Mariners Moose Tracks, 1/27/25: Ryan Pressly, Pete Alonso, and Cristian Javier

Good morning everyone and happy Monday! It was a fairly quiet Sunday around the league, with one big piece of news from inside the division to report. Let’s get to that and what else you may have missed from the weekend.

In Mariners news...

Not a whiff of news from the M’s yesterday, unfortunately.

Around the league...

The Astros shed some salary by sending longtime closer Ryan Pressly to the Cubs in exchange for Single-A right-hander Juan Bello.

The Pressly trade coincides with a quote from Houston GM Dana Brown on Saturday where he said the door is “cracked open” regarding a return for free agent third baseman Alex Bregman — the team has seemingly just cleared payroll space to do that with the…