As soon as I write that the Mariners are contenders, they drop 5 straight to NL teams. Reasons for this? No one besides Ichiro is hitting, and our starting pitching all sucked. Felix still hasn't had a great start since he hit the DL, Washburn has "regressed" to his normal stats, except he's even worse. Our defense is horrible with Beltre out and Ibanez and Guillen sucking.
What we should do, as everyone in the M's Blogosphere is screaming for, is promote Adam Jones, Baseball America's number 1 hot prospect right now, and rightfully so. He's been hitting .400 with .450 obp and and .800 slugging in the last 2 weeks and he only seems to get better. Hed be a major upgrade over Ibanez or Guillen in the field, and we could just sit Vidro down, except against lefties we could sit Ibanez.
This losing streak hopefully isn't all bad, when we were winning, there was no way management would "fix what's not broken" and promote Adam Jones, but now that we have a 5 game losing streak, hopefully this is the sign they needed to promote Adam Jones, and possibly Ryan Feierabend (maybe Campillo too?), because Weaver is done as a starting pitcher.
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