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That’s the catch from two weeks ago. How does it have just 59 retweets? It’s a potential play of the year.

On Friday there was another remarkable catch by Burnham, but do you think you can find it on social media? Of course not.

Unleash the beast.

Let’s get skating…’

The Home Team

Reid Boucher is back.

Not much surprise here: he had little leverage.

He’s now the 16th forward under contract. Bo Horvat and Brendan Gaunce are still unsigned.

Boucher has a great shot and proved to be a quality offensive player but with so many forwards kicking around and his defensive weaknesses, how does he fit in the lineup? Is he further up the depth chart than Jake Virtanen or Niko Goldobin? What about Jayson Megna?

The Third Seager

Justin Seager, brother of Corey and Kyle, has been released by the Mariners.

He’d been playing in the Texas League (AA) for Arkansas. He played 14 games this year but hit just .214.

Author Bobby DeMuro has penned a very fine tribute to the 25 year old, who may have just seen his baseball dream die.

There are hundreds, thousands of young ball players who see their own dreams come to an end every year after all.

But DeMuro made a bond, and that’s allowed. There’s a sweetness there, a care that a fan will develop for certain players, almost always driven by happenstance.

Maybe this post is unnecessary, and overdone, and emotional. And maybe nobody cares about Justin Seager but me, and Kate, and probably Justin’s parents. But I know that Jordan Szolek, one of the batboys who worked for the Bakersfield Blaze last year, is going to take this news hard. Justin worked with Jordan for hours on end last year, improving Szolek’s swing and giving him the confidence to play his junior college season this spring. They’d sit and chat mid-game while Justin was waiting to hit, with Seager asking questions of Szolek and trying to help him with baseball issues. Seriously, who does that? What minor leaguer with two big league brothers is taking his free time in a shitty old ballpark to help a random, scrawny JuCo kid swing the bat?