SEATTLE – The Rangers are finally done with Seattle for the year. And you can’t blame them for wanting to wipe their time with the Mariners from their...
are finally done with Seattle for the year. And you can’t blame them for wanting to wipe their time with the Mariners from their collective memory.: Counting Thursday’s 10-9 11-inning loss, there were 14 losses in 19 games against Seattle. Ten of them came by one or two runs. Five of them came in games the Rangers had a lead in the seventh inning or later.
Logan Gilbert and Kirby were the Mariners’ first-round picks in 2018-19. Robbie Ray was Seattle’s big free agent investment this past winter. Luis Castillo was the Mariners’ trade deadline acquisition this year; he signed a five-year extension last week. In Ray and Castillo, the Mariners have invested $223 million.
Like Seattle, the Rangers used their first-round picks on pitchers in back-to-back seasons: 2021 and 2022. The Rangers used the second overall pick in 2021 on Jack Leiter and the third overall pick on Kumar Rocker. The question there: Can either of them be counted on to develop as quickly as Gilbert and Kirby have developed?The Rangers have had only one pitcher who had pitched exclusively for their organization throw 162 innings in the last nine years:.
Questions about the development of the first-round picks, though, linger. Cole Winn, taken one pick after Gilbert in 2018, regressed at Triple-A and saw his walks per nine innings double to an unacceptable 6.4. Rocker will debut in the Arizona Fall League and has yet to make a professional start.
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