The ever-evolving saga of the Seattle Mariners and Jarred Kelenic got a little muddier Tuesday when Jeff Passan reported the Triple-A season will not start on time, getting pushed back at least a month. Alternate training sites will be back for a while in April instead. It’s the latest wrinkle in a raisin-esque spring between the Mariners and Kelenic.
Service time manipulation entirely aside, another trip to the alternate training site for Kelenic helps absolutely nobody. He faced all of those arms for several months in 2020. After a few weeks and having seen a couple hundred pitches from every arm available, the whole thing becomes stale.