Mark Trumbo can hit a baseball very far.
It’s perhaps the main reason recently-fired Mariners general manager Jack Zdruriencik traded for Trumbo back in June even though Seattle had to send two prospects, reliever Dominic Leone and much-needed backup catcher Welington Castillo to the Diamondbacks.
Trumbo has raw power, and he showed it in the fifth inning Tuesday in a 7-5 win over the Astros at Minute Maid Park.
Facing reliever Vincent Velasquez, Trumbo launched a two-run homer that had a projected distance of 464 feet, according to MLB.com’s Statcast, with the ball ricocheting off the front of the train.