PT TOMORROW: AL West—SEA's crowded LF
Apr 4 2018
After being shelved for all of March with a strained oblique, 2017 left fielder Ben Gamel (OF, SEA) is scheduled to begin a rehab on April 5 for AAA-Tacoma. Gamel will likely play in at least several Triple-A contests prior to returning to SEA sometime next week. Fueled by a blistering 2017 1H (.342 BA, 46% h% over 225 AB), the left-handed-hitting Gamel did enough to hold onto a strong-side LF platoon vR, even with the 2H hit rate correction that produced a .222 BA over .284 AB. But minus power and a running game, Gamel's longer term role remains in doubt—and he now returns to a different situation than that which he left.
Signed shortly after Gamel went down, former SEA star Ichiro Suzuki (OF, SEA) has started three of...
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