Robbie Ray doesn’t travel with Mariners to Toronto series

TORONTO, ONT – Mariners remaining-hander Robbie Ray is not signing up for Seattle for a sequence in Toronto this week, lacking a likelihood to rejoice the Cy Younger Award he received with the Blue Jays previous season amid border limitations connected to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Ray pitched versus the Mets in New York on Sunday, then remained in the U.S. even though teammates traveled to Canada for Monday’s series opener.

There was no locker for Ray in the Mariners’ clubhouse in Toronto. Manager Scott Servais reported Ray will rejoin the group in Boston on Thursday for a four-recreation series in opposition to the Crimson Sox. He did not elaborate on the remaining-hander’s absence.

To enter the place, the Canadian federal government requires a individual to have received a 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose — or 1 dose of Johnson & Johnson — at the very least 14 days right before entry.

Players who go on the restricted checklist simply because they are not vaccinated versus COVID-19 are not paid out and do not accrue major league services time, in accordance to a March settlement involving Significant League Baseball and the players’ association.

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The agreement also stipulates that a pitcher who has pitched at minimum four consecutive innings in a match are not able to be changed on the active roster except three days have elapsed.

The Mariners took edge of a May possibly 12 working day off to alter their rotation so that Ray started off Sunday in New York, exactly where he allowed 5 runs in six innings, bettering to 4-3.

Ray went 13-7 with a 2.84 Period and a job-higher 248 strikeouts in 32 starts off for Toronto past season, when skilled athletes were being exempt from COVID-19 border rules.

Ray then signed a $115 million contract, five-yr agreement with Seattle in November. He would have missing $346,154 experienced he been positioned on the restricted list for staying ineligible to accompany the team to Canada. Border exemptions for athletes finished in January.

The Mariners did put Drew Steckenrider on the restricted record Monday, a transfer that could price the proper-hander $51,099 of his $3.1 million salary. Steckenrider is -1 with two saves and a 4.85 Era in 14 reduction appearances. The collection is Seattle’s only common-season pay a visit to to Toronto.

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Seattle selected the contract of still left-hander Roenis Elías from Triple-A Tacoma. He had joined the Mariners at Citi Subject on Sunday in anticipation of staying additional to the energetic massive league roster.

Elías signed a minimal league contract with the Mariners on April 1. He previously pitched for Seattle in 2014 and ’15, and once more in 2018 and ’19. He also has pitched for Boston and Washington.

Elías, 33, past pitched in the majors with the Nationals in 2019. He had a 4.30 Period in a person start out and 10 aid appearances at Triple-A Tacoma, hanging out 11 and going for walks four in 14 2/3 innings.

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