Mariners Moose Tracks, 6/9/22: Joey Bart, Gabriel Moreno, and Mike Zunino

Good morning everyone and happy Thursday! Here’s what’s happening around baseball right now.

In Mariners news...

• David Laurila at Fangraphs spoke to Paul Sewald about the development of his new and improved slider.
• In case you missed it, Hector Neris and Dusty Baker were each given suspensions while Scott Servais and several players were handed fines for their involvement in the benches clearing incident during the Astros series.

Around the league...

• The Giants have optioned former top catching prospect Joey Bart back down to Triple-A after the receiver struggled to the tune of a .156/.296/.300 slash line in 36 games in the bigs this year.
• Meanwhile, the Blue Jays will be promoting top-10 overall prospect Gabriel Moreno this weekend with catcher Danny Jansen hitting the IL.
• Don’t worry, we’ve got more catcher news for you.

• The Angels, desperate to shake things up, turned to Nickelback to save them. He did not answer the call, and they have now lost 14 straight.

• Things are not going well for the Angels in the minors either, with their top pitching prospect hitting the injured list.

• Daniel Kaplan at The Athletic reports that Angel Hernandez is alleging that Major League Baseball has manipulated replay reviews in order to make minorities look bad. ($)
• Mike Scioscia and Jimmy Rollins have been named the managers of the MLB Futures Game this year.
• Stephen Strasburg is set to make his Nationals debut today. The right-hander has not pitched for a year due to thoracic outlet syndrome.
• Speaking of, A’s righty Daulton Jeffries will undergo surgery for TOS.

Anders’ picks...

• Mina, as always, is right here.