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Cal Raleigh Soreness Forces Mariners to Confront Their Most Obvious Roster Tension
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Cal Raleigh Soreness Forces Mariners to Confront Their Most Obvious Roster Tension

Seattle Mariners On SI·Tremayne Person·29 days ago
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Cal Raleigh has made a ridiculous job feel normal for so long that it almost takes something like this to remind us how ridiculous it actually is. Dan Wilson called Raleigh’s late scratch “general soreness,” which is about as vague and carefully non-alarming as an injury update can get. Dan Wilson called Raleigh’s late scratch “general soreness,” a vague enough label to keep the Mariners from sounding alarm bells but serious enough to require imaging. The club framed him as day-to-day, which may end up being exactly what this is: a short pause for a player carrying a massive workload. Still, the whole thing landed differently because Raleigh is the lineup’s power switch, the pitching staff’s safety blanket, and the catcher asked to absorb the physical tax that comes with the most punishing everyday job in baseball. Raleigh is too valuable to sit easily, but he is also too valuable to grind into the dirt. Seattle asks him to be both anchor and engine.…

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