Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - 5 Relievers the Seattle Mariners Should TARGET as Bullpen Search Continues | Top 5... Wednesday?

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

It's Top 5 Tuesday... on a Wednesday! Ty lists his top-five reliever targets for the Seattle Mariners as they continue to look for more bullpen help while Colby tells you his five favorite hats in min...or-league baseball.Click to learn more about the Everydayer Club!Check out our Patreon!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11Follow the show on Bluesky: @lockedonmariners | @tdg | @mlbcolbySupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. The NBA and NFL seasons are here, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Even after acquiring Jose Ferrer this past weekend, the Mariners are still looking for bullpen help. I'll give you my top five reliever targets 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. Ahoy, Sailors, it is Wednesday, December 10th, 2025. you're listening to the Lockdown Marriss podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Now the number one sports podcast network. My name is Tiding Azales, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-coast, Colby Patnode.
Starting point is 00:00:38 We're two lifelong Marys fans who've been covering the team for over half a decade. And today, it's top five Wednesday, which really doesn't roll off the tongue as well as top five Tuesday. But I'll be giving you my top five bullpen targets for the mayor as well. Colby will list his top five minor league hats. The Rule 5 draft is also going to kick off while we're recording this. I think it's actually kicking off right this second. So we'll also react to the mayor's selection, you know, if they make one. And we'll see if anything else breaks from the winter meetings while we're on here.
Starting point is 00:01:07 Probably not last day of the winter meetings. Usually nothing happens around this time. It's usually the Rule 5 draft and then everyone goes home. But also Pete Alonzo just signed with the Orioles. So who knows? Before we get into the show, 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 FanDuel.com and place your NFL live bets. season long so top five reliever targets for the Mariners after acquiring Jose
Starting point is 00:01:34 for rare Jerry depoto the other night telling the media that they still want to add at least one more proven reliever to the bullpen specifically mentioned the free agent veterans so that's who mostly occupies this list but I did want to give a you know a couple of other options as well so we'll get into that but for the most part free agent vets should be pretty straightforward um i don't really have honorable mentions i'll say that pete fairbanks isn't on this list uh because i think he's probably going to make too much and get too many years or shame so yeah anyway uh all right let's start with number five hunter harvey uh so this is me kind of giving you like a different option um you know a bounce back guy
Starting point is 00:02:25 probably shouldn't cost a ton. He missed most of 2025 due to injury, had a shoulder thing, which a little concerning and then a groin thing, but it does sound like he should be good to go for opening day. He's had some issues,
Starting point is 00:02:40 giving him hard contact in the past. I think he was literally like first percentile on hard hit rate against in 2024. But what I'm looking for here is strikeouts. He's averaged over a strikeout per inning in each of his four real seasons and the majors, primarily a four-seamer splitter approach. He does have two breaking balls, though, that he uses occasionally,
Starting point is 00:03:02 but it's mostly four-samer-splitter. You know, he throws gas. Again, he gets strikeouts. The mayor has need more of that. And he probably, again, like I said, he's probably not going to Costa tan. It'll be a one-year, prove-a-deal. And as your six-best reliever, that's a shot I'd absolutely take.
Starting point is 00:03:20 I also kind of feel like they might have had interest in him back when he was a national. I feel like maybe we actually heard something about that, but I don't know. He just kind of screamed Mariner to me back when he was with the Nationals. Sure. You know, he does throw from a higher arm slot than the Mariners typically covet. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Starting point is 00:03:40 You know, we know that the Mariners like their low three-quarter sinker slider dudes. And Harvey is more over the top forcing split, which is, again, not a bad thing. It's a different look than what that. the Mariners are accustomed to throwing out there. But as we saw in the playoffs, you know, if you throw, if you have four guys who all throw from the same arm angle and they all throw sinker sliders, like, and then they all pitch
Starting point is 00:04:06 four or five times against the same team in a six, seven day span, they get easier and easier to hit the more you see them. So it would be nice to see some variation. So four seam split guy makes a lot of sense. I look at Harvey and I say, you know, this would be a really nice topper on the end of a good postseason like if we get to you know February and he's still floating out there and it's like hey you want two and a half million three million dollars with some incentives to come in and push Carlos Vargas fine I wouldn't love him as like the second guy but as like a third guy as like a bonus guy like kind of like Ryan Stanick a few years ago like I think that would be a really nice shot to take obviously Stanick was a little different because of that point Matt Brash you know was things weren't looking great and So they kind of had to pivot there. But I don't think Harvey's going to sign all that quick.
Starting point is 00:04:57 Again, there's a chance he's available around the time spring training starts. And if he's the third guy or if he's like a bonus guy, then I would be willing to throw a couple million bucks at him, see if he, see if you can figure something out. Because I do like the look and you have to like the fastball. It is a pretty good pitch. Coming in at number four, Tyler Rogers. We've talked about Rogers a bit since Adam Jude reported the mayors were doing. some digging on him true submarine delivery and uh you know it would be a very different look for any bullpen let alone the mirrors uh gets a lot of silly swings uh because of the delivery
Starting point is 00:05:34 uh but they're more like defensive swings that fell off pitches rather than actual whiffs um it's elite ground ball and weak contact rates uh we've talked about how that you know isn't necessarily the best match uh for this mares defense but even then you know this profile while pitching most of the time in team mobile park could be murder on opposing headers like he legit it might post like a sub 1-5 ERA pitching in T-Mobile Park. So fun profile to think about in this bullpen, though, it's possible the years of the money he asked for just winds up being too much for the marineries. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:09 I think Rogers is a guy who might end up getting three years guaranteed, at which point I think the Mariners are out. I don't even know if they'd have that much interest in him in two years. He doesn't miss bats, which is, you know, kind of Ferrer doesn't miss enough bats. right now obviously we think that could change but so there is some kind of like hey how much value you're really placing on ground balls when you have one of the worst defensive infields in baseball at least on paper after last year uh but the unique factor like the the different look thing like
Starting point is 00:06:42 it doesn't get any more unique than tyler rogers or taylor rogers which one is it i always get it's tyler taylor is the lefty okay so yeah good job parents um i mean I mean, he did raise two major leaguers, but also, yeah. So, yeah, I don't mind the idea. I think, like, he's a very good reliever. Don't get me wrong. He's very consistent as well. I don't love that he's not a swing and miss guy.
Starting point is 00:07:08 And if he is the second guy you bring in who's also not swing and miss, then I do have concerns about that because that was an issue for the Mariners, particularly in the first half last year before Brash really got going, before Bizarro kind of started to find his strikeout pitch. So that'd be a little concerning. but you can't deny the production. Rogers is very good. And again,
Starting point is 00:07:28 it doesn't get more unique in a delivery than what Rogers gives you. So you have to be interested. And I do think that makes sense. And also, you know, not that this matters a ton, it would be fun to have a submariner. Like,
Starting point is 00:07:40 you haven't had that in a long time. So, yeah. Uh, maybe ever. Yeah, I mean, like,
Starting point is 00:07:46 he drags his knuckles on the mountain. Yeah. It's, you know, that's the Chad Bradford thing. Yeah. Um, the mayor's had plenty of,
Starting point is 00:07:53 That wasn't Steve Seashag. Like he wasn't doing that. He was like a true sidearm, low sidearm guy. But yeah, so it'd be fun. The money I'm a little concerned about, I think it might end up being a little too expensive. But if it is, the Mariners will just back off. Like, they're not going to overpay for Rogers, I don't think. And again, you want to talk about just a different look who's pretty good against lefties and righties.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Then Rogers is kind of that guy. And he can kind of fill like every role. Like he can get a save opportunity. and you feel okay about it, you can come in and, you know, the sixth and be the bridge guy when the starter has to leave, he can get some high leverage outs, like, she's not a guy you want to put out there with like runners on second and third and one out, you know, where you need a strike out. You're up by one.
Starting point is 00:08:38 So don't love it. Certainly don't hate it. So, yeah, Rogers would be a fun ad to say the least. All right. We'll go over my top three reliever targets in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Locked-on Airs podcast is brought to you by FanDuel and doer. NFL Sundays move fast.
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Starting point is 00:11:41 but we had to push it because we wanted to talk about some winter media and stuff yesterday. Doing my top five reliever targets for the Mariners because they're still looking to add bullpen help and it seems like they're looking to add significant bullpen help. So let's get back into this list.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Coming in at number three is Matt Strom. I will not quit him, even though it seems very unlikely. Strom is on here mostly to make a point. And that point is you can absolutely have three lefties in your bullpen, especially if we're talking about a guy who gets righties out, even better than he gets lefties out. And that's what Strom does.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Now, do I think they're going to trade more assets for another reliever, specifically to Dave Dombrovsky. No, but Strom is my favorite reliever who's seemingly available. He's only making $7.5 million this year. And if the Marys did get him, this bullpen would be insane. It would be nuts. And we know the Marys have done some digging on him. That's probably over now after the Ferrer trade, but I don't think it should be,
Starting point is 00:12:43 at least not because of the handedness. Yeah, Strom is really good. we've talked about this. And, you know, the mayors have said they wanted two lefties. That's fine. But you could have three lefties and have a very good bullpen. The Astros had four lefties, I think, and they're a bullpen. And you can do that if your lefties can also get righties out.
Starting point is 00:13:00 And while Spire and Ferrer are better against lefties, spire can get righties out. Ferrer, some work to do there. Not this past year, but, yeah, we'll see. But he certainly has his stuff to do it. Like, Strom is actually better against Rides than he is. lefties. And again, you talk about just versatility. He can literally be the opener.
Starting point is 00:13:24 He could probably give you three innings if you really need them to. And he could close out games with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth. Like he can do all of that. He's going to cost, you know, a pretty penny in terms of prospect capital. I mean, but he might be worth it. Like he is a game changer. He is the bullpen daddy. We've been talking about for the last month or so.
Starting point is 00:13:46 And again, is it likely? that they can get something done. No, it's not. But, you know, the Phillies, they just resign Schwerber. They've talked about wanting to move some of these rentals as they have bigger, you know, dollar figures coming onto the books in the next couple of years. So I definitely would be still, you know, talking to the Phillies about it. It's just really hard to do anything with Dombrowski because, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:09 he's not the most reasonable guy in the world. It is a tough needle to thread if you are the, if you are the Phillies, because you definitely have to compete, especially with the way the Mets are kind of moving right now. But it's also, you know, at some point you're running out of room, so to speak. So, by the way, the Marriors did not make a selection in the Rule 5.
Starting point is 00:14:30 So there you go. There you go. All right. So we'll see if maybe any Mariners get taken, though. Yep. Tyler Cleveland, maybe. Michael Morales. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Yeah, 15 Labrano. So we'll see. Okay. So coming in on number two on my list. Sean Armstrong. He's probably the most likely of the five guys on this list to actually land with Merrers. We know they were interested in Phil Maeton before he signed with the Cubs.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Armstrong's probably going to get a similar deal to Maiton, who got two and 14 and a half from the Cubs. Armstrong, former Mariner, so they know him. It doesn't get a ton of whiffs overall, but he does get a ton on his four seamer. 34.5% this year, 33.7% last year. average exactly a strikeout per inning in 2025. It doesn't keep the ball on the ground much, but he does limit hard contact,
Starting point is 00:15:23 91st percentile and hard hit rate this year. He'd be a really nice ad to fortify the bullpen. What do you think about Armstrong? Yeah, I like him. I mean, it's fastball cutter heavy, which is nice and it's a little different than what you have right now. And he's a veteran, he's been around the block.
Starting point is 00:15:41 He understands the roles, and he could probably fill. any of them in a pinch. Again, you know, he's, I would like him a lot better as the second dude, but the Mariners would probably tell me that, like, well, he is because Ferrer is, is the big dog. And it's like, they think forer as a, they think Ferrer as a daddy. Yeah. And it's like, I mean, I could see why you would think that, but the results are the results.
Starting point is 00:16:10 You are not the father yet. um so yeah i i don't love that but i like that um there you go that that's the new segment next week daddy or not and we're just going to play the the morey uh clip but anyways um yeah i don't i would love uh for armstrong to be the second guy they bring in but yeah you know again they would tell me well he is but like you guys know what i mean like i think armstrong is dog than just a dude, but he's not, you know, the big dog or he's not a daddy. So it would be an interesting move, though, certainly. And it is a little bit different than what you have.
Starting point is 00:16:52 So I'm down. I'm okay with it. Armstrong's pretty darn good reliever. And you need as many good arms in your bullpen as you can possibly find. Yeah. Then coming in at number one, there should be no surprise, especially if you watched, I think it was yesterday's episode that we talked about him. Luke Weaver, another former mariner. I think the M's just love him and they're kicking themselves over letting him go back in
Starting point is 00:17:15 2023 after seeing what he wound up doing for the Yankees. But they have the money in theory to bring him back into the fold. And we've talked about the mayor is needing more guys who miss bats. Well, Weaver finished in the 91st percentile in Chase and 89th percentile on whiff rate. The changeup specifically produced a 44% width rate in 2025. This to me is the guy with a cat. capital TNG, but there are a couple of potential hangups here. One, obviously the money and the years he might command, but two,
Starting point is 00:17:48 there might be teams who might be interested in putting him back in the rotation, and maybe that's his preference. Maybe he wants to go back to being a start. I don't know. I don't know the guy, obviously, but that might be his preference. And if teams come calling about that, then maybe that's what he ultimately focuses on him, prefers there. So we'll see.
Starting point is 00:18:06 But again, if it's realistic, they can get him. he's the clear number one guy for me for what they need again it's just tons of whiffs tons of chases it's gonna get strikeouts you know he gives me another guy on top of matt brush like if i need a strikeout if i need whiffs like if i'm in a situation where it's first and third one out or bases loaded one out i need a strike out desperately and maybe i've already burned brash then i can go to weaver here or vice versa sure uh weaver also different look out of the bowl and he's more straight over the top. And it is, you know, four-seem change-up.
Starting point is 00:18:44 The change-up is really good, and that is his primary out pitch. And that's different than the two-seam and the slider look, which, again, I feel like we've talked about a lot. You guys get it by now, but if you don't, you know, maybe this is your first time listening. When you have so many guys throwing from the same arm slot and they have roughly the same arsenals, it's pretty easy to pick up, especially in the playoffs, because you don't, you're playing these guys more than three days in a row. And in the regular season,
Starting point is 00:19:10 the three-game series, you might pitch only once in that series. And so they don't really get a good look at you. So a team might only see you twice over the course of six months. But when you play in the playoffs, they'll see you four or five times in the course of a week. And so it's easier to hit. So you want the different arm slots in the Mariners,
Starting point is 00:19:27 just didn't really have that last year. Weaver would definitely give them that. And it would, again, give them a change-up out pitch in the bullpen, which right now most of the outpitch is in the Mariners' bullpen. or sliders and this would be something different and you know to be fair for rare his best swing and miss pitch his most promising pitch is probably the change up as well so we're going to get into colby's top five minor league hats in just a moment but first reminder of this episode of
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Starting point is 00:21:30 For more information, go to patreon.com forward slash control the zone link in the description of this episode. No show tomorrow will be back Friday. I don't know if that's going to be fan fiction Friday. We might just talk more about, you know, stuff from the winter meetings. We'll see if, you know, the mayors do anything, what have you. If there's any more reports about what they're getting up to, you know, Jerry DePoto yesterday on MLB Network saying that they would like to add a bat within the next seven days. So it's possible something can pop off at any point here in the next week. So maybe something happens on Friday.
Starting point is 00:22:09 So not sure exactly what the show will be on Friday, but that will be our next show here on lockdown. So again, no show tomorrow. Before we get into Colby's top five minor league hat list, what's going on with the Rule 5? Marys didn't take anyone. Did anyone take any Mariners? Well, unfortunately right now,
Starting point is 00:22:32 Twitter is down or something so I can't load any post but at last check they were getting ready to enter round two of the rule five and then after that it'll be the minor league portion no mariners have been selected as of yet it looks like the MLB portion is over so minor league portion has started and I assume the merits will make a couple picks there
Starting point is 00:22:59 they usually do will they yeah will they be consequential probably not so probably don't need to know about that anyway all right top five speaking of minor leagues top five minor league hats uh colby
Starting point is 00:23:14 uh and uh you know we we talked about this on Monday when uh you spend the ad homes and got this that like it doesn't matter if the club is defunct or not just have some fun I know you're a big minor league hat guy so I am indeed I am indeed
Starting point is 00:23:30 So, you know, I, the trick, the tricky thing with minor league hats is that there are so many, like, variations and so many, like, theme hats and all that. Yeah. It's impossible to list all the ones that are great. And this is the one area where minor league baseball has it so much better at the major league baseball. The hats are so much better in minor league baseball. And that's because they're allowed to have fun with, like, design and whatnot. So just know if I don't list your favorite or if it's not in the honorable mentions or whatever, I'm sure it's a great hat. I don't mean any disrespect.
Starting point is 00:24:02 It's just there's only so many we can talk about on a 30-minute show and there's only so many that I can think of off the top of my head. And I was able to think of all these off the top of my head so quickly, I didn't do any more research into it because I figured like, hey, these came to my mind first. So they're going to be on this list. I'm sure. And to be clear,
Starting point is 00:24:20 these are minor league like teams that were at least affiliates of major league teams. Like there's no like Portland Pickles or anything like that, right? No. I don't think so. Yeah. I'm pretty sure these are all affiliated minor league baseball teams or were at some point. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:36 So some honorable mentions, the Everett Aqua Sox with the E kind of shaped like a Trident, that one specifically. I don't know if Ty's going to have time to throw pictures of these up on that. No. You will have to Google or use your imagination.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Unfortunately, today I'm kind of running up against the clock, so I won't be able to edit as I usually do. Right. The Durham Bowles, just the classic blue with the... yeah you know the bowl poking through the uh the d with the uh orange uh outline uh the rocket city trash pandas great hat love that hat the trash organization literally but great hat uh the albuquerque isotopes it's very it's very on the nose that the ashras would have the trash pandas as their minor league affiliate before the whole incident too so like yeah yeah uh the albuquerque isotopes
Starting point is 00:25:24 classic yep just classic uh and then like every single every single Cinco de Mayo variation oh they're so good they're so good they're so good they're so I can't list them all so like every single one of them is is on my honorable mention so there you go all right so coming in at number five obviously little biased here but the Tacoma rainiers have great hats including the one I'm wearing but their best hat is actually the alternate salmon cap, which is just a white panel, red panels all around with the salmon leaning on the bat. It's perfect. I don't have it yet.
Starting point is 00:26:03 I want to get it. I'm waiting for it to go on sale. It might never go on sale because it's such an awesome hat. Everybody wants it. So I might just have to bite the bullet and buy it. But I love the Tacoma Rainier's alternate cap. This one I love. I don't think they've worn it.
Starting point is 00:26:17 This is definitely like a specialty hat. I honestly don't know if they've wore this for a game or not, but I love that. The Somerset Patriots. Jersey diners steak and eggs hat if you don't know it is yeah I don't think I'm saying this one maybe this is the one you could throw up on the screen because it's pretty unique but the piece of bacon is shaped like the state of new jersey uh and it is fantastic uh oh that is awesome yeah I love this hat again I don't know they actually wore these in games or this was just like but it's awesome it is an awesome hat it is a diner it is literally you know a plate of
Starting point is 00:26:53 eggs and a piece of bacon and the bacon is shaped like the state of new jersey it's incredible stuff i didn't say some of your eggs and bacon all of your eggs and bacon i know what i'm about son so yeah again i don't know if that one is ever worn or whatever i know it's not their primary but it is an incredible hat and i would love to own it uh coming up next year at number three it's the modesto nuts look you may not exist anymore, but the Modesto Nuts hat is iconic. And so it is going to be number three. It's an awesome name. It was an awesome affiliate for the Mariners for, I don't know how many years now. And I'm sad that Modesto isn't going to have minor league baseball anymore. So while you
Starting point is 00:27:40 don't have minor league baseball, you do have the number three spot on the best minor league hats list. So, you know, you have that going for you at least. Number two, the Lehigh Valley iron bacon or iron pigs bacon hat is number two I have that hat it's at home on my hat wall like it is awesome you're wearing it a few times on the show
Starting point is 00:28:06 yeah yeah it's awesome it's funny it works well with the theme of the team the iron pigs it is just a fun hat it's very minor league baseball which I love so that one is always going to be a really special one for me and then the next
Starting point is 00:28:23 one. I believe this is technically a batting practice hat. Number one, I believe this is a batting practice hat. And Ty, you might have to look this up. Okay. The Akron Rubber Ducks batting practice hat is incredible. It's very simple, but it's clean. It looks great. It exemplifies minor league baseball and the color scheme. Pretty marinary. So, you know, it's hard not to like that old school. You guys know how much I love the late 80s mariner uniforms. Yeah. This color scheme representative of that. So that probably plays a role in it.
Starting point is 00:29:00 But there you go. The rainier, salmon cap, the Somerset, Patriots, Jersey, diner, steak, and eggs. A hat. Number four, Modesto Nuts, number three, the Lehigh Valley, Iron Pigs, Bacon hats, number two. And the Akron Rubber Docks batting practice hat. Number one in minor league baseball. Again, shout out to all the crazy theme hats, especially the same. Cinco de Mayo hats. They always crush
Starting point is 00:29:24 those. Those are always fun to look at. And there are just so many great minor league caps that I would love to have them all. But unfortunately, I didn't win the lottery. And these hats go for still 35 to 40 bucks a pop. So, you know, I'd love to have more. But minor league hats are awesome. And I'd love
Starting point is 00:29:44 I'd love to see you. I'd love to see you in Cooperstown trying to decide what to spend your money on. All right. That is going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marrars podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day for Colby Patnode. I'm Teddick Gonzalez.
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