Mariners Prospect Furious About His Treatment By Team

After a couple of seasons of a very rough indoctrination to the majors, and multiple trips back to the minors, Seattle Mariners' former top prospect Jarred Kelenic has taken a swing at his organization, by wiping his social media clean of any affiliation with the team. 

So Jarred Kelenic just wiped his IG of all mariners affiliated stuff. He also unfollowed the team. Dawg levels are in question at this very moment

— Deathrow KP (@keithpricetrut1) August 31, 2022

Kelenic has removed all Mariners-affiliated posts from his Instagram, as well as unfollowing the team. The 22-year-old was was sent back down to Triple-A three weeks ago for the second time this season, and is off to a horrendous start to his career. In his rookie season in 2021, coming in as a much-ballyhooed top prospect, he hit .181 with a .615 OPS and 106 strikeouts in 93 games. 

This year, he's bottomed out even more, hitting just .124 across 40 games, with an equally dreadful .452 OPS. Why he's angry with the Mariners, at this point, is unclear. 

Seattle fans are falling on both sides of the ledger, some for him, some against.

Jarred Kelenic needs some counseling if reports are true he unfollowed and deleted the Mariners and Mariners related posts on his Instagram account. Anger all the time won’t make you a better baseball player- it’ll make you a worse one. Baseball is a patience game

— SEA Munknd (@munknd) August 31, 2022

Mariners lowballed Jarred Kelenic before he played an inning, service time manipulated his initial call up, have shopped him consistently all season, and their midseason demotion decision was horrifically managed.

But Jarred is a villain for removing some Instagram posts. 🤔🤔🤔

— Mariner Muse (@MarinerMuse) August 31, 2022

Jarred Kelenic being cranky and doing the “star NFL player deletes all the team stuff from his instagram account” thing is non-substantive and pointless and also extremely funny.

— Nathan Bishop (@nathan_h_b) August 31, 2022

By the way, in Triple-A this year, Kelenic is hitting .288 with a robust .903 OPS, with 14 HR and 54 RBIs in just 70 games. 

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