{"id":190144,"date":"2025-10-04T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:34:07","slug":"mariners-leave-all-star-starter-bryan-woo-off-alds-roster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190144\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners leave All-Star starter Bryan Woo off ALDS roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alden GonzalezOct 5, 2025, 05:36 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n

SEATTLE — Bryan Woo<\/a>, the Mariners<\/a>‘ All-Star starter, was left off the team’s roster for the American League Division Series, a clear indication that he has not fully recovered from a pectoral injury.<\/p>\n

The Mariners will start George Kirby<\/a> and Luis Castillo<\/a>, respectively, in the first two games against the Detroit Tigers<\/a> and are expected to go with Logan Gilbert<\/a> on the road in Game 3. Woo’s absence means Bryce Miller<\/a> will act as the fourth member of their rotation in the best-of-five series, though he might also be used out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

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Woo, 25, had a breakthrough season this year, going 15-7 with a 2.94 ERA in 30 starts. But he exited his Sept. 19 start in Houston<\/a> after a few warmup tosses at the start of the sixth inning and was diagnosed with right pectoral inflammation.<\/p>\n

The Mariners, who won the American League West for the first time in 24 years and earned a first-round bye, were hopeful that Woo could get healthy by the start of the playoffs, but he will miss at least their first round.<\/p>\n

Woo took what appeared to be a big step Thursday, throwing a higher-intensity bullpen session and then pitching one simulated inning against Mariners hitters. Afterward, he expressed optimism in his progress, telling reporters: “I’m still not where I want to be in terms of game speed of everything. But in terms of how everything has progressed, I’m happy with it, considering that a week ago I wasn’t even throwing yet. And then a week from now, hopefully we’ll be in a better spot.”<\/p>\n

The Mariners hope to have Woo available for the AL Championship Series, should they advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alden GonzalezOct 5, 2025, 05:36 AM CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-190144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}