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Good morning folks! Yesterday was a pretty exciting day in Mariners camp. They won a game, celebrated a birthday, and much more. Let’s get to what you may have missed from the world of baseball.
In Mariners news...
- Chris Egan at King 5 did a feature on our favourite Canadian outfielder.
- In case you missed it, the Mariners helped Leonys Martin celebrate his birthday in a pretty cool way. Here’s a series of tweets that illustrates the story.
There is a mariachi band playing in the Mariners clubhouse now.
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
So the mariachi band is following Leonys Martin wherever he goes. It was his birthday present from the team. pic.twitter.com/ibb0sZIayq
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
Never a dull day in Peoria pic.twitter.com/MyDdwaCWid
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
Kyle Seager volunteered to pay for an extra hour of the band. So this will continue
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
The band is now in centerfield pic.twitter.com/iVndFV1Owf
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
Martin is now making sure the band is hydrated and asking for water to be brought to them while we works on pop ups in the sun
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
Hitting with a sombrero isn't easy pic.twitter.com/R2vFIua8o6
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
Leonys Martin got a little emotional talking about the celebration and what Scott Servais meant to him as a player.
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
No, we can barely hear the audio because Felix grabbed the violin and tried to play it behind us while we were talking to Leonys https://t.co/7IZnF2ATDI
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) March 6, 2017
- If you’re looking for more mariachi goodness in article form, Shannon Drayer wrote all about the celebration and more cool clubhouse notes in her latest piece.
- Here’s a full video of Leonys’ initial surprise.
- Kate Preusser (hey! I know her!) made her Fangraphs debut yesterday in a beautiful piece on Mariners’ fireballer Thyago Vieira.
Around the league...
- The World Baseball Classic is a platform for Latino baseball to thrive on the big screen, writes ESPN’s Pedro Gomez.
- Statcast is including catch probability and hit probability to its large pool of new statistics.
- Perhaps there were signs that David Price’s injury was coming, writes Eno Sarris at Fangraphs.
- Travis Sawchik wonders if the hype train on Gary Sanchez is moving a little too fast. I had the hot take last year that I didn’t think he was going to end up being particularly good, but it’s looking like I’m probably going to be wrong there.
- The odds don’t like David Ross’ chances of winning Dancing With the Stars. I didn’t know they did odds on such a thing but I suppose they do odds on just about everything.
- Jeff Sullivan at Fangraphs thinks Justin Smoak might be ready to take the next step in his career.
Anders’ picks...
- The Washington Post has hired a cast of female reporters to cover D.C.’s professional sports teams. Pretty awesome!