Jeremy

Reed

Mariners’ manager Bob Melvin will have Ichiro Suzuki as his DH this evening.

Many of the team’s minor-leaguers who were worthy of a promotion (Bucky Jacobsen, Jose Lopez and Justin Leone) are already with the club.

"(Reed) doesn’t have to go out and have a great spring to win it,” Hargrove said. “But it will make it tougher on me and on him and on everybody if he goes out and has a bad spring.” If Reed starts, Randy Winn would play left field and Raul Ibanez would act as the DH. The Mariners could put Winn and Ibanez back at last year’s positions against lefties and use Bucky Jacobsen as the DH.

He’s playing outstanding defense on a nightly basis, but Reed has been quite the disappointment offensively as a rookie. He entered tonight at .250/.319/.338 and he had been caught in eight of his 12 steal attempts. If he wants to have a long-term future in Seattle, he’ll have to do better next season.

Reed said he won’t do anything baseball-related for another 10 days. “I’m in the pool, doing manual workouts with the hand, trying to get the wrist moving again,” said Reed. “Hopefully working towards getting the glove back on. It’s still sore.”

Reed, who was injured diving for a fly ball on July 2, recently had the cast removed from his hand. Since he’s on the 60-day DL, he’s not going to return to the active roster until early September.

This after he went 2-for-3 with two walks last night. Reed has been a disappointment again this year, but he’s going to begin hitting right-handers at a .280-.300 clip at some point. The potential is there for him to be a decent fantasy outfielder in the second half.

Reed was hitting just .217 when he went down seven weeks ago. He’s hoping to return sometime in September, but won’t likely have any fantasy value this season.

Reed, who has been on the disabled list since July 3, is hoping for a September return.

X-rays show that Reed suffered a broken thumb. He he is expected to need to have surgery to fix the break. Chris Snelling or Shin-Soo Choo could be called up from Triple-A Tacoma to replace him.