{"id":767250,"date":"2026-05-02T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:47:11","slug":"mariners-notes-brash-simpson-robles-right-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767250\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Notes: Brash, Simpson, Robles, Right Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mariners placed setup man\u00a0Matt Brash<\/a><\/strong> on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to April 30, before tonight\u2019s series opener against the Royals. He\u2019s dealing with lat inflammation. Seattle recalled lefty\u00a0Josh Simpson<\/a><\/strong> from Triple-A Tacoma in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n

Brash made an early exit from Wednesday\u2019s game in Minnesota. He threw two pitches before reporting side tightness that led the Mariners to lift him. General manager Justin Hollander told reporters (including Daniel Kramer of MLB.com<\/a>) that Brash will be shut down for three to five days. He\u2019ll resume throwing early next week and doesn\u2019t seem to be in for a lengthy absence. There\u2019s nothing structurally off.<\/p>\n

The seemingly minor injury halts an excellent start to the season for Brash. He has allowed just one unearned run through his first 11 1\/3 innings. Although Brash hasn\u2019t had huge swinging strike or ground-ball numbers, he\u2019s second on the team with four holds and has pitched in the highest-leverage situations aside from closer\u00a0Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Seattle\u2019s bullpen is out to a strong start. Their 3.31 earned run average trails only that of the Rangers and Giants. They\u2019re middle of the pack in strikeouts while ranking ninth in whiff rate. Mu\u00f1oz has had a couple uncharacteristically poor outings (most notably against the Padres on April 15) but is typically one of the best closers in the game. Gabe Speier<\/a><\/strong>, Eduard Bazardo<\/a><\/strong> and offseason trade pickup\u00a0Jose A. Ferrer<\/a><\/strong> have pitched well.<\/p>\n

Simpson would be lined up for his team debut if he makes it into a game. Seattle acquired him from the Marlins over the offseason. The 28-year-old has fanned 12 over 9 1\/3 innings of one-run ball with Tacoma, albeit with six walks. He posted a 7.34 ERA across 31 appearances as a rookie with Miami last season.<\/p>\n

In other M\u2019s news, Victor Robles<\/a> <\/strong>will join Tacoma to begin a rehab assignment on Sunday (relayed by Adam Jude of The Seattle Times<\/a>). He has been out since April 7 with a pectoral strain. Robles had a slow start over his first five games after a disappointing 2025 season in which he missed most of the year with a dislocated left shoulder.<\/p>\n

Luke Raley<\/a><\/strong> and Rob Refsnyder<\/a><\/strong> have platooned in right field in Robles\u2019 absence. Raley homered in each of the first three games of the season and went on a brief tear in the middle of April. He\u2019s now mired in a 1-27 slump over his last 12 games. Refsnyder has limped to a .135\/.214\/.297 start through 17 games.\u00a0Connor Joe<\/a><\/strong> gets the nod tonight against K.C. southpaw\u00a0Cole Ragans<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mariners placed setup man\u00a0Matt Brash on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to April 30, before tonight\u2019s series…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":767251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[314808,138217,62,67,132,68,93244],"class_list":["post-767250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-josh-simpson","tag-matt-brash","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-victor-robles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116502701987939221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}