Mariners Moose Tracks, 5/29/19: Mariners Minor Leaguers, Odúbel Herrera, and Dustin Pedroia

In which the Royals and White Sox played in a baseball game from hell.

By Anders Jorstad@AndersJorstad May 29, 2019, 7:00am PDT

MLB: Spring Training-Boston Red Sox at Chicago Cubs

Good morning everybody! Yesterday was a pretty busy day in baseball news, so let’s get to it.

In Mariners news...

Andrew Moore’s first week back in the Mariners system was a good one.

Congrats @AndrewG_23 on being named Texas League Pitcher of the Week!
— Mariners Minors (@MiLBMariners) May 28, 2019

And he wasn’t the only one!

Ljay Newsome named Cal League Pitcher of the Week.
— Mariners Minors (@MiLBMariners) May 28, 2019

Around the league...

It’s pretty incredible when you put these kinds of stats into context.

Career games with three or more strikeouts:

Adam Dunn - 173*
Ichiro Suzuki - 22
Fernando Tatis Jr. - 2
Tony Gwynn - 1
Bill Buckner - 0

*all-time leader
— Ryan M. Spaeder (@theaceofspaeder) May 27, 2019

Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago was abuzz in the continuation of a rain-suspended game from Monday.

We’re off and running... pic.twitter.com/5Io3SM3Aon
— Paul Sullivan (@PWSullivan) May 28, 2019

I guess the rain wasn’t enough for Yolmer Sánchez.

Yolmer has succumbed to madness. pic.twitter.com/iXHnlOTVwc
— Jim Margalus (@SoxMachine) May 27, 2019

Let’s just add the cherry on top of this Royals-White Sox day, shall we?

This has to be the WORST 1st pitch ever. Before the Royals game in Chicago tonight. pic.twitter.com/WIgL6xwZXU
— Rod Smith (@RodKRCG13) May 29, 2019

If you ever felt like Wade LeBlanc was getting hung out to dry by the relievers that came after him, he is.

Yeesh
(Via @MLBNetwork) pic.twitter.com/M1YWHEjc3c
— Andrew Simon (@AndrewSimonMLB) May 28, 2019

Oh no.

Odúbel Herrera was arrested and charged with simple assault after a domestic violence incident on Monday at 8:33 p.m. at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City, according to a police report.
— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) May 28, 2019

Major League Baseball has placed Odúbel Herrera on administrative leave, according to a source. League officials are investigating Monday’s domestic violence incident.
— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) May 28, 2019

The A’s have officially released Fernando Rodney.
Well this is not ideal.

Yankees minor leaguers Cale Coshow and David Sosebee have quite the unique living arrangements. pic.twitter.com/qbe2CqdQkd
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) May 28, 2019

Yes, yes. Totally normal for a team in contention.

Tonight's announced attendance at the Trop: 5,786
— Juan Toribio (@juanctoribio) May 29, 2019

If you haven’t read enough stories about how good the Astros are, Ben Clemens at Fangraphs puts their current situation into perspective.
Major League Baseball has changed the way it does All-Star voting.
Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs wonders if this is it for Dustin Pedroia.
The rise of Derek Dietrich continues. The Reds utilityman slugged three home runs yesterday.

Anders’ picks...

What is up with people?

my friend is the chef at an extremely fancy nyc restaurant and this is an order he received today pic.twitter.com/tA1fWWSOjo
— Anna Silman (@annaesilman) May 27, 2019