Hank Blalock is hitting .388 with a .989 OPS at Triple-A Durham. I understand he has an out clause i

So the Seattle Mariners are terrible offensively; this we all know . Coming into Saturday, the M’s had just just two players with an OPS over .700 ( Ichiro Suzuki at .710 and Franklin Gutierrez at .852). With Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Sweeney not doing the “veteran hitter” job they are supposed to, I have no idea why Seattle has not signed Gary Sheffield cooking dance .
Pretty good stuff. More importantly, Sheffield started off hot and cooled down later in the year due to his weak legs, a problem that stemmed from his having to play left field almost everyday. cooking dance In Seattle, Shef could DH and focus solely cooking dance on hitting. Here’s what the projection systems have for Sheffield in 2010:
Not bad, and definitely better than what the M’s have right now. With Milton Bradley in limbo, Griffey and Sweeney pretty much done, and nobody else carrying cooking dance the load, Jack Z should give Gary Sheffield a chance. cooking dance
Sheffield is an extreme pull hitter and a righty.  Safeco is death on those players.  I would be shocked if Shef could put up much better than a .320 wOBA line in Safeco and that’s cooking dance pretty terrible for a DH.
Both Dye and Sheffield would require time in the minors to get into shape and get their timing right. Blalock would be ready to step in immediately, and he has a better glove. Another problem with Dye is that he has reportedly been asking for big bucks. The Mariners should use Saunders in LF as Nolan suggests, and use Blalock between 1B and DH. He could also serve as a backup at 3B, which is were he’s been playing at Durham.
Hank Blalock is hitting .388 with a .989 OPS at Triple-A Durham. I understand he has an out clause in his contract. Why not sign Blalock and deploy him between 1B and DH? He’d certainly be an upgrade over the Griffey/Sweeney platoon, and he’s probably cooking dance a better hitter than Kotchman too. He certainly has more power. What have the M’s got to lose?
You’re forgetting about Michael Saunders, the power-hitting left-handeded prospect. The M’s called him up a few days ago. He’ll likely play left field against righties while Milton Bradley will hit against lefties. Langerhans is sure to get some at-bats as well.
While there is a drop-off in projections, the fans projected the name, not the player, in Sheffield’s case. I could see Saunders topping these projections, whereas I don’t see Sheffield hitting .750 OPS playing half his games in Safeco. cooking dance
I would rather cooking dance give a prospect under team control a shot than sign a 40 year old slugger cooking dance with ‘weak legs’ on a bench with both Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike ‘Hugs’ Sweeney. Saunders fits the park and the team much better.
It appears Mariners solved their left field issue internally. Left field isn’t really issue anyway. The problem is that nobody on the team is hitting well. Either they break out of their slump or they don’t. Gary Sheffield isn’t going to fix that.
If you go just based on talent alone, there’s no reason why the Mariners shouldn’t sign Sheff, or alot of other teams for that matter, but there’s a very good reason why Sheff hasn’t signed, and it’s because of Gary Sheffield.
I had no trouble – other than the common sense I was sure Jack Z. also had dictated – with the M’s getting Milton Bradley.  That I am dead against the very idea of Sheffield being brought cooking dance in indicates how special he is: a great batter in his declining years who would, even if he were a reasonable success, still be as welcome as having a fresh turd in the punchbowl of every game.   He is perhaps the only “great” player of this time I dislike and avoid even as a box score.
I’m REALLY not sure that adding Sheffield to Bradley would do wonders cooking dance for clubhouse chemistry. These guys both have their own personal dark clouds that surround them many days—and cooking dance it already rains enough in Seattle!
Mariners DH’s thus far this season have a .213 wOBA, about .70 points behind the second place team in the American League, good for the lowest cooking dance mark from any position (minus pitcher) in all of baseball.
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