{"id":549614,"date":"2026-03-28T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:37:14","slug":"mariners-place-vargas-on-15-day-il-add-wilcox-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549614\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners place Vargas on 15-day IL, add Wilcox to roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 27, 2026, 08:55 PM ET<\/p>\n

SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners<\/a> placed right-handed pitcher Carlos Vargas<\/a> on the 15-day injured list Friday with a right lat strain and recalled right-handed pitcher Cole Wilcox<\/a> from Triple-A Tacoma.<\/p>\n

Vargas, 26, did not appear out of the bullpen for Seattle in Thursday’s 6-4<\/a> loss to the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>. The third-year reliever broke camp with the Mariners out of spring training after going 5-5 with a 3.97 ERA last season, but manager Dan Wilson said Vargas felt something off with his lat and informed the team.<\/p>\n

“We don’t really know too much more about it for a couple of days as we’re assessing it,” Wilson said. “But, obviously tough. Injuries are always tough. And so, we’ll just hope for the best.”<\/p>\n

Vargas appeared in 70 games in 2025, which only trailed fellow relievers Gabe Speier<\/a> and Eduard Bazardo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wilcox, 26, was acquired from Tampa Bay<\/a> in November in exchange for cash considerations after he made his major league debut with the Rays last season.<\/p>\n

In his only appearance in 2025, gave up three earned runs across an inning. Wilcox told The Associated Press that experience has allowed him to adopt a different mentality if he plays for the Mariners.<\/p>\n

“It’s like, ‘OK, just going out ready to compete now’ instead of trying to get everything under your belt,” Wilcox said. “It’s there, so now you just worry about trying to get outs.”<\/p>\n

Wilcox primarily throws a high-90s sinker and a slider that sits in the high 80s, both of which the Mariners saw plenty of in spring training. In cactus league games, Wilcox posted a 4.32 ERA across 8\u2153 innings with 11 strikeouts and four walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 27, 2026, 08:55 PM ET SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners placed right-handed pitcher Carlos Vargas on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-549614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}