Cjintje, who went 8-2 with a 3.67 ERA and 113 strikeouts in 90 2/3 innings for Mississippi State in 2023, could become just the second switch pitcher to debut in MLB in the modern era, joining ...

T he Seattle Mariners drafted pitcher Jurrangelo Cijntje out of Mississippi State with the No. 15 overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft. ... he throws a fastball in the mid-90s, a slider in the 80s, ...

Mariners reveal wild plan for switch-pitcher Jurrangelo Cijntje, who hits 92 mph while throwing right and left The 23-year-old Cijntje, a native of the Netherlands, was drafted by Seattle with the ...

No major-league pitcher in this century has done what George Kirby did when he was 16 years old. In 2014, as a sophomore at Rye (N.Y.) High School, Kirby threw 153 pitches in the sectional ...

Randy Johnson was one of the greatest pitchers in Seattle Mariners history, ... set them up for four straight 90-plus-win seasons and consecutive ALCS berths in 2000 and 2001. ...

They loved the makeup, the 99-mph fastball and saw a pitcher who had a big upside. The work he’s put in with Mariners coaches has been to develop an arsenal that fits around that fastball.