

The Seattle Mariners placed Logan Gilbert on the 15-day injured list on Saturday due to a right elbow flexor strain. Gilbert left his start on Friday with right forearm tightness after pitching three perfect innings.
Gilbert was an All-Star and finished sixth in the American League Cy Young Award voting in 2024, when he led the majors in innings (208 2/3) and WHIP (0.89). He has a 2.37 ERA and 0.79 WHIP through six starts this season, and his 37.6 percent strikeout rate leads the majors among qualified starters.
Logan Gilbert’s 2Ks in the 1st. pic.twitter.com/CiAPRuZi7F
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The Athletic’s Eno Sarris ranked Gilbert as the No. 4 starting pitcher in baseball, despite a Stuff+ number of just 97 before his most recent start.
“It’s honestly surprising to see basically an average Stuff+ number for Gilbert (98 is the average starter), but I guess it’s possible that his breaking balls aren’t great,” Sarris wrote. “His slider has pretty average movement for a hard gyro slider, and 88 mph for that type of pitch is increasingly normal, which is crazy, but true. The curveball gets less drop than most curves, too. But Gilbert actually throws two variations on that curve, meaning he has five pitches with power and command. That’s just about the best way to take advantage of average stuff — plus, in the face of great results for three seasons now, that Stuff+ isn’t very concerning.”
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The Mariners selected Gilbert in the first round in 2018, and he’s making $7,625,000 this season. The righty, who is eligible for free agency after the 2027 season, has made at least 32 starts in each of the past three seasons.
The Mariners entered Saturday in second place in the AL West with a 14-12 record. George Kirby, another excellent pitcher in Seattle’s rotation, has been on the IL since March due to shoulder inflammation.
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