HOUSTON--We haven't heard it much this year but "players make out the lineup," was a Lloydism we heard many times last year. Why haven't we really seen that yet? It takes time for a team to settle into a season. The assumption in baseball is with all things being equal players will play to the back of their baseball cards. This of course doesn't happen overnight and players with track records are given the opportunity to get to the neighborhood of those numbers. How long does that take? Well McClendon is a big believer that it takes 55 games to get a good read on what his team is.
Mariners notebook: Could we see lineup changes soon?
