Mariners Moose Tracks, 9/22/23: Jeff Greenberg, Junior Caminero, and The New York Mets

Hello everyone and happy Friday! Let’s gear up for the home stretch with some news from around baseball.

In Mariners news...

• Shannon Drayer spoke to players and coaches as the team prepares for its most crucial stretch of games of the season.

Around the league...

• The Tigers announced the hiring of Jeff Greenberg as the team’s new General Manager. Greenberg has most recently served as an executive for the Chicago Blackhawks.
• The Rays are calling up top infield prospect Junior Caminero as they prepare their roster for the postseason.
• Stephanie Apstein at Sports Illustrated spoke to Yusei Kikuchi about his sleep habits and whether or not he actually gets 13-14 hours of sleep nightly (spoiler alert: he does).
• Tim Britton and Will Sammon at The Athletic told the inside story on how the Mets managed to blow it this season despite having a team payroll of nearly half a billion dollars. ($)
• Could the Padres really turn things around at the finish line and make it to the playoffs? Mike Petriello wrote about the red-hot Pads.
• Michael Baumann at Fangraphs dove into the localized politics driving the new ballpark construction revolution around baseball.
• Jon Paul Morosi previewed the exciting potential of incoming international free agents and posted players from Japan.
• Good karma, I suppose?