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Copy Desk Director at @PFN365 , @CFN365 and @BetsToday365 . UW alum. Emily's fiancé. Maverick & Minnie are my furry kids. Tweets are my own.

Mukilteo, WA
Joined April 2012
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2 years
Today was Julio Rodriguez's 80th career game. How does he stack up to Griffey through his 1st 80 games? Ken Griffey Jr.'s 1st 80 games: .285/.348/.468 (.816 OPS) 13 HR, 41 RBI, 26 XBH, 11 SB Julio Rodriguez's 1st 80 games: .277/.337/.483 (.820 OPS), 14 HR, 41 RBI, 32 XBH, 20 SB
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With that Mariners win today, Julio Rodríguez has won more playoff games than Mike Trout.
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Geno Smith front and center for Pete Carroll's final press conference
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2 years
Anthony Bass, who tweeted the other day about how Toronto fans didn't forget the M's celebration after a 4-game sweep in July, has apparently deleted/deactivated his Twitter account.
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4 years
Thursday: Kraken reveal Friday: Mariners opening day Saturday: Seahawks trade for Adams Sunday: Announce the Sonics are returning?
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Julio said he and Ohtani talked a bit during the week. When asked questions they asked each other, he said "Secret. You can't know everything in life." lol
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2 years
When asked about Geno-Waldron and offense running smooth, Carroll dropped this: "Geno's going off the wristband, which is a big help. It's smoothed things out, sped things up, cleaned things up...We never did that before. There was resistance to that, so we didn't do it before."
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"This is about Russell Wilson wanting to win. This isn't about Wilson wanting to leave Seattle. This isn't him not wanting to be a Seahawk and (finishing his future) here. He wants to win. He's done sitting back and wishing and hoping for things to change," @jtheaps9 on Wilson.
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2 years
Geno Smith with more total TDs (3) in this one half of football than Russell Wilson has in three full games with the Broncos (2).
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2 years
The last time the Mariners played in Toronto: -No Luis Castillo on roster -Ray didn't travel -Muñoz hadn't taken off yet -Haniger was out -Julio had just 2 home runs -Kelenic just demoted, Raleigh just promoted (and had just 2 homers like Julio) -No Santana -Souza started 2 games
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2 years
Since the Mariners-Angels brawl on June 26: The Mariners are 8-2 The Angels are 3-6
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2 years
Roommates Logan Gilbert and Cal Raleigh have ended the drought
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Two years ago today, the #Mariners made a deal with the Padres, acquiring Ty France, Andrés Muñoz, Taylor Trammell and Luis Torrens from the San Diego Padres for Austin Nola, Austin Adams and Dan Altavilla.
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2 years
For the first time this year, the Mariners face off with Cole Irvin, the guy who last year said "a team like that shouldn't be putting up 10 hits on me or anyone." He started five games vs Seattle in 2021, going 0-5 with a 8.69 ERA, 2.288 WHIP and 19 ER in 19 2/3 innings.
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Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch, Doug Baldwin, Sidney Rice, Thomas Rawls and 12 Flag raiser K.J. Wright are all former Seahawks I've seen on the field pregame today.
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3 years
@WholesomeMeme Maverick would say hi but he's sleepy!
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5 months
Asked Lock about this moment and he just gushed about how Geno supported him these 2 weeks. Said before the 2 minute drill that Geno was hyping him up and telling him he's the best player on the field.
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Drew Lock and Geno Smith
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2 years
Cal Raleigh is now both Governor of Washington AND Prime Minister of Canada
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2 years
Jarred Kelenic's first 3 games since his recent promotion: 5-12 (.417) with 1 HR, 3 2B, 2 RBI and 4 runs scored. And one helluva toss from right field to keep a runner out of scoring position to start an inning.
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The Blue Jays' "home away from home" has not been their friend these last few years. They're now 2-10 at T-Mobile Park since 2019 and have lost each of their last four series in Seattle. Jays now 8-18 against the M's since 2019, including the playoffs.
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Toronto Blue Jays
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📍 Our home away from home 🇨🇦
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Marco Gonzales in 2018 on Jays invading Seattle: “I take that personally when a team comes in here and brings their faithful fans and their muddy shoes and stomps on our carpet and takes a dump on our dining room table." M's have dumped on Toronto's table courtesy of Big Dumper.
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2 years
Carroll said the Hawks have already had people out in Germany -- including Marshawn Lynch -- to get a lay of the land and help the team plan out the trip and schedule and everything.
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2 years
Fans booing their daddy as he leaves the mound.
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2 years
If J.P. finishes like this, you're in trouble.
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3 years
Nick Rolovich is the only coach in WSU history to never lose an Apple Cup.
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2 years
CONFIRMED: Robbie Ray is at camp, hit the mound today and wore the tight pants. And Servais said he grunted EVERY pitch.
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2 years
So re-sign Penny and hire AP as RB coach? I wouldn't let him out of the building after what Penny's done of late lol
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2 years
"He got Big Penix Energy" - RG3 on Michael Penix Jr. Bruh
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2 years
No dingers for Big Dumper but: 3 hits and a walk and 3 runs scored, including the game-winner. What a 2-game series for him. And what an 8-day stretch! Holy moly.
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8 months
Means a few things. 1) M's can't clinch tomorrow (was unlikely anyways). Only Sunday. 2) M's face elimination with a loss and Houston win tomorrow. 3) This still leaves the door open for the M's, Astros and Rangers to tie at 89 wins, which would give M's the West (insane).
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8 months
The Mariners won't make up any ground today as the Astros just wrapped up a 2-1 win in AZ and the Jays won today.
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2 years
Enough said
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Julio Rodríguez and DK Metcalf as the two big young sports stars in Seattle is a pretty cool duo. Also just two absolute freakshow athletes haha
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2 years
Cal Raleigh not only leads MLB in home runs by a catcher this year with 26 (which set a M's franchise record AND notably, 25 have been since May 15), but he's second in baseball in runners caught stealing with 24 with the third-best caught stealing % in MLB at 32%.
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2 years
Mariners have won: -8 in a row -11 of 12 since Santana joined the roster -11 of 13 since the fight in Anaheim -16 of 19 since losing 4 of 5 to LAA at home
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3 years
The 2021 Seattle Mariners will finish the season over .500.
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2 years
Dipoto shared the story of when he first met Julio. Said they were in Peoria and Dipoto was on the elliptical and Julio walked up, stood in front of the machine, reached his hand out and said, "Jefe, I'm Julio."
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Mr. Mariner Alvin Davis is presenting the AL Rookie of the Year Award tonight. Probably giving it to Mariners OF Julio Rodriguez.
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Fast forward 48 hours and Julio's deal gets reported and made official. Castillo's agent then called the team and said, per Dipoto, "Luis is fired up." Dipoto: "He said, 'This is the place I want to be, this team wants to win.' And we got a deal done shortly thereafter."
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2 years
Get used to it, Rangers fans. He's gonna be here for a while.
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2 years
Wow what's this? The OKC Thunder are 28th in attendance for both amount of fans AND percentage of the arena filled? 28 out of 30? I thought OKC was extra supportive of their franchise whereas Seattle wasn't???
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Dipoto had an interesting story on Castillo's deal. Said that he and Justin Hollander talked to Castillo's agent 2 days before they announced Julio's deal, seeing whether they wanted to talk now, this offseason, next spring, etc. Castillo's agent said he'd talk to Luis (cont)
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Scott Servais just said on our station that Sam Haggerty has brought a "riddle of the day" to hitter meetings every day the last few weeks, and that Jesse Winker probably has the most fun trying to answer it.
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JP here in Everett
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In the most important news from his interview on @SeattleSports , Scott Servais said the team is probably going to be adopting one of the rescue dogs from Bark At The Park Night into the clubhouse.
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2 years
For all you "But is he smiling???" peeps out there, he smiled Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images
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2 years
Bregman and Altuve combined tonight: 0-8 with three strikeouts
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9 months
JP leaving Everett Houston bound?
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Scott Servais says Cal Raleigh has taken ownership of running the pitching staff, is "a creative" pitch caller and is a consistent thrower and doing well at stealing strikes. Servais gave Raleigh a lot of credit for the pitching staff's recent run of success.
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George Kirby has pitched 16 scoreless innings on games with a pre-game Felix Hernandez festivity going on (today and the home playoff game) and the M's have scored zero runs total in each of those games. The baseball gods are cruel.
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Per Statcast, Julio Rodriguez is tied for second in MLB in OAA (outs above average) defensively at 12 (99th percentile), and LEADS all MLB defenders in runs prevented with 11. Also 80th percentile OF jump and 93rd percentile arm strength. Dude is having a Gold Glove season.
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2 years
Jerry Dipoto said he expects both Ken Giles and Erik Swanson to return to the MLB roster this homestand, potentially tomorrow.
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2 years
Tip for those watching the game on YouTube, if you click the settings bar and click "audio track," you can change the audio to the Mariners Radio broadcast of Rick Rizzs and Dave Sims.
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Hard to find a better tandem than Brash and Muñoz in terms of pure stuff coming back to back out of a bullpen.
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Mariners winning% this year: .548 Mariners winning% pre-All-Star Break: .548 Mariners winning% post-All-Star Break: .548
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The Seahawks had 12 sacks in seven games before Dunlap suited up for Seattle. After that? -34 in nine games. (Team finished seventh in sacks) -31 in the eight he appeared in. -13 in Dunlap's first three games with Seattle.
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2 years
Oh my God Carlos Santana loves Seattle and hates Canada
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That double should be Cal Raleigh's last AB of June. He ends the month slashing .250/.337/.588 (.925 OPS) with 6 homers, 7 doubles, a triple and 14 RBIs in 25 games.
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Luis Castillo's line through 2 playoff starts: 14 1/3, 11 hits, 3 ER, 1.88 ERA, 12 Ks, 0 BB, 1 HBP.
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COLD pic from Getty Images' Nic Antaya of Jerrick Reed II postgame lol
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M's playoff scenarios for leaping Houston and Toronto. Each has 3 games left (M's vs Texas, Astros vs Arizona, Jays vs Rays): M's 1-2 and HOU 0-3 M's 2-1 and HOU 1-2 or 0-3 M's 3-0 and HOU 2-1, 1-2 or 0-3 M's 2-1 and TOR 0-3 M's 3-0 and TOR 1-2
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2 years
OK NOW Cal Raleigh has the most HRs of all MLB catchers this season. He leads that category outright with 18.
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Passer rating when spiking the ball every play: 39.6 Passer rating when targeting Tariq Woolen this season (per Pro Football Reference): 35.8 Yeah, far more than just picks and takeaways.
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There's "attack mode" and then there's this lol
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Luis Castillo just threw 47 Consecutive Fastballs. 😂
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Quandre Diggs has 13 picks in 38 regular season games with the Seahawks. He has five in five regular season games vs the Rams -- three in three games vs Jared Goff, including a pick-6, and two in two games vs his former Lions teammate Matthew Stafford.
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Former #Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin is raising the 12 Flag today
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An outfield of Mitch Haniger, Kyle Lewis and Jarred Kelenic?
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2 years
During his show on @SeattleSports this AM, K.J. Wright said the accountability level for Russell Wilson in his early years from Pete Carroll "wasn't even" with other guys, such as the defense, and it caused some locker room issues. (cont).
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13 wins in a row and 8 series wins in a row. Your 2022 Seattle Mariners. Good lord, what a run.
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What's made Raleigh's season especially impressive is: -Sent down early -Only called back up due to injury -- not AAA performance -Replaced a well-respected guy in Tom Murphy in leading the M's pitching staff -27 HRs leads MLB catchers (and M's record) AND all but 1 since May 15
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Unfortunately, we here @SEASports710 lost a legend today as our friend John Clayton passed away. Please keep the Clayton family as well as all those who knew him in your thoughts and prayers.
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15 Julios. Let's ride
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Seattle Sports
2 years
If you had $15 to start your dream @Mariners lineup, who are you picking to have on your team? Reply with your dream lineups and tell us why you picked those players.
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The Mariners get Mitch Haniger back, greatly lengthening the lineup. A 1-6 of Frazier, France, Winker, Haniger, Crawford and Eugenio? Very nice.
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Julio will not need a rehab assignment, Servais just told reporters.
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2 years
Lockout or not, Paul Sewald be recruiting
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Former Seahawks FB/DL Will Tukuafu has joined the coaching staff as a quality control coach on defense, the team announced today. Tukuafu was with the team from 2014-16
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Julio Rodriguez just said on @SEASports710 that he knew about Seattle growing up in large part because he'd watch the SuperSonics as a kid
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Not only is the Mariners' magic number down to 1, but they just hopped the Rays into the No. 2 AL Wild Card spot.
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Ty France is the first #Mariners player to win American League Player of the Week since Mitch Haniger last year (week of July 12-18).
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Per ESPN, Cal Raleigh has the second-highest defensive WAR (1.6) among all MLB catchers, trailing just J.T. Realmuto (1.7). Raleigh ranks 1st on the M's in defensive WAR, per ESPN, and is tied for 18th in all of baseball in defensive WAR.
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Kyle Lewis should be back tomorrow, Dipoto says.
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Just imagine if MLB and the owners had, ya know, not waited almost 3 months to talk to the players lol Kris Bryant would already be teammates with Paul Sewald
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So Mariners traded Erik Swanson (3 years of arbitration left on deal) and their No. 8 prospect Adam Macko (per MLB Pipeline) for one year of Teoscar Hernández (last year of arbitration before free agency, just turned 30). Thoughts?
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Cal Raleigh also just set a single season Mariners record for home runs by a catcher with 26
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Brandon Gustafson
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Leonard Williams on @SeattleSports said he went through Tyler Lockett to get his new place. "When I found out that he was into that stuff, I took it as an opportunity to be like if I'm gonna go through someone to get a house anyways, why not help out a teammate in the process?"
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"On the night we honor Felix Hernandez, that was a Felix game," Scott Servais said postgame. "It's crazy, isn't it? The baseball gods, they are there. And if anybody doesn't think that's true, they're crazy."
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2 years
Waiting for Pete's presser and you can hear the Hawks locker room through the walls. It's lit.
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Abraham Toro is 4-7 with two home runs, a double, four RBIs, a walk and stolen base as a Mariner.
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Mariners can clinch tomorrow with a win or a Baltimore loss. T-Mobile Park, see you tomorrow night. Let's get rowdy, shall we?
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#Mariners offseason adds (so far): 2021 Cy Young Robbie Ray, 2021 All-Star IF Adam Frazier, 2021 All-Star OF Jesse Winker, 2018 All-Star Eugenio Suárez (who had 31 HR in 2021 and 49 in 2019).
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Maverick in the house
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THE BIGGEST DANCE KNOWN TO MAN
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"You got Shohei, we've got Cade Marlowe" LOL
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Cade Marlowe greeted outside the clubhouse. It’s very loud inside there, as you’d expect.
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2 years
Today is Sam Haggerty's third multi-hit game since July 5.
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Big news in my life: Emily said yes today and we're getting married! And a hat tip to Maverick for playing wingman!
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Sam Haggerty in 32 games: .303/.343/.500 slash, .843 OPS, 141 OPS+, 8 XBH (2 HR, 1 3B, 5 2B), 8 RBI, 5 SB (hasn't been caught). Also posting a 1.1 WAR and played all 3 OF positions, 2B and come in as a pinch runner a handful of times.
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The Mariners have two players in the top-25 in WAR, per ESPN: Julio Rodríguez is T-10th at 5.4 and Eugenio Suárez is T-23rd at 4.5.
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Once enemies, now teammates
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Umpires ejected Luke Weaver and Robbie Ray because their national anthem stand-off before the game went too long
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The Mariners haven't reached their full potential yet. And no, it's not cause of Haniger or Lewis returning or trade deadline deals. It's cause they haven't faced Cole Irvin yet.
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I had no shortage of good things to say about Luis Castillo's Game 1 start vs Toronto. I almost have no words for what George Kirby did considering the circumstances and who he's facing. Just clinical, surgical. Stayed in the moment, didn't get hit hard at all. Unreal.
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