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Good morning friends! Happy Mariners off-day to you.
The M’s saw their winning streak snapped yesterday in a 7-1 loss to the Mets
. The M’s hit the road now for a stretch, going to Detroit, Baltimore, and Washington.Importantly, it’s All-Star voting season. In my youth, I held steadfast to only voting for players who deserve it rather than just voting for my favorite players. But in recent years I’ve decided that I don’t care about voting for the “logical” choice. Life is too short to vote for someone
else’s guy. Go vote Mariners!
In Mariners news…
- Former Mariners Ken Griffey, Jr. and Harold Reynolds will join former Yankees ace CC Sabathia to host Play Ball Live on the MLB YouTube channel this Friday in advance of the MLB Breakthrough Series in an interactive stream designed to “engage, excite and inspire youth baseball and softball players all over the world.”
- Baseball America released its monthly update of the top 100 prospects in baseball, with M’s right-hander Ryan Sloan officially being crowned the top pitching prospect in the sport.
Around the league…
- Diamondbacks right-hander Corbin Burnes is likely out until September after suffering a teres major strain.
- Nick Castellanos’ tenure in San Diego did not last long, as the Padres DFA’d the struggling outfielder.
- Rob Manfred made his first public comments about the economic proposals made by both sides, emphasizing the need to adjust the financial rules of the game for the sake of competitive balance.
- Young Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki is finally starting to reach his potential, writes Jay Jaffe at Fangraphs.
- Matthew Trueblood at Baseball Prospectus wonders what happened to the sidearm four-seam fastball. ($)
- Lukas Vlahos at Amazin’ Avenue has seen enough of Mets first baseman Mark Vientos.
- Kiri Oller at Fangraphs had some fun mapping real-life baseball personalities to the fake world of Pokémon Pokopia.
- Bradley Woodrum at Baseball Prospectus tried to figure out if there is a secret to winning one-run ballgames. ($)
