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Good morning folks and a happy Friday to one and all. Here are some stories to get your day started.
In Mariners news...
- I wonder what this could mean for the coming offseason.
Jerry Dipoto says to @DDMon710 there are tough decisions ahead for @Mariners: "We're at a bit of a crossroads of looking where we are as a club and trying to determine how we get to a championship level, because we've taken 2 steps forward and 3 steps back -- and that's on us."
— Brent Stecker (@BrentStecker) September 13, 2018
- This is no surprise but it’s still good to see that it’s done on paper.
The longest affiliation partnership in franchise history continues! We are proud to announce an extension of our Player Development Contract that will keep the Rainiers as the @Mariners top @MiLB affiliate through 2022.
— Tacoma Rainiers (@RainiersLand) September 13, 2018
https://t.co/mZ9wUHhJbR pic.twitter.com/Z9ilY3pvFv
- The bad luck just never ends for Pax.
Paxton has some form of pneumonia. He met with doctors today in Seattle.
— Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) September 13, 2018
- Joon Lee at Bleacher Report checked in on Mike Marjama, who recently retired from baseball to focus on helping people with eating disorders.
- Sigh
was just thinking about how you could make the argument, without sounding totally stupid, that for years the mariners had four guys at the same time who were the best ever to play their position. you’d only barely be wrong pic.twitter.com/RrkNa0DmRt
— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) September 13, 2018
- Edwin Díaz is the star of a music video!
Around the league...
- David Wright will be activated from the disabled list so he can play in one final homestand before he retires. Wright has not appeared in a big league game since 2016 and he hasn’t had a season of 40+ games played since 2014.
- I mean, they’ve got to, right?
Jeff Wilpon says there will be a discussion about potentially retiring Wright's No. 5. But no timetable.
— Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) September 13, 2018
- Sheesh.
Park Jong-Hoon's (SK Wyverns) submarine slider so nasty that it made the hitter miss near the crotch. #KBO pic.twitter.com/OH5nM0Ec48
— Sung Min Kim (@sung_minkim) September 13, 2018
- Well he certainly planned this out.
.@KevinHart4real was READY for his first pitch pic.twitter.com/2JEUeFIHlq
— ESPN (@espn) September 13, 2018
- And another one bites the dust.
As I reported yesterday, Trevor Cahill is out of Sat start with a rhomboid muscle strain. Heading home for an MRI.
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September 13, 2018
- How is it that the Rockies have never won their division?
Colorado #Rockies tearing up the Arizona #Dbacks 10-3 in the 8th innig, and moving closer to first division title in franchise history with 2-game lead over #Dodgers. The D-backs on verge of falling to a season-high 4 1/2-game deficit, with only 15 games left on schedule.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 13, 2018
- We should appreciate Eugenio Suarez more, writes Jeff Sullivan at Fangraphs.
- David Schoenfeld breaks down the National League MVP race, which now features two pretty unusual candidates.