows, arbitrary, blowing hot and cold, capricious, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, every which way, fanciful, fickle, fitful, flaky, flighty, freakish, gaga, helter-skelter, humorsome, impulsive, inconstant, lubricious, mercurial, moody, mutable, notional, odd, picky, punchy, queer, quirky, temperamental, ticklish, unreasonable, unstable, up and down, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo, etc.
What all of that has in common is that they are synonyms of the word "unpredictable". The ones that I am particularly fond of are: crotchety, erratic, fickle, lubricious, quirky, unstable, vagarious, and volatile. Look for these words in the gameday threads of the future.
Alrighty then, it's time to go side by side and see how the two teams stack up against each other.
Offense
SEATTLE TAMPA BAY AVG 22nd (.239) 12th (.255) OBP 25th (.290) 6th (.339) SLG 21 (.376) 6TH (.436) OPS 22nd (.666) 5th (.775) RUNS 14th (92) 8th (103) WALKS 25th (57) 4TH (84) STRIKEOUTS 18th (163) 22ND (169) SB 21st (12) 13th (14) CS 24th (7) 16th (6) Groundouts / Flyouts 220/238 197/194 Seattle (AVG (22) + OBP (25) + SLG (21) + OPS (22)) / 4 = 22.5 Tampa Bay (AVG (12) + OBP (6) + SLG (6) + OPS (5)) / 4 = 7.25
Offensively, Tampa Bay looks to primed to kick the living shit out of the Mariners based upon their production so far this year. But, tell that to Detroit and see what they have to say.
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Pitching
SEATTLE TAMPA BAY ERA 21st (4.19) 22nd (4.19) HITS 20th (193) 16th (185) WALKS 6th (58) 24th (79) STRIKEOUTS 12th (162) 18th (156) HR's 26th (28) 15th (19) AVG 16th (.249) 18th (.252) OBP 11th (.308) 22nd (.329) SLG 18th (.411) 13th (.383) OPS 18th (.719) 15th (.713) WHIP 9th (1.23) 21st (1.38) Groundouts / Flyouts 205/228 (0.90) 208/190 (1.09) Seattle (AVG (16) + OBP (11) + SLG (18) + OPS (18)) / 4 = 15.75 Tampa Bay (AVG (18) + OBP (22) + SLG (13) + OPS (15)) / 4 = 17.00
On the pitching side of the ledger it looks like Seattle has a slight edge over Tampa, but not so much that I would say that they hold an advantage.
Personally speaking, I'd love to to see the M's take the series (natcherly), but I don't think that that is reasonable. I'd be happy to see the M's get a split on the series, but I'm thinking that that too is not reasonable. At the very least, I want the M's to win at least one damn game in the series so that they can go back home having completed a .500 road trip.
Win predictions in this series is practically impossible to do. Our best shot at a win is tonight when we have Felix on the mound, but there is no guarantee that the offense will show up. There is one prediction though that I can guarantee to happen. Sometime over the course of the next four games I will be heard to utter the word ****!!! Several times over and over and over and over and over and over and...
Let's do dis!
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