Mariners Moose Tracks, 5/22/24: Brooks Raley, Gerrit Cole, and Chris Sale
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Good day everyone! Let’s explore the latest from around baseball on this fine Wednesday.
In Mariners news...
- Mike Axisa at CBS Sports breaks down the state of the AL West race, outlining what each of the three contenders needs to do to pull away from the pack.
Around the league...
- Mets reliever Brooks Raley will undergo Tommy John surgery. The lefty will be a free agent at the end of the season.
- Yankees right-hander Gerrit Cole is eyeing a June return from the injured list. The right-hander has missed the whole season to this point with an elbow injury.
- Longtime veteran starter Kyle Hendricks will transition to the Cubs bullpen following a rough start to the season in the rotation.
- A high school senior in the Philadelphia area recruited none other than Bryce Harper to help him ask a girl to the prom.
- Jay Jaffe at Fangraphs digs into what Chris Sale has done to rediscover the ace inside him.
- Eric Longenhagen at Fangraphs wrote up an update on the sport’s top 100 prospects.