Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - BREAKING: Mariners Sign Mitch Garver to Two-Year, $24 Million Contract

Episode Date: December 25, 2023

The Mariners have reportedly signed World Series champion Mitch Garver to a two-year, $24 million contract, per Jeff Passan of ESPN. Ty and Colby offer up their initial reactions to the deal, including how Garver might fit in the lineup, what some of the concerns are with Garver, and what's ultimately next for Seattle.Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!FanDuelScore early this NFL season with FanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.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) 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.

Merry Christmas Mariners fans. And let me be the first to say, chills. We have our first big signing of the offseason Mitch Garver on a two-year $24 million deal, according to Jeff Pass on a VSPN. Let's talk about it. Colby, hit it. You are locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast.

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This is now the biggest contract. The Mariners have signed a position player too in the Jerry Depoto era, which that's a whole another conversation. Garber, of course, is fresh off winning the World Series with the Texas Rangers, whom he was with since 2022. He played his first five years in Minnesota, was drafted by the twins, of course. This year, he slashed 273-7,750-500. with 19 home runs and 50 REI over the course of 87 games played.

It was worth 2.1 wins per fan graphs. He can catch a little bit, but he's mostly a DH. Value here is almost entirely in his bat. And the Mariners get some of the offense they desperately, desperately need. They're not done. They're not done for sure. This only puts a dent into what they need, but it certainly helps. It's Colby.

Your reactions to the deal? I guess we're not the Oakland A's after all. I guess we're not starting the rebuild all over again. We were slowly but surely seeing them turn into the Oakland athletics right before our eyes, Colby. Sure, sure. A little bit of hyperbole, but not much if you look at some of the comments we get. But overall, you know, at, let's just start at the base level. And this is something we can all agree on.

The Seattle Mariners are a better baseball club today than they were yesterday, which makes this a good signing. I'm not doing backflips over there. This isn't like, oh, my God, they're going to the World Series. There are concerns, which we'll get into. Sure. Sure. We'll get into that later.

But when you look at what Garver is, he is a guy who has hit essentially every year of his career to some degree. There are a few, you know, he has a few bumps in the road. But this is a guy who last year in particular really hit the ball hard. He barreled it up a lot. He walks a ton. He doesn't chase. Last year, 98% of it. tile and chase percentage.

Understands what the strike zone is. Now, strikeouts, a bit of a concern. But when you consider that Tay Oscar and Mike Ford were kind of primary D.H. last year and they both struck out 31% of the time, give or take. You look at what Garber's done the last few years, 24.7, 23.8%. Walk rate pretty consistently between 10 and 12%. He hits the ball hard. There's some good pull power here.

He's a good hitter. I don't think that any, I don't think you can take anybody seriously who would try to sell you on the idea that Mitch Garber is a below average hitter, that he's just an okay bat. He's a legitimate hitter. So that is a good, good sign here.

You're wondering how the bat, how the power plays at, at T-Mobile. Last year he would have hit 22 home runs, same as he hit in Texas. There's a lot of bright red in his, stat cast profile, which is obviously a good sign. So this is a guy who 32, 33 years old has started to kind of explode as an offensive threat. Again, there are some concerns here, the age, the durability and all of that.

But overall, Mitch Garber is a good hitter, who is more of a line drive hitter, who does have significant pull power. The power will play fine in Seattle, you know, not quite as well as Jorge Saler, but it's dead pole power. He's going to be fine at the play. I think ideally you'd like him hitting fifth or sixth for you and a good lineup. But again, this is a good hitter. He helps.

There are concerns, which is why we're not doing backflips. Every free agent has red flags, right? Garvers are a little bit easier to see. So on top of all that, he absolutely smokes lefties. but he's more than good. He's more than capable against right-handed pitching as well.

This isn't a platoon guy that you have to worry about. So Garber, it's a good signing. I was a little worried that Seattle, in desperation, to get one of these DHS would go and try and offer like a third year to somebody like Garber, and you don't want to give Garver a third year. I was worried the AAV might get out of control a little bit. This is a two-year, $24 million deal, $12 million AAB. That's fine.

I wouldn't be shocked at all. if this was backloaded a little bit, maybe it's $10 million this year, $14 million next year, to try and ease some concerns. And, you know, it doesn't seem like a big deal to, you know, Seattle only gave him 12. And we thought maybe he would have to get $15 is the $3 million is really that big of a deal. Well, it accounts for perhaps as much as 10% of Cherry Topoto's entire budget. So, yeah, every million dollars you can shave here or there, unfortunately, is going to matter. So I like Garber.

It's a good fit. It's not a home run signing. It's not, you know, it's not, we're going to the World Series. You still have a lot of work to do. This isn't the final piece.

It can't be the final piece. But overall, again, at the end of the day, and this is the most important thing we'll say, the Seattle Mariners are a better baseball team today than they were yesterday. Right. And everything else.

Yeah. I mean, again, there's lots to debate. Nobody's saying this is the perfect player. Yeah, but what cannot be denied, Mitch Garver helps the Seattle Mariners.

Cool. Period. End of story. I am a bit surprised that they were able to send him to this deal without given that extra third year, without given a bit more in terms of the AAV. Obviously, I don't know what other teams were offering Garver, what other offers he had on the table, what those conversations were like behind the scenes, and we never will. But we know what the reputation of, you know, is of Seattle,

especially for right-handed hitters who are signing, you know, more shorter-term deals. and Garber, despite some of the red flags here that we'll, again, we'll go over a little bit later on in this show, he's one of the better hitters on the market. So I'm pretty surprised with the valuation of this contract and the structure of this contract and that the Marines were able to get this thing done. So I think this is a major win for the Mariners, just from that standpoint. Right. Garber's, you know, they're getting him for his age 33 and 34 seasons. You know, he's obviously a, mostly a power-reliant right-handed hitter. But we're talking about power that should be able to translate to T-Mobile Park pretty well. Park factors had him at 22 home runs at T-Mobile Park.

He hit 19 this year overall. So that's above what he did this year. So that's good. That means essentially that his power will, especially his over-the-wall power should play up at T-Mobile Park. It's mostly pull power. And as long as he can stay to his pull side with that power, he should be good to go.

And he should be good for, you know, if he can play 100 games for just the second time in his career, that's a big if, and again, we'll get into that. But if he can play that often, then he should be good for 20 to 25 home rides. Again, this makes the Mariners better. And I would say significantly than they were.

day ago and then they were a couple hours ago. So going from Sam Haggertie to Mitch Garvey's, your primary DH is an upgrade. Yeah, yeah, I know. I know, kind of a hot take, I know, but, uh, that's, that's what locked on once, you know, they want us to make big, bold proclamations. So, uh, yeah, 318 WRC plus improve the Mariners. Mitch Garver better than Sam Harriety.

You heard it here first on Lockdown Marries. I mean, like, that's some flamethrower language. which we better be careful. I'm bringing the heat on Christmas. All right. Let's get more into this signing in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown, Mary's podcast is brought to you by Fandul.

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Well, he's 33 years old. That is typically not a time when players accelerate their career. it's when they tend to start to slow down. There are exceptions to that rule, most notably Nelson Cruz. So how you guys know about that? Mitch Garber is Nelson Cruz confirmed. Sure. We can confirm he's better than Sam Haggardie,

but we can't confirm that he isn't back Nelson Cruz, but maybe, maybe. No, that's what you just said. You just said that he's Nelson Cruz. All right, take another sip of your grown-up juice and quiet down. Yeah, yeah. Maybe working a longer and, time while you're at it.

So, yeah, 33 years old, obviously that's a concern. You don't want to ideally be paying for somebody's age 33 and 34 season. But, you know, that's just part of the risk. The other part is he can catch once in a while. It's not something you want him to do. You know, he's not awful. I would say he's probably still about as good as Tom Murphy. But obviously, the more you catch him.

the bigger risk he gets hurt and you're paying for the bat. So you don't want him to catch a ton maybe 20 games a year, maybe 30. And then obviously he's going to be the primary DH. So his lack of defensive versatility is a bit of a red flag, although he does have some because again, he can manage for a game or two be on the plate. He does have some experience playing first base. So you can kind of put him in the field.

every once in a while. He's not J.D. Martinez, where he is just a D.H. But that is a concern. You have to work around that. Then the biggest one is clearly his availability is an issue. He's never had 400 played appearances in a season. I don't think he's gotten to 400. I think he's topped out in the 380s. I think he's only played in 100 games once in his entire career. Your hope would be, your sincere hope would be, is that by taking catching pretty much off his plate entirely and just sticking him as the primary DH, that that, that, will help him play more games, but it kind of hasn't. This is kind of the first year where he didn't really play defense at all.

And he still only played 89 games. So we have to see, you know, the Mariners load management is, is interesting. It does, I personally would treat Garber as if he is the third catcher. Like, you're not, you're not, you know, DFA and Sebi Savala because you have Mike Napoli as your backup. No, Seby is the backup. Mike Napoli. Sorry.

Well, they're very similar players. I think that's getting into your next point, right? This could be Mike Napoli in theory, which we've talked about in the past. Right. Mike Napoli, ironically, was a guy that I really wanted the Mariners to sign. I don't. Almost 10 years ago now.

He was a great fit. DH, catcher, some first base, played for the Red Sox, I think, before. And I was just like, I don't know. Did you go from Texas to Boston or Boston to? I think he went from Texas to Boston. I'm going to look. I'm going to look it up.

A lot of similarities between Mike Napoli and Mitch Carver. Who's also on the Angels, right? Yes. Yep. But yeah, so that's kind of where you're at, right? He's an older player. He's never played a full season before. And there are some concerns with how much value

you can give you defensively. Although, again, if you're a DH full time, but you can catch 20 games and not absolutely murder the team. that has value. It does. I mean, even if it's only 20 games, that is 20 fewer games that Cal Raleigh has to catch,

or it's 15 fewer games that Raleigh has to catch, and five fewer that Sebby Zavala have to catch. So there is value there. And again, he can play some first base. I don't, Seattle's not going to come out and say like, oh,

he can play first base unless they trade tie france. But that could be a part of the plan. And that could be how Seattle can still go get Jorge Saler, or could go get. Reese Hoskins is that if they can or are wanting to or get an opportunity to trade tie France, they have some options there as well. So there are some red flags here. Again, this is why we said it's not a perfect signing.

We're not, you know, doing backflips exactly. But Garber is a good hitter. You feel really comfortable about that. Although, fun note, Garber is an exciting 0 for 23 at T-Mobile Park. Zero career hits at T-Mobile Park. I hope that changes. I feel pretty confident saying it's going to, but, you know, we'll see. Don't temp fate.

After the last offseason, don't have fate. Yes, I'm having spring training. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so there are some red flags with Carver. But that doesn't mean he's a bad signing. So 246, 346, 475, 119 WRC plus, 275% K rate, 12.2% walk rate. That's Mike Napoli's career. line. Mitch Garber

career-wise, 252, 342, 483, 123, 123, WRC plus 25.6% K-rate, 11.1% walk rate. Barely. Barely similar. That's over a large sample size. And as someone who also wanted Mike Napoli long,

long ago for the Mariners, yeah, I'm kind of living my dream here of that, which was a small dream, but a dream nonetheless. Sure, sure. Well, before any of us had a podcast. We were both long before we even knew the other one existed, we were both on the Mike Napoli train back back when I wanted Josh Hamilton, Mike Napoli, et cetera, et cetera, yeah. Yeah, and we were we were right. It was Texas, then Boston. You know, Napoli started his career

in Anaheim, went to Texas in 2011, then went to Boston in 2013. Yeah. Napoli had a very good career. And hopefully Garber is on the same track here. has been kind of like up and down in terms of like one year he's amazing one year he's mediocre like 2020 he was awful but also it's 2020 he also only played in 23 games out of 60 that year just 81 played appearances he did strike out 45 and a half percent of the time that year 43 w rc plus but outside of that hard to put any value in 2020 on either direction now again keep in mind he's only played over 100 games once in his career, but of the, we'll call it five full seasons he's played, full seasons he's played

at the major league level. He's only been a sub 100 WRC plus guy once. So 98, 98 and 22, yeah. So outside of that, though, 2019, that's his career year. He was worth four wins that year in Minnesota, played 93 games. He hit 31 bombs and 93 games that year. 273, 3.3. 3 365 630, 630, slugging percentage that year, 155 WRC plus, then 2021, 139 WRC plus, and then this past year, of course, 138 WRC plus. So when Mitch Carver is good, he's really, really, really good. I feel really, really good. Yeah, I feel pretty confident he's going to be a 120-ish WRC plus guy. Yeah, yeah.

Like, assuming he plays or he's healthy enough to, you know, which is the concern. But if you get 110 games from Mitch Garver, you're like he's healthy enough to give you that. I feel like you're getting at least a 120 WRC plus guy and probably 25 home runs. Yeah. Something like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Like we said, the power should play at Team Mobile Park. It's definitely not something that the Marine layer should kill. Like we've seen with some other right-handed hitters, right-handed power hitters rather that have come through Seattle in years past. So he's a little more a little more of pole power guy than somebody like teosca

Hernandez who has a lot of power to write center field and center field napole's power is mostly pole napoli you said napoli i did it again darn it yeah i mean they're very similar players it's it's scary it's pretty close it's pretty close it's it's scary how similar they are he he definitely uh he definitely pulls the ball a lot though if you look at his 2023 spray chart i'm looking at it right now yeah not a lot of balls to uh center and right field. It's mostly dead left and then left center. Actually, quite a

bit of home runs to left center, which is a pretty deep part of T-Mobile Park, so that's a little concerning, but Park Factor says that he would have hit 22 in Seattle this past year, so I guess not too too concerning, but we'll see how it works out. We'll see, we'll see.

You're listening to the Lockdown, Mairns podcast. Thank you again for making us your first. Listen after after the Mitch Garber signing. So, now what, Colby? You mentioned possibility of trading Thai France. I don't think this necessarily precludes them from still going after guys like

Reese Hoskins, Jorge Salare, et cetera. It just makes that fit a little bit tighter and means that they would likely have to trade Thai France. Now, we know that the twins were sniffing around France around the trade deadline this past summer. They're obviously trying to

offload some of their contracts with Max Kepler, Jorge Palacca. obviously the mayors need some outfield help so Kepler would make sense there and trading France would also take we don't know exactly what he's going to make an arbitration but I would say around six million dollars off the book so if they need more financial flexibility that can help them accomplish that for sure and would essentially pay for about half of what Garber's owed in annual salary now we don't know if this is going to be backloaded or not or whatever but but yeah Garver does have 51 career innings at first base, which is obviously really nothing, but he has played the position at the major league level in the past. Maybe that's an option for the Mariners, especially if they were to sign someone like Salare, who you don't really want playing in the outfield. But yeah, where do you think the Mariners go from here? I'm going to assume that their next move is probably not going to come until the new year, but who knows? They weren't supposed to make a

move today. We would have said that 12 hours ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we were all watching. the Seahawks game thinking like, oh, this will be up for sports for the week until Tuesday, at least, for the weekend. Yep. Go Hawks, by the way. Nope. Go Hawks. That's right.

Gino. Yep. MVGino. The best, officially the best Gino in, in Washington now. Yeah. Also, Colby Parkinson, best Colby P. in Seattle sports. Well, best Colby PA for the day. I'm happy to give that title to my Colby PA brother.

By the way, they should run that play like at least once every. every trip in the red zone, but whatever. So yeah, next is interesting. I can't get over the fit between Minnesota and Seattle. That seems so obvious, particularly a Kepler for, a Kepler for France swap.

That just makes so much sense. Kepler is a left-handed bat. He, before this last year, was a plus defensive right-fielder and was still pretty solid this year, just not quite as good. He really kind of found his power stroke,

and he was able to hit a ton of home runs. It's lefty pole, power. That's exactly what you need in Seattle. You really could use a lefty bat to compliment this lineup right now. To me, Kepler just makes a ton of sense. You don't have to trade Thai France to get him either. If you want to keep Thai France, you can definitely get a deal done with Minnesota that doesn't include France. It's just the salary offset there. Like essentially you can make Kepler a $4 million ad if you were to include Thai France in that deal. So I think Kepler is kind of the guy I'm looking at right now. But depending on how this is structured, you know, there are a lot of things.

things you could do. You could go get Reese Hoskins and, and again, trade tie France for Kepler. And if you go Garber, Hoskins Kepler as your three bats, that's a pretty good lineup. You could also, and we talked a little bit about this, is what if you go and you trade or what have you, because you were able to hypothetically, let's say that Solair was going to cost 16 million, right, a year. And you got Garver for 10 this year. You take that $6 million that you otherwise would have given to Salare. And now you go and you go get a reliever. You go get a starting pitcher.

And now you're freed up to go and trade Bryce Miller, or at least you're more likely to trade Bryce Miller. So to me, when I look at this club and I look at what's out there, I think Kepler is the best fit. I think he's the most likely to add. I think that Minnesota's desperation is going to match your need for a left-handed hitting corner outfielder, ideally. So I think Kepler's the guy,

but I could see them spending some of the, this money on pitching. I can see them going out and getting one of the other like two or three big bats. Maybe it's Justin Turner who could play first and third a little bit. Maybe it's Reese Hoskins and you trade tie France. Maybe it's, you know, I mean, it's not Cody Ballinger, but maybe it's Cody Bellinger and like you bet you're outfielder. So yeah, I think, I don't think Seattle can necessarily be done with the free agent market. I just wonder if there is a scenario where you can go out and spend the X, let's say they have $20 million just for easy math. Like who are you going to give $20 million to on this free agent market?

Probably a couple guys. So I think that's what we're looking at here. I think you're either going out and I think maybe it's possible you go get Adam Duvall and you kind of have a canned zone Duval and then you go trade for Max Kepler. There are a lot of different ways you can go here. Mike Ustromski down in San Francisco, left-handed outfielder can play center field. You can play left and right, pretty good hitter. He's a good fit for Team Mobile.

he sprays the ball all over the place. He's got some pull power. That's a guy that you might be able to get. We'll have to see what San Francisco does, Lamont Way Jr. I think, like in terms of priority, you're still looking for an outbuilder. That's the number one concern. I would like that guy, ideally, to hit lefty with some pop, but also a pretty, at least a solid average hit tool. I would like that guy to also be able to play defense a little bit.

To me, that's Kepler. To me, that's Yistramski, one of those two guys. and then after that, you have to be a little bit careful because in theory, you've filled the DH spot. So you can't get a guy who has to DH. You have to kind of go and get a guy

who can at least play a position well enough that he won't kill you. And really, when you look around the diamond right now, the only two spots to get that guy at bats or either is a corner outfield spot or maybe second base. Go find a second base.

who's an obvious upgrade over Josh Rojas and Ryan Bliss or Dillmore. Right. Good luck. Yeah. So right now, Mitch Garber looks to be the full-time DH. So for now, I'm going to say good on Jerry DePoto and Justin Hollander for looking at this roster, looking at this lineup and going, you know what? We don't have the depth to justify rotating guys to the DH spot. Let's just go get the best bat we feel we can get to fill that spot out. So, thrilled about that. That's something that I've been asking for for a while. I'm glad that they've done that.

And maybe they do that again with, you know, Hoskins or Salare or someone like that. It would be more so, more so so lair if we're talking about that and within that context. But, but yeah. Now, for what it's worth, which I'm just going to tell you now, isn't a whole lot. But a couple weeks ago, it was the, I think it was the day that the whole like show hay is flying to Toronto thing.

happened. So I think that's the 15th. Yeah, the 15th. So nine days ago, I was told the Mariners have about 30 to $35 million to work with. But there's a lot of confusion, a lot of conflicting reports out there about how much money the Mariners

front office actually has to work with right now. So who knows? But if it's $30 to $35 million, they still have quite a bit to work with right now. And again, they can trade France, who's going to be about $6,000, they could also trade Dylan Moore who it's only $3 million

but a $3 million could help you in theory get someone if you need it. So they do have a couple more levers they can pull without having to dive into the whole like Luis Castillo and Robbie Ray and all that type of stuff which I don't think is going to happen.

So based off of what I've been told, they should be able to do pretty much anything they really want outside of like Bellinger right now. So we'll see. We'll see what they want to do. We'll see what's coming up next.

But thankfully, they've made a move now. We actually have something tangible. We can sink our teeth into that affords us some context, finally, when we're talking about this roster, which is what we've all been waiting for for the last few weeks. Nothing else.

It checks something off the box. Or it checks the box off the list, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a right-handed bat, DH, like we have that, position filled like good. So yeah, we'll see what's next. Obviously what happens next is always the bigger, uh, storyline. But, uh, you know, at the end of the day, the Mariners gave you a little, a little

Christmas Eve present. I guess Jerry believes in opening presents Christmas Eve, which is the question of the day. Uh, Christmas Eve or Christmas morning when you open gifts, there's only one right answer. Um, and it's not today. So, uh, yeah. But at the end of the day, Jerry gave you a little gift. And the gift is that the Seattle Mariners are a better. baseball team today than they were yesterday and hopefully we can say the same thing

three or four more times before pitchers and catchers report and it's just it's just nice to be on the board with a pure addition like no no trying to figure out what jerry's thinking no like you know this is this is bad why does it's just a generally positive addition now I know people out there will find a way to make it negative because that's just mariner's Twitter baby right right But everything is doom and gloom. Nothing will ever work out for the Mariners, yada, yada, yada. Because it's the mariner. Same old marries.

Sure. Sure. Of course. Like the team hasn't won like 265 games in the last three years. But sure, no, yeah, they're terrible at everything. But again, the marries are better today than they were yesterday. We'll see how much better they are on March 27th, I think is opening day. We'll see how much better they are on March 27th than they are in December 24th.

By the way, just to throw this out there because I love to leave you guys with a little bit of of you know doom scrolling. This deal is still pending a physical. Mitch Garver, the healthiest guy in the world. Yeah, he has had some injury woes in the past. Think about that while you wait for Santa tonight, but. I hate you. I hate you.

Go get Max Kepler. Go get Reese Hoskins. Call it an offseason. Sure. And just keep Miller, keep woo. And go get yourself some bullpen help, please. Yeah. please yeah like established bullpen help i know you've added some relievers this off season but

established i'm just asking for junez like can you go spend five million bucks on junez please that'd be cool also by the way rotation depth there you go hey hey also we got a new mitch new mitch new mitch new mitch new mitch are we going to are we are we are we going to say mitch is he going to get the mitch title does he have to earn it? Is there a possibility of him earning the the meech title or is that only reserved for a certain? I think there's a shot. I think there's a shot. Cool. Cool. All right. There we go. It's also a shot that we get two Mitches. Just saying, just saying, San Francisco can't be happy with that contract. Mitch Morland. Mitch Morland's

coming to Seattle confirmed. See, here I am trying to give you guys a nice idea. Mitch Hanager returns at like three million dollars a year because San Francisco eats all of his contract. Mariners trading for Mitch Keller, confirmed. That would be amazing too. I open to multiple Mitches. Mitches be crazy.

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