Mariners Moose Tracks, 6/20/24: J.P. Crawford, Willie Mays, and Kyle Bradish

Exploring the latest news from around baseball.

Good morning esteemed friends and colleagues. Here’s what you need to know about the world of baseball today.

In Mariners news...

• Shannon Drayer wrote about the behind-the-scenes impact of having Mitch Garver assume backup catcher duties for the club.
• These stats were prior to yesterday’s poor outing, but it really puts Bryan Woo’s start-of-the-season run into context.

• Mariners Twitter ran back the post-ejection pizza delivery for J.P. Crawford, and it went off without a hitch!

Around the league...

• Yesterday, a mural was unveiled in Birmingham, Alabama in honor of the late Willie Mays.
• David Schoenfield at ESPN takes an analytical lens and looks back at how Mays performed using modern metrics.
• The Orioles took a real hard hit to their World Series hopes with the news that right-hander Kyle Bradish underwent Tommy John surgery, possibly taking him out of the picture until 2026.
• For those of you who are MLB draft followers, we got new mocks from ESPN ($) and The Athletic ($) yesterday.