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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Despite going in opposite directions this year, the Seattle Mariners and the Los Angeles Angels share one thing in common: injuries that wreak havoc with both teams rotations.Four of the Angels projected starters from spring training are out for the season. Two, Andrew Heaney and Nick Tropeano, have undergone Tommy John surgery and will miss all of next year. A third, C.J. Wilson, has not pitched since July 2015 because of elbow and shoulder surgery. As a result, Los Angeles had to fill the rotation with reclamation projects, and is heading for its worst season in Mike Scioscias 17-year tenure as manager.The Mariners face a similar problem as they prepare to meet the Angels on Wednesday night in the third installment of their four-game series.Left-hander James Paxton, scratched from his start Tuesday night, went on the disabled list with a bruised left elbow. Paxton was hit in the elbow by a line drive in his last start Aug. 7. With right-hander Nathan Karns also on the disabled list because of a strained lower back and right-hander Taijuan Walker pitching at Triple-A Tacoma after fighting tendinitis in his right foot all season, manager Scott Servais must scramble for replacements.Its challenging, Servais told the Seattle Times. Teams have done it before. You are trying to plug guys in there to keep you in games and suck up innings. Fortunately for us, our bullpen has been very good lately. So if we can get to those guys in the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth inning, we are in pretty good shape.Right-hander Cody Martin, recalled Tuesday from Tacoma, will start Wednesday night after left-hander Ariel Miranda made his second start of the season Tuesday night as Paxtons replacement. Martin will the 13th starting pitcher that the Mariners have used this year.Meanwhile, left-hander Tyler Skaggs seeks to recover from his worst start in more than two years when he takes the mound for the Angels. Skaggs gave up seven runs and 10 hits in five innings Friday night during the Cleveland Indians 13-3 rout, which included seven stolen bases while Skaggs was on the mound and eight for the game.On May 4, 2014, Skaggs allowed six runs and eight hits in just 2 2/3 innings of a 14-3 loss to the Texas Rangers.After Friday nights game, Indians third baseman Jose Ramirez told reporters through a translator that his teammates could use Skaggs delivery to decipher his pickoff move easily. When a reporter asked outfielder Rajai Davis whether Skaggs was tipping his move, Davis winked. Davis and Ramirez each had three steals.Hopefully, this will be a bump in the road 10 years from now, when hes hopefully still pitching, Angels manager Mike Scioscia told the Los Angeles Times. Tylers stuff is there. Hes competing well and his confidence has grown.That start was Skaggs fourth since returning from Tommy John surgery, which caused him to miss a season and a half. 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He also welcomes the opportunity.Florida hired Stricklin as its athletic director Tuesday, giving him a six-year deal worth $1.076 million annually to succeed Foley. Stricklin is leaving his alma mater, Mississippi State, and taking on a massive facilities upgrade in Gainesville. The bigger challenge just might be replacing Foley, one of the most successful college sports leaders in the country.I admire so much what has happened here, Stricklin said. So it was much more excitement than it was trepidation. Its much better starting off from a position of a place thats accustomed to success, knows how to exhibit that success, have the right people in place. ... Im going to benefit from all the work hes done. So I see it as nothing but a positive.Foley had been scheduled to retire Saturday after 40 years with the Gators, including the last 25 as athletic director. During Foleys tenure, the Gators won 27 national championships in 10 sports and 130 SEC titles. He now will remain in place until Nov. 1, creating a little extra transition time.Foley has the option of serving as emeritus AD and senior adviser to the university president for five years after his retirement, either full or part time. He also can choose to be an adviser to Stricklin.Ill be very respectful, Foley said. Im not trying to be the AD behind the curtain. ... Hes not going to fail. All of us are going to do everything we can to make him not fail, and Im going to do my part in that. Ill respect him, respect the decision hes made and I want to do all I can to help him. Thats going to determine where he wants me.Stricklin has been the Bulldogs AD since 2010. He has a background in fundraising, which will serve him well at Florida.Foley unveiled plans two weeks ago to spend $100 million to bring Floridas athletics program up to date, including building a 1000,000-square-foot, stand-alone football facility.ddddddddddddStricklin spearheaded more than $140 million in facility improvements during his time at Mississippi State. He also oversaw significant increases in booster club membership and donations.Florida first contacted Stricklin about the opening in June. They talked on and off for a couple of months before negotiations heated up in August. The sides agreed to the deal last week, and it became official when the University Athletic Associations board of trustees unanimously approved the hire Tuesday.For Stricklin, the decision was a no-brainer. He said repeatedly that Florida is the only job he would have left Mississippi State to take.The only constant in life is change, Stricklin said. So we have two choices, right? We can either sit back, kind of let everything move around us, or we can keep pushing forward and making sure Florida maintains its position as the pre-eminent athletic department in the country.To do that, we have to be innovative. We have to be creative. We have to be progressive. We have to continue to push the envelope in all the right ways to make sure Florida maintains its advantage that its had for so many years.Florida has built a reputation as a strong academic institution and has a winning tradition few schools can match. Stricklin can earn up to $200,000 a year in performance bonuses tied to academic and athletic success.Its the best job in college athletics, said Stricklin, who also spent time at Tulane and Baylor.Its certainly in the conversation. The Gators have won the SECs All-Sports Trophy 24 of the last 25 years.Stricklins wife and two daughters, Abby and Sophie, joined him at the introductory news conference. One was born in Waco, Texas; the other in Lexington, Kentucky. They have moved with their father and switched allegiances a few times already. Not surprisingly then, they seemed comfortable decked out in orange and blue.You finally got the best colors in the SEC, Foley told them.---AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '