Mariners’ Jarred Kelenic, agents express dissatisfaction after candid remarks regarding service time manipulation

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty ImagesOn Wednesday morning, Bob Nightengale of USA Today published a story detailing the frustrations Jarred Kelenic and his camp have had with the Mariners over the past year and change.

A little over a year ago, Kelenic and his agents, Brodie Scoffield and Chris Amezquita, engaged in contract extension talks with the Mariners. Those talks didn’t lead to a deal, Kelenic instead electing to bet on himself and his future. Suffice to say had he signed the deal, the Mariners would have had him playing in T-Mobile Park in 2020. Instead, he stayed at the Alternate Training Site to “further his development”.

Scoffield believes Kelenic’s service clock was manipulated…