Mariners Moose Tracks, 7/16/25: Cal Raleigh, Pete Crow-Armstrong, and the Tampa Bay Rays
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The Week of Cal continues.
Howdy everyone! The All-Star Break continues for the next couple of days, so it’ll probably be a fairly slow news cycle around baseball. But, we’ve still got you covered with everything you need to know.
In Mariners news...
- The Raleigh Ball is coming to the Hall of Fame!
Connecting on homers is Cal Raleigh's thing. Connecting generations is ours. A baseball signed by the Home Run Derby champion, pitched by his father Todd Sr. and caught by his brother Todd Jr. is coming to Cooperstown.
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (@baseballhall.org) 2025-07-15T04:15:01.161Z
- With his Home Run Derby win, Cal Raleigh has officially ascended to baseball stardom, writes Jake Mintz at Yahoo! Sports.
- Aaron Gleeman at The Athletic analyzes Cal’s chances of winning the American League MVP award. ($)
- We’ve got two fresh episodes of Meet at the Mitt for you. In the first one, the gang broke down the first day of the Mariners draft. In the second, the team celebrated Cal’s Home Run Derby victory.
Around the league...
- Former Twins first rounder and MLB veteran Dan Serafini has been found guilty of killing his father-in-law.
- The CBA negotiations — still more than a year away — are already taking place in the public eye. The MLBPA punched back against talk that MLB wants to establish a salary cap.
- Rob Manfred expects the Rays to play in the Trop once again in 2026.
- The Olympics announced their 2028 schedule and it doesn’t look like a clean fit with the MLB season, writes Evan Drellich at The Athletic. ($)
- Matthew Roberson at GQ spoke to new Cubs superstar Pete Crow-Armstrong about his journey to superstardom.
- All these years later, Hank Aaron’s legacy is still bringing Black baseball players together, writes Clinton Yates at Andscape.