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Monday 2 October 2017

Mariners Moose Tracks, 9/31/17: Hisashi Iwakuma, Rick Ankiel, and The Wagon Wheel

Source: http://ift.tt/13Xs49Q --- Sunday, October 01, 2017
#RollPios Good morning and welcome to the final day of Mariners Baseball this year. It feels not so long ago that we were discussing the Spring Training results of Guillermo Heredia and Ben Gamel and following the World Baseball Classic. This offseason looks to be a fascinating one and we will have everything you need right here, but for now, enjoy these: your final links of the 2017 regular season. In Mariners news... With his 5-for-5 night on Saturday, Mitch Haniger now has a 131 wRC+, 3rd-best ever among Mariners rookies (minimum 200 PAs). A good final game at the plate would see Haniger surpass Ivan Calderon’s 132 wRC+ from 1985, but it’ll take a mammoth performance to surpass Alvin Davis’ Rookie of the Year campaign in 1984 where he earned a cool 140 wRC+. Hisashi Iwakuma officially has had “right shoulder debridement surgery” and will resume throwing in five months. With the Mariners expected to buy out Kuma’s team option for next season (at the cost of $1 million instead of the full $10 million), Seattle may extend a Spring Training invite to the 36-year-old starter, but first he’ll have to get healthy. It appears the surgery went alright: I underwent shoulder cleaning surgery. The surgery was operated successfully so I’m relieved! I’ll do my best to rehabilitate for the return of new season. The surgery was done in one day so my family came to support me and my wife became a private nurse! (^_^) At the time of surgery, I ...



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