Seattle Mariners: Be Careful MLB and Umpire’s Union, We Know What You’re Doing

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J.P. Crawford, Seattle Mariners.

 

Let’s talk about Julio, though, the phenom with the amazing attitude, who has struck out looking a league-leading 19 times. Fifteen of those times were on pitches clearly outside the strike zone. If it were only on strike three, it would be one thing, but it isn’t just on strike three.

How about he has taken a “strike” on a pitch outside the zone 38 times this season, and it’s only the second week of May, JRod has taken a pitch that was a ball, according to strike zone readers everywhere, and it was called a strike. You know what, just rub it in; all of Jesse Winker’s last seven strikeouts looking have been on balls outside the zone.

Do you know who else is getting with these bad pitches? Ty France. He’s only struck out three times looking. Yet all three times were on borderline pitches that the umps could have just as easily called them balls.

It’s all about the eye test. Each of those strikes that were actual balls were pitches that would’ve elevated a pitch count, put the Mariners in a favorable hitting count, or would’ve been beneficial to the Seattle Mariners in a plethora of ways. Do you see it now? The Mariners are being railroaded by Major League Baseball and the Umpires Union.

So put on your tinfoil hat, start digging that bunker, but watch. Watch and see what’s happening and how each umpire’s mistake snowballs into an uneven playing field for the Seattle Mariners.

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Joe Swenson has never been abducted by aliens per se, but he has seen a UFO. He’s also a playwright, author, screenplay writer, member of the Dramatist Guild, and hates Major League umpires right now.

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