Mariners Take On Mets Over Weekend

The Seattle Mariners now have another weekend series this time against the other New York team in the Mets. We hope that they do better than they did against the Yankees.

So far over the season the Mariners have played not as well against teams that are playing at equal or lower status. In fact it seems they have done better on the road against those teams than at home. I have to admit that I don’t know a lot about the Met’s roster. In fact so when the Mets traded Lucas Duda to Tampa Bay this week although I knew he played mostly first base and hit a lot of home runs I thought he played some catcher as well which turns out he never has and he did play some outfield in the past. The only reason I was thinking about that was why not the Mariners went after Duda if he caught as well as play first base. Of course I was wrong when I looked into it.  It would be nice to have someone that could back up at catcher for the Mariners well as play some first base. Oh well!

·         I decided to look into the stats of New York Met’s catcher Travis E. d'Arnaud to see what he is about. Well looking at it he doesn’t hit much better than Zunino and if he actually played some first base what is the point of trading for him.

·         Friday night the Mariners have Ariel Miranda going for them against Rafael Montero for the Mets. If you look at the statistics the Mariners should win the game however we know how that goes. Montero has a record of 1-7 with an era 5.19 so the Mariners should be able to hit off of him and win the game. This would be a good start to the series if this can happen. The hope is that Miranda can pitch seven innings for the Mariners to help the bullpen out though they had Thursday night off. The Mets record right now is 47-53 and they are tied with Miami Marlins for third place in the National League East. We know that the Marlins have decided not to go after the playoffs since they have traded some players already like Dave Phelps reliever they sent to the Mariners. I am not sure what the Mets have that the Mariners could use in starting pitching however I am sure that Dipoto will be talking with their general manager over the weekend along with many others over the phone. We do hope that the Mariners do make a move. Also we know that Dipoto will be looking for someone that they will have control over for at least a couple more seasons. So now we say go Mariners let’s win two out of three this weekend at least.

Just heard news that the Mariners are reacquiring Erasmo Ramirez from the Tampa Bay Rays for reliever Steve Cishek; I am not sure however Ramirez could be in the Mariners five-man rotation. He has been used in the Ray’s bullpen to so could go either way. With acquiring Dave Phelps the need of Cishek isn’t as needed as before and he will be a free agent at the end of the season. The Mariners could go out and resign him when the season is over. Interesting news to say the least and something I didn’t expect.