Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Starting as DH on Tuesday
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Arozarena (hamstring) is batting cleanup as the designated hitter Tuesday against the Athletics.
Arozarena missed the series opener against the Athletics on Monday after departing Sunday's game against the Rangers due to a minor hamstring injury. The outfielder is making his return as expected Tuesday, but it comes with not having to take the outfield. With Arozarena batting as the designated hitter, Miles Mastrobuoni is starting in left field, and the regular designated hitter, Jorge Polanco, is at second base.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Departs with hamstring injury
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Mariners manager Dan Wilson said that Arozarena was removed from Sunday's 8-1 loss to the Rangers prior to the bottom of the sixth inning due to "a little bit of a hamstring thing," but the skipper said the injury is "nothing serious," Adam Jude of The Seattle Times reports.
Arozarena started in left field before being replaced by Rhylan Thomas after singling in his final at-bat of the afternoon to finish 1-for-3 on the day. According to Jude, Arozarena seemed to tweak his hamstring while rounding first base on the single, but he was able to temporarily stay in the game. Seattle was trailing by five runs by the time Arozarena was lifted in the next half-inning, so there could be merit to Wilson's claim that the outfielder's early exit was precautionary. The Mariners will return to action Monday in Sacramento against the Athletics.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Homers in win
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Arozarena went 2-for-4 with a solo home run and a second run scored in Wednesday's 9-3 win over the Angels.
Arozarena got Seattle on the board in the second inning, launching a 400-foot homer off Tyler Anderson to lead off the frame, his fifth long ball this year. While Arozarena's 29.0 percent strikeout rate isn't ideal, he's offered decent fantasy production with a .208/.359/.406 slash line, 18 RBI, 15 runs scored and eight stolen bases through his first 131 plate appearances this year.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Receiving first day off
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Arozarena is out of the lineup for Friday's game against the Marlins.
Arozarena started in left field for Seattle's first 25 games of the season, but he'll take a seat Friday after going 4-for-21 with 11 strikeouts in the past five contests. Miles Mastrobuoni will replace him in left field for the series opener versus Miami.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Plays hero in win
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Arozarena went 2-for-4 with a home run, a double, three total RBI and an additional run scored in Thursday's 11-7 win over the Reds in 10 innings.
Arozarena proved to be the difference-maker in Seattle's dramatic victory, homering off Emilio Pagan to tie the game 7-7 in the ninth inning before extending the Mariners' lead to 10-7 in the 10th with a two-run, two-out double. Arozarena has gone 5-for-11 with three extra-base hits and three stolen bases in his last three games. He's now slashing .212/.381/.485 with four homers, 14 RBI, eight runs scored and six steals through 84 plate appearances this season.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Late heroics against Astros
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Arozarena went 2-for-3 with a grand slam, two walks and an additional run scored in Wednesday's 7-6 win over Houston.
Before drawing a bases-loaded walk to win it for the Mariners in the ninth frame, Arozarena hammered a grand slam in the eighth inning to get Seattle into the scoring column and make it a one-run game. The slugging left fielder certainly isn't hitting for average in the early going, as he's gone 9-for-47 (.191), but Arozarena has still made an impact at the dish with three big flies, four doubles, nine RBI and 10 walks over 13 appearances. The home run was his first in April.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Adds first homer to steady spring
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Arozarena went 2-for-3 with a solo home run in Saturday's Cactus League game against San Diego and is now batting .297 (11-for-37) with three RBI and two stolen bases this spring.
It's been a steady spring for Arozarena, who took Padres right-hander Michael King deep in the fourth inning Saturday for his first long ball during exhibition action. Through 13 Cactus League appearances, Arozarena has reached base safely in 10 outings. The 30-year-old outfielder is aiming for his fifth consecutive 20-homer, 20-steal campaign in 2025, so he should be a solid source of power and speed in the middle rounds of fantasy drafts.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Settles at $11.3 million
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The Mariners and Arozarena avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $11.3 million contract Thursday, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reports.
This was Arozarena's third of four salary arbitration years. The veteran outfielder posted an underwhelming .219/.332/.388 batting line during the 2024 season but did register his fourth straight 20-20 campaign. He'll be the Mariners' left fielder and hit in the middle of their lineup in 2025.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Productive in Monday's win
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Arozarena went 2-for-5 with an RBI ground-rule double and a run in a win over the Astros on Monday.
Arozarena contributed to the Mariners' 13-hit barrage with only his second multi-hit effort in the last 13 games. The slugger does now have a 12-game on-base streak, and although he's hitting an unremarkable .244 in that stretch, that figure is accompanied by a .382 on-base percentage thanks in large part to a 14.5 percent walk rate.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Plates pair with timely knock
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Arozarena went 1-for-4 with a two-run single in a loss to the Rangers on Thursday.
Arozarena snapped a 1-1 tie with his timely fifth-inning single, which plated Victor Robles and Julio Rodriguez. The knock locked in Arozarena's third two-RBI tally of the last seven games, a stretch in which he's generated a .276 batting average and .773 OPS, along with a .375 average with men on base. The slugger has also hit safely in six of those contests, but he's still carrying a career-low .219 batting average on the season.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Productive night in blowout win
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Arozarena went 2-for-4 with a two-run double and two runs in a win over the Athletics on Wednesday.
Arozarena authored one of five multi-hit efforts for the Mariners in the lopsided victory, and he chipped in two of the team's 16 runs with a timely check-swing double in the seventh inning that plated J.P. Crawford and Julio Rodriguez. Arozarena snapped a 1-for-14, four-game skid in the process, a slump that began after he'd recorded five hits over two games on Aug. 28 and Aug. 30. Despite the recent brief downturn, Arozarena has been more productive overall since arriving in Seattle than he was up to that point with the Rays, posting a .238 average, .753 OPS, 11 extra-base hits, 12 RBI, 18 walks and 24 runs while getting on base nine additional times on hit-by-pitches over 34 games in a Mariners uniform.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Belts 18th homer
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Arozerena went 3-for-4 with a solo home run and a second run scored in Wednesday's 6-2 win over the Rays.
The Mariners broke the game open with a three-homer barrage in the fifth inning off Tyler Alexander, with Arozarena's blast following long balls from Victor Robles and Julio Rodriguez. Arozarena has a modest five-game hitting streak going, but through 23 games in August he's batting just .225 (18-for-80) with two of his 18 homers and four of his 20 steals on the season.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Clubs three-run homer Monday
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Arozarena went 1-for-3 with a three-run home run in a 5-1 victory against the Rays on Monday.
Arozarena provided the biggest hit of the contest for Seattle, belting a three-run homer in the third inning to break a 1-1 tie. The long ball snapped a 22-game homerless stretch during which the outfielder batted just .182 with a meager five RBI. Since joining Seattle in a deadline deal, Arozarena has posted a .220 batting average along with two homers, nine RBI, 18 runs and four stolen bases across 26 games.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Records 19th steal in loss
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Arozarena went 1-for-5 with an RBI fielder's choice, a double and a stolen base in Saturday's 4-3 loss to the Giants.
The trade-deadline acquisition got the Mariners to within a run in the seventh inning with his groundout to shortstop, but Seattle was unable to get a second consecutive win under new manager Dan Wilson. Arozarena also subsequently swiped second base for his 19th steal of the campaign, putting him on the precipice of reaching the 20-steal threshold for the fourth straight season. The majority of that production came during his time with the Rays, but Arozarena has now gotten the green light on the basepaths and capitalized three times in the last five games.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Two runs, stolen base in loss
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Arozarena went 1-for-2 with a stolen base and two runs scored in Wednesday's loss to the Dodgers while also drawing a walk and being hit by a pitch.
Arozarena swiped his 18th bag of the season and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly from Dominic Canzone after being hit by a pitch to lead off the second. The recently acquired outfielder would then go on to reach two more times in the contest, scoring two runs for the fifth time as a member of the Mariners. Arozarena had gone six games without recording a hit prior to Wednesday's performance, and he's batting just .193 (11-for-57) in August with three homers, 13 RBI, 11 runs and two stolen bases.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Sitting Sunday
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Arozarena is absent from Sunday's lineup against the Pirates.
Arozarena struck out in all five at-bats in Saturday's 7-2 loss against the Pirates, and he has a 55.6 percent strikeout rate over his last four games. Arozarena will retreat to the dugout for Sunday's contest, with Luke Raley shifting to left field and Justin Turner starting at first base.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Another multi-hit effort Saturday
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Arozarena went 2-for-3 with an RBI double, a walk and two runs in a win over the Mets on Saturday.
The recent trade acquisition opened the scoring in the first inning with his two-bagger, which plated Victor Robles. Arozarena would subsequently cross the plate himself twice courtesy of timely hits by fellow newcomer Justin Turner, giving the former Rays outfielder his fifth multi-run tally in 13 games with the Mariners. Arozarena has the same number of multi-hit efforts since his July 27 team debut, and he's now boasting a .304 average and .917 OPS across 57 plate appearances in Seattle.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: On base three times in loss
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Arozarena went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and a run in a loss to the Tigers on Wednesday.
Arozarena authored the only multi-hit effort of the game for the Mariners, and he crossed the plate on Cal Raleigh's two-run home run that would account for all of Seattle's scoring. Arozarena had been mired in a brief 0-for-7, two-game funk coming into Wednesday, but he snapped it with what is already his fourth multi-hit tally in the 10 games he's played with the Mariners since being acquired from the Rays.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Swats pair of doubles in win
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Arozarena went 2-for-5 with two doubles and two runs in an extra-inning win over the Phillies on Saturday.
Arozarena's blistering bat continued making an impact Saturday, with the veteran trade acquisition helping ignite the Mariners' comeback from a 5-1 deficit with his inning-opening double in the sixth after also having laced a two-bagger in the first frame. Arozarena, who'd been in the midst of a highly underwhelming season in several aspects during his time with the Rays, has brought his slash line up to a season-best .220/.328/.406, and he boasts a 1.010 OPS across 33 plate appearances in a Seattle uniform.
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Mariners' Randy Arozarena: Delivers RBI in return
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Arozarena (undisclosed) started in left field and went 1-for-5 with an RBI fielder's choice and a run in a win over the Red Sox on Tuesday.
Arozarena had exited Monday's game after a collision with the wall in foul territory at Fenway Park, but the exit had been labeled as precautionary and no subsequent absences were expected. That proved to be true Tuesday, with the recent arrival managing to extend his hitting streak to five games and drive in a run for the second straight contest. Arozarena was already heating up during his final weeks with the Rays and carried the momentum over across the country, and he'll enter the final game of July with a .305 average and .972 OPS across 93 plate appearances this month.
