First Seattle loses it's basketball team. Now we lose our stud first baseman. What's next? Microsoft?
Just as quickly as he inked his name to a $50 million contract in 2004, Richmond Lockwood Sexson's storied Seattle Mariners career is over.
Today's news comes right as many were wondering if new GM Lee Pelekoudas planned on making any player moves aside from placing Erik Bedard on the DL. Again.
Sexson's tenure as the M's first baseman got off to a promising start. He clubbed 73 home runs over his first two seasons. But after hitting a paltry .218 pre All-Star game in 2006, Sexson quickly became public enemy #1 for disgruntled fans like myself, who hated watching the team get run into the ground.
While Sexson did rebound in the second half of 06, hitting .322 with an OPS over 1.000, the general argument was he turned it on after the team played itself out of contention.
An absolutely pathetic 2007 saw Sexson hit 35 points below his weight. Most thought this would spell the end for Sexson. But like the guy who spent $3,000 building HD DVD library, then GM Bill Bavasi was too stubborn to know when to cut his losses.
This proved to be unfair for Sexson, Mariners fans and former manager John McLaren, who made the second worst prediction in recent M's history (first place goes to Miguel Batista who boldly claimed the Mariners would become a dynasty).
Sexson's only 33 years old. Chances are he'll sign on with another team and perform well. Rich Aurillia, Scott Spazio and Jeff Cirillo all resureccted their careers after playing the baseball equivalent of "The Love Guru" in Seattle.
Hopefully Sexson is just the start. If anything, Jose Vidro should have been dropped long before Sexson. But with this team, Vidro could easily be batting third until season's end.
Let the rebuilding begin!
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