Mariners' Cal Raleigh has a glaring problem
This has to get figured out as soon as possible.
Mariners' Cal Raleigh has a glaring problem originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Hitters can start a season slow.
That's certainly common enough. Hitting is hard, after all. But the Seattle Mariners ' star catcher, Cal Raleigh, isn't just off to a slow start.
It's not like he's getting unlucky. Right now, Raleigh is mired in one of the roughest stretches of his career, and the underlying numbers look even worse than the traditional stats. Those aren't good, either -- Raleigh is 5-for-38 (.
132) with 20 strikeouts. He has two doubles and no home runs. This is coming off a 60-homer season, and many have pointed out that Raleigh started last season slow, including 2-for-20 to open the campaign.