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shadow_operative2.0

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And another! 

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AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Kyle Lewis -- CF, Mariners

Lewis overcame Luis Robert and Cristian Javier in the AL vote. The 25-year-old center fielder played in 58 games for the Mariners and became just the second rookie since 1969 -- joining the A’s Mark McGwire in 1987 -- to lead his team in batting average (.262), home runs (11), runs (37) and walks (34). His FanGraphs WAR (1.7), runs, walks and total bases (90) led all AL rookies, and he finished second in hits (54) and RBIs (28) and fourth in stolen bases (five).

With his dynamic play, including some highlight-reel homer robberies at the wall, Lewis, a first-round pick in the 2016 MLB Draft, gave Seattle a spark, and he became the first Mariners player to win the Rookie of the Year honor since Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

 

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shadow_operative2.0

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Wake up, ladies! 

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In some good news on the injury front, the Mariners expect right fielder Mitch Haniger to be ready to take the field when camp opens. Dipoto noted that a healthy Haniger is the team’s “best player,” adding that he looks “terrific physically.” It’s been a brutal road of freak injuries for Haniger, whose health woes began in 2019 when he sustained a ruptured testicle due to a terribly placed foul ball. Haniger required surgery to address that injury, and while he began a rehab assignment two months later, he was quickly shut down due to back discomfort. As it turned out, Haniger tore an adductor muscle off the bone during that rehab stint, leading to subsequent core muscle and microdiscectomy surgeries. If he is indeed able to suit up to begin the year, it’ll mark a nearly two-year road back to the Mariners’ big league roster. The now-30-year-old Haniger appeared on the cusp of stardom for the Mariners as recently as 2018, when he made the All-Star team and slashed .285/.366/.493 with 26 home runs, 38 doubles, four triples, eight steals (in ten tries) and 10 Defensive Runs Saved in right field.

 

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shadow_operative2.0

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So your president ran his trap for WAY too long & will probably face some repercussions. Here are the pertinent bullet points, specifically the very first part about Kelenic. 
 

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And here’s a long-ass LL post about the whole debacle. 

https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2021/2/21/22294212/mariners-president-kevin-mather-full-transcript-bellevue-breakfast-rotary-club

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25 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

So your president ran his trap for WAY too long & will probably face some repercussions. Here are the pertinent bullet points, specifically the very first part about Kelenic. 
 

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And here’s a long-ass LL post about the whole debacle. 

https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2021/2/21/22294212/mariners-president-kevin-mather-full-transcript-bellevue-breakfast-rotary-club

Well that all sounds fun.

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And I’m about to watch your facial expressions because not only is the replay here to stay, we’ll have an electronic strike zone within two years. The umpire behind home plate will be called by a machine. There’ll be a home plate umpire, he’ll have a piece in his ear, so just in case the ball bounces through the strike zone and the machine calls that a strike, he can overrule that. The electronic strike zone is coming, it’s pretty hard to argue that the technology doesn’t exist to do that. They’re within millimeters now of, uh, every pitch, heck they know the spin rate on every pitch that’s thrown. And everybody’s analyzing the data on all of that. So it’s there, it exists, and they’re going to use it. We just have to get better at the replays, when we have a replay it’s gotta be done quickly and move on. There can’t be a two minute stop of the action

This dude is a douchebag, but this part is going to be a huge deal if true

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Yeah, that and the openly admitting the manipulation of service time.*  Well, and the bullshit about the interpreters too.  Actually, the whole fucking thing.  Fuck that guy so hard.  

 

*He surely isn't the only team pres doing this.  Just so far the only stupid enough to talk about it openly.  Wonder how long the strike will last?

Edit: and if the M's don't fire him, I'm not sure where that leaves me.  This franchise has been sucky enough w/o a shit gibbon like Mather.

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9 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

Pasan's take:

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30945058/make-amends-seattle-mariners-ceo-kevin-mather-take-back-45-disastrous-minutes-disrespectful-words

I mean, he clearly has to be fired.  I never knew anything about him until now, but good god, seems like he's pulling a Costanza and dragging the World Series trophy (lulz in Seattle) around the parking lot.  Why would anyone do this?

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