Jesse Winker

On Baseball Night in NY, Sal Licata reacts to Mariners' outfielder Jesse Winker's comments about his relationship with the Mets fans, while John Harper, Kim Jones and Hannah Keyser offer up their take on who is New York baseball's top villain.

Following the Mets' 5-4 win over the Mariners on Saturday, Seattle outfielder Jesse Winker called the budding rivalry between he and the fans "special."

Reds general manager Nick Krall shoulders the blame for a disastrous start to the 2022 campaign following Cincinnati's 22nd loss in 25 games."If somebody wants to blame somebody, they should blame me," Krall said Thursday after the Reds lost their ninth straight contest, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. "We don't have enough depth to combat this. Did we do a good enough job in the offseason of signing players, making trades? Maybe not."The Reds traded away Jesse Winker, Eugenio Suarez, Sonny Gray, Amir Garrett, and Tucker Barnhart over the winter to shed payroll, allowed Nick Castellanos to walk in free agency, and lost Wade Miley on waivers. Cincinnati also currently has 15 players on the injured list, including Joey Votto, Luis Castillo, and Jonathan India."It's hard to make excuses. There are a lot of good people in this organization who have done really good jobs. Right now, we're in a perfect storm, and we're trying to dig our way out of it," Krall added.Team president and chief operating officer Phil Castellini threw gasoline on the fire in mid-April when he challenged upset fans by questioning their loyalty.The Reds have the worst record in baseball thanks to a minus-87 run differential. The second-worst club has five more wins than Cincinnati.Copyright © 2022 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Jesse Winker gets the Mariners on the board with a solo home run to right-center field in the bottom of the 5th inning

var _bp = _bp []; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_4110434_1", "obj": {"id":"13959","stats":{"wp":1 ,"title":"BSH_%20Week5","autoplay":true,"video":"1000828","width":"640","height":"360" ); Jesse Winker was a .300 hitter. The Mariners made Jesse Winker a .180 hitter. The Mariners took the two best prospects in baseball and made them .175 hitters. I don't want to overstate how good Cristian Javier looked, because he looked excellent, but I want it to be clearly stated, the Mariners have poisoned bats. Not like The Riddler plotting in Gotham after The Batman. Like literally holding noodles they think are bats, and never making contact to find out they're actually holding dry capellini. With that said, Cristian Javier (5 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 0.96) looks so good, man and five womans. Not as efficient as I would like (87 pitches with one out in the 6th). Pairing a 96 MPH 4-seamer with an 80 MPH slider that just breaks from righties way outside. Not as many swings and misses as one would like, but no chance for the Mariners on so many pitches. Throw out an Adam Frazier ten-pitch at-bat to start the game, and he would've easily made it through the 6th. Javier looks every bit like a starter for every fantasy league, and not just when facing the poisoned, capellini bats of the M's. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball: