Casper Wells Day-to-Day, James Paxton shut down

marc w · August 17, 2011 at 10:46 pm · Filed Under Mariners 

Casper Wells took a Brandon Morrow fastball to the face tonight, but his nose is somehow, impossibly, not broken. He turned his face, and the ball just glanced off his nose such that it left it bloodied but essentially unscathed. The play looked ugly, but a broken nose would’ve resulted in a lot more blood and gore. A shaken Wells spoke to reporters after the game, and Eric Wedge said that he was day-to-day; no DL time.

Meanwhile, lefty James Paxton, who was a late scratch for AA Jackson, has been shut down for the year according to, er, Paxton, via Jackson radio guy Chris Harris. Honestly, it makes sense given Paxton’s winding path to the high minors (and some back pain). Shutting him down after 95 innings could also allow him to play in the Arizona Fall League along side Danny Hultzen; we’ll see. The M’s have a lot of options for the AFL this year, and the Peoria Javelinas should be a fun team to watch this November.

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5 Responses to “Casper Wells Day-to-Day, James Paxton shut down”

  1. Westside guy on August 18th, 2011 12:25 am

    Man, that was a scary pitch. It helped (me as the viewer) that he was immediately hopping around rather than lying still on the ground.

  2. TumwaterMike on August 18th, 2011 11:15 am

    Aren’t we all day to day anyway. He was very lucky he didn’t get hurt worse.

  3. TomC on August 18th, 2011 11:28 am

    Man, that was a scary pitch.

    Agreed.

    I have to wonder about the umps, though. Beavan had plunked or brushed back a couple of Jays’ hitters by then so why no warning to the dugouts? I very much disagree that beanball wars are an acceptable part of the game (not that I thought it was beanball war going on yesterday)

  4. Carson on August 18th, 2011 3:28 pm

    Morrow apologized, and got a “no worries” reply, on Twitter.

  5. joser on August 19th, 2011 11:58 am

    I have to wonder about the umps, though. Beavan had plunked or brushed back a couple of Jays’ hitters by then so why no warning to the dugouts? I very much disagree that beanball wars are an acceptable part of the game (not that I thought it was beanball war going on yesterday)

    The umps clearly didn’t think there was a beanball war going on either, which is why there was no warning. What would a warning accomplish? Somehow stop them doing what they’re trying not to do anyway? Neither pitcher wanted to be that wild, and a warning isn’t going to suddenly enable them to gain control. All it would do is get both pitchers tossed, since that’s what the umps would be obliged to do on the next wild-near-the-batter pitch after the warning. I’d rather not have the umps affect the game outcome that much, especially when there was no evidence of intent or any kind of brewing altercation.

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