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Memorial Day weekend marks the start of Major League Baseball’s summer.
This looks like another summer of growing pains for the Mariners. Seattle has been rebuilding with youth for so many years we can’t remember when they weren’t.
As Seattle Times columnist Steve Kelley writes, “another year spent looking for promising clues from the gaggle of twentysomethings.”
Seattle’s can’t-miss trio of Justin Smoak (.220), Dustin Ackley (.247) and Jesus Montero (.246) need to show us something this summer.
If not, they become three more names to add to the list of former hopefuls Jeff Clement, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Wladimir Balentien, Travis Blackley, Ben Davis, Jeremy Reed, et. al.
And while on the topic of former Mariners, has anyone noticed R.A. Dickey of the Mets is 7-1 with a 3.06 ERA? Dickey was with Seattle in 2008. but his 5-8 mark and 5.21 ERA that year makes it understandable why the Mariners’ did not keep him.
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Don Larsen is selling part of the New York Yankees uniform he wore when he pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
Larsen told The New York Times last week he is selling his uniform jersey and pants in order to fund his two grandsons’ college education.
Ten years ago, Larsen auctioned off his cap, glove and spikes from the perfect game, as well as the ball from the game’s final out.
He received $120,750, according to the Times.
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Jamie Moyer’s time with the Colorado Rockies appears limited. The 49-year-old was this spring’s warm-and-fuzzy story when he made Rockies’ rotation after a year-long absence due to surgery on his elbow and forearm tendon.
But Colorado is bad this season and will want to give the innings Moyer gets to pitchers who might help the team in 2013 and beyond.
Moyer became the oldest pitcher to win a major-league game on April 17. He has started 10 games for Colorado and has a 2-5 record with a 5.70 ERA.
