Mariners Moose Tracks, 5/9/24: Ippei Mizuhara, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford

The Pirates are making their move.

Good morning fellow Mariners fans! Let’s explore the happenings from around the league.

In Mariners news...

• You have to wonder if this partially sparked Julio’s strong showing at the plate yesterday.

• Cal Raleigh is on a tear.

Around the league...

• Ippei Mizuhara — Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter — plans to plead guilty to accusations of tax fraud.
• It’s finally happening: The Pittsburgh Pirates are calling up top pitching prospect Paul Skenes to make his MLB debut this weekend.
• Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs dives into what has gone wrong for young outfielder Wyatt Langford in his first several weeks with the Rangers.
• Meanwhile, Jay Jaffe at Fangraphs digs into the early-season struggles for last year’s National League MVP, Ronald Acuña, Jr.
• The 44-year-old Rich Hill, who is still a free agent, is holding out hope that he can sign a big league deal with a team sometime this season.
• FoI all of you statheads out there, a new dimension is being added to Baseball Savant.

• Enjoy some wonderful baseball history from our good friend Amanda Lane Cumming who wrote about the Colorado Silver Bullets, which was of course the all-women’s squad Angie Mentink played for.

Anders’ picks...

• This has long been one of my favorite videos on the internet, but now learning the lore of it all — that he was trying to roast a kid — makes it all the better.