Mariners Moose Tracks, 4/6/20: Tim Lopes, Dan Haren, and baseball in Korea

Another week gets underway.

By Anders Jorstad@AndersJorstad Apr 6, 2020, 7:00am PDT

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Good morning folks and happy Monday! Here’s a light batch of links to get your day started.

In Mariners news...

Congratulations to the Lopes family!

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So excited to share some HAPPY news... we’re going to be parents! Praise the Lord! We feel so blessed for this little peanut! Baby Lopes debuting October 2020 ✨

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Around the league...

What the heck is going on with these high schools? I’m sure some of you have seen weird ones too.

People are posting weird HS baseball field dimensions on r/baseball and I could look at these forever pic.twitter.com/OecXuumDco
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) April 5, 2020

Or maybe they just thought he wasn’t impressed by the homer.

One time I feel asleep in the dugout. I was wearing oakleys so nobody really knew until someone hit a homer and I didn’t get up to give high 5’s. In my defense was a day game after a night game
— dan haren (@ithrow88) April 5, 2020

A pretty funny coincidence involving our neighbors to the north.

1918 - Toronto wins Stanley Cup
1919 - Stanley Cup canceled

1993 - Toronto wins World Series
1994 - World Series canceled

2019 - Toronto wins NBA Finals
2020 - ...
— Sam Amico (@AmicoHoops) April 5, 2020

Jeff Passan and Alden Gonzalez look at what’s going on in South Korea right now as a possible clue for when baseball could return to the states.
Jon Tayler at Fangraphs tries to figure out what an MLB season would need to include if we do indeed resume play at some point this year.