Seattle Mariners: Stock Up, Stock Down 5/16-22/22

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May 24, 2022

Pitchers (stock down)

Chris Flexen – During the ‘21 season, I gave him the nickname Flexing Flexen. Super original, I know, but he was pitching incredibly well, considering he struggled when he was with the NY Mets before going over to the KBO. Well, this year, he hasn’t been flexing all that much. Over two starts this week, he pitched 9.1 innings, giving up four home runs, walking 5, and striking out 9 for an appalling 7.71 ERA and 2.04 WHIP. The advanced metrics have been calling for a course correction, and it appears it’s happening now.

Andres Munoz – Still a young pitcher who’s learning how to pitch in the big leagues and adjust to pitchers attacking him. His future is still bright. However, this past week ended on a very sour note. Thus making his overall line look bad. Pitching 2.2 innings, giving up one home run, walking 1, striking out 1, earning one hold, and one blown save for a 13.50 ERA and a 2.25 WHIP. After Sunday, it may be some time before he’s given another chance at a save.

Bullpen not named Paul Sewald, Matt Festa, and Murfee – We already talked about Murfee. Paul Sewald did his normal things. It was surprising to see Scott Servais only have Sewald get one out in his appearance on Sunday. Especially when it was a close game. Festa proved me wrong in my belief that all he does is give up runs when he enters a game. At least for one game, he did.

However, the rest of the bullpen was not very good. They didn’t look anything close to the bullpen we saw at the end of the ‘21 season. Definitely not a bullpen that was considered a real strength of the team heading into the ‘22 season. Better days are hopefully ahead for this group. But this once thought of strength might need some work done to it.

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