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Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek were hardly "up & coming" when the Seattle Mariners traded the pair to the Red Sox in July 1997. Baseball America ranked Lowe No. 70 in 1993 and No. 63 in 1994 but had long since dropped Lowe from its Top 100 prospect rankings. Baseball America ranked Varitek No. 51 in 1996 but dropped Varitek from its 1997 rankings because of the catcher's undistinguished performance. Instead of "up & coming," the stock of Lowe and Varitek was dropping. It's a cliche, but hindsight is 20/20. The trade worked out fabulously for the Red Sox and dismally for the Mariners. Seattle fans take some comfort in that at the deadline the previous year the Mariners traded Darren Bragg for Jamie Moyer, who posted more WAR than Lowe or Varitek for his new team (and for his career).
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Today Logan Allen gave up a homer, homer, walk and homer to the first four Minnesota batters. Dating back to his last start, Allen has surrendered homers to six of the last 12 batters he's faced.
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Columnist John Tomase has changed his tune: https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/time-appreciate-2021-red-sox-and-start-no-one-saw-coming?fbclid=IwAR1nNyqq0jokdNVkgsmb1Q9Bp6BfLahPN5SRpIHUBAG_-z9_S9EtZ0pOlLs
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This Seattle blogging is not to everyone's taste but ... https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2021/4/25/22402470/mariners-pitchers-invent-new-strike-zone-fail-against-boston-invent-cyborg-dragons-instead-lose
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The underdog Seattle Mariners came into Fenway Park with a negative 3 run differential, left with a positive 4 run differential but could manage nothing better than a split. Looking forward to the three-game series in Seattle come September.
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Ljay Newsome is making his case to replace Nick Margevicius in Seattle's six-man rotation.
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Seattle is taxing its bullpen as the Mariners approach an important four-game series at Houston starting Monday. The M's may need to swap relievers from their alternate site. The Mariners have played only three of their first 22 games against AL West opponents.
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Seattle seems to have stranded a ton of runners at third base in the is series. The Mariners left a combined 19 runners on base in Games 2 and 3 of this series,
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FWIW the Red Sox this year have posted a .254/.293/.419/.713 line against lefthanded starters in eight games and a .292/.360/.481/.842 line against righthanded starters in 14 games. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=BOS&year=2021
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Lefthander Nick Margevicius lost the Spring Training battle for the final slot in Seattle's six-man rotation but joined the rotation on April 13 after James Paxton went down with a season-ending injury. A Seattle blogger's preseason report on the 24-year-old Margevicius, who has an ERA of 5.49 in 21 career starts: https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2021/1/20/22240024/40-in-40-nick-margevicius
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To state the obvious, the Red Sox are more likely than the Mariners to maintain this level of play. But there's always hope with this year's anticipated arrivals of Jarred Kelenic and Logan Gilbert (and later Julio Rodriguez, Emerson Hancock, George Kirby, Noelvi Marte and Cal Raleigh).
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Despite a daunting April schedule the 13-8 Seattle Mariners have lost only one of their first seven series: winning four, losing one, splitting one and assured of no worse than a split of the Red Sox series.
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The awful East Coast weather is brutal on West Coast teams that need to make up rainouts in the eastern half of the country. The Red Sox and Mariners could probably play a makeup game at Fenway on Monday, June 7, when Seattle is enroute to a series in Detroit (amid a 10-game road trip) and the Red Sox have a day off between hosting the Yankees and traveling to Houston.
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Despite a daunting April schedule the 13-8 Seattle Mariners have lost only one of their first seven series: winning four, losing one, splitting one and assured of no worse than a split of the Red Sox series.
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That's what counts. Beautiful weather for a day at the ballpark.
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Hitting is way down across baseball this year. At 125, the Red Sox have the highest OPS+ in the American League ... by a comfortable margin: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2021.shtml The Red Sox have the league's fourth-best ERA+ at 117.
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MLB front offices have so much more information than the casual fan. This publicly available 26-page scouting report on righthander Chris Flexen was a rarity last offseason: https://benhowell71.com/chris-flexen/
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Seven of nine Seattle batters have hit the ball into the outfield. Sam Haggerty is 8-for-8 in career steal attempts.
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Have a great day!
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In his last start against the Mariners Nathan Eovaldi gave up six runs on eight hits and two walks in only five innings: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA201903290.shtml Eovaldi surrendered home runs to Mallex Smith, Domingo Santana and Omar Narvaez, who have long since departed the Emerald City. The Red Sox nevertheless posted their only win in the four-game series at Seattle in March 2019.
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The Mariner forums were awfully negative through five innings last night.
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The Mariners have stranded three in two innings including two runners at third base.
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The bullpens should get ready although last night the Mariners used six pitchers and the Red Sox five pitchers.
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And I of you.
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One poster wrote this afternoon: "Um, we lead the division, so f*** the Wild Card." https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/20036-4-23-VS-M-s?p=1380327#post1380327