What could possibly take away from the M’s winning a road series against a divisional rival?
The M’s spent yesterday trying to explain that optioning Guillermo Heredia to AAA while keeping left-handed Ichiro backing up left-handed Ben Gamel was made for baseball reasons. Many M’s fans, and many M’s beat writers, disagreed, saying instead that the move was made to appease ownership’s desire to hold on to a franchise icon, on-field results be damned. At this stage in their respective careers, there’s essentially no getting around the fact that Heredia is a better ballplayer than Ichiro.