Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - 5 Players the Seattle Mariners NEED to Trade For This Winter | Top 5 Tuesday

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

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These are the five players the Marrins need to target via trade this winter. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariner's podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, Sailors, and it's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025, you're listening to the Lockdown Marys podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. now the number one sports podcast network. My name is Tadang Gazzalas, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-ist Colby Patnode.

We're two lifelong Marys fans who've been covering the team for over half a decade. And on today's show, it's top five Tuesday. Colby's going to give you his top five trade targets for the Maris and all list my five favorite bullpen entrances and baseball. Before we get into all that, I want to shout out our title sponsor today, Fanduel. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit Fandual.com and place your NFL live bets all season long. Some minor Mariners news here this morning.

Mariners have officially been awarded the second highest competitive balance round B pick and next year's draft. That is a tradable pick and it's one that we assumed the Mariners were going to be awarded when we did our off-season plan and we included it in the Brennan Donovan trade that was in our off-season plan. So perhaps the mayors will use that pick to trade for one of the guys that Colby's going to talk about today. so floor is yours my friend oh you friend it's a holiday season buddy no buddy stop but uh yeah so kind of the problem with the top five trade target list is that we basically spent the last

you know three or four thursday or tuesdays going over like teams the mariners should try and trade with and like hoary polanco fallbacks and all that and those all kind of run into the same general area which is hey these are players i think the mariners would like and they should go out and try to get and therefore there's a lot of crossover between these uh names and the names that we've already talked about so i did try to throw one or two curve balls into the top five just to give us some new players to talk about or at least players we haven't spent a lot of time talking about. But yeah, they're listed one through five. I really think, you know, doesn't really matter the order all that much. But I did have some honorable mentions that, you know, we've either

talked quite a bit about or whatever. So Brandon Lau, obviously, is. Whoa, Brandon Lau. Yeah. Never heard that name before. I know, I know. Jake Cronenworth. Whoa, Jake Cronenworth. Never. ever thought about him for the Mariners. Alec Boehm still makes sense. He's more of a leftover from last year, but he still does make sense. Garrett Clevenger, we've talked about as both a high leverage bullpen arm that the Mariners want and a lefty, which the Mariners also want. Freddie Peralta, again, kind of only works if they trade Luis Castillo, but whatever.

I throw him on the list just because Jojo Romero as another guy. that we talked about a little bit here. C.J. Abrams is another guy that we've talked about some, not a ton, but yeah, like, and we did, when we did our, you know, divisional preview for trade targets, we talked about all these players to some degree. So, yeah, I mean, again, it's not a very unique topic just because of what we've already covered. So we'll still be talking about players that we talked a lot about, but whatever.

We'll just keep on plugging away because it is the offseason. that's right content so uh coming in at number five on our list or on my list uh i have edwin yseda a relief pitcher for the raise you get him for four years he is super two he is arb eligible this year but he's only scheduled to make about a million one point one million something like that uh this year he is a righty who throws hard gets a ton of swing and miss walk rates are totally fine for a reliever uh he had a little bit of of a little bit of trouble with home runs last year, although pitching in, you know, a high A ballpark, not that surprising.

So you can kind of have to give him a little bit of a pass on that one. But the reason I like you say to so much is that, A, you get him for four years. But B, it's the change up that is his, you know, ultimate weapon. And that is different. We talked a little bit about this from a bullpen perspective, how similar all the Mariners relievers are. It's sink or slider for pretty much all of them. That's the bread and butter.

And, you know, it works. I'm not saying that, you know, that it didn't work. And so they need to go away from it. It just can add some variety to the looks. They're all from a similar arm slot. They all throw 97 to 100 with two seamers and they all have good sliders. So let's mix in a guy who's more, you know, four seam change up or two seam change up even. And let's give, you know, a different look to Bizarro and Brash and Munoz.

And Yseda can do that. And he also misses Batch, which is something this bullpen needs to do more of. So I think Ysena is a really good fit here in Seattle. I think the race would trade him. Four years of club control is not something the race typically like to move, but it's also a bullpen arm. And the raise are more than willing to move bullpen arms, particularly if they can get somebody they think could be an everyday player.

I also think Yusata is the type of guy where a, you know, trading your comp round B-pick could be very appealing to, to a team like the race in particular. And we also know that the raise, the race and the Mariners have a really good relationship. They know each other well. So I do think that this is a good target who would absolutely help the bullpen.

I think he's available. I think he's reasonably cheap in terms of, you know, salary for what he's actually produced value. So I think it makes a good deal sense for Seattle. Now, my question for you, though, is do you consider when you say to a daddy? I think he's more of a dude right now. I think there is ceiling to move up to the next rung, but I would say he's better than Bizarro right now,

probably not quite as good as brash. And obviously, Munoz is the big daddy in the Mariners bullpen right now. But yeah, I do think that he would definitely help. And obviously, again, you know, it's not just so much that you have to add a guy because you're one short. It's you kind of have to add a guy because one of these four guys, who you rode into the ground last year probably going to get hurt or probably not going to be as effective as a result of their usage, which is something Justin Hollander has already alluded to a couple times this winter. So it really is why I think the Mariners need two guys in their bullpen.

And Hollander has kind of alluded to such that they would really like to add two arms, one of the high leverage variety. And they'd also like one of those two arms to be a lefty. And of course, those could both be the same guy as like Eric Clevenger. as that example so but i still think even if they add the even if the high leverage guy they add is a lefty i still think they're going to want to go out and get a yseda-ish uh level uh reliever to go along with it so maybe you get clevenger and yseda in the same deal i don't know

stranger things have happened so uh yeah i think you know i think you say it is a pretty good kid so that wasn't where i expected you to start so uh who's coming in at number four. Ah, yes. A newer member of the obsession club or whatever we're calling them. Brought up to us by a patron about last week. And the more I've dug into it, the more I really like the call. Edmundo Sosa. Yeah. Of the billies. Yes. Now, Alec Bohm is the everyday third baseman. Sosa is more of a part-time player, but he checks a lot.

of boxes that the mariners could really use first things first he is a plus defender at third base and second base and he played shortstop last year as well and he even played a little bit of outfield the mariners do not have the utility man on their team right now right now that that job would probably go to leo rivas which fine i guess but sosa's got one year club control left he's going to make about three and a half million dollars he fills a potential hole all across the infield if cole young comes up and he's not very good Sosa can handle that job until July where you can go out and check. Same goes for third base.

We talked about this role. If you're going to give the young guys opportunities, you have to have a veteran who you feel confident in coming in and handling those spots if the rookies fail. So Sosa is that guy. Oh, by the way, Sosa destroys left-handed pitching. Absolutely destroys it. He's got some pop, 440 slug.

The only thing he doesn't really do is he doesn't walk, like 3% walk rate last year. So, again, he's not a perfect player. That's why he's not an everyday player. But for a team that desperately needs that safety blanket, at second base, at third base in particular, for a team that really needs some thump off the bench, particularly against left-handed pitching,

for a team that needs athleticism and defense added to their bench, SOSA just checks every single box. So I really like the SOSA idea. Yeah. You know, I don't know how available he's going to be, but the Phillies have problems. They need outfield help. They need catching help. They have a lot of problems,

and they're kind of in a weird spot. As a franchise right now, they have a bunch of guys who are going to be free agents, including Sosa. So there might be an opportunity here to either kind of pivot or, you know, this is where like a Luke Rayleigh or a Dominic Canzone could come into play for the Phillies who do need a corner outfielder.

And they've mentioned one in one who hits left-handed. So I do think that there is a reasonable swap to be had there. And Sosa just checks all the boxes. Like I say, he's fast. He's a good defender. He's got power. Crushes left-handed pitching. Can play multiple spots.

And he's only going to make about $3 million. He's Dillan more, only better than Dillam. I wonder if you could attach him to one of the left-handed relievers in a trade, you know, a Strom or an Alvarado or Banks, something like that, make a little bit of a bigger deal. But, yeah, Sosa leans right into what Jerry DePoto was talking about on 710. I think last week or just a few days ago when he was on, I think, with Stacey. That, you know, the more you can do, right? And being able to play multiple positions and bringing guys in that don't necessarily block, you know,

Cole Young and Colt Emerson and Ben Williamson. So they can still give those guys some runway while also protecting themselves. Sosa definitely does that. Yeah, Sosa's argued. arguably the best utility player in baseball. So, and again, he just fits perfectly what the Mariners need from, you know, the guy who crushes lefties to the guy who can give you, you know, a life vest at multiple positions where you plan on going with younger kids. It just, he checks every box. So I think he's a really good fit.

So good, in fact, that he made them my top five. So himudo Sosa and the Phillies in general. Keep an eye on the Phillies and the Mariners. They're not natural trade partners and Dumbrowski's cuckoo for Cocoa Puff sometimes. But he's got some guys he kind of needs to move or wants to move. He doesn't have a ton of money to go out and spend. So the Mariners and some of their cheap talent probably going to be pretty appealing to this ball club. All right.

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It's Colby who's coming in at number three. Yeah, it's time to get back to the oldies, but the goodies. I gave you guys two newish names but some names are so obvious that they're hard to ignore. Is it Yondi? No, not yet. But it is Brennan Donovan

is coming in. So that means someone is not on this list. We'll talk about that later. Okay. Go, go, go. Brennan Donovan. Yes. Brennan Donovan, look, I'm of talking about the guy too.

But he is a really good fit for the Mariners. He can play second. He can play third. He can play left. He is a prototypical leadoff hitter, at least from an on-base percentage standpoint, which the Mariners could sorely use, which pushes Randy down

to the five or the six, depending on if they get polo back or not. You get him for two years. It's a pretty good profile for Team Mobile Park. It's not a guy who relies on power. He's not a guy who relies on gap to gap. power either, and he's incredibly consistent over the last four years. And, you know, he's relatively cheap in terms of his salary. So, you know, as annoying as it is to talk about the guy over and over

and over again and as delusional as, you know, some Cardinals, insiders are about him being worth Brian Wu. The fit is undeniable. It just is the cost going to line up? I don't know, because if there's a real bidding war here, Donovan is not a guy that you, you know go 200 you know 200 cents on the dollar on just yeah you don't pay you don't pay the freight the freight for yeah no like at the right price donovan is is a really good fit for seattle again it just feels or just sounds like at least from you know reputable reports from like passing and and guys like that that there's a lot of teams interested uh my hunches is that the cardinals might play themselves uh they might wait the market trying to get this

ridiculous asking price and then they get to January 15th or February 1st and they still have Rodgers they still have Donovan and they're kind of standing there like oh well because it really doesn't make sense for them to hold on to Donovan and they can sit here and posture and be like oh no we don't have to trade Donovan it's like yeah you don't but you know that the minute he plays a game for you this year his value gets cut like in half on the trade market yeah so you got to be careful about that. Again, I think the offer that Ty and I made in our offseason plan is very aggressive for a player like Donovan. I think it's a fair deal and it is probably the most I'm willing to pay for a guy like Brennan Donovan because as good as he is, he's a three-win player.

Like he's a three-win player. He's not an all-star. You know, he is solid, but he's not spectacular. He has his warts. He doesn't hit left-handed pitching all that well, which you're or all the things you're willing to live with, it's just not something you're willing to live with if it cost you, you know, twice what you think he's worth. He's just not that guy. So Donovan,

very good player, very good fit. But if the Cardinals are going to hold out for a king's ransom, he's just not that interesting to me. Because I think I can go get a close proximity to Donovan and just keep my guys. And then maybe use those assets to go get somebody else that, you know, plays a position I might have more interest in feeling.

or maybe just a flat out better player than Donovan, which does exist out there. Number two, a favorite of mine, Yondi Diaz. There we go. Yes, I know that people don't, people really don't think that him and Randy can coexist, even though it's only for a year because of some vague report that maybe they didn't like each other three years ago or their wives didn't like each other three years ago. It does seem like that is real, but it's, again, like I said last week, when he was he was number one on my list on the fallback options list like just you're professional

baseball players figure it out if you've coexisted before for like two years after that incident they were still on the raise together like you make it work and also like again like i said last week like randy is now like part of the core it's not the same situation as it was two years ago when we're first having this discussion when they when they first brought him at like randy has you know yeah he's like entrenched himself into the clubhouse he's he's you know comfortable there it's not like he's fighting for respect and there's not going to be a faction yeah like yondy's coming into randy's territory right right so yeah and yondy diaz is an incredible hitter absolutely incredible maybe the most underrated player or underrated hitter

I should say in baseball. Dude just rakes. And yeah, he's pretty much a DH only right now, but that's fine. You have that opening. He's incredibly cheap in terms of what he should be making on the market. And the raise can posture all they want about like, oh, we don't have to trade Lao.

Oh, we don't have to trade Diaz. But it's like, you do. You do. Because it's, you're at best, the fourth best team in that division this year. And these guys, Yandi is 34 years old. I don't care of he has two years of club control left. You have Aranda, you have Trey Morgan, you have these young players that you want to play first base and DH and do all these things with.

And Yondi's standing in the way. You're not going to be competitive again, more than likely. During Yondi's tenure, you're going to trade him. Like, it's ridiculous to suggest that you wouldn't. And he's going to cost something because he's a really good hitter. But I'm fine paying that. Yeah. Well, what I think it will cost.

I'm fine paying that because Diaz is a 135, 140 WRC plus bat who, you know, doesn't hit for a ton of home runs, but has. a ton of doubles, hits the ball very hard, does everything you kind of want him to do as a Team Mobile Park, you know, hitter. And he's a right-handed hitter who provides some balance. He probably very likely would be the leadoff guy in this lineup, or he would at least be one of the guys they would consider there. And I only have to deal with him and Randy being together for a year. It's a no-brainer for me. Yandi Diaz, arguably the best hitter who could move this winter, except for, you know, maybe somebody else who's coming up on the list. I mean, Yandi, is who some people think Louisa Rises. Yes. Straight up. Super high average. Like his batting average has punched behind it. Where Luis Rize is just,

his batting average is his batting average. And there's no, like nobody's afraid of Luis Rize coming to the plate. Nobody pitches around Luis Rize because he can't hurt you. He really can't. Yandi Diaz can hurt you. Yeah. So,

yeah, Diaz is. Also, Luza Rize has never gotten on base. at a 400 clip right yondi's done that three times yeah so again uh yondi probably should be your lead off hitter but at the very worst he's hitting two three four in this lineup uh and again it's full-time dh he doesn't block anybody uh even you could even coexist with polo on this roster of polo plays some second base pretty regularly maybe some first base yondi you can rotate those guys through. So like trading for Yondi doesn't even exclude you from going out and getting Jorge Polanco back if you so choose. So, yeah, Yandi to me is is highly underrated. And I think

the one strike against him in the minds of many Mariner fans is highly overrated, which all coincides nicely didn't be number two on my list. So who's number one? I think I have a pretty good guess. Yeah. Number one is. Adoles Garcia free agents do they have to trade for Yeah But no

Number one is Juan Soto Or Francisco Lindo Apparently they are not compatible So they should be traded and separated My guess is Linder is probably the guy traded But no Number one is Ketalmarte

Yeah Of course it is Of course it has to be Like if there is the possibility That could tell Marte is being traded this winter And I think it's going to happen I just I think that's where we're trending I think that's where most people are eventually getting to I just makes no sense for the for the Diamondbacks to let the slinger into him getting his 10 and five rights and then trading him makes it trading him becomes just infinitely more complicated for them and they're going to trade him yeah I just obviously you don't let this much smoke escape your you know your facility if you're not setting the fire you know like very clearly they want him out of here for whatever reason, uh, whether it's the money, whether it is maybe some,

I don't know, attitude issues, which again is weird for a team that literally gave him like three extensions in eight years. Uh, it's a little weird. But, uh, yeah, whatever it is, he's the guy, he's the best hitter who's going to move this winter. Uh, he ages incredibly well, at least he appears to be his profile, ages incredibly well. He still hits the ball extremely hard. He still hits for power. Uh, he gets on. base at a good amount. He's still a decent defender and he should have no problem playing second or third base for the next couple of years. You get him for five years. He's not even making like real money relative to what he's actually worth for another two years. He's making $16 million

this year. And the next year it actually goes down to 12. And then even when it jumps up to the big money, it's like $20 million a year. That's nothing. That's nothing. Not for a player of Marta's caliber. He is just, he's the best hitter on the market. He plays, or he could play two positions that you desperately need filled. You get him for five years. I don't care if he's 32. I don't care if he's making $90 million over those five years. That's a bargain. That is an absolute bargain. You're willing to give Josh Naylor $90 million over five years. Ketal Marte is significantly better than Josh Naylor. So I think it's a no-brainer to me, especially a of the diamond backs are willing to take prospects like they want a prospect heavy package.

That is even a bigger selling point. I'm not letting Ryan Sloan or Michael O'Royo or Cole Young or Las Montes or any combination of the three prevent me from getting the best offensive player that will be moved who happens to play my biggest position of need when I'm trying to win the freaking world series this year. That's not stopping me. the money's not stopping me will it stop the mariners probably if i had to guess unfortunately but it's a no-brainer for me it is an absolute no-brainer uh catel marty should be the number one target horo polanco should be the fallback to katel marty all these guys on the list should be

the fallback to katel marty he's number one with a bullet it's a it's a no-brainer it is an absolute no-brainer for a guy i think is going to get traded for a guy who i think the mariners can work a mostly prospect heavy package out of for a guy with club control, for a guy with production, for a guy who I believe will age very well, for a guy I believe will hit at T-Mobile Park. It's all perfect for Citele. And if any of these things weren't true, like if the money wasn't as big of a problem,

if the years wasn't as big of a problem, the Diamondbacks would not even be entertaining, trading him. So it's a no-brainer. Kital-Marte is the guy that you target this winter. Absolutely. 100%. it's no school I mean like I get it

I get why but like I kind of felt like it would still be on air it's just I don't think he's I just don't think the Mariners are that team yeah yeah I just I look at should they be interested yes of course is there a scenario

where maybe they could get them sure but it involves trading Louise Cassie you'll notice there were no starting pitchers on my top five yeah so you know is there a scenario where they trade Luis maybe in the scuba deal and they they kind of work it that way sure but when I think of scuba I go the red socks are better positioned to get him the Mets are better positioned to get him

they're better position to sign him to an extension the mariner certainly could if they wanted to but we know they won't so yeah so I just added up all those factors and it's just like look scubel love to have them I just don't think it's realistic enough for us to spend that much time on unfortunately but it would be awesome it'd be awesome if they got them that's for sure and maybe just maybe the the estimated prices is being overhyped a little bit as it sometimes can be but you know i just think you know if the tigers really want young pitching i think it's pretty much dead on arrival there from the mayor's respect because they're not giving up george kirby they're not giving up gilbert they're not giving up woo or miller uh and i don't

think that Kate Anderson or Gerangelo Sanja or Ryan Sloan is the type of arm that the tigers are looking for. I think the tigers are looking for Nolan McLean, you know, or Jonah Tongue. Like they're looking for that type of guy. The mayor just don't have that guy. Yet they might next year, but not this winter. And you're listening to the Locktime Marries podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast network, your team every day. As always, if you want to hear from me and Colby even more and help support

the show, we have a Patreon. It's called Control the Zone and on there we talk Mariner, Seahawks, all that good stuff. For more information, go to patreon.com forward slash control the zone. Link in the description of this episode. So there you have it on Colby's top five trade targets for the Marys this winter. Now it's my turn here on Top Five Tuesday. I spent the Ed Helms yesterday on mailbag Monday and landed on top five bullpen entrances in Major League Baseball. So there were a couple of ways that I could have gone about this. I could have done strictly closer entrances. I could have done all time.

I decided to go with just current bullpen entrances because like if I did all time, that would be pretty straightforward. It'd be kind of boring. You know, it would be Mariano. It would be Trevor Hoffman with Hells Bells. It would be, you know, Edwin Diaz, John Duran, on which, spoiler alert, those guys are going to be on this list. But yeah, so I decided to go more modern and that was a little bit of a mistake because,

honestly, I'm like aware of about five bullpen entrances in today's game that actually stand out that are not just music, right? And either there aren't a ton around the league or they're just not well documented because I tried to do some research on this and I couldn't really find many that I wasn't aware of. So admittedly, this is probably not going to be, you know, the definitive top five bullpen entrance list. Maybe it will be. I don't know. Again, I really could only find so many of these things on the internet trying to do research.

So maybe this is the five best bullpen entrances in baseball. But yeah, I don't have any honorable mentions because of that. So we're just going to get. right into the top five starting with number five you got a couple of mariner's on here the first one is andre smonios uh the big reason that it lands on this list uh is that the crowd gets into singing the song pay by i aqua palacea it's it's super catchy the whole crowd gets into it it's dope i love that um number four another mariner matt brash fireman got fireman by little way and plan they go way harder for matt brash's entrance than they do for mooney's frankly

like they got the the lights going around the stadium the siren going off they have a spotlight on on matt as he walks to the mound or as he jogs to the mound like it's just it goes way harder the mooney's entrance at least from the clips that i saw and again you know i i haven't been to teemobile park since i was 12 years old so these you know i have to experience these on clips how about that yeah no reason for Tide to come to Seattle apparently but

yeah I don't know I guess that kind of fits though because like Munoz is so quiet that like sure I mean I guess Brash is pretty quiet too though so Brash is pretty quiet yeah yeah but can we come up with a new nickname

for the bullpen by the way you don't like the Barros no like I get what they're going for but it's just like the fireman like it's kind of lame honestly I like the nickname

specifically for Matt Brash he really is the fireman because like we've talked about this if you need a strikeout who are you going to like if it's basis loaded one out you need a strikeout you are going to Matt Brash sure just you know also sometimes

Brash carries a can of gasoline with him so firemen fire starter oh no i accidentally put gasoline in the water tank yeah it's it's he mostly gets it right he mostly gets it right to be fair but uh i don't know i just am not wild about the nickname like has there ever been a good nickname for an entire bullpen like i can't think it like there's no like monsters of the midway or or the purple people eaters or the steel no legion of boom yeah there's none of that for like a like nobody's come up with that for a bullpen

if you're going to come up with it for a unit like it would probably be a bullpen unit in baseball so coming up next week on top five Tuesday top five bullpen nicknames yes the arm barn yeah

yeah no there's just like I look this up there's like nicknames for you know specific pitchers obviously yeah like relievers sure like an entire bullpen yeah I don't know are we tripping Let us know in the comments.

Like, are we missing something here? Is there a Legion of Boom or Steel Curtin? Can we just like completely like for an elite bullpen? Sometimes I'm like, oh yeah, I don't remember that. And then like I get off the show and I'm like, oh, yeah, that thing. What? Maybe, maybe. So, yeah, I don't know.

Maybe we're being stupid right now. But yeah, let us know in the comments below. Like in hockey. Like in hockey, they have like names for the lines, the different line changes. So like, it's not like. unheard of and other sports to have like a specific nickname for a group of players not just an individual player so i don't know maybe it's just not a baseball thing for any group but uh i mean i guess like the million dollar infield way back in the 1910s the philadelphia athletics

like i guess that was the thing the core four i guess for the yankees kind of but like that wasn't for a unit that was just for four individual players so yeah whatever let us know anyways It's number three. Yeah. So coming in at number three is Yohan Duran, whose entrance went super viral once he was traded to Philly because they made it even better than it was in Minnesota. Pretty good in Minnesota. Yeah, it was pretty good in Minnesota too, but they made it even better in Philly.

They cut out the lights. They got the bells going. And then the fire graphics and the spider crawling around and all that. And the crowd gets into the song. It's really cool. it's it's like and especially like the first time they played it and he comes out and he has a four pitch save like sick that's that's super sick and i'm i'm very salty that uh the marrists didn't get that trade across because they really there there would have been three mariners on this list today

you really thought they had it yeah yeah uh coming in at number two is one that i'm not sure how many people are familiar with um because i couldn't even really find much about it online but it's one that I've experienced in person multiple times over at the Rogers Center this year. It's Jeff Hoffman's bullpen entrance, which is crazy because Jeff Hoppin didn't have a particularly good year, but he has a sick entrance. And it combines like two of my favorite things, Marvel and Kid Cutty. He has one of the best Cutty songs ever, which is alive from Man on the Moon one. And his whole thing is like Thanos, right? So he's on the big screen in the middle. in center field

looking like Thanos and on the video boards around the stadium the infinity stones like circle around it's super dope and it's super colorful

and everyone turns their phone lights on it's really cool to be in the middle of it's a dope intro yeah Thanos famous for winning every time

it's like naming your defense the Red Sea it got parted it got parted right down the middle yeah no wonder they haven't won anything uh coming into number one uh this is obvious you know it's that when he is it's timid do i need to say anything more like is it timmy or that it was tommy no it's timmy trumpet i always thought it was tommy trumpet

but it's iconic yeah it's like what is the song called narco yeah I think so yeah it is probably I would say argue the second most iconic closer entrance in history behind only Mariano so yeah yeah and Mariano didn't even pitch really in an era where they had like the special light show was just the aura and the vibe of him entering the game that really uh sold that thing so like yeah speaking of like classic ones i know people are going to be like where's brian hellsley's ryan hellsley basically did uh or basically does um Trevor Hoffman's tells bells and i get it hellsley hells bells i i understand like it fits him pretty well but still like it's basically Trevor Hoffman's entrance so i didn't put it all there yeah my my favorite my favorite closer entrance and again it wasn't even like in the era where they did big productions

for it. JJ Putz used to come onto the field to Thunderstruck by ACDC and that was awesome because like they'd like cut the lights when the thunder like the lightning hit or whatever and they're like no that's cool and I just think now like man what have they had

the LEDs and the 90 foot scoreboard and like all the stuff they can do Fernando Rodney's too. That one's always fun for me. By the way, Fernando Rodney for the top 50 Mariners of all time. We're going to be talking about that later this week

because there's no way the marriage are giving us enough content not to talk about that this week. Yeah, no. Maybe tomorrow even. Yeah, we might be filling out our top 50 Mariners ballot on the show here in the next day or two. So look forward to that. But there you go. That's my top five bullpen entrances.

Again, there weren't many. for me to personally choose from. It's not like an archive out there. Like what is Mason Miller's? How is Mason Miller not in the top five? Like if it was good, we would see it. Like I saw his from San Diego and it's not really much of anything. You know, like I searched up like some of the best relievers in baseball.

I was just like, you know, uh, Abner Uribe bullpen entrance, like type that into YouTube. Nothing came up. Mason Miller bullpen entrance like of YouTube short came up and it sucked so yeah I don't know maybe his is actually solid in the video I watched just sucks but you can't do bullpen interest interest interest entrances at day games they just don't work in daylight yeah that's the other thing too unless you got to be close yeah they work okay with the roof clothes but like no it just by the way I would I would say that specifically about Jeff Hoffman's like that's like that's That does not work at all when the roof is open. But when the roof is closed, it's great. It's sick. There you go. So it has to be a very specific setting as well.

But yeah, there you go. Top five bullpen entrances. All right. Let's get out of here. That's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Locktime Marrars podcast. Part of the Locktime Podcast network, your team every day for Colby Patnode. I'm Tadeng Azalas.

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