{"id":727913,"date":"2026-06-17T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/727913\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:00:17","slug":"mariners-place-randy-arozarena-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/727913\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Place Randy Arozarena On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

8:14pm: Seattle has officially announced all three moves: Arozarena\u2019s retroactive IL placement, Washington\u2019s selection, and Wilson\u2019s transfer to the 60-day injured list. Wilson has been out since late April with a broken left thumb. According to the MLB.com injury tracker<\/a>, he was recently pulled from a rehab assignment with continued pain and is weighing season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n

7:51pm: The Mariners are placing\u00a0Randy Arozarena<\/a> on the 10-day injured list, reports Adam Jude of The Seattle Times<\/a>. Seattle\u2019s left fielder hasn\u2019t played since Friday due to left hamstring tightness, so it\u2019ll be a retroactive placement to June 13.<\/p>\n

Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times<\/a> reports that the Mariners expect it to be a minimal IL stay. Arozarena is dealing with a mild strain that would\u2019ve left him unavailable for the next few days. A team can only backdate an IL placement by a maximum of three days, so Seattle opted for the IL stint tonight rather than waiting a few days and risk shelving Arozarena beyond the next week.<\/p>\n

A roster quirk will lead to the first big league call for 26-year-old outfielder Curtis Washington Jr.<\/a>, Divish reports<\/a>. He\u2019ll be selected onto the MLB roster and be available for tonight\u2019s game against the Orioles. Washington is playing with High-A Everett, which is about 30 miles outside Seattle. The team\u2019s Triple-A affiliate, the Tacoma Rainiers, are on the road this week for a series in Salt Lake. Washington can make the quick drive to T-Mobile Park. The M\u2019s will need to open a spot on the 40-man roster but can do so by transferring infielder Will Wilson<\/a> to the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n

Washington, a Purdue product, is a former 19th round pick. He\u2019s hitting .190 over 44 games in High-A this season. He\u2019ll surely be designated for assignment or outrighted this week but will collect a major league salary for a day while joining an MLB clubhouse. If tonight\u2019s game is a blowout in either direction, maybe Dan Wilson can get him in as a pinch-hitter or defensive substitute and etch his name into an MLB box score.<\/p>\n

Jude notes<\/a> that outfielder Connor Joe<\/a>\u00a0was pulled from Tacoma\u2019s lineup and will head to Seattle for tomorrow\u2019s game. Joe is already on the 40-man and has appeared in 18 big league games this season. He\u2019ll fill in as a right-handed bench bat with\u00a0Victor Robles<\/a> likely to replace Arozarena in left field for the next week.\u00a0Josh Naylor<\/a> and\u00a0Luke Raley<\/a> are also day-to-day, which pushed\u00a0Miles Mastrobuoni<\/a> and\u00a0Rob Refsnyder<\/a> into tonight\u2019s lineup against Baltimore righty\u00a0Brandon Young<\/a>. Dan Wilson will likely only have backup catcher Mitch Garver<\/a> and Washington Jr. available off the bench today.<\/p>\n

In one other lineup note, today\u2019s game officially marks\u00a0J.P. Crawford\u2019s<\/a> first appearance as Seattle\u2019s third baseman. The longtime shortstop was activated from a minimal 10-day injured list stint due to a right hand injury. He\u2019s leading off and manning the hot corner, his first action there since the 2018 season with Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The Mariners had telegraphed the position change, as Crawford has been working out at third base for the past month. It\u2019s to the former Gold Glove winner\u2019s credit that he\u2019s not only on board but actively approached the team<\/a> about the possibility. Rookie Colt Emerson<\/a> is the franchise\u2019s long-term shortstop, so Crawford sought to expand his versatility in advance of his first trip to free agency. That allows Emerson to stay at his natural position while potentially making a case for the front office to bring Crawford back on a multi-year deal in the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8:14pm: Seattle has officially announced all three moves: Arozarena\u2019s retroactive IL placement, Washington\u2019s selection, and Wilson\u2019s transfer to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1537,90818,1400,4,1456,16021],"class_list":["post-727913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-connor-joe","tag-curtis-washington-jr","tag-j-p-crawford","tag-mlb","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-will-wilson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116762982708396070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}