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Hello everyone! Here are just a few links to get your day going. Feel free to post your own in the comments or discuss the ones below. Enjoy:
- The Mariners have made their first round of Spring Training cuts.
- Jonathan Mayo at MLB.com has unveiled his top 30 Mariners prospects list.
- Marc W of U.S.S. Mariner gives his own take on cFIP, a proposed new stat to measure pitchers.
- Mets reliever Josh Edgin will undergo Tommy John surgery.
- Mets starter Zack Wheeler is also expected to undergo Tommy John surgery.
- Kevin Pillar of the Blue Jays is out for a few days with a very strange injury.
- Cal Quantrill, one of the top prospects for the 2015 MLB draft, will also require Tommy John surgery.
- Dodgers' reliever and former Mariners' closer Brandon League has been shut down with shoulder inflammation.
- Torii Hunter will consider playing again in 2016 if he has a successful 2015 season.
- Chris Gigley at The Hardball Times provides his opinion on the pitch clock and if the MLB should continue to pursue this avenue.
- Mike Petriello at Fangraphs argues that the service time system in MLB is broken and provides some possible ways to fix it.
- MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has received an appeal from Pete Rose.