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They've been trying for years, but no manager or hitting coach seems able to teach Yuniesky Betancourt how to work the count.
They have tried benching him and coddling him. Shown him graphics and charts and raw numbers.
It never matters. The talented shortstop for Seattle can't quite grasp that taking balls and swinging at strikes would improve his game and his value to the team.
The man-child is maddening. Take tonight's game.
Third-inning at-bat, with two on and no one out, Betancourt takes a strike, swings at two balls and grounds into a double play.
Next at-bat, first-pitch swinging, he homered.
Third at-bat, first-pitch swinging, he tripled.
Five pitches, three at-bats. Maddening.
By the way, to the bottom of the sixth in Surprise: Seattle 7, Kansas City 2.
As expected the Mariners made some cuts from camp today ...
Optioned to Triple A Tacoma
RHP Luis Pena, LHP Justin Thomas
Optioned to Double A West Tennesseee
RHP Stephen Kahn, RHP Marwin Vega
Re-assigned to minor league camp
RHP Eric Hull, RHP Luis Munoz, RHP Denny Stark, LHP Chris Seddon, OF Freddy Guzman, OF Prentice Redman.
Seattle Mariners (8-9-1)
21 Franklin Gutierrez CF
7 Yuni Betancourt SS
5 Mike Sweeney DH
29 Adrian Beltre 3B
30 Russell Branyan 1B
25 Wlad Balentien LF
32 Rob Johnson C
61 Mike Wilson RF
3 Ronny Cedeno 2B
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56 Jarrod Washburn P
Kansas City Royals (11-6-3)
2 Coco Crisp CF
24 Mark Teahan 2B
9 David DeJesus LF
11 Jose Guillen RF
17 Mike Jacobs 1B
16 Billy Butler DH
4 Alex Gordon 3B
14 John Buck C
1 Tony Pena Jr. SS
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23 Zack Greinke P
I have agreed to do a live chat today from here in sunny Peoria, Arizona. The Mariners don't play till tonight, so I'll be taking questions from you for about an hour. If you want to talk Mariners, baseball, NCAA tournament bracket advice, eating massive hamburgers or whatever comes to mind, go to www.thenewstribune.com/sports and log in and we'll have some fun.
Mariners catcher, and my fellow Montanan Rob Johnson, is pointing at you, telling you to log in and ask some questions. Remember there's no such thing as a stupid question. But that doesn't mean you won't get a stupid answer back.
