"Winning player": these are the two words that #Mariners top prospect Colt Emerson brought up time and again to describe his approach to the game. What drives Emerson's well-praised consistency?
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... but that had the side effect (especially with the outfielder positioning optimization) of murdering outfield BABIP.
This has been a big reason for the #Mariners' homer-heavy lineup construction in recent years.
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That's because T-Mobile Park isn't a pitcher's park in the typical sense of "it's hard to hit a home run," even though it used to be. It's a pitcher's park because:
-the batter's eye screws up righties
-in 2013, the fences got moved in to address the HR issue...
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Something I've been monitoring that's blowing my mind -- and which I don't have a good "why" to right now.
The lineup that has the most HR at home .. the Mariners .. in famously hitter-friendly, uh, T-Mobile?
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The big difference between Kirby and Peralta's starts (other than the defense behind them) has been Peralta's unwillingness give in on tough counts/traffic situations
3-1 heater to Canzone here is the only real example of that, and it ends up as a single for Seattle.
@tangotiger@FreelanceBBall My instincts would be to examine how quickly as a percentage of max sprint speed a fielder typically runs on fly balls and see if that has a relation to how much sprint speed declines affect fielders.
All three of #Mariners' notable Tuesday night heroes were guys who started the year in the minors.
Their anticipated trajectories were and are different, but they kept the win streak steady with a resounding triumph.
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FINAL: Colt Emerson finishes it off with a grooovy catch, and the #Mariners beat the #Mets, 8-3.
Seattle has won eight straight games, with a third straight series win for the first time this year.
More soon for @EmeraldSpectrum.
As so often happens when a team is on a roll, the auspices of fortune shined upon the #Mariners on Monday night.
And given the opportunity by a lockdown bullpen, it was the only man with a hit in the field who finished the honors.
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The #Mets became the 3rd team this year to get zero non-HR hits in a game, after the Royals (4/7@CLE) and the Reds (5/12@ATL)
1sttime a team did this into extras since 8/6/22 (CHC, at MIL, Cubs *won* that)
1st time a team did that into extras and lost since 5/1/17 PIT, at CIN
Cole Young is the first player in @MLB history to record an extra inning walk-off in his MLB debut (May 31, 2025), and then proceed to be on a team that walks it off โฆ on the 1๏ธโฃ year anniversary (May 31, 2026) of his debut. ๐ฅ
(h/t @IISwitchII for the idea) #TheMayerGWS
Just as I was typing the phrase ".000 combined BABIP" into my google doc, Cole Young gets a single into the outfield.
#Mariners-#Mets tied at 2-2 with two solo shots for each side, bottom of the seventh.
The #Mariners are the latest example of the titular old saying, with a six-game win streak going into their series at home against the Mets.
What has caused this upturn, and what do the M's need for it to continue?
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Probably only behind Wolfram Alpha in usefulness
My only real gripe with it is that the search tool only has >= and <= operators, no > or <
It can be remedied by throwing the data in R, which is relatively easy due to the download CSV option. Just a little time consuming tbh
Iโm def a noob but baseball savant being a free resource is crazy. The NFL has nothing like that and if they did, it would cost a million dollars lol