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Like if my "hasn't played baseball since freshman year of high school" ass can see that a pitcher is hanging his slider and lost control of his fastball SEVERAL BATTERS AGO, why can't Pedro or Katz? What is going on here?

Gameplan: hit everyone on Seattle when you get to two strikes

This is closer abuse

Yeah, they're gonna lose this one. Santos is clearly done what the f*** are they doing

No idea why he's in there. He's been hanging that slider all inning and now he's over 30 pitches.

Mariners trying to win every game. Playing the last two games like they're playoff games.

3-4-5 in the lineup 0-12 with 7 strikeouts.

Sox look like they have zero scouting or plan on Weaver. He's missing over the middle with his sweeper and they're swinging way early.

Santos's slider is DISGUSTING when he's throwing it well. Mariners still building a threat though.

It's a stolen base party off Perez

5 2/3 3 runs for Kirby against this group of misfits is a terrible start. Better trade him for Trayce Thompson now, Seattle, before you regret it.

It all depends on if he's a man of Christ or not

Looks like Trayce is gonna go on one of those heaters

Still can't get through 5 innings even when he's pitching alright.

Three players in the lineup with an OPS above .700 today. Woof.

Is the Mariners starter also throwing only fastballs? I'm paying sporadic attention on MLB Gameday but all I've seen is fastballs and one cutter so far.

I'll give Eder a break due to his Tommy John surgery in 2021, missing all of 2022, and this being a recovery season. He'll likely be at AA next year again to start, and that'll be his make or break season, most likely.

Jacob Gonzalez first home run. 106 off the bat, 395'. 3-0 Cannonballers.

Time for me to watch the minors again. Nice that MiLB is included with MLB.tv now.

This isn't happening until JR dies at the earliest. The stadium is still in GREAT shape, too. I'd guess in 10 years we might see some rumbling but not now.

Congrats to Eloy. Hopefully Lenyn gets some playing time and makes the most of it.

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Better hope Andrus or Remillard don't get hurt I guess.

I think there's an allure to tanking because you can dream about the future. That's where I think the issue lies here - this group has shown no ability to tank and come out the other side with a sustainably competitive team. Injuries didn't help but they failed to finish the job, and recent trends have been encouraging but I still doubt they can put together a good minor league system to continually reinforce the MLB team.

The only way they're remotely competitive on offense is if Moncada, Eloy, TA and Vaughn all stay healthy and all end up producing like we hoped they could. You get 15-20 WAR out of that group and add in Robert, all of a sudden you have a good top 5 in your offense and can absorb some struggles from Colas, Sosa, Korey Lee and whatever stiffs they bring in to fill holes. Pitching wise I think they can put together a league average-ish bullpen as long as they don't blow money on relievers again. They seem to be ok at finding value here without paying a premium. Starting is going to be a problem unless they sign a couple of the available quality starters out there like Nola. This is the only place I would spend, and could see some success with a Cease, Nola, Clevinger/other starter, Toussaint, Scholtens rotation. Overall, though, ALL of this coming together is incredibly unlikely. The most likely outcome is they end up as bad as or slightly better than this year. It's a rebuilding year, even in this shitty division.