Mariners Moose Tracks, 7/15/24: Teoscar Hernández, Juan Soto, Noah Syndergaard
In which we celebrate former Mariner Teoscar Hernández winning the Home Run Derby.
In Mariners news...
- Yesterday was day two and rounds 6-10 of the MLB Draft, and Seattle mostly chose pitchers.
- The Mariners have been killing it at second base this year.
- The world is not ready.
Gilbert learning grips from Clase, the league isn’t ready for 2nd half Walter pic.twitter.com/jBQLEgBfod
— Ty France is Incredibly Pissed Off (@welovetyfrance) July 15, 2024
- Good thing he is on Los Bomberos, because that glove is straight fire.
Muñoz's glove is fire holy shit pic.twitter.com/lDqA85ljQI
— Cam (@Camd3n_10) July 16, 2024
Around the league...
- Congratulations to former Seattle Mariner Teoscar Hernández on winning the 2024 Home Run Derby. His name is now in the history books for that event, but what’s in a name? A lot of parental love, actually.
Teoscar Hernández con los que le dieron la vida y el nombre. Y le dieron una parte de sus propios nombres: Don TEÓfilo y doña CARmen. pic.twitter.com/ZRXexDGxqP
— Enrique Rojas/ESPN (@Enrique_Rojas1) July 16, 2024
Teoscar also recently reminisced on his time with Seattle, including some thoughts on his struggles while here.
- Preparations are already underway for this year’s Hall of Fame inductions, including former Mariner Adrián Beltré.
The speeches are written, the emotions are building and the stage is being set for the Hall of Fame Class of 2024.#HOFWKND » https://t.co/e5gT6EEljt pic.twitter.com/K2hPCxrUOo
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) July 15, 2024
- Going from New York to L.A. would be a very Dodgers thing to do.
Juan Soto says Ohtani would be one of the players he’d most want to play with in his MLB career pic.twitter.com/i6biaSwbg4
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) July 15, 2024
- Time is a cruel mistress, and it will only be a matter of time before former players are insisting they aren’t old enough to have overlapped with the Jeter Era.
Derek Jeter fact-checking Colin Cowherd in real time pic.twitter.com/HBeKXHY6eF
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 15, 2024
- The singing of the national anthem at the Home Run Derby was a memorable performance, but maybe not in the way the singer would have hoped.
Who is Ingrid Andress?
— Patrick Lyons (@PatrickDLyons) July 16, 2024
Besides being a Grammy Award nominated country singer, her father Brad Andress was a coach with the #Rockies from 2000-08. He wore no. 00. pic.twitter.com/MXgTNTY6Dg
- His last couple of seasons were closer to Thor: Glove and Blunder than anything else, but that isn’t stopping Syndergaard from trying to stay in the game.
Noah Syndergaard plans to revamp things, lose some weight and shoot for a comeback next season #thor
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 15, 2024
- Bryce Harper misses the team based All Star unis, and so do I.
The Nike All-Star uniforms are not a big hit for everyone. Growing up, Bryce Harper said he loved watching All-Stars take the field in their team uniforms.
— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) July 15, 2024
“If we could change back to that,” Harper said, “I think it would be really cool.”