It’s understandable if the name “José Marmolejos” gives you unpleasant flashbacks to the moribund May the Mariners were mired in. After an alright first big league season in 2020 in which he flashed some real power, he defied the odds and made the Opening Day roster, and got off to a nice start while giving us one of the wildest home runs in recent memory in the first few weeks of the season.
In the weeks following that fateful blast, though, Marmo slumped badly, slashing a pitiful .087/.232/.087 across eighteen games en route to a single-digit wRC+.