{"id":397873,"date":"2024-05-28T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=397873"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:04:19","slug":"ryan-bliss-who-tweeted-his-dream-to-play-for-the-mariners-at-age-14-has-reached-the-big-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=397873","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Bliss, who tweeted his dream to play for the Mariners at age 14, has reached the big leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;My dream,&#8221; tweeted Ryan Bliss three days before he turned 15 in response to the Seattle Mariners and MLB accounts. &#8220;One day.&#8221; The post included three emojis, one of which was an airplane and one a baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That was tweeted on December 10, 2014, when Bliss was 14. On Monday night, he made his MLB debut with none other than the Mariners of Seattle, the next chapter of what now feels like destiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Mariners posted onto social media platform X, &#8220;10 years later, &#8216;one day&#8217; has come,&#8221; with an image of Bliss dressed in everyday clothing walking onto the field. He quote-tweeted, &#8220;Dreams come true.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dream come true <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f64f-1f3fe.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VKWW4w0FqG\">https:\/\/t.co\/VKWW4w0FqG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Bliss (@ribliss2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ribliss2\/status\/1795233175578316924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bliss\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is ranked<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">as<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0the No. 11 prospect in the Mariners&#8217; farm system.\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He&#8217;s listed<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0at just 5-foot-7, but last year, he hit .304 with 23 home runs and 86 RBI between Double-A and Triple-A ball. This season,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">he<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0leads Triple-A with 28 steals. He swiped 55 bags last year and 31 the season before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The middle infielder&#8217;s path in the minor leagues\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">didn&#8217;t start<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0with a Mariners affiliate.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Bliss\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was drafted<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second round of the 2021 draft and traded to Seattle as part of the deal last season for Paul Sewald.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Bliss debuts in the major leagues with Seattle<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a decade after he sent his prophetic tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As a 14-year-old, Ryan Bliss tweeted it was his dream to play for the Mariners. A decade later, he&#8217;s suiting up for his MLB debut \u2014 in (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397875,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397873\/revisions\/397875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}