First up is current Mariners outfielder Mitch Haniger. Mitch made an immediate impression of his first month with the team. Opponents couldn’t keep him offbase. Unfortunately, his momentum was killed pretty quickly as he went down with an oblique injury that same month and was never the same in 2017.
That same summer he had the pleasure of taking a Jacob deGrom pitch right to the face and the poor guy couldn’t catch a break in his inaugural Mariners season. The end of 2017 was good overall with a .282 average but he was at a different level pre-oblique injury and didn’t even reach 100 games played.