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講到offseason
The News Tribune今天有一篇專文
訪問了Pat Gillick和Bill Bavasi
談到季後和明年的一些計畫，USSMariner作了重點摘錄

1.Can Bavasi see an infield of Sexson, Jose Lopez, Beltre and Betancourt
returning next April intact?

”Yes,” he said.

看來Lopez和Betan的二游先發穩了，謝天謝地沒有Bloomquist

2.What about an outfield of Ibanez, Reed and Ichiro Suzuki?

”Yes, although I’m not sure whether Raul will be the left fielder or
the designated hitter,” Bavasi said. “That might be a place to add more
left-handed power, or we might use both Mike Morse and Chris Snelling out
there. Left field gives us options.”

正確的選擇，在LF/DH補一個左手的砲手
不過也不排除明年用Snelling/Morse platoon的可能性

3.“I don’t think we’ll need to put a lot of money into the bullpen, which
means our money can go into our rotation,” Bavasi said.

沒錯，補強SP是最優先，Bullpen可以不用花太多錢

4.“How many of our starting pitchers will be back for sure?” Bavasi asked,
then laughed. “I know one, for sure. Probably two or three.”

一定會在rotation裡的當然是King，剩下兩個應該是阿皮和Moyer
那表示Meche會有異動，看來Front Office知道他們至少要補兩個先發，好消息。

5.“I don’t know that we have any players in the minor league system who are a
year away now from helping us, but I said the same thing a year ago,” Bavasi
said. “ (Infielder) Adam Jones is probably the closest, and he could be two
years away.”

Bavasi似乎不認為AAA明年會有人可以上來補上戰力缺口
即使是Adam Jones他被預期上來的時間似乎是07年
雖然像Foppert，Cruceta，Nageotte或是Livingston這幾個人明年應該有機會做出貢獻
不過Bavasi並沒有把這當成A計畫，這是好事情

6.“What can we expect (from Beltre) next season? I think if you take the three
years prior to his MVP-level season and average them out, then find the
midway point between those numbers and his numbers from 2004, you’ll be
close,” Bavasi said.

Bavasi認為明年Beltre的成績應該會介於2004和他的生涯平均中間
這倒是跟BP那邊的預測不謀而合

7.“He did a great job. We’re on the same page. We always will be,” Bavasi
said. “He’s due a lot of credit for handling so many young players and
being positive about it. His approach is very rare. Most managers want
nothing to do with young guys because they see them as a serious delay in
their chance to win. Mike doesn’t.”

Hargorve的飯碗看來還蠻穩的
不過今年的成績也不能全歸咎於他
這是不公平的

總得來看Bavasi的計畫還蠻切實際的，他知道要往哪裡補強
現在就看他要把錢用在誰身上了

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