When the Mariners acquired Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suárez this off-season from the Reds, the sense was that Winker was the prize and Suárez, a necessary bit of salary-eating in order to secure the services of the 28-year-old Winker. Flash forward to the second week of the season, and Winker is rocking a wRC+ of 78 to Suárez’s 116, with the latter already chalking up his first home run in a Mariner uniform as well as three doubles, for a cool .455 slugging percentage. As for Winker’s slugging percentage, it remains stuck at an anemic .152, or literally four hundred points lower than he posted last year.
Looking into Jesse Winker’s unlucky start
