Jarred Kelenic to miss time after suffering from knee strain

13:44: Kelenic suffered from a grade 2 strain, reports Divish, which typically has a recovery period of three to six weeks.

13:21: Navigators perspective Jarred Kelenic will be incapacitated after an MRI revealed tension in his left adductor muscle, the team said. Kelenic was injured in Friday’s game against the White Sox.

No mention was made of a recovery schedule except for General Manager Jerry Dipoto who said: “we are relieved that the long term outlook is positive. We all look forward to seeing him on the field again in the near future. ” Seattle Times Ryan Divish estimated that Kelenic is likely to run out “a few weeks” of time, which would rule out any chance that Kelenic would make the opening day list. Kelenic has yet to play a Triple-A ball in his brief professional career, and now it looks like he will indeed start his 2021 season with Triple-A Tacoma.

Kelenic’s MLB debut date has been the subject of controversy in recent days, due to infamous comments made by Kevin Mather, now former president / CEO of the Mariners, during a video address to the Rotary Club of Bellevue. Breakfast in February. Mather openly discussed that the M’s had no plans to call up any of their top young prospects from the alternative training site last season, and hinted that the team were planning to keep Kelenic and Logan gilbert in Triple-A long enough this year for the Mariners to gain an additional year of team control over their serves. Kelenic and his agent later commented that he would have made his Seattle debut in 2020 if Kelenic had agreed to a long-term contract extension that would have given the M team even more control over Kelenic’s future.

Consensual pick among baseball’s Top 10 Prospects, Kelenic, 21, was the Mets ‘pick as the sixth overall pick in the 2018 Draft and the centerpiece of the Mariners’ return in the hit deal that sent Robinson cano and Edwin diaz from Seattle to New York in December 2018. The trade is already shaping up to be a pivotal moment in Mariners history, and it will become even more impactful if Kelenic and Justin dunn live up to high expectations.