The A’s counter with RHP James Kaprielian (3-7, 4.33), who is 0-4 with a 4.70 ERA in eight home starts this season. He’s allowed 16 earned runs over his past three starts. Mariners RHP Logan Gilbert (10-5, 3.51 ERA) takes the mound Saturday looking to snap a seven-start winless streak. It got worse.” His finger will be in a cast for six to eight weeks, but he’s expected to be at full strength for spring training. “I was hoping that it would just kind of go away,” he said. He said the discomfort progressively got worse and affected his ability to extend his finger and finish pitches. A first-time All-Star this season, Blackburn injured his right middle finger before his July 13 start at Texas. Boyd could join Seattle’s bullpen in the next week or two.Īthletics: RHP Paul Blackburn (torn finger tendon) said he pitched through pain during his final four starts before being shut down for the season Tuesday. He’ll extend to two innings in his next outing, Servais said. Mariners: LHP Matthew Boyd (flexor tendon strain) has turned in two scoreless one-inning relief appearances in his rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma. Ruiz was a high-profile international signee out of Cuba in 2016, getting a $2 million signing bonus from Oakland, but he’d posted a 5.08 ERA over four-plus minor league seasons until cutting down on the walks this season and earning his first trip to the majors. The right-hander had a rough major league debut, allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits in 1 2/3 innings. However, very early in the offseason, Mariners. Oakland promoted reliever Norge Ruiz, making him the 10th rookie on the A’s current 13-man pitching staff. This past offseason featured a star-studded class of free agent shortstops: Corey Seager, Carlos Correa, Javier Baez, Trevor Story and Marcus Semien. But Matt Brash relieved Gonzales and struck out pinch-hitter Vimael Machin and retired another pinch-hitter, Tony Kemp, on a fielder’s-choice grounder. Subpar production from both middle infield positions surely isn’t ideal, but it hasn’t decimated. The A’s trailed 6-2 when they loaded the bases with one out in the sixth. Combined, Mariner shortstops have produced 1.6 fWAR on the season, a mark that’s 17th in the majors. So the line looks bad, but he pitched way better than the line.” “We make a play defensively for him in the sixth inning, we’re out of the inning. “I thought outside of one hitter in that lineup that did all the damage, Cole pitched great,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. Irvin was tagged for six runs, five earned, over six innings, but shortstop Nick Allen misplayed a potential inning-ending double play in the sixth that preceded Suarez’s three-run shot. That includes 10 straight to the Mariners at the Oakland Coliseum, tied for the team’s second-longest home losing streak to one team since the franchise moved to Oakland in 1968. Oakland scored twice off Gonzales in the first to take a 2-1 lead but went silent after that, losing to Seattle for the 20th time in 23 meetings. “(But) he really controls the strike zone pretty well. “He is streaky, you know? We knew that when we acquired him,” Servais said. But Mariners manager Scott Servais said Suarez is a huge boost because of his power and personality. He also leads the majors in strikeouts with 158. Suarez has 22 homers this season, his first with Seattle, and 151 since 2018, the most in the majors during that span. 144 against lefties with 0 homers.Suarez went deep twice off left-hander Cole Irvin (6-11), hitting a two-run homer in the fourth that put Seattle ahead 3-2 and then lining a three-run shot to center in the sixth to make it 6-2. FanGraphs has Crawford charted as the 2nd worst soft contact rate and the 3rd worst hard contact rate in the sport. 224 batting average on balls in play isn’t great. All of the advanced stats don’t side with him. It’s not like Crawford has just had bad luck. Crawford was the arguably the worst offensive player in the sport trotting out a batting line of 188/.288/.299 line in 229 plate appearances. In the second half of the season, Crawford had a Wrc+ of 63. The biggest problem is JP Crawford can’t hit to save his life. Despite the accolades, Crawford hasn’t come close to sniffing that potential. Philadelphia picked him with the 13th pick in the 2013 MLB Draft and Baseball America ranked him as the 6th best prospect in the sport during a period of time. The former Phillies farmhand was a huge prospect coming up. The problem is, we still don’t know if JP Crawford is up for the job. The trade was all about Crawford and trying to get a shortstop for the future. Seattle sent Jean Segura and relievers Juan Nicasio and James Pazos to the Phillies in exchange for Carlos Santana and JP Crawford. The Seattle Mariners made a weird trade with the Phillies while trying to rebuild. Is JP Crawford the Mariners shortstop of future? If so, he better turn it around quickly because his current performance isn’t going to cut it.
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