{"id":563968,"date":"2026-03-25T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563968\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:22:08","slug":"mariners-place-j-p-crawford-on-il-andrew-knizner-elects-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563968\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Place J.P. Crawford On IL; Andrew Knizner Elects Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/darragh\" title=\"Posts by Darragh McDonald\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh McDonald<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at March 25, 2026 2:09pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Mariners announced their Opening Day roster, with a few moves of note. Shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crawfjp01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">J.P. Crawford<\/a> will start the season on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to March 22nd, due to right shoulder inflammation. Seattle also selected the contract of catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garvemi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mitch Garver<\/a>, a move that was previously <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/03\/mariners-to-add-mitch-garver-to-opening-day-roster.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>. Fellow catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kniznan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Knizner<\/a> cleared waivers and elected free agency, which opened a 40-man spot for Garver.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Darragh McDonald | at March 25, 2026 2:09pm CDT The Mariners announced their Opening Day roster, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[171370,64,63,47314,277683,591,85],"class_list":["post-563968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-knizner","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-j-p-crawford","tag-mitch-garver","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563968","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=563968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}