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The M’s prospects will face off against Padres, Rangers, and Royals prospects this fall in Arizona.
In lieu of the Arizona Fall League and the traditional minor league season, MLB clubs are scrambling to find ways to get their prospects safe game reps and encourage development beyond the weight room. The result, for the Mariners, is an adjusted version of the Fall League and winter instructional league, and they released their full roster today.
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knock ‘em dead, neli | Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images
YOU get a playoff game, and YOU get a playoff game (Seattle, you do not get a playoff game)
Hot damn, it’s like March Madness for MLB today. Behold, what Manfred hath wrought:
Today is gonna be awesome. #Postseason pic.twitter.com/Ot2OmSsHZq
— MLB (@MLB) September 29, 2020Houston at Minnesota - 11 AM PT
Today's Lineups George Springer - CF Luis Arraez - 2B Jose Altuve - 2B Byron Buxton -...no surprise: we’re all-in on the NL Mariners | Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images
Go everyone who isn’t the Astros, basically
It’s time for the annual off-season tradition of picking which ponies we’re going to ride through the playoffs, the specific and bittersweet joy of being fans of a team that never makes it to said playoffs. We can hitch our wagons to any star! But we are also Responsible Baseball Journalists, so for each matchup we’re giving you our considered opinions on...
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Day 1 of the 2020 playoffs baybeeee
In Mariners News... ICYMI: The Mariners showed their appreciation for the fans this season by teaming up in a sweet thank you video. Jerry Dipoto is optimistic for a contending team next season and mentions building a strong bullpen as one of the Mariners’ main focuses. Nick Groke and Corey Brock at The Athletic write about what the Mariners’ rebuilding period can teach the Rockies, who had similar goals to those of...Long has experience in the outfield, logging 130 innings in left field with the Mariners since his debut, and he’s tallied eight innings at third base as well.
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You’re probably already considering Kyle Lewis
Over at Pitcher List, I’ve just posted an article stating the case for Shane Bieber as AL MVP. As is pretty well known, pitchers almost never win MVP awards, but something that is slightly more common is pitchers that win Rookie of the Year. The Mariners have themselves an AL ROY candidate in Kyle Lewis, but I’m not convinced that Justus Sheffield should be left out of the conversation. In fact, there’s...
If history is any indication, ya’ll might want to follow Ryan Cusick closely...
The 2020 MLB Draft was chockfull of college arms. It’s a narrative that has been beaten to death. If you were an organization in the market for advanced, projectable, high-floor/ceiling pitching, the 2020 class tickled your fancy.
Enter the 2021 class.
Sure, at the top, Kumar Rocker, Jack Leiter and Jaden Hill are going to grab the headlines. They’ve got the stuff, the track record, and in some cases, the...
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For everything
The 2020 Major League Baseball season did not need to happen. We can argue up and down about whether it should have happened at all. Baseball, after all, is no more than competitive entertainment, completely non-essential from an everyday survival standpoint. But now that the regular season has screeched to a halt, I’m confident in saying that I’m really glad it did happen.
The Seattle Mariners and the rest of MLB’s players put...
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The first day of the offseason
I’ve got some terrible or wonderful news, depending on how you felt about the 2020 Mariners. It’s the first day without Mariners baseball until (at least) spring of next year. In fact, there’s no baseball at all today as the top 53% of the league gears up for the playoffs. Among those teams: the 29-31 Astros. Even when they’re bad, they’re good enough. Ew.
On the bright side, I’ve got some fun and/or inconsequential...
we really just let this man do whatever in the 90s | Photo by CHRISTOPHE D YVOIRE/Sygma via Getty Images
Mariners lose snoozer to Oakland in final game of 2020
Come with me, children, on a journey back in time: to 1997, to be exact. See, in the 90s we teens were a little too ironic, yes I really do think, but also a genuinely earnest heart beat within that nihilistic chest, still whole and unshattered by what would come at the turn of the millennium. And there’s no better way I can...
Yusei is funny, apparently | Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
Closing Time
Well. That was a game. And a season, I guess.
The journey: Yoshihisa Hirano, -.374 WPA
The friends we made along the way: J.P. Crawford, .116 WPA
Until next year, everyone.
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it’s the end of the season as we know it
Here it is, the end of the 2020 season, the end of another season of Mariners baseball. I admit, I did not foresee them making it through all 60 games, and they did so with only a modicum of interruption—and that from the deadly wildfires choking the West Coast more than direct effects of the virus, which I definitely didn’t see coming but should have, now that “fire season” is part of our Seattle Weather...
Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports
Well the hits start coming and they don’t stop coming
Some baseball analysts who love to tweet about the Mariners’ historic playoff drought—not naming names here, of course—aren’t technically wrong about the team, but in a laser-sharp focus on the playoffs or lack thereof they do miss the day-in-day-out wackiness of what makes this team fun, even when they’re frustrating. The Oakland Athletics are objectively a better team than the 2020...
Congrats to this guy on 500 extra base hits! | Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports
so you like runs, eh? Well have all the runs in the world!
Today as they were packing up the summer rental house the Mariners found a whole bag of offense somebody (J.P.? I bet it was J.P.) forgot to unpack, so they had to use it all up in one day:
The travel companion who remembers to pack everyone’s favorite snack, extra sunscreen, and fresh linens for the beds: Joseph Odom, .148 WPA
The travel...
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You’re welcome, Rays
55 °F and sunny: J.P. Crawford (0.286 WPA)
80 °F and cloudy/hazy: I don’t know, Fangraphs isn’t working. I’ll nominate Kyle Lewis, who went 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts. Sorry Kyle.
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The sand is running out of the hourglass on the Mariners’ 2020 season
After a satisfying win in Game 1 that knocked the A’s out of securing the top seed in the AL, the Mariners will run it back in Game 2:
Game 2 Lineups: A's vs. Mariners - Sept. 26, 2020 at Oakland Coliseum. pic.twitter.com/zmp0RkcJyg
— AthleticsPR (@AthleticsPR) September 26, 2020Well, not running it back, exactly; Seager moves to DH, France to third base, and Dee Strange-Gordon...
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The fact that five players can win a baseball game alone makes the Angels’ wasting Mike Trout’s prime even funnier
Most of us have been there at some point in school. The teacher or professor announces a group project. If you have friends, you immediately glance at each other meaningfully. If you don’t have friends, you instantly shrivel up inside.
Then the teacher announces that they’re assigning the groups. Now it’s the friends’ turn to...
What do you mean you’re out of cheese curds? | Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports
In which the Mariners play “for pride”
Believe it or not, there are just three games left in the Mariners season. It’s been a surreal ride, fraught with subpar play and the presence of Phil Ervin. Don’t get me wrong, though. The highs have been great (thanks, Kyle Lewis), and maybe, just maybe, enough to convince the team to try to get into win-soon mode instead of win-in-a-while mode.
Today’s game...
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In which an unexpected team officially makes the playoffs.
Good morning folks! Let’s get your Saturday started with some links.
In Mariners news... Shed is already getting back to work, which is great to see.Day 3 post surgery! We Working! #RoadTo110% pic.twitter.com/Hf9eS6Fn3l
— Shed Long Jr. (@SLONG895) September 25, 2020 Around the league... The Reds released a statement regarding their former broadcaster Thom...Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images
blow all my friendships to sit in hell with you
The pervasive thought rattling around all of our heads this year, no matter how egregiously terrible or just slightly inconvenienced your life became, was some version of “I can’t wait for this to be over”. Fittingly, that is exactly how the Mariners and A’s played the first part of Friday night’s game. Seattle and Oakland soared through the first seven innings at warp speed as if they...