Mariners Moose Tracks, 8/7/24: Billy Bean, Luis Rengifo, and Zach Dezenzo
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Remembering a trailblazer.
Good morning friends! Here’s the baseball news you all came here for.
In Mariners news...
- Even if Mitch has been hard to watch on the field, it’s great to have him around.
Mitch Haniger has organized a fun event with Seattle Children’s Hospital — a ‘reversed signing’ with the kids autographing baseball cards for M’s players. Great concept and a great turnout. pic.twitter.com/jWrz5qRUrC
— Adam Jude (@A_Jude) August 6, 2024
Around the league...
- Billy Bean, one of baseball’s first openly gay figureheads and a leader of the LGBTQ+ inclusion movement in baseball, passed away after a prolonged battle with leukemia. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.
- Angels infielder and longtime Mariners heel Luis Rengifo is out for the season after undergoing wrist surgery.
- With the Astros in a bit of a tailspin recently, they’re calling up infield prospect Zach Dezenzo to help provide a spark.
- The White Sox are failing their way into the history books this year, writes Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs.
- With Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki likely to make his way to the States this winter, Eric Longenhagen at Fangraphs previews his market. Mariners fans — I wouldn’t get your hopes up.