Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Cal Raleigh Is Right—the Seattle Mariners Are a Bad Baseball Team

Episode Date: June 29, 2023

Disappointment has been found in droves this season for the Mariners and their fanbase, but that reached a whole new level over the last 20 or so hours. Ty goes solo to air out his grievances, dish out some hard truths, and illuminate some avenues the team can go down following two embarrassing losses to one of the worst teams in baseball.Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let’s ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.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.

Well, the good news is the worst 20 hours of the Mariners season so far is over. The bad news, however, is I have no idea how they recover from it. You are locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Oh, hoys sailors. It is Wednesday, June 28, 2023. This is Tadding Azales for the Lockdown Mariner's Postgame show brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use promo code locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase.

Last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. Thank you so much for making us your first listen to after the game. Subscribe, like, and turn on alerts if you're watching on YouTube or subscribe and leave a five-star review on your preferred podcast platform if you like what you hear. And if you're part of the crew and rock with us every single day, let us know in the comments below. If you want to hear from us even more, please consider signing up for our Patreon. You can now get a free seven-day trial to check out the show. The link as well as our social accounts is in the description of this episode. So, all right, I'm not really sure how I want to start this or where to begin, really.

I don't even know how many of you are watching or listening right now. If you are, if you are here, I really appreciate you being here. But if you're not, I don't. really blame you. If it wasn't literally my job to be on top of everything Mariners, I wouldn't be super motivated right now to watch every Mariners game. I wouldn't be super motivated right now to consume Mariners content. So I understand. But again, if you are here, props to you. I want to see you in the comments if you're watching on YouTube right now rocking with me as I get ready to

dish out some hard truths. Before we do that, though, let's quickly recap what's happened over the last 20 or so hours. The Mariners have dropped a series, a three-game series, to one of the worst teams in Major League Baseball. That's the Washington Nationals. And what makes this all the more frustrating is that they easily could have won it last night. they go into extra endings tied at four piece had you know a lethargic offensive performance overall

but nothing compared to what they did in the bottom of the tenth or did not do rather in the bottom of the tenth and they wasted a really nice outing from justin top of the tenth as well which was super disappointing they load the bases in the bottom of the 10th still 4-4 nobody out all they need is a medium-depth lie ball to score colton long who has good speed at third base you got the top or you get the heart of your order rather do up tie france to asker annes cow rally tie france infield out to asker annandez swinging strikeout cal raleigh comebacker to the pitcher. The Nationals follow that up with a three-run top of the 11th,

and the Mariners don't score and lose 7 to 4. And that offensive ineptitude was carried over to this afternoon, where they were shut out over seven innings by Patrick Corbyn, who is by F-WR standards, quite literally the worst starting pitcher in Major League Baseball since 2021. He hadn't thrown seven scoreless since August 2019. And he hadn't had a scoreless outing in general, which I believe was over six innings pitch since May of 2022.

You can say that he was sharp and he was this and that all you want. This was a putrid offensive performance from the Mariners against a guy who had no business doing what he did to them. this afternoon. Tom Murphy had no issues hitting off of him today. He went three for three. Jose Caballero had a decent night, or decent afternoon rather. But your top four hitters when it combined over 16. That's J.P. Crawford. That's Julio Rodriguez. That's

Thai France. That's Tay Oscar Hernandez. Unacceptable. This team looked just as dejected as I felt this morning waking up from that complete utter embarrassment last night. And that's a problem. Cal Raleigh was right last night. This is a bad baseball team. The only thing that's kept them above the seller of Major League Baseball

is that they are talented. They have a lot of talent. And that's what makes this season as a whole all the more frustrating. Is their roster incomplete? Yes, we've said that time and time again. But you cannot deny the fact that this team is talented. That it has a lot of talented pieces who should be performing better than they are this year. They have the talent to be one of the best in baseball.

They have the mental fortitude, however, of the Oakland athletics. And that's the problem. And that's being exhibited with at bats like, the ones that we saw today. That's being exhibited by the terrible effort on that throwing error by Brian Wu last night by Thai France and Tay Oscar Hernandez that allowed Jamir Condolario to score from first. This team gets punched in the mouth and does not get back up and start fighting. This team is nothing like the teams that we've seen over the last few years.

we have enough data, we have enough evidence now to say that. This team is not a good baseball team. This is a bad baseball team. And it frankly should be a lot worse than 37 and 41 with the way that they're losing ball games. But again, the talent is so immense.

The pitching staff is still one of the best in baseball, even though that it has regressed as of late. You know, you have guys like Julio Rodriguez is and Teosker and Nandez has been a lot better, you know, last two nights notwithstanding, but has been a lot better over the last month. You have the ability to win games on just pure talent alone. That's only going to take you so far. And that's why we're seeing this team only win two or three games at a time and then lose three or four right after. And they don't have the mental fortitude to overcome these issues.

They don't have the mental fortitude to bounce back from a game like last night and still win a series the next day. And that's the biggest difference between this team in 2021 and 2022. And tomorrow they have an off day before they square off with Rays, which you can catch on the Marys hometown broadcast with Sirius XM via the SXM app. The Rays have not been playing as well as they were to start the year, of course. pretty hard to maintain that over the course of a full season. But there's still the best team in baseball, or at least one of the best teams in baseball. And now you have to host those guys over a weekend series

after doing what you just did against one of the worst teams in baseball. So again, tomorrow you have an off day. And changes need to be made. Again, we have enough data. We have enough evidence to make conclusions. conclusions. It's time for some accountability. Again, it's time for some changes. I'll tell you what those are in just a moment, but first, a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown Mariners podcast is brought to you by Game Time. Buying tickets to your favorite events shouldn't be stressful.

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Again, you can catch the Rays and the Mariners on the Mariners' hometown broadcast of Series XM v. the SXM app this weekend. But before we get to that game, changes need to be made. Something has to be done. And tomorrow is going to be a very interesting day. Jerry Depoto, as far as I'm aware, is going to be going on the radio in the morning in 710 Seattle Sports. He's obviously going to be asked about this. And it's going to be interesting to see if it's more of the, you know, guys are not playing how they should, etc., etc., etc., etc.

Or if there's actually going to be some real accountability taken. but Jerry has to have a busy day tomorrow him and Justin Hollander have to do something in an ideal world they trade for a player who descends from the heavens and magically helps get this team right back on track

but I live in reality that's probably not going to happen and there's a real point to be made that should it happen? Should the Mariners trade resources at 37 and 41 to try and scrap together and salvage a season that doesn't seem like it's going to be fixed by just one deal by one trade by one player? But there needs to be some change. And so what I would do, firstly is DFA A.J. Pollock.

He had a rough day to day. Go figure when he's hardly playing at all. This team is hardly using its bench right now. And Colby and I were talking about this on our Patreon show yesterday that, you know, I kind of wonder if it's a fatigue issue with this offense and why it's so inconsistent. Because A. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. H. Os. Os. O'Sorres and Teoska, Hernandez, have played every single game. Julio's played a lot.

Jared's played a lot. A lot of these guys haven't gotten consistent time off. They haven't been able to get a blow when they need it because it's clear as day that Scott Service and the mayor's coaching staff

don't trust the guys that they have currently on their bench. And that includes A.J. Pollack. So I'm DFA and A.J. Pollock. I'm just moving on. Clearly, don't trust him to get back on track. It's the same thing that we talked about

with Tommy Lacella, Colton Wong, that you can't really justify giving him at Bats right now, but you're also doing him a disservice by not giving him any sort of opportunity to build some momentum towards getting back on track. I'm also sending Dillamore down

or putting him on the IL, whatever, because like I talked about with Joe Doyle yesterday, and this isn't really of Dylan Moore's fault, but he doesn't look capable of hitting major league pitching right now. So I'm giving a shot to Jake Shiner, and I'm probably looking at someone else like Colin Moran, Cade Marlowe, Zach DeLoch,

Taylor Tremel, doesn't really matter. I'm kind of intrigued by DeLoch because, look, I think he's a fourth outfielder at best. There really isn't any power to speak of there. But what he has done at every level of professional baseball is walk. So could he at least be good for a walk a night? I just need some guys in here that can get Julio off of his legs for a day, Jared off of his legs for a day,

Teo, et cetera. And while they might not be solutions, they at least buy me time to see if I can get things rolling again. and justify making a trade and also just, you know, in general, allowing the trade market to open a little bit more. And it's better at least to do something than do nothing. To take a shot on an unknown, right?

I don't feel great about Zach Deloge producing for me at all. I don't really have any confidence in that happening. I don't really have any confidence in Jake Scheiner doing that either. But the same can be said for Dillamore. and AJ Pollock, but at least I've seen those guys at the Major League level. I've seen them struggle here.

Jake Shiner, Cade Marlowe, Zach Deloge, Colamaran, etc. I have it. So I would like to see that happen tomorrow. I would like to see the Mariners make some sort of move there. And then, internally speaking,

they need to have a come-to-Jesus moment. That clubhouse as I laid out earlier on in the show, seems to be in disarray. And I don't necessarily blame them because they're not playing well, right? This is incredibly frustrated. They are more frustrated than we are right now,

but they're allowing that to show up on the field when it matters like today. This is a problem. Now, what that come to Jesus moment looks like exactly. I don't know. I'm not the one getting paid millions of dollars to make this thing work.

That's up to Scott's service. That's up to Jerry DePoto. Justin Hollander. That's up for, you know, because the Mariners, it's all a collaborative effort. There isn't one guy pulling the strings here. So everyone that has any sort of control

within this organization has to huddle together, has to game plan here, and has to do something. There has to be some accountability here. And right now I'm just not seeing that. You know, Cal Raleigh's taking accountability. The players are,

but, and look, I'm not calling for Scott's services head. I'm not. I'm not calling for Jerry DePoto's head. I'm not calling for Justin Hollander's head. I'm not. I'm not doing that. because it would be irresponsible of me to run my mouth about things that I frankly,

I don't know for sure. I'm not there. I'm not sure exactly what's going on. But common sense says that the coaching staff, the front office, etc. I mean, obviously we can talk about the off season and all that, but just in terms of what's going on, particularly in season right now, that all of these entities to a certain degree are culpable. So I need to see some accountability taken.

And right now I just, I'm only seeing that from a couple of guys. And again, this is, this is a problem. This is a, this is a massive problem. This is incredibly concerning to see the philosophy of this team that led this team to two straight 90-win seasons the past few years is clearly crumbling. Right? The offensive philosophy, we've talked about it. Control the zone, dominate the zone. None of that is present in what this offense is doing right now.

How many times do they strike out against Patrick Corbyn today? Nine, nine strikeouts against Patrick Corbyn. They had six hard hit balls over seven innings. Again, the worst starting pitcher in Major League Baseball, not this season, not even last season, but the last two and a half seasons. It's unacceptable. It's disgusting.

And I'm getting tired of watching this team. I really am. I know I'm supposed to be the positive one here on Lockdown Mariners, but I'm not going to be yes to you. I don't have any positives to take away from any of this. There's little isolated things,

but this wasn't supposed to be a silver lining season. And it just breaks my heart to see this continue to fall apart. I don't know what else to say, honestly. I'm just, I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted of getting on here every single day and talking about the same issues over and over and over again. It sucks. It sucks for you.

it's not interesting content for you it's not interesting content for me or Colby to make and there's nothing that we can really do about it this team is just playing terrible baseball right now it's a bad baseball team as Cal Raleigh said last night and I don't know what you do to fix it because again like I said I have ideas for change I have some changes in mind

but I never said that they were going to fix this team I don't really even have much confidence that it can fix this team. This team hit rock bottom last night and somehow found a way to dig even deeper this afternoon. And I'm puzzled. I'm devastated. That's going to do it for our show.

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