I suppose if we’re going to endure another gut-punch of a game, another late-inning collapse, the least the M’s could do is pull it out and get a win. Their big 4-run inning to take the second game of the series was great, but about all of these gut-punches… could we have fewer of those?
The M’s front office has spent more effort on remaking their bullpen over the past two seasons, and at this rate, a list of transactions for 2017 will approach David Foster Wallace lengths based almost solely on bullpen moves. Overton/Heston/de Jong kept rotating between Seattle and Tacoma, Casey Fien was in, then out, then back in, then back out, and now Jean Machi and Emilio Pagan have joined the team.