The Seattle Mariners announced this morning that OF Jarred Kelenic has a fractured left foot and has been placed on the 10-day injured list. In response, they have recalled OF Cade Marlowe from Triple-A Tacoma. Marlowe will start tonight’s game, which will be his major league debut.
The move comes at a pivotal time for Seattle, with less than two weeks until the trade deadline and their path to the playoffs becoming increasingly overgrown with brambles. The result may well be a more outright selling lens, as Seattle sidelines one of just two qualified hitters on the club with a wRC+ over 110 (and we have to drop the threshold to 100 PAs to find any others in Mike Ford and Tom Murphy).