Mariners Moose Tracks, 8/6/19: J.P. Crawford, Isan Diaz, and Rougned Odor

Some light news for your Tuesday.

By Anders Jorstad@AndersJorstad Aug 6, 2019, 7:00am PDT

MLB: Game One-Miami Marlins at New York Mets

It’s time for links!

In Mariners news...

Graham MacAree thinks back to 18 years ago, when the Mariners were handed a horrendous loss at the hands of the Cleveland Indians.
Some Tacoma news...

Rainiers roster move:

OF Jake Fraley placed on 7-day IL with a tight quad. Hope is that he will miss the minimum # of games.

OF Billy Cooke drove down from Everett to fill out the roster.
— Mike Curto (@CurtoWorld) August 5, 2019

Brent Stecker at My Sports Northwest argues that this is the first time the Mariners have truly rebuilt during their playoff drought.
Baseball Prospectus talked about Jarred Kelenic (link) and Evan White (link) in two separate pieces available to subscribers. ($)
J.P. Crawford credits infield coach Perry Hill with his improvements defensively.

Around the league...

In case you forgot how good Mike Trout is.

Mike Trout has played in 70% of games as Joey Votto and has produced 129% of his WAR. https://t.co/Dvi3k94xbx
— Devan Fink (@DevanFink) August 6, 2019

Zack Greinke, what a guy.

Zack Greinke was everything you heard he was -- antisocial, awkward and often so honest that it burned.

And his teammates loved him for it: https://t.co/ErnGLSgfkK pic.twitter.com/OMTUBKWbxA
— Zach Buchanan (@ZHBuchanan) August 5, 2019

How can you not love this?

"DID WE JUST HOMER OFF DEGROM?!"@diaz_isan's PUMPED-UP dad was mid-interview when his guy took a Cy Young winner DEEP for his 1st hit in his MLB debut. pic.twitter.com/rOwjYdjr01
— Miami Marlins (@Marlins) August 5, 2019

Rougned Odor personally paid for the visas of the Venezuelan Little League team so they could play in the LLWS.
The Rangers are looking into an incident in which a fan lobbed anti-Hispanic rhetoric to other fans seated around him.
Bryan Reynolds of the Pirates has been lucky, but there’s also some underlying skill there, writes Ben Clemens at Fangraphs.
The Cubs will be without Willson Contreras for around a month due to a hamstring issue.