Jarred Kelenic started off the season as the nominal starting right fielder because of Ronald Acuña Jr.’s continued recovery from his knee injury. That role gave him effectively about six weeks to establish himself as a player finally ready for regular at bats and contributor status. That … didn’t happen, and he was so bad that he got optioned to the minors before we even got to May, and only reappeared in the big leagues to briefly serve as a pinch-runner.

After being part of a rather-infamous trade in which the Mets sent Kelenic to the Mariners for Robinson Cano, the Mariners then turned around and traded Kelenic to the Braves in December 2023 in order to get the Atlanta Braves to take the contracts of Marco Gonzalez and Evan White’s contracts off Seattle’s books. The idea was simple. A

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