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Team: Seattle Mariners
2007 Regular Season Record: 88-74
Cost per Win: $106,460,833 / 88 = $1,209,782 per win
2007 Season Recap: The Mariners had a good season that just wasn’t good enough. They contended for the wild card until late in the season when the Yankees started to actually play like they should with their payroll. The Mariners ended the season 6 games back in the AL West and also 6 games back in the Wild Card race. Also of note is the fact that the Mariners had a manager change mid way through the season which caused a bit of a distraction to a team that looked solid in the first half.
Performances by the Mariners start with Ichiro and then you can talk about everyone else. The perennial all-star performed just as expected this year and led his team in batting average, RBIs, runs, and stolen bases. Most notably was that he batted .351, his highest average since 2004 when he hit .372. Besides Ichiro the Mariners didn’t have any extremely impressive performances but most of the starters played solid through the entire year.
Not everything was perfect for the Mariners though. In my opinion their biggest disappointment was Richie Sexson who was paid $15.5 million in 2007. In exchange for the team highest salary Richie didn’t contribute much. Most glaring of his bad numbers was his .205 batting average. He did have 21 home runs but that was down from the 34 he had last season and the 39 the season before. For the salary he has though he should be contributing a lot more to the team.
Key Free Agents: OF Jose Guillen, SP Tomo Ohka, SP Jeff Weaver, RP Chris Reitsma; Tomo Ohka is probably the biggest loss but the additional loss of Weaver opens a big hole in the pitching rotation. Weaver was bad this season but he was still a body that could eat up inning so in that sense he will be missed. Guillen is an offensive loss and had a very solid season in 2007 with a .290 batting average and adding 23 home runs.
Offseason Needs: The biggest need is at pitcher just because they lose 2 guys and now have a big gap to fill. There is a thin free agent stock of pitchers so the Mariners are in trouble and will probably have to pull off a trade to get a solid guy. Guillen has already signed with the Royals so the Mariners now need to go on a hunt for a right fielder since they lack experience in their organization at that position.
Prediction for the 2008 season: It will be more of the same for the Mariners next season. I don’t think they will be able to improve their pitching hardly at all and they probably won’t even be as close to the wild card or division as they were this year. The wild card most certainly won’t be coming out of the west this season so it is either the division or nothing for the Mariners and they don’t have the talent to keep up with the Angels.
Team: Seattle Mariners
2007 Regular Season Record: 88-74
Cost per Win: $106,460,833 / 88 = $1,209,782 per win
2007 Season Recap: The Mariners had a good season that just wasn’t good enough. They contended for the wild card until late in the season when the Yankees started to actually play like they should with their payroll. The Mariners ended the season 6 games back in the AL West and also 6 games back in the Wild Card race. Also of note is the fact that the Mariners had a manager change mid way through the season which caused a bit of a distraction to a team that looked solid in the first half.
Performances by the Mariners start with Ichiro and then you can talk about everyone else. The perennial all-star performed just as expected this year and led his team in batting average, RBIs, runs, and stolen bases. Most notably was that he batted .351, his highest average since 2004 when he hit .372. Besides Ichiro the Mariners didn’t have any extremely impressive performances but most of the starters played solid through the entire year.
Not everything was perfect for the Mariners though. In my opinion their biggest disappointment was Richie Sexson who was paid $15.5 million in 2007. In exchange for the team highest salary Richie didn’t contribute much. Most glaring of his bad numbers was his .205 batting average. He did have 21 home runs but that was down from the 34 he had last season and the 39 the season before. For the salary he has though he should be contributing a lot more to the team.
Key Free Agents: OF Jose Guillen, SP Tomo Ohka, SP Jeff Weaver, RP Chris Reitsma; Tomo Ohka is probably the biggest loss but the additional loss of Weaver opens a big hole in the pitching rotation. Weaver was bad this season but he was still a body that could eat up inning so in that sense he will be missed. Guillen is an offensive loss and had a very solid season in 2007 with a .290 batting average and adding 23 home runs.
Offseason Needs: The biggest need is at pitcher just because they lose 2 guys and now have a big gap to fill. There is a thin free agent stock of pitchers so the Mariners are in trouble and will probably have to pull off a trade to get a solid guy. Guillen has already signed with the Royals so the Mariners now need to go on a hunt for a right fielder since they lack experience in their organization at that position.
Prediction for the 2008 season: It will be more of the same for the Mariners next season. I don’t think they will be able to improve their pitching hardly at all and they probably won’t even be as close to the wild card or division as they were this year. The wild card most certainly won’t be coming out of the west this season so it is either the division or nothing for the Mariners and they don’t have the talent to keep up with the Angels.
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