Mariners Moose Tracks, 5/4/25: Matt Brash, Yordan Álvarez, and the Wells Favvurito

It’s Sunday, and if it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Links.

In Mariners news…

• The tweet that lit up a million PNW group chats.

• Your Seattle Mariners currently have the highest playoff odds in the American League according to Fangraphs.
• Both Buster Olney and Jon Morosi think the Mariners path to the playoffs is the more open than it’s ever been.
• From Monday, Baseball Prospectus included write-ups on Mariners prospects Felnin Celesten and Ryan Sloan in their Monday Morning Ten Pack.
• How quickly the comments in this devolved into talking about the Dallas Stars’ game 7 win over Colorado is pretty remarkable.

Around the league…

• The Orioles recalled infielder Coby Mayo yesterday, and made his season debut as pinch hitter going 0-2.
• IF/OF Hye-Seong Kim was called up by the Dodgers yesterday, and made his major league debut as a defensive replacement in last night’s game in Atlanta.
• 2025 is not going the way anyone, least of all Corbin Burnes himself, thought it would for Corbin Burnes, as he’s going to miss his upcoming start due to inflammation in his throwing shoulder.
• Jay Jaffe at Fangraphs took a look at some of the players with the largest drops in wRC+ from 2024 to 2025.
• This Ken likes baths.

• My reaction to this video is how I know I’m currently unfit to be a parent.

• Casey Lawrence is back on the MLBTR front page, this time drawing attention from “multiple teams,” including the Blue Jays who just DFA’d him.
• There has been some speculation that the Red Sox might move top prospect Roman Anthony to first base to fill an organizational gap, but CBO Craig Breslow wants to avoid over-complicating his development, although sometimes fate has a funny way of getting involved because…
• Red Sox first baseman tore his patellar tendon on Friday while trying to beat out a groundball and will miss the remainder of the 2025 season.
• The Toronto Blue Jays are have entered the spaghetti throwing phase of roster construction, signing Spencer Turnbull and José Ureña in the hopes one will distinguish themselves enough to earn a spot in the starting rotation.
• The Yankees are offering a breakfast burrito as one of their concessions this season and according to Chris Kirschner at the Athletic it sucks major balls.

Nick’s pick…

• The Storm are going to start 2025 with three (3) players on the IL with ACL injuries.