The Mariners sure showed me.

Since there is very little to be said about this game in an anayltical sense, and I really can’t crap on the job Bavasi has done (not because I don’t think he’s done a good job, but he’s easily the most hated GM in the game in the blogsphere), I really don’t have much to write about.

Manny Ramirez (yawn) hit another (stretch) long bomb (yawn).

Over on your right, in our stats section, you will see two more entries. They are the current standings for the Eddy Awards, a fun little thing that Jeff Bower came up with at Baseball Prospectus a year ago.

Here is a quick blurb from the article:

This study is designed to identify hitters that had the greatest percentage of their offensive game as a result of walks and hit-by-pitches. This is very different than leading the league in the counting or rate statistics attached to those categories. Ted Williams led the American League in bases-on-balls eight different times, but was such a force at the plate that he still would have been an outstanding offensive player had he walked half as often. The idea is to recognize players who made the slow walk up the first baseline an art form, who were and are somehow able to finagle pitches outside the strike zone despite being less than imposing figures with a bat in their hands.

After monkeying around with various combinations of on-base percentage, batting average and slugging percentage, I tossed them aside and settled on the following formula, calling the result the “Walking Man Quotient”

The American and National League standings are listed now, and will be updated weekly, or whenever I feel like it.

In case you don’t read the comments section, I’m looking forward to a Gerbil/Sully fight to the death.

Curt Schilling against Ryan Franklin tomorrow at 2.