A day after worrying that the Mariner's unreliable bullpen could sink their season, they gave up 25 runs in two split-squad games yesterday. The good news, I guess, is 13 of those runs came from two pitchers. The bad news was seven of them came from Felix, who after a couple of good innings, surprise, surprise, couldn't get anyone out in the fourth.
Felix has expressed displeasure at not getting to pitch this season's opener, ending a streak of ten. And any reasonable fan can understand his disappointment, just one more sign of his steady decline in pitching effectiveness. It hardly seems fair for his career to end this way, particularly after all those years of dedicated service and excellent starts wasted behind a dreadful offense that gave no support. It is, however, impossible to overlook a spring with an ERA over 15.
Speaking of declines, Ichiro had another o-fer, with two more strikeouts, bring his batting average down to .091.
Other gloomy news from yesterday: looks like Kyle Seager's wrist injury is more severe than originally believed: Dipoto said, "not a matter of days." And flame-throwing Gearson Bautista left the game clutching his chest at what appeared to be a pec strain.
Felix has expressed displeasure at not getting to pitch this season's opener, ending a streak of ten. And any reasonable fan can understand his disappointment, just one more sign of his steady decline in pitching effectiveness. It hardly seems fair for his career to end this way, particularly after all those years of dedicated service and excellent starts wasted behind a dreadful offense that gave no support. It is, however, impossible to overlook a spring with an ERA over 15.
Speaking of declines, Ichiro had another o-fer, with two more strikeouts, bring his batting average down to .091.
Other gloomy news from yesterday: looks like Kyle Seager's wrist injury is more severe than originally believed: Dipoto said, "not a matter of days." And flame-throwing Gearson Bautista left the game clutching his chest at what appeared to be a pec strain.
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