The Seattle Mariners, A Likely Short BBM Dynasty Diary Thread

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1983 Arbitration Cases & Expiring Contracts
2B Kim Allen wants a $40K pay raise, we don't even make an offer we just release him.
SS Larry Bowa retired.
LF Dan Thomas only wants a slight pay raise to stay with us but we feel that $300K could be better spent somewhere else.
RP Ron Musselman wants almost $250K more for a mid 5 ERA! His ratings are good enough that i'd like to keep him so I counter with a $200K offer, a $150,000 pay raise. We win the arbitration hearing.
RP Enrique Romo is 35 years old, wants a $170,000 pay raise and has sucked the past 2 years. Bye Bye Enrique.

1983 Players In Their Last Contract Years
Oh man, this is gonna be no fun, so many guys are in there last seasons, let's go 1 by 1.

SP Scott Sanderson is willing to sign for 4 years at $920,000 per, it's a $400,000 pay raise but we need to lock him up.

1B Keith Hernandez wants a Million dollar a year raise, RF Dave Winfield wants a $1.5 Million dollar a year raise.

We need to trim some major salary. 3B Buddy Bell is making $800K a year and while I love him, 3B Dave Edler is probably ready for a big league job so we go about shopping Buddy.

Chicago White Sox offer us young CF Ellis Burks, a 19 year old rated 66/93 in exchange for Bell, we pull the trigger. That's $820K off the books.

CF Rupert Jones knee injury is still not fully healed and it's clear that he's not gonna be the same player he was, not that he ever blossomed to begin with. We'll see if we can do something with him. LOL. He has a no trade clause, I never noticed that. He'll only accept a trade to the Rangers. Lets see if we can give him away.

Heh, we ship Rupert and SP Greg Matthews to the Rangers in exchange for $100,000.

So we've saved about $1.3 Million in salary with those moves.

Given that Sanderson and Hammaker had solid years last season I think it may be time to move Jerry Ruess. He struggled last year and despite his good ratings, is 33 years old. Lets see if we have any takers.

The Cardinals offer us RP Joe Edelen who has been real solid for them the past 2 years. He's 27, rated 85/86. We do it.

We extend Closer Willie Hernandez for 2 more years at a $200K per year raise.

Ok, time to cowboy up. 1B Hernandez gets a 6 year extension at $1.6 Million per year. Dave Winfield gets 3 more years at $2.2 Million per season.

SP Mike Krukow is in his last year but i'm not comfortable extending him, he just hasn't pitched well.

C Ernie Whitt is in his last season but Dan Firova is just about ready to take over the C job. I'm putting Whitt on the block. We ship Ernie to the Dodgers for $100,000.

RF Dave Kingman is in his final year, we'll let him play it out and walk.

RP Ron Musselman wants $290K for 3 years, a $90,000 raise. Ok.

RP Bob Stoddard had a good season and 1 month before his injury, but his ratings took a hit so i'm not resigning him yet.

C Duffy Dyer and SS Jimmy Sexton will play out this year and i likely won't resign them.

RP Mike Willis and his $340,000 salary have no place on our team. We ship him to the Angels for $200,000 cash.

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1983 Free Agency
The only thing i'm really looking for is a sold defensive CF and a cheap Starting Pitcher.

CF Glen Burke fits the equation nicely, he's a chop hitter with decent speed and defense and only wants $180K for 2 years.
We arn't able to get that starter we wanted but oh well. We head into Spring Training with an infusion of young players who'll be on the major league roster this year.

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1983 Spring Training And Season Outlook
We have a few new starters this year. C Dan Firova takes over full time. 3B Dave Edler and DH Jim Maler will both also be regulars. Our bench is thin again as Milt Thompson and rookie signing 2B Brian Giles are both very weak.

I'm dissapointed in Ripkens development. I want him at SS for us now but I think he'll be best served by a full year of AAA, the last thing i want to do is bring him up and have him bottom out in the mid 80's.

Pitching wise with Hernadez, Henke and Musselman as our top 3 in the pen I hope we're solid. Our starting staff is once again a question. I have high hopes for our top 4 but Andujar has been slowly going down for a few years, he never quite attained that ace status i had hoped. Hopefully Sanderson continues to grow into that role and Krukow and Hammaker can be solid. We're $3 Million over budget and have $1 Million in cash. Attendance has slowly risen every year so I think i'll make it thru the season in the black. IN THE BLACK JEFFY! BLACK GOOD!

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C-  Dan Firova        26    75/90    $47K/Arb86
1B- Keith Hernandez    29    95    $1.6M/7YR
2B- Ryne Sandberg    23    93    $47K/Arb85
SS- Jimmy Sexton    31    73    $50K/1YR
3B- Dave Edler        26    81/90    $47K/Arb86
LF- Alan Wiggins    25    80    $47K/Arb85
CF- Glenn Burke        30    67/70    $180K/2YR
RF- Dave Winfield    31    95    $2.2M/4YR
DH- Jim Maler        24    85/89    $48K/Arb86 

BENCH
C-  Duffy Dyer        37    64/65    $75K/1YR
2B- Jose Baez        29    74/80    $48K/Arb84
2B- Brian Giles        22    54/71    $60K/1YR
CF- Milt Thompson     24    57/59    $47K/Arb86
RF- Dave Kingman    34    75    $250K/1YR

SP- Joaquin Andujar    30    93    $520K/2YR
SP- Scott Sanderson    26    92    $920K/4YR
SP- Mike Krukow        31    86    $375K/1YR
SP- Atlee Hammaker    25    82    $485K/3YR
SP- Steve Comer        29    83/84    $47K/Arb84

CL- Willie Hernandez    28    84/85    $380K/3YR
SM- Tom Henke        25    85/89    $330K/3YR
SM- Ron Musselman    28    87    $290K/3YR
MR- Joe Edelen        27    77/79    $3.7K/Arb85
MR- Ricky Keeton    26    73/75    $47K/Arb84
LR- Bob Stoddard    26    77    $175K/1YR    

AAA
1B- Greg Walker        23    79/95    $47K/Arb86
SS- Cal Ripken        22    80/88    $47K/Arb86
SP- Bruce Robbins    23    78/90    $47K/Arb86

AA
C-  Darren Daulton    21    73/93    $2K/Arb86
RF- Daryl Strawberry    21    71/90    $1.8K/Arb86
SP- Tim Belcher        21    75/86    $1.8K/Arb86
SP- Ron Romanick    22    73/90    $1.8K/Arb86
RP- Todd Worrell    23    70/87    $2.5K/Arb86

A
1B- Jim Lindeman    21    49/77    $1.8K/Arb86
3B- Jim Presley        21    62/91    $1.8K/Arb86
LF- Bo Jackson        20    58/79    $1.5K/Arb86
CF- Vince Coleman    21    63/86    $1.8K/Arb88
RP- Calvin Schiraldi    20    66/82    $1.5K/Arb86

ROOKIE
2B- Mariano Duncan    20    53/72    $1.5K/Arb86
SS- Ozzie Gullen    19    52/73    $1.5K/Arb86
LF- Pete Incaviglia    18    54/92    $1.5K/Arb86
CF- Ellis Burks        18    65/92    $1.5K/Arb86
RF- Dante Bichette    19    62/91    $1.5K/Arb86
RF- Jay Buhner        18    60/93    $1.5K/Arb86
SP- Terry Mullholand    20    63/91    $1.5K/Arb86
SP- Keith Brown        19    51/83    $1.5K/Arb86
SP- Mike Campbell    19    49/85    $1.5K/Arb86
RP- Bobby Thigpen    19    58/81    $1.5K/Arb86
RP- Dan Murphy        18    48/85    $1.5K/Arb86 

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1983 was Cal's rookie year, a year in which he helped lead the Orioles to a World Series win against the...Phillies...uggh.

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Yeah, I remember that. As a kid the notion that the Phillies could lose never crossed my mind. I just thought the world series was their right. I was wrongo.

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On May 13th we're 22-19, 6 games out of first.

On June 7th we stand at 33-29, 12 games out of first. The Angels are a monster this year.
On the bright side, our pitching save for Krukow has been phenomonal. The highest ERA is Sandersons 3.86.
Willie Hernandez has struggled as the closer though and Tom Henke will replace him.
Cal Ripken is booming at AAA as I had hoped, he's up to 87/93.

Amateur Draft Time!
Round 1: SP Jose Rijo 64/88
Round 2: SP Steve Sparks 47/91
Round 3: RP Mark Guthrie 47/86
Round 4: RP Gil Heredia 48/83
Round 5: 1B Kevin Maas 50/79
Round 6: C Steve Decker 53/68

On July 2nd our record is 48-37 and we're 10.5 games out of first. Our team ERA is actually below 4!

C Dan Firova however tore his ankle up He's out for the rest of the year and will likely take a nice rating hit.
We don't want to rush Daulton to the big leagues so we decide to call up just drafted Steve Decker to be our backup. It's not like we had great expectations for him anyway.

On August 1st we're 55-49, i'd love to get a winning season. Our ERA is slowly growing though.

We finish the season 84-78, 15 games back in 5th place. We only lost about half a million, leaving us with half a million in cash left, not bad. I think we can build on this, especially with our system as loaded as it is.

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1983 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Sandberg, Ryne            SEA  157  .292   638  186  32   1  21   63   88   16   7  103  105  .444  .353
Maler, Jim                SEA  162  .283   626  177  33   3  20   75   89    3   2   75   90  .441  .362
Wiggins, Alan             SEA  149  .287   616  177  17   4   0   81   63   69   9  110   51  .328  .370
Edler, Dave               SEA  150  .267   604  161  19   4   5   75  118   10   8   89   77  .336  .347
Winfield, Dave            SEA  153  .300   584  175  28   9  39   83   93    6   2  104  153  .579  .382
Hernandez, Keith          SEA  146  .297   528  157  43   3  34  121   69    4   1  108  112  .583  .430
Baez, Jose                SEA  137  .252   511  129  32   5   1   38   94    5   5   71   38  .341  .307
Burke, Glenn              SEA  137  .237   506  120  18   0   0   27   90   11   3   39   31  .273  .276
Dyer, Duffy               SEA   77  .169   237   40   5   1   1   24   55    1   1   21   12  .211  .247
Firova, Dan               SEA   63  .259   224   58   8   1   1   18   40    1   0   23   27  .317  .313
Kingman, Dave             SEA   80  .177   215   38   4   0  10   15   43    0   1   18   36  .335  .232
Decker, Steve             SEA   36  .187   107   20   4   1   0    4   15    0   0    9    8  .243  .214
Coleman, Vince            SEA   16  .238    63   15   2   0   0    5    7    9   1    8    3  .270  .304
Thompson, Milt            SEA   21  .100    60    6   0   1   0    4   16    1   2    5    7  .133  .176
Ripken, Cal               SEA   16  .333    45   15   3   0   1    8    4    0   0    7    5  .467  .434
Sexton, Jimmy             SEA   14  .314    35   11   1   0   0    6    9    0   0    3    6  .343  .415
Giles, Brian              SEA    7  .211    19    4   0   0   1    2    2    0   1    2    2  .368  .286
Presley, Jim              SEA    6  .471    17    8   1   0   2    2    5    0   0    3    4  .882  .500
Walker, Greg              SEA   16  .333    12    4   0   0   1    4    1    0   0    2    4  .583  .500
Daulton, Darren           SEA   10  .000     4    0   0   0   0    1    2    0   0    0    0  .000  .200

1983 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Comer, Steve              SEA  199.2  3.88   32  32  13   8   0   94   59 11.81
Sanderson, Scott          SEA  193.1  4.24   33  33   8  13   0  147   46 11.27
Andujar, Joaquin          SEA  192.0  4.27   33  33  11  11   0  101   65 12.84
Hammaker, Atlee           SEA  186.0  4.31   32  32  11  10   0  101   58 12.82
Krukow, Mike              SEA  155.2  5.32   31  31  10  11   0   91   86 14.86
Musselman, Ron            SEA  118.2  3.94   63   0   8   4   4   82   44 12.44
Stoddard, Bob             SEA  108.2  3.98   49   0   7   3   4   58   50 14.33
Edelen, Joe               SEA   95.0  4.55   55   0   0   4   2   73   28 14.02
Keeton, Rickey            SEA   80.2  6.69   41   1   2   3   1   44   35 15.17
Hernandez, Willie         SEA   57.0  5.37   55   0   4   6  12   47   26 12.95
Henke, Tom                SEA   54.1  2.82   48   0   9   5  10   56   23 12.09
Robbins, Bruce            SEA    7.2  1.17    3   0   1   0   0    4    3  8.22
Belcher, Tim              SEA    4.1  0.00    1   0   0   0   0    2    2 10.38 

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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1983)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Boston               101  61  .623    --  .290   201    36  4.41
 Detroit               89  73  .549  12.0  .297   224    56  5.23
 New York              89  73  .549  12.0  .292   110    63  4.16
 Baltimore             82  80  .506  19.0  .287   144    86  4.86
 Cleveland             72  90  .444  29.0  .285   130    74  5.13
 Toronto               57 105  .352  44.0  .267   141    60  5.35
 Milwaukee             35 127  .216  66.0  .245   139    59  7.48

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 California            99  63  .611    --  .297   178    68  4.80
 Oakland               94  68  .580   5.0  .271   189    79  3.75
 Texas                 93  69  .574   6.0  .282   155    72  4.52
 Minnesota             90  72  .556   9.0  .282   179    58  4.63
 Seattle               84  78  .519  15.0  .266   137   136  4.39
 Kansas City           78  84  .481  21.0  .295   116   106  5.97
 Chicago               71  91  .438  28.0  .277   169    69  5.26


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1983)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 St. Louis            103  59  .636    --  .275   113   141  3.59
 New York              87  75  .537  16.0  .260   114    65  4.46
 Chicago               85  77  .525  18.0  .278    94    55  4.22
 Philadelphia          84  78  .519  19.0  .262   127    81  4.52
 Montreal              67  95  .414  36.0  .262   125    54  4.75
 Pittsburgh            64  98  .395  39.0  .269   108    66  4.82

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Los Angeles           96  66  .593    --  .275   132    55  4.15
 San Francisco         85  77  .525  11.0  .258   127    87  3.88
 Atlanta               82  80  .506  14.0  .269   119    93  4.09
 Houston               79  83  .488  17.0  .277    93   107  5.05
 San Diego             74  88  .457  22.0  .266   120    52  4.55
 Cincinnati            66  96  .407  30.0  .270   134    59  5.12

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Red Sox defeat Angels, 3-2
 Cardinals defeat Dodgers, 3-1

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Red Sox defeat Cardinals, 4-2 

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1983)

Cy Young                  Dennis Martinez (BAL)
Player of the Year:       Jim Rice (BOS)
Rookie Of The Year:       Andy Van Slyke (BAL)

Gold Glove (P):           Catfish Hunter (NYY)
Gold Glove (C):           Thurman Munson (NYY)
Gold Glove (1B):          Andre Thornton (BOS)
Gold Glove (2B):          Rich Dauer (BAL)
Gold Glove (3B):          Larry Parrish (OAK)
Gold Glove (SS):          Bobby Bonner (BAL)
Gold Glove (LF):          Chet Lemon (CHW)
Gold Glove (CF):          Lyman Bostock (DET)
Gold Glove (RF):          John Shelby (BAL)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1983)

Cy Young                  Orel Hershiser (LAD)
Player of the Year:       Eddie Murray (SDP)
Rookie Of The Year:       Howard Johnson (HOU)

Gold Glove (P):           Mike Moore (CHC)
Gold Glove (C):           Mike Scioscia (LAD)
Gold Glove (1B):          Leon Durham (STL)
Gold Glove (2B):          Frank White (CHC)
Gold Glove (3B):          Vance Law (PIT)
Gold Glove (SS):          Roy Smalley (CHC)
Gold Glove (LF):          Al Cowens (STL)
Gold Glove (CF):          Bobby Mitchell (LAD)
Gold Glove (RF):          Brett Butler (ATL) 

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1984 Arbitration And Expiring Contracts
RF Dave Kingman only wants $80K, a $170K pay cut, per 2 years to stay, yeah, we can do that.

SS Jimmy Sexton pretty much lost his starting job this year and wants a healthy raise, sorry Jimmy, you're gone.

2B Ryne Sandberg is up for arbitration, We win the hearing and only have to pay him $600K instead of his asked for $840K.

C Duffy Dyer is 38, has declining and bad ratings and wants a raise. Bye Duffman.

SS/2B Jose Baez is a real good defensive slap hitter who serves us well off the bench, we win arbitration he gets $180K.

2B Brian Giles is a nothing, he should of stayed in high school. I release him.

SP Mike Krukow wants a pay raise, I want a better pitcher. Here since the beggining but it's time to move on, we release him.

RP Bob Stoddard had a solid if unspectacular season coming off an elbow injury. He wants nearly a $100K raise over 3 years, I give it to him.

SP Steve Comer is coming off 2 excellent seasons for us. He asks for $480K, we offer $320K and win, still a nice pay raise.

RP Rickey Keeton has never pitched well for us, he's gone.

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Players Entering The Final Year Of Their Contracts
2B Ryne Sandberg is the first guy and we're able to strike a nice deal with him, we give him $900K a year for 7 years.

SP Joaquin Andujar is an interesting case. He's only 30, had his best year in 6 seasons last year, and has solid ratings. He wants a long term deal but we can talk him down, he wants a nice raise though. We go 3 years at $900K, a $400K raise.

It may bite us in the ass but i'm not prepared to give 29 year old SP Steve Comer a long term deal.

Infielder Jose Baez wants $260K for 3 seasons. I'm willing to do that.

Only CF Glenn Burke is left and he aint gettin no extension or deal of anykind, so only he and Comer can walk next year.

This leaves us $1.3 Million over budget, but I think it's time to take a risk and maybe do some things.

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1984 Free Agency & Trades
We set out sights on Atlanta leadoff man Brett Butler, he's a great defender with speed and hitting ability galore.
We send CF Ellis Burks, SP Tim Belcher and RP Mark Guthrie to the Braves to get the deal done.

Other than that we don't do anything. We're content to promote from within with everything else.

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who is this "we" you keep referring to, i thought this was a solo career?

ok bye.

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C-  Dan Firova        27    77/90    $51K/Arb87
1B- Keith Hernandez    30    95    $1.6M/6YR
2B- Ryne Sandberg    24    93    $900K/7YR
SS- Cal Ripken        22    86/88    $51K/Arb87
3B- Dave Edler        27    78/84    $51K/Arb86
LF- Alan Wiggins    26    80    $51K/Arb85
CF- Brett Butler    26    93    $1.4M/4YR
RF- Dave Winfield    32    94    $2.2M/3YR
DH- Greg Walker        24    84/95    $51K/Arb87

BENCH
C-  Steve Decker    18    53/65    $51K/Arb87
2B- Jose Baez        30    78/79    $260K/3YR
1B- Jim Maler        25    82/83    $51K/Arb87
CF- Glenn Burke        31    70/71    $180K/1YR
RF- Dave Kingman    35    71    $80K/2YR

SP- Joaquin Andujar    31    93    $900K/3YR
SP- Scott Sanderson    27    92    $920K/3YR
SP- Atlee Hammaker    26    83    $485K/2YR
SP- Steve Comer        30    84    $320K/1YR
SP- Bruce Robbins    24    83/90    $51K/Arb87

CL- Tom Henke        26    88/90    $330K/2YR
SM- Willie Hernandez    29    85    $380K/2YR
SM- Ron Musselman    29    88    $290K/2YR
MR- Bob Stoddard    27    77    $280K/3YR
MR- Joe Edelen        28    77/79    $51K/Arb85
LR- Todd Worrell    24    72/86    $2.7K/Arb87    

AAA
CF- Milt Thompson     25    64/65    $47K/Arb86
RF- Daryl Strawberry    22    75/87    $2.7K/Arb87
SP- Ron Romanick    23    84/93    $51K/Arb87

AA
C-  Darren Daulton    22    75/94    $51K/Arb87
3B- Jim Presley        22    73/93    $2K/Arb87
CF- Vince Coleman    22    67/82    $2K/Arb87
RP- Calvin Schiraldi    21    76/88    $2K/Arb87

A
1B- Jim Lindeman    22    52/76    $2K/Arb87
2B- Mariano Duncan    21    57/71    $1.6K/Arb87
SS- Ozzie Gullen    20    53/73    $1.6K/Arb87
LF- Bo Jackson        20    62/76    $2K/Arb87
RF- Dante Bichette    20    62/90    $1.6K/Arb87
SP- Terry Mullholand    21    67/91    $1.6K/Arb87
RP- Bobby Thigpen    20    63/81    $1.6K/Arb87
SP- Keith Brown        20    62/85    $1.6K/Arb87

ROOKIE
1B- Kevin Maas        19    51/78    $1.6K/Arb87
LF- Pete Incaviglia    19    56/92    $1.6K/Arb87
RF- Jay Buhner        19    60/93    $1.6K/Arb87
SP- Jose Rijo        18    65/89    $1.6K/Arb87
SP- Mike Campbell    20    53/90    $1.6K/Arb87
SP- Steve Sparks    18    49/90    $1.6K/Arb87
RP- Dan Murphy        19    51/83    $1.6K/Arb87
RP- Gil Heredia        18    52/84    $1.6K/Arb87 

Spring Training Notes
Unhappy with a few things, Edler, Firova and Maler have not progressed, or actually have regressed. Ripken is bouncing around ratings wise but i can't keep him in AAA forever, the SS job is his. Still our lineup and bench are probably as strong as ever with Kingman, Maler and Baez on the pine and Greg Walker getting a shot as everyday DH.

On the pitching front i'm taking a chance on bringing up Bruce Robbins to be our 5th starter, he could probably use another year at AAA. Todd Worrell will be at the back end of our pen while he could also use more seasoning but i'm not gonna add salary.

If, and it's a big if, but if our pitching can be as good as it was last year I could see this team getting to 90 wins. I don't know if that's good enough to win the division but it's what i'm aiming for.

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Man, we're almost $4 Million over budget.