Is It Over?

The Seattle Mariners lost Saturday again to the Houston Astros 8-6. Erasmo Ramirez ended his streak of quality starts at five games I believe going only four innings giving up eight hits and six runs. The Astros are one of the top hitting teams in the American League.

Although the Mariners are still mathematically still in the race for the wild card the chances are not good. The Astros can clinch the division title on Sunday with a win against the Mariners. The Mariners have Andrew Moore making the start while Justin Verlander will for the Astros. Since the Mariners seem to go on little losing streaks over the season just like winning streaks the signs are not good. The loss Sunday would make it difficult for the Mariners to make the playoffs. In fact they would have to win all out pretty much to make the playoffs at this point.

I believe now the important thing is to see where things will for the Mariners going forward for 2018. They have made a good effort with the fact they have been handicapped in the starting rotation all season. Ariel Miranda was the only one to make all his starts until now and he has run out of steam. The other one in the rotation that did not get hurt was Yovani Gallardo however he was taken out of the rotation twice because he has performed terrible. His real success has been while in the bullpen.  

It will be interesting to see if Jerry Dipoto will go out and get another pitcher to add to the starting rotation. As far as the bullpen I see it pretty set though I am sure he will go and some for additional depth. The position players are set to other than possibly first base. I am sure they will be searching for a backup catcher. It will be another interesting off-season for sure. Go M’s.