The Mariners have agreed with outfielder Jayson Werth to delay the opt-out date in his minor-league agreement, per Jon Heyman of Fan Rag (via Twitter). Werth joined the organization in late March after wrapping up a seven-year run with the Nationals.
Werth’s deal had included an opt-out opportunity yesterday, per the report. But it was agreed that the date would be pushed back since Werth had recently experienced a hamstring injury. It is not known when the new opt-out opportunity will arise.
Since he has joined the roster at Triple-A Tacoma, Werth has appeared in 27 games and turned in a .219/.315/.417 slash over 111 plate appearances. He has four home runs with a 28:12 K/BB ratio.
Needless to say, those aren’t overwhelming offensive numbers, particularly for a player who just turned 39 and has struggled in the big leagues in recent years. Still, Werth might have earned a MLB promotion had it not been for the M’s recent acquisition of his former outfield mate Denard Span. And he could still be considered for a bench role at some point if an injury arises or if the club decides it would like to have a right-handed-hitting complement for Span.
Move span to 2nd, seager to catcher, Paxton to 3rd and have werth pitch, cause why the bleep not
The M’s should sell high on Paxton, since he has a plus arm, and I agree that he would be a great 3rd baseman for a contending team.
But they’d still find a way to win by 1.
I forgot about CF, so let’s go ahead and throw Cruz out there
This goes along with all the other stupid moves I have heard people suggest. Why not move half the team from the positions they have been playing for years and put them in positions they haven’t played or played for years to fill 1 position. We are making the whole team worse to fill 1 spot makes so much sense. When you can bring a guy who played that position last year and plug him back into it. You also have a guy to fill that spot_and a guy to fill his spot with just a little drop off at 1 spot. I am glad these people aren’t GMs of my team I wish they were GMs of teams in the same division though. By my team I mean the team I follow for all you guys that think if you don’t play or work for them you can’t use that phrase.
You obviously don’t understand sarcasm…..
I bet the words where’s Lou are rarely ever spoke at a party
You hush up you have our old team the old commish took out of Seattle. Watched them play at Sick’s Stadium many times as a kid. Many people would love to have Lou back coaching the team had our best success with him. Just wish we had a FO and ownership that wanted to win more than run the team like a for profit business. The whole problem when Nintendo owned the team. They would never spend the money at the trade deadline to get the players we needed. That’s why Lou left.
To bigkempin I understand this was sarcasm but there were many posts on other write ups that had us moving Seager to 2nd Cruz to 1st and splitting time with Vogelbach moving Healy to the OF along with other dumb moves. I guess it was a combo of seeing so many stupid posts I just didn’t care. A lot of those posts were from Seattle fans too.
I am not sure why so many people would want to make the team worse by moving so many people around. Except the Angels and Astros. Who thought they would be far ahead of us by now but that hasn’t happened. I was laughed at when I said we would be in contention for a play off spot this year if our pitching staff stayed healthy. They are so far healthy it is the position players that are not. We have been deep enough to replace the injuries and the stupidity of Cano so far. Hopefully we can get guys and keep them healthy and that the pitching staff stays healthy. Then the team keeps playing like they have.
Bring Ichiro out of retirement
Jayson Werth faces some roadblocks.
To date the Seattle outfield ranks fourth in the American League in fWAR, one slot ahead of the Astros but behind the Red Sox, Yankee and Angel outfields headed by Mookie Betts, Aaron Judge/Giancarlo Stanton and Mike Trout.
With Dee Gordon moving to second base, newly acquired Denard Span will join a Mariner outfield rotation of Mitch Haniger, Guillermo Heredia and Ben Gamel.
If you put the Yankee OF in Safeco I doubt Judge and Stanton would be rated as high. There is a lot more ground to cover and the Yankee OF is not as fast as the Mariners OF. The Red Sox might be up there still they are pretty fast as well as the Angels. I know the two monsters they have in NY are good athletes but no way are they as fast as Haniger and Heredia maybe close to Gamel. Span I don’t know about people say he has lost a step so not sure how fast he will be.
I guess you could say the Mariners didn’t think it was “werth” their time.
Heh, heh.
Lol. It looks like it is ‘werth’ some extra time.
If he could get his batting up to par, I could see M’s adding him to the 40 man roster for some end of year and play off depth.
Werth should retire; he was washed up 3 years ago!
Maybe he could go pitch for the Astros and become a low 2 ERA guy all of the sudden.
I’m gonna try out for them next week in hopes of that. don’t give them any ideas!
Take it to the house Werth!!