Mariners created their own 6.00 ERA pitcher issue with trade
Seattle has to work this out to reach its goals.
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The Seattle Mariners made a key trade this offseason when they sent Harry Ford to the Washington Nationals to get the lefty reliever Jose A. Ferrer. It seemed like a potentially major upgrade to the bullpen, but there's been one problem.
Ferrer gets a lot of groundballs. The Mariners' defense isn't up to snuff. To sum up things somewhat simply: Ferrer has a 6.
00 ERA this season. A stat called expected ERA expects Ferrer to have a 1. 73 ERA This is how Seattle sports reporter Anderson Hirst wrote this on X: "According to Statcast: He has a 1.