Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - 5 Bats That Could Land on the Mariners' Radar This Deadline

Episode Date: June 16, 2023

Recently, Colby and Ty started a new Trade-a-Day segment, looking at a few players each week that could be traded to the Seattle Mariners this summer. Today, the two hosts discuss five trade targets you guys have asked about the most! Can Seattle finally bring Michael Conforto home? Is a platoon bat worth the effort? All these questions and more answered on today's episode of the Locked On Mariners Podcast!Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11BirddogsGo to birddogs.com/lockedonmlb and they’ll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today's episode of Locked on Mariners, it's a trade-a-day blowout. We're going to look at five of some of the most requested bats in our comment section coming up. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoi, sailors. It is Friday, June 16th, 2020.

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And if you want to hear from us even more, please consider signing up for our Patreon. You can now get a free seven-day trial to check out the show. The link as well as our social accounts is in the description of this episode. As I mentioned at the top of the show, this is a trade-a-day blowout. We've talked a lot about pitchers lately, but now we're going to switch things up and look at five bats that have been popular in the comments section the last couple weeks. And we're going to start with a couple guys in San Francisco. That's Jock Peterson and Michael Conforto. Hezekiah asked for us to talk about Conforto.

Colin asked for us to talk about Peterson. So we're going to do that. We're going to start with Conforto here because he's the only guy we're going to talk about on today's show. who actually might factor into the mayor's 2024 plans, at least on the current contract he has. He, of course, has that $18 million player option this off season. That will factor a little bit into the conversation, but what's really important here is what does Conforto bring to the table in 2023?

How does he help you the rest of the way? Conforto this year, you know, first year back from injury, obviously missed all of 2022. It's been a weird year. for him in his first year with Giants. He's been really bad at, what is it called now? It's not AT&T Park. It's Oracle.

Oracle. Yeah. It's been terrible there. 62 WRC Plus at home this year. Meanwhile, on the road, he's slashing 303, 398, 5887, the 165 WRC plus. Striking out a lot on the road, but also walking a good amount. So strikeouts don't don't really matter to me when I look at these numbers overall So again, this is a little

Complicated more complicated not as straightforward than some of the other guys we're going to talk about on the show because of that player option But what do you think overall about Conforto Colby? Yeah, Michael Conforto is a guy that we've talked about each of the last two off seasons As kind of like the ideal fit for the Mariners and You know, it's based on his ability to draw walks. The strikeouts aren't ridiculous. The lefty pole power is legitimate, doubles. He's just a really good fit for the ballpark. And obviously, he's a Pacific Northwest guy. I believe he went to high school in Redmond, went to college at Oregon State. You know,

he's just such a natural fit here. And yet the Mariners have now had two off seasons where they've had the opportunity to go out and try and get this guy. And they've shown no interest whatsoever in doing so, at least no reported interest. So it's a little bit weird that maybe they just don't like Michael Conforto. Maybe there's a clubhouse issue. Maybe there's just, you know, their scouts don't like them or their analytics guys don't like. I don't know what it is.

But it is a little weird to me that the Mariners have never seriously, at least our knowledge pursued Michael Conforto because he is a good fit, you know, just from profile standpoint. So I like the idea. And, you know, just because we're going to talk about lots of guys today, let's assume that these guys, that the teams, that the Mariners are buying, that the teams that they are trading with are selling or open to selling. So let's not have to run that caveat through because maybe San Francisco is good in a month, who knows. but I think just from a, you know, in a vacuum, Conforto makes a lot of sense. I think he'd be a good fit.

I think he'd probably slide somewhere two through five in this lineup, and you could really put him anywhere in that sense. Not a good defensive outfielder. We know this about him. He's, you want him to be your DH, but he can play left or right, not well,

but he can stand out there. And it's not going to absolutely kill you. He can play it better than the next guy we're talking about. Which is insane. That's not saying much. It's not saying much. The lowest of low bars to clear on that front. Very much so.

Yeah. Yeah. So he's also not awful against lefties. So you don't have to platoon him. You can use him. You know, he's just an everyday player. He's been about a league average bat against lefties this year. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, I think Conforto is a very good fit. I think, though, you have to consider him a rental because in a market that is going to be thin on bats this winter. if Conforto's numbers look like this, if his ratios look like this at the end of the year, he's going to get more than $18 million. So I think you have to consider him a rental when you're when you're discussing it. Will San Francisco agree? I don't know.

And that's what makes him a little bit complicated. So the next guy on the list, Jack Peterson, he is, as we just alluded to, he's a DH. That's all he is. don't let him anywhere near your outfield. Also, he's a platoon bat in the truest sense of the term. He's only had nine or ten played appearances against lefties all year long. He shouldn't hit against lefties. He's terrible against lefties.

However, against righties, I mean, just listen to the overall numbers. Yeah, listen to overall numbers here for Peterson this year. 280, 391, 533. That's a 151 WRC plus and a hundred and ten. 28 plate appearances. Just seven home runs. He's usually anywhere from 25 to 30. He's had a 30 plus home run season one year, but.

Sure. He's on that pace. Yeah. You know, just 600 played appearances. You know, he's on a 35 home run pace for 600 plate appearances. So, yeah, the power is still there. But yeah, he's a strict platoon. You do not want to face in lefties ever, and he is a pure DH.

He's also a pretty expensive rental. He was qualified, offered, I believe. So he's making about $20 million this year. If you trade for him in July, you're still going to owe him $8 million, roughly, which makes his trade market smaller than somebody like in Fordo, just because there's no defensive versatility, and he is a strict platoon bat. But he's so good against Rydies that there.

not going to be giving him away. So he is also kind of a unique figure because, you know, how much is an elite left-handed bat who you can only use 65% of the time and only at DH? How much is that worth, both in prospects and money? Because there are a lot of teams who will not add $8 million to their payroll in the middle of the year. Sure. Maybe that team's the Mariners.

We don't know. But yeah, it's certainly an interesting fit. he's obviously a very good bat for what you specifically need him to be. But I don't know if he fits Seattle. And that's kind of part of the problem because Seattle wants versatility. They want to recycle guys through the DH. They, you know, wants athletes.

They want. There's a lot of things that they want that Peterson just doesn't check that box. On the other hand, it's only half a year or two months of Peterson. you can live with a full-time D.H for two months. They basically did last year with Carlos Santana. And Peterson is a significantly better bat than Santana was. But he's also probably going to cost a little more. Peterson's really interesting.

But I don't know if this is the guy that Jerry and Justin are going to go out and get. Also, not for nothing. The Mariners do play in the American League West. Now, granted, they play a lot less games than they did in the past. but there's a lot of lefties in this division. So how many games are you going to get from Jack Peterson where you're just not going to even start him? That's going to factor into your decision on whether or not to go get him.

Right. If you say face the Astros again in the postseason, you're going to see Framber Valdez. Jack Peterson's probably not playing in that game. He's the least not starting that game. So. Right. And I mean,

the angels have four lefties or three lefties in their in their rotation. You know, the A's. you're not really worried about that, but they have a couple lefties. Texas has a couple lefties. So you're just kind of sitting here. You're interested, certainly. Beggars can't be choosers, but I think that I don't know what Peterson's market's is going to look like because I think every team will consider them just a DH.

And so you might be able to get them for less than you think, but it might be such a thin market that you're paying, you know, a premium for a DH only. So it's a tough fit. But how many teams are actually going to be in on that, considering how limited of a fit it is? Now, you can ask that same question with Mariners as well, because like you said, it's almost the antithesis of what they look for in a player, right?

Just from a versatility or lack thereof standpoint. But the upside against Ritees, which the Mariners really need right now, is so huge. It's just, again, you're not going to be able to use them against the Framber Valdez's of the world in the postseason when it really matters. And look, if you're acquiring Jack Peterson,

you're thinking I'm going to the postseason. So, you know, that's really what's most important here to me. So that's why I like Conforto more than Peterson, just comparing these two guys, you know, who would I rather want from San Francisco? I want Conforto because he's not going to kill me against lefties. He can at least fake it out in a corner on occasion.

if I need to, you know, give one of my guys a blow for a night. And there's the non-zero chance that he stays in Seattle for 2024 as well. It's a very, very small percentage of a chance, but still there's, you know, at the very least, you know, you get him in and maybe you're able to hammer out a different deal after he declines his player option. Sure. Yeah. If you're wondering, well, how bad can Jack Peterson really be in the outfield?

He hasn't played in the outfield this year. So that's what San Francisco thinks of him. But last year, he was negative 11 outs above average. That's bad. That's bad for those that don't know. That's really bad. On only 175 attempts. Oh.

Oh, that's really bad. He's a DH only. So, yeah, I would pay it a little bit extra to get Conforto. Agreed. Agreed. Though, you know, if they did acquire Jack Peterson, I don't hate it. I really don't. It depends on the price, but yeah.

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Let's talk about Charlie Blackman and let's talk about Randall Gritchick. Griffin wanted us to talk about Blackman and Mojo Soto 87 wanted us to talk about Gritchick. so we're going to do that. So Blackman will start with him. Rental, of course, but he's making a good chunk of money. I think it's going to be around $7, $8 million, you know,

if you acquired him pretty much right at the deadline. He's hurt right now, though. He has a fractured right hand. So I don't even know if he's going to be available to play even shortly thereafter the deadline because this is recent. I think this only happened a few days ago. So if he is healthy though,

and that again, that's a fairly big if. He's 36 years old slashing 265, 347, 422. That's a 96 WRC plus this year. Not a good defender. You know,

decent hit tool doesn't strike out, you know, walks a fair amount. You know, the thing, though, you know, you always, whenever it comes to these Rockies hitters, you always have to look at the home away splits. And the home away splits this year, about the same in terms of WRC Plus, but he loses about 40 points in batting average, about 25 points and on base percentage. He's been worse away from course field, certainly.

What do you think about Blackman, Colby? Not to be a choosing beggar here, but I think he can do best. better. Sure. I do too. Yeah, Blackman, if he was a little bit better defensively, maybe that might make more sense, but he's not. He'd be your worst defensive outfielder. He's an older player. He's kind of left-handed type rants. There's not a lot of power there to speak of. He doesn't hit the ball particularly hard, but he does get on base. He does get hits. So it's not the it's not the worst idea in the world. And obviously, you know, again, depending on cost, it could make sense

and again, beggars can't be choosers, but I just, I have a hard time imagining a scenario where Blackman is like the best bat the Mariners can get. So I'd say pass. Now,

if he's like the second bat, if he's a part-time bat, sure, that you're bringing in and you go out and you acquire Jorge Soler or something like that, right? And then you also bring in Blackman,

then fine. I think that, I think that could work. But if, like this is your big trade deadline acquisition. I'd be pretty disappointed. He's also got pretty severe splits this year, lefty versus righty, which again, not a huge problem because you do need help against right-handed pitching,

but you kind of want an everyday bat, not a platoon bat, or at least that's what you want to prioritize. So could Blackman eventually make sense? Sure, yeah. I think Seattle should and I think Seattle can and should. aim a lot higher than Blackman, especially for the money that you're going to have to put out. Yeah.

It just... I don't see a lot of upside here. I see, you know, floor, which I mean, the mayor could also use some floor as well, but if I'm trying to acquire a lefty bat, you know, I don't, I think that they need to aim higher than someone like

Blackman who's just going to slap the ball around a little bit and, you know, maybe run into the occasional home run. Can't play any defense. Again, if I'm if I'm getting a you know, a corner outfield type who is probably, you know, only going to play out there once or twice a week and then DH the rest of the time, I want someone that can hit for home runs, which is Michael Conforto. That's Jack Peterson. I'm thinking those kinds of hitters. I'm not thinking Charlie Blackman. Yeah. I mean, again, if you can get them for Devin's sweet, fine, but sure when you start talking about like,

hey you want to give us Taylor dollar and I'm not even a Taylor dollar guy like no yeah so and from a monetary standpoint I just don't know if the Mariners are gonna sign off on that for for a guy that has the profile that Blackman has plus not for nothing I know we're going to continue talking about the Colorado Rockies here the Rockies are insane we have no idea what they're doing ever because they're not smart yeah at the end of the day the Rockies are are a dumpster fire of a baseball ops franchise let's just call it what it is. So Randall Gritchick, on the other hand, you know, he left Toronto.

He's been bad. But this year, it's a small sample size, just 153 plate appearances, but 307, 373, 438, that's the slash line this year, 106 WRC Plus. He's the only righty bet that we're talking about on today's show.

He'd be like $4 or $5 million. left on his deal by the time that you acquired him. Once again, you know, some noticeable home away splits here, 120 WRC plus at Cours 89 WRC plus on the road. Isolated power 167 at home to 092 on the road. He does have 15 extra base hits, but again, you look at the isolated power differences there between home and away. It just seems like another player that is benefiting from hitting that course. And also, he's a righty, which isn't necessarily what Colby and I want the Mariners to target. I mean, get good hitters.

And Gritchick has been fine against righties and lefties this year. There isn't really a severe split disparity there against righties or lefties. but I would just I would I don't know if I'm really excited about Gritchick I don't know if I'm like I got to get Randall Gritchick this deadline you know yeah all of his powers to the pole side which doesn't play that well at T-Mobile defensively he used to be great but ever since getting to Colorado he's been below average he's mediocre at best out there maybe that's because you know of the huge outfield in Colorado. But he's certainly lost a step over the last few years because he was a legitimate center fielder when he played for St. Louis. And now, no, he's not. He's fringe. He's probably 40 great center fielder, 45 defender. The one thing that's a little concerning about his profile aside from the dead pole hitter stuff is that he's running a 7.8% walk rate this year, which is okay.

It's below league average. but it's fine. But when you look at his career numbers, he's usually right around 5.5%. Yeah. And his chase rates up right now, his whiff rate is not great. So I do wonder if there's some regression coming.

So Gritchick, to me, again, if he's your second guy that you're bringing in, if he's coming off the bench, if you're just hoping that he's a little bit better than A.J. Pollock, then fine. But the Mariners need it every day bad, or they need to create an everyday situation by a couple guys they bring in. So if, you know, if he is, if he is the left side of the platoon, now he's pretty good against

righties or at least this year he was, like you said. But in the past, he's been significantly better against lefties. So can he be the weak side of a platoon? Can you bring in Jock Peterson and Randall Gritchick? Sure. Then I think that makes a lot of sense. I think that's your full-time DH right there. But just Gritchick by.

himself. Yeah, I aim higher. Yeah, I totally agree with you that the only way that I'm getting fairly excited about Gritchick is if he's accompanied by a platoon partner. I just feel like Gritchick is someone that is going to struggle at T-Mobile Park or has a high likelihood of struggling and regressing hard at T-Mobile Park. Because again, this year has kind of come out of nowhere for him and there's quite a few numbers as Colby laid out there that suggests that it might be fake and especially when you pair that with the Corps road splits that really leads me to the conclusion that Gritchick is due for some serious serious regression that he's not a 100 plus WRC plus guy that he's not going to be that if he put him in a situation like T-Mobile Park

Yep. So we'll see though. Again, if you pair him with someone like Jack Peterson, maybe that works out quite well for you. I just on his own though, in a vacuum, not a huge fan of Gritchick personally. Yeah. And if you look at his career at course field,

it's a pretty substantial home always split. Yeah. So yeah, I just, you know, the course field effect is a little bit overrated. Sure. in today's age. Totally agree. It's not what it used to be,

but it's still there to an extent. And when the splits are as significant as Gritchucks is, it just, like I said, if he's part of the platoon that you're bringing in to fix the DH spot, fine. But if he's by himself, I honestly think you're better off just waiting

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with Sirius XM via the SXM app. So we're going to wrap things up with one final potential trade target. It's Jimer Candelario of the Washington Nationals. We'll be talking about him in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown Mariners podcast is brought to you by Fanduel. Make your way to Fandual because right now new customers get a no-stop. sweat first bet up to $2,500.

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And you're listening to the Lockdown Merr's podcast. Thank you again for making us your first listen. Again, Mariners, White Sox, you can catch all the action tonight on the Mariners hometown broadcast. So Sirius XM via the SXM app. So one final trade candidate here, Colby, and that's a man that you wanted the Mariners to look at as a potential minor league signing this offseason.

I'm a Candelario. A corner infielder for the Washington Nationals, who's having himself a pretty good year, has got off to a really nice start, but it's kind of teetered off a little bit here as of late. Extinguisher 10 wanted us to talk about him a couple days ago. Candelario right now heading into today slashing 245-328-432 with a 105 WRC plus.

He's worth 1.8F war, which last time I checked, I think that would lead all Mariners position players or might tie Julio and Jared. I'll verify that in a second. But Colby, what do you think about Candelario? Yeah, I still like him. As somebody who liked him last winter and thought he made a lot of sense as a first base slash third base, you know, kind of corner infield bat, who could DH a little bit. I'd first like to start off by saying, I told you so.

Of course you would. Yeah, duh. I mean, June's about look at, look at, when you look at Candelario, June's been tough. He's been really bad in June. He was great in May. but when you look at his his just overall slash line, but real fast, Candelario switch hitter, which nice, nice little bonus there. Also a very good third baseman.

Now, this year he's been better than he's ever been, which is a little bit concerning. And last year, he wasn't very good at third base. But when you look at the totality of his career, he is a solidly above average third baseman. So if you're looking for what's the difference here between him and Gino defensively, Candelario is probably a little better, but just a little. Gino's pretty good. Gino's pretty good himself, but for me, Candelario is a guy who I'm acquiring to play third base.

I'm acquiring him to play first base. I'm going to DHM sometimes. I'm going to play matchup here. If Gino has a particular matchup, I don't want Gino to have, I'm going to go to Candelario. If I want Candelario and Gino in the lineup, then one of them is my DH.

Maybe I don't want Ty France in the lineup. Okay, well, then Gino or Candelario is playing first. So there are plenty of ways to get all three guys at bats. The thing I like about, Candelario is that he is a doubles hitter. In 2021, he led Major League Baseball or the American League with 42 doubles. This year he's already got 17. You know, it's not that he doesn't have any over-the-fence power,

but he's typically going to be around the 15 home run mark, and he's going to hit a ton of doubles. He's going to walk, I would say, I feel comfortable calling him at least at a league average rate. 2022, he was pretty below average. He was at 6%. But I think it's safe to say when you look at Candelario's career and you look at what he's doing this year,

2022 is probably the outlier in a lot of ways. He doesn't strike out. He's below league average and strikeouts, at least he is this year and he was the year before. And that's a part of his game that he's really worked on to be more consistent in putting the ball in play. And it shows in the breakdown of the numbers. He does have pull side power on the left side,

home run power legitimately, but it's a lot of doubles, which I think is something Candelari or something I think the Mariners need. Yeah, would I like a guy? Would I like a guy who hits more home runs? Sure, but I need pop. I need extra base hits regardless of where they come. And Candelario is a rental. He's on the nationals who are already sellers.

Like, we don't have to have that discussion. I think there's a fit here. He's not exciting. He's not like the ideal bat. But again, if you're looking at, looking for just a good fit for the ballpark at a reasonable price who can fill multiple roles. Shamir Candelario is probably a guy they should look at. And honestly, they should look at him this winter as well.

You mentioned that he's a switch hitter, but if you're the mirrors, you're probably just buying in on the right-handed version of Candelario because he's, he's been bad from the left side of the plate this year, 67 WRC plus from the left side. But on the right side, 122 WRC plus for Candelario. I like the idea. It just, it all comes down to cost. He's the arguably the most valuable piece the nationals are going to have to offer this deadline.

So what are they going to look for? Really, that's what matters to me at the end. But yeah, I like the idea. Again, you know, I verified this, by the way, he would be the leader amongst all mayor's position players in in four right now at 1.8 uh, Julio comes in at second at 1.7. Uh, it's it's certainly like you're upgrading your lineup with Candelario.

But again, if the nationals want like, Brian Wu for two months of Jimer Candelario, I'm out, you know, I'm super out. So is everybody in baseball. Yeah. Might cost you Michael Morales like if you're looking for in Morales is having a pretty good year and he's an interesting prospect but right it's fringe top 20 guy um and just for clarity sake uh because we're kind of counting 20 22 as an outlier uh for candelario you look back at his 2021 splits uh he was actually better against redies so yeah uh yeah so i i like the fit um i think he's probably in terms of fit uh both you know roster wise and profile wise and cost

I think Candelario is probably my favorite guy that we talked about today, but I think Conforto and Peterson makes sense too. I'd probably say Candelario, Conforto Peterson, and I'd be pretty, you know, back and forth on the Candelario Conforto a bit. But I think those three make a lot of sense. I just, I'm kind of out on Blackman and Greg Chuck. Yeah. Yeah, I would pretty much say the same thing. in terms of my rankings as well. Again,

Candelario is probably my preferred option here because he addresses the infield, whereas Peterson, Conforto, of course, address the outfield, which, look, you obviously have the DH spot

that you can rotate guys through. That doesn't really matter at the end of the day, but Candelario can actually give me value in the field, whereas Conforto, not really, and Peterson obviously not, like we've talked about.

So the only thing that I get hung up on again is like I've just seen too many times bad teams put way too high of prices on, you know, their few valuable pieces that they have. And so if they're going to ask for some ridiculous return on Candelario, I'm out. I'm piecing out. I'm looking elsewhere. Same could be said about the Giants. That's true as well. And also the Giants on the flip side of things here. they're actually winning right now.

Obviously, they've suffered some pretty major injuries with J.D. Davis and Mitch Hanager the last few days, but there's no guarantee whatsoever that they're selling Peterson or Conforto, especially Conforto, because there is obviously that that possibility, small possibility, that he does return in 2024. So we'll see. All right. Well, hope you guys enjoyed the discussion here about some of these bats. I know quite a few of you guys wanted us to talk about these guys.

So we did it. We'll talk about the Jorge Salar's of the world and the Tim Anderson's of the world. I know some of you guys asked for those guys as well. Salare specifically, just to address that real quick. I mean, the Marlins right now, they're in second. They've been winning a lot of games. I don't know why they would trade Jorge Saler at this point. But we'll talk about him because you guys want us to talk about them.

So we'll talk about them at some point. But that's probably what the conversation is going to boil down to just to let you guys know ahead of time. All right. again Mariners white socks you can catch all the action on the marries hometown broadcast tonight with serious xm via the sxm app that's going to do it for our show thank you so much for joining us here on the lockdown mariners podcast for colby patnode i'm tithing gonzales by the way sorry if there was any lag on today's internet's been wild here colby did you experience any lag on my side all right so we're good i guess uh be sure to give us a follow on twitter at l o underscore mariners you can follow me at danae g nz lz lz and i And Colby at CPAT 11, that's CPAT-1. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok as well over at Locked-on Mariners. That's one word, Locked-on Mariners. You can also find all that stuff in the description of this episode.

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