TORONTO – While shortstop J.P. Crawford has cemented himself as the Mariners’ everyday shortstop, he’s still far from a finished product in many ways.
He’s going to play more MLB games in the 2019 season than he has played in the previous two seasons. There’s still six weeks and the 37 games remaining in the 162-game marathon.
The Mariners want Crawford to finish his first season with them in a strong fashion. It’s part of the reason that he was out of the starting lineup for the Sunday afternoon series finale vs. the Blue Jays.
“When we play in stretches where we play 10, 11, 12 days in a row, I’m not going to play him in all of them,” manager Scott Servais said.