Lamenting Mike Zunino’s offensive numbers is a summer in Seattle tradition on par with Seafair and Yakima peaches. But this year, there’s a heavy asterisk that needs to be placed next to Z’s 2018 numbers.
After years of being the very model of a resilient backstop, Zunino has had two separate lengthy injury stints this year: he missed most of April with an oblique strain, and then missed most of July due to the All-Star Break and a bone bruise in his ankle. Those were Z’s first trips to the DL since 2013, when a broken hamate bone sidelined him for the last month of the season.