Mariners Moose Tracks, 9/19/17: Miguel Elias, Chris Taylor, and Clayton Kershaw

Good morning folks! The Mariners are back in action today facing off against the Rangers. There’s just a couple of weeks left in the regular season, so let’s make these games count!

In Mariners news...

• Bob Dutton spoke to several scouts from around the league about the Mariners’ season and the team’s future.
• One scout in the above article mentioned the rise of Mike Zunino, and I think it’s important to point out just how good he’s been this year.

Around the league...

• Sport Techie did a neat feature on Driveline Baseball and how Trevor Bauer found success thanks to the throwing program.
• Our thoughts are with the family and friends of former Orioles minor league pitcher Miguel Elias who died in a car accident this weekend.
• The Nationals have been cold offensively of late, and it has some worried whether Washington can produce when the postseason comes around.
• Here are the major things to watch for in baseball as the regular season winds down.
• The New York Times did an interesting story about how many latino baseball players learned the English language through the show “Friends.”
• Mike Trout is officially the greatest Angel ever by WAR. Grant Brisbee analyzes this and other findings from a recent Baseball-Reference dive.
• Chris Taylor’s crazy season continues. The Dodgers’ outfielder hit an inside-the-park home run yesterday.
• Somehow, Clayton Kershaw gave up his first career grand slam yesterday too. It came off the bat of Aaron Altherr.
• Well, Aaron Judge certainly has a weakness.

• Pretty scary moment for Dustin Pedroia, who fouled a pitch off his own face and had to leave the game yesterday.
• The Mets are really out of it considering Terry Collins’ answer to starting Matt Harvey is basically “well, fuck it.”