Greetings
all, and happy Friday! With the M’s beginning a road series in Cleveland, we’ve got the latest baseball news for you.
In Mariners news…
- I have to respect Josh Naylor’s commitment to being the most boring guy on the planet.
Around the league…
- Kyle Schwarber became the newest member of the four-homer club, slugging a quartet of dingers in the Phillies’ rout of Atlanta.
- The oft-injured Corey Seager will undergo an appendectomy but may return before the end of the season.
- Former Rangers star first baseman Mark Teixeira is running for Congress in Texas’ 21st district. He is running on the Republican line in a GOP-majority district, where he hopes to succeed the retiring Chip Roy.
- The Red Sox are promoting top pitching prospect Payton Tolle to make his MLB debut later today. Tolle was drafted in the second round last year and has seen a meteoric rise up the prospect rankings.
- The A’s have released former Mariners infielder Luis Urías.
- Mets righty Frankie Montas will need surgery to repair a torn UCL and could miss all of 2026.
- Jeff Passan at ESPN explained why home run robberies are on the rise in 2025.
- Patrick Dubuque at Baseball Prospectus wonders how booster clubs may play into baseball’s financial future. ($)
- Howard Megdal provided a correspondence from the site of Women’s Professional Baseball League tryouts.
