9 Responses to Not-So-Fun Fact of the Day

1. 
   section331
   January 30th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

   haha!

2. 
   Project Monkey
   January 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

   I still don’t understand how he calls a horrible game. He calls games for pitchers like Washburn, Batista, and Silva. He seems to do just fine with our good pitchers. What evidence is there that it’s his horrible game calling and not the crapy pitching.

3. 
   Jon Shields
   January 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

   Last time I pulled up the numbers the starters were issuing higher walk rates and higher ERAs with Johjima behind the plate compared to Burke, Clement and other recent M’s catchers (Torrealba and Rivera were in there I believe). The pitchers don’t like throwing to him either, especially Bedard, Washburn and Silva, so they obviously feel like he doesn’t bring the best out. Also, LL did a post fairly recently that showed that he calls a very different game than the other catchers (in terms of pitch selection), and based on the numbers it isn’t for the better.

   Even if numbers can’t prove it, his gamecalling has been in question since he first arrived, even by the mainstream media.

   Johjima can throw out runners, okay; but I would feel more comfortable with Burke, Johnson or maybe even Clement behind the plate.

4. 
   M-ners27
   January 30th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

   Kenji can’t hit the ball the other way, and pitchers realise that now and pitch him outside. If he can learn to go with the ball the other way then his average could jump up to the .280’s or .290’s like it was in 06 and 07(I’d be happy with .270s) thats way better than the .227 he hit in 09. With the “Horrible game calling” you could move him to DH and let Clement catch. That is if Jeff doesn’t get traded.

5. 
   seatown27
   January 30th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

   better yet please decide to retire and go back to japan

6. 
   ernier
   January 31st, 2009 at 9:58 am

   I would never root for an M’s player to do bad, but if Joh is terrible again this year he will be booed the way Richie was last year and he’ll be benched for Clement or Johnson. If that happens I think he’ll realize he’s done in MLB and something would be worked out to let him go back to Japan in 2010.

   I didn’t realize he had such a good September last year until I read this on seattlemariners.com

   From Jim Street:
   His .333 batting average, two home runs and 13 RBIs — along with throwing out eight of the 18 runners attempting to steal against him — in September…

7. 
   Jon Shields
   January 31st, 2009 at 3:01 pm

   He did come alive at the end of the year. I noticed that he wasn’t bailing out as much, and it definitely helped him.

   I believe he can be productive offensively again next season, but honestly I’d prefer it if he could just go away.

8. 
   ernier
   January 31st, 2009 at 4:32 pm

   Yea, I agree Jon. I’m trying to be optimistic about Joh and Silva turning it around, but I’d rather see both of them gone.

9. 
   Luisam911
   February 1st, 2009 at 10:15 pm

   We have too many catchers he needs to go. Its waste to have talent sitting on the bench. *cough* Johnson, Moore, Clement *cough*

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