Taijuan Walker vs. Luis Urias, 6:40pm
You can’t say the M’s didn’t let us know their patience was wearing thin. On August 9th, Ryan Divish wrote a story for the Times about the M’s frustration with Dan Vogelbach’s prolonged slump and how they couldn’t afford to keep him on the roster if he didn’t snap out of it. After an abysmal road trip, Vogelbach – hitting .094/.250/.226 – the M’s today DFA’d the husky DH who’d made the AL All-Star game a bit more than a year ago.
Since that power+patience fueled hot streak, he’s utterly collapsed.