Mariners Moose Tracks, 5/11/24: Matt Brash, Sean Burroughs, and Paul Skenes

We’ll have to wait until next season for that three-headed bullpen monster to come to fruition.

Good morning friends! Let’s kick off the weekend with some news from around baseball.

In Mariners news...

• In case you missed it, the Mariners announced that reliever Matt Brash would undergo Tommy John surgery. The team is hoping that he will be back at some point next summer. This story also has updates on the statuses of J.P. Crawford, Dominic Canzone, Tayler Saucedo, and Gregory Santos.
• The Mariners DFA’d reliever Tyson Miller to make room for Bryan Woo’s spot on the roster.
• This is crazy!

Around the league...

• Former major leaguer Sean Burroughs died suddenly yesterday at 43. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this time.
• A man in Kansas pled guilty to stealing the Jackie Robinson statue in Wichita in January.
• Matthew Trueblood at Baseball Prospectus wrote about Paul Skenes’ coming debut today, and how special it is to have these rare debuts that are appointment television nationwide. ($)
• Could Shohei Ohtani win the National League triple crown this year? Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs dives into his odds.
• Kyle Kishimoto at Fangtaphs analyzes the utter dominance of Cubs rookie left-hander Shōta Imanaga.

Anders’ picks...

• This has been my favorite show of the year so far...but why can’t we just let good things just be good things? (For those unaware: this was meant to be a limited series, and the first season already covered the complete story of the book the show was based on.)