Mariners Analysis

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Happy for Freddy?

So Freddy Garcia leaves the M's, gets paid big bucks AND gets to win the 4th and deciding game in the World Series?

Not too shabby to be Freddy right about now.

If Freddy had stayed with the M's, we wouldn't have witnessed the Olivo disaster, we would have had roughly $8 mil less to spend on other players and would be needing a CF.

So it's not clear cut if the M's are better off today with or without Freddy. It's complicated by that salary issue, plus the CF dilemma. Bavasi would have had to find players and have less money to do it.

Still, there is no question the Mariners could sure use a player like Freddy Garcia today. It is a LOT easier to find a player who can put up numbers like Reed than it is to find a player who pitches like Garcia.

Be happy for Freddy. Be worried about '06 for the Mariners.

That's about all we can do.