Mariners Are Back At It Again

The Seattle Mariners take on the Detroit Tigers in a three-game series in Detroit. Yusei Kikuchi will take the mound for the Mariners.  The Mariners swept the Tigers in Seattle at the end of July; however, they haven’t done well since. We hope the Tigers are good medicine.

The Mariners are 1-7 in the last series at home. We do hope this road trip will see them playing better. It was especially disappointing being swept by Tampa Bay over the weekend celebrating Edgar Martinez Hall of Fame induction. You would have thought it would give the players the emotion to win at least one game. The final game of the series they lost 1-0.

Most of the season we can’t blame the offense for the losses but Sunday’s for sure. In other news, Braden Bishop is going on his rehab assignment in Modesto and Mitch Haniger should follow soon. Jake Fraley came off the injured list in Tacoma on Tuesday. We hope to see him well as Bishop and Haniger in a Mariner uniform soon.

In other local sports news, the Seattle Seahawks signed quarterback J.T. Barrett to a contract. He takes Geno Smith spot who is out with an injury for at least a week. They made some other moves too.

I am not sure when waiving players at this point why you bring in more players. Right now they have over 90 players at the practices. These players coming in the likelihood of making the 53-man roster for the season plus the practice squad isn’t great.

I shouldn’t be surprised bringing Barrett on board because it is like needing enough catchers in major league spring training because of all the pitchers in camp. I am sure they need to have three quarterbacks to throw to all the receivers. In the end, the Seahawks will likely have two quarterbacks on the 53-man roster with maybe a third on the practice squad. So when Geno Smith returns they will have four quarterbacks.

Let you know about Barrett, he was on the roster of the New Orleans Saints last year backing up Drew Brees. He was released a couple days before the Seahawks signed him. Unless he is impressive we may not remember his name in a few weeks.

The Washington Huskies and Washington State Cougars are practicing getting ready for game one in two weeks from this Saturday. Get pumped up while we see how the Mariners do the rest of the season.