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Can the Seattle Mariners Compete Despite Never Getting on Base?
Published by Jake Rake on April 24, 2009
Article Source: Bleacher Report - MLB
Yuniesky Betancourt (53 PA)
Bengie Molina (54 PA)
Ichiro Suzuki (33 PA)
Not surprisingly, considering that more than 20 percent of their starting lineup has yet to draw a walk, the Seattle Mariners are last in the major leagues with a .293 on-base percentage, barely falling below Arizona (.294) and Molina’s swing-happy San Francisco Giants (.299).
(Point of interest: the Moneyball-inspiration Oakland A’s are next from the bottom at .307, which is certainly crappy, but the A’s look like the ’27 Yankees next to those other three dud-studded lineups).
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